SILKROAD MIRAGE by RYR

Artist Name and Artwork Title:

SILKROAD MIRAGE by RYR

Description:

This artwork whimsically captures the "Silk Road Mirage." It presents a grand, humpbacked vision of Bitcoin's wild ride in its early days, where the infamous darkweb bazaar Silk Road, which put Bitcoin on the map for buying everything from artisanal bath salts to questionable philosophy books, is reborn as a teetering tower of loose, folded 1 Sat banknote bundles. 

Each bundle is a hilariously humble speck of value in historical terms, loosely stacked to form the iconic camel and its anonymous rider. It's a poignant Bitcoin parable. Now, in an era of trillion-dollar market caps, the whole empire is built on this historical "dust." Who did believe in that mirage when it was right in front of them ?

Materials:

5 COLOR SILKS SCREEN PRINT (EACH GRADIENT VERSION IS BY DESIGN UNIQUE)

230 G RAINBOW CREME PAPER

SIGNED, NUMBERED & EMBOSSED

EDITION OF 8

Hand Printed by CypherpunkNow !

Dimensions:

84 x 59.4 cm (A1)

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50$ global shipping

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