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What does it mean when a Bitcoin focused artwork enters Sotheby’s Evening Sale? On November 18, Block 1 from Robert Alice’s @robertalice_21 Portraits of a Mind series will be offered in the Now & Contemporary Evening Sale @Sothebys I spoke with Tad Smith @tadtweets about this artwork, Bitcoin, value, and cultural memory. Read my latest article via @BitcoinMagazine bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/…
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Bitcoin and the Reversal of Entropy On my mind today is Asimov’s short story The Last Question (given to me by a buddy). It ends with the universe dying and a machine, the last remnant of intelligence, whispering, “Let there be light.” The story asks whether entropy, the slow decay of all order, can ever be reversed. In my little world of listening to mindblowing podcasts this weekend, Bitcoin feels like a smaller version of that same question. Bitcoin turns energy into truth. Miners use electricity and time to record what happened, permanently and publicly. Each block says, “This happened. Remember it.” That permanence matters. Everything else in human systems erodes. Currencies inflate, records vanish, institutions corrode. Entropy does not only live in physics; it lives in money. Inflation is monetary entropy, the steady decay of trust. Bitcoin resists that drift. It is not about getting rich (okay, well maybe it is a little bit). It is about building something that cannot be faked or forgotten. People call the energy use waste. It is the opposite. The energy is the anchor, the proof that truth costs something real. It ties information to physics instead of politics. Asimov imagined a machine preserving the universe. We have built one that preserves honesty. It is decentralized, alive, and powered by everyone who believes in rules instead of rulers. Bitcoin will not save the cosmos from heat death. But it pushes back against a smaller kind of entropy, the moral and institutional kind. It gives us one clear signal in a world of noise. In a civilization built on forgetting, Bitcoin remembers. $BTC
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Our Editor-in-Chief @AlexEstorick joined an all star panel in Paris last week to discuss @TASCHEN's "On NFTs" 🇫🇷📖 @bygrida @yaoeo @jmpailhon @postanika @zancan @monkantony_tez @MarleneCorbun
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Anti cabal cabal club
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gm 🤍 See you tonight for the “ON NFTs” book signing with @TASCHEN team and @robertalice_21 ! 🎉 Book 👇
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GM :) We’re preparing an event with Taschen Books. Artists featured in OnNFTs, if you’ll be in Paris during Art Basel Paris week, please DM me !
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Thank You Robert Alice.
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30 min to go.
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gm 🤍 Join us next week for a unique book signing event during @ArtBasel Paris ! 🎉 Come with your “ON NFTs” book and get it signed by artists. Book edited by @robertalice_21 and published by @TASCHEN. 📆 October 22nd, 6pm-9pm Book 👇👇👇
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Got my copy of On NFTs, edited by @robertalice_21 and published by @TASCHEN. I wrote a short text on the artist @kimasendorf and another thing I wrote is quoted in the main essay.
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The best part is one day 20 years from now when my children find this They will say to each other “Wait dad knew how to read” Thank you @robertalice_21 For being able to express how relationships build my journey especially with my brother @SamSpratt This is how we build
gm. Luci in Robert Alice's book "On NFTs"
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Finally in the book stores. Next to Children’s Classics 👍🏻
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gm 🤍 Our @ArtBasel Paris calendar is here ! ✨ Exhibitions, Panels, Book Signings… Thank you to our partners @micolmicolmicol @fellowshiptrust @TASCHEN and artists @yaoeo @agoriamusic @robertalice_21 ❤️‍🔥 Book on Artverse calendar 👇
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Enormously grateful that @JebbL has joined @RtClick_Save from @TheArtNewspaper as our new Managing Editor 🔥 His experience of the contemporary art world will allow us to spotlight new voices and support more communities 🌎🌏 Read his first articles for RCS and subscribe👇👇👇
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Oh hello @SHL0MS 🖤 Thank you for the publication, it’s perfect 🖤
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Exhibition sourcing is a pain. There is a million directories to find shows, but signal-to-noise ratio is absurd. So I vibe coded INDEX to show me only what I need: active exhibitions, their artists, exhibitors, and locations. No fluff, no algorithmic recommendations, no sponsored content. Search by artist, exhibitor, location, medium, or keyword. Store shows you want to see, hide the ones you dont. When you have location tracking activated on browser, it will sort shows to your proximity (more or less). On Mobile it works like tinder: tap to expand, swipe left to hide, or swipe right to store. Index is obviously not complete (yet, I have around 4000 shows in total atm) and there's a million things to refine but as a non-coder I'm pretty blown away where a few days of vibe coding get you. What do you think, hot or not?
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Catch this! 🤣 The @CentrePompidou has upped the meta-narrative game with its latest acquisition: "SOURCE [On NFTs] #121" by Robert Alice (@robertalice_21) Picture this: it's an NFT that has an AI reading everything about NFTs to auto-generate itself. 🤯 It's an NFT that looks at you and says, "Yep, I'm an NFT. So what?". So, your favorite museum now owns a work of art that's basically the Wikipedia of NFTs, but in a cool, generative format. 🧐 Is art conversing with itself? Or are they just having fun at our expense? 😉 #NFTs #DigitalArt #RobertAlice #CentrePompidou #AI #MetaArt #Blockchain #GenerativeArt
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🔊ANNOUNCING A NEW HOME FOR RIGHT CLICK SAVE The magazine’s new owner, Tony Lyu (@TonyYLyu), shares his journey into digital art with Jason Bailey (@artnome) and Alex Estorick (@AlexEstorick) rightclicksave.com/article/a…