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April 30 • 12:00pm ET
Art Blocks + OpenSea
“Gift of time” began during my residency in Marfa, Texas, as part of the Art Blocks and OpenSea artist residency program, where a distinct shift in the experience of time became central to the work.
In the desert, I felt time move differently. It stretched, slowed, and became something I noticed. After a few days, the rhythm changed. Moments felt longer, attention sharpened, and I became increasingly aware of each moment as it passed. This work comes from that condition.
Time is not treated only as a theme, but as a system embedded in the structure of the piece. Different ways of measuring time, such as mechanical cycles, calendars, and lunar phases, are translated into rules that continuously transform the work. The piece does not represent time. It runs on it.
Its movement is tied to blockchain time. Even when unseen, it continues to rotate and evolve. When loaded, it synchronizes with the present moment, but it does not begin when it is viewed, and it does not stop when it disappears from the screen.
During the residency, I spent hours thinking, sketching, and making connections. Those connections are also visible. Elastic lines, like rubber bands, link elements across the piece, representing how memories connect, how one thought leads to another, and how everything builds over time. These same connections introduce moments where the system attempts to pull itself back, as if trying to regain control. But it never fully resets. It is not a loop. The movement continues, drifting forward, never returning to a fixed state.
Visually, the work reveals its own construction. Lines, paths, and rotations expose an internal logic, like looking inside a mechanism. The drawing language recalls diagrams, technical sketches, or the interior of a mechanical watch. It is a system in motion, always active.
“Gift of Time” exists because I was given time by Art Blocks, OpenSea, and above all my family. It is my way of saying thank you. It is both a reflection on time and a product of it.
April 30 @ 12:00pm ET
on Art blocks & OpenSea
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@artblocks_io, @opensea
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In 2011, Amir Taaki ( @lunardragon420 ) introduced BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals).
Before that? No clear way to upgrade Bitcoin. BIPs changed everything.
@NicolasDorier told us: “the main advantage… is that it makes your protocol more easily discoverable and more trustworthy.”
That framework still runs Bitcoin today.
Art by @0xfar @M1LZ7 @Dr_DAO_
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Bitcoin wizards are not perched atop ivory towers.
Rather, they're deep down a rabbit hole.
Anyone can dig deeply with enough time & effort.
But a wizard can not pull you down to their level.
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most people left crypto. i don't think this is just bear market, i have been through many. bitcoin and ethereum plus stablecoins are the only really relevant things that are gonna be left in a decade or two.
AI is a in crazy stupid bubble. it's gonna explode sooner rather than later.
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@0xfar I think technically BAYC could be pointing their images to Bitcoin Apes onchain images on Ordinals that are 1 to 1 mints.
Technically not compatible, but…
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Remember when everyone was so hyped about fully on-chain art on ethereum? … now can be the gold standard using ordinals.
S M O A K Y@smoak58
@0xfar Finally, someone said something about the state of NFTs that makes sense.
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A few weeks ago I stepped up and became CEO at Yuga.
I joined BAYC in June 2021. Anyone who was around back then will never forget that ride:
Doggo airdrop, mutant mint, casino night, and the first Apefest - it was a slingshot out of the pandemic and into a new frontier.
Over the past year I’ve been sharpening the focus on Otherside. As CEO, my goal is to extend that discipline across all of Yuga.
BAYC is the best club on the internet. The Club needs to be part of your world, not just your timeline. We’ll be doing way more stuff together as a club - meetups, moments, access, apparel. I see all of this guided by three pillars: IRL, Storytelling, and Style.
While I’m handling operations, I’m excited that Garga will be freed up to be going deeper on the BAYC creative and world-building he’s always been best at.
With Otherside, we’re developing a world class social platform for digital ownership and crypto. People will explore Otherdeeds, compete for resources, and build their own experiences. To win, we’re going to need to grow our user base a lot, and prove how every community can succeed in Otherside.
We’ve made a lot of progress over the last few weeks and I’m stoked to show you, there’s a lot more ahead.
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Some news to share:
After serving as CEO the past couple years, I’m moving into the role of Chairman of the Board, and @mfigge will become Yuga’s next CEO.
Figge is the absolute best person for the job. There’s no one I trust more to lead Yuga through this next chapter.
He’s relentless about product quality, he thinks longterm, and he knows how to take a vision and make it real. His work on Otherside the past year is proof of that, and you haven’t seen the half of it.
And I’ve loved watching Figge get his hands dirty in the world of BAYC over the last few weeks. The club is better for it.
Creative direction, writing, and figuring out insane ideas is still where I do my best work. And with Figge taking over the CEO role, I get to go back to it. I can’t wait for what Yuga builds next.
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If a parent inscription has media that looks either exactly the same or very similar (as in: could be a generative output from same algorithm) to the media of its children inscriptions, how should the parent be treated?
a/ ignored, organisational node
b/ added to the collection
c/ separate 1/1
cc @Ordinals10K @otograf_jp
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