0003 Block [ 0 ]

Catalog

January 3, 2009_

Timestamp of Sovereignty
No press release. No investor deck. No market-making. Only a line of code, mined into existence.

January 3, 2009 was the day Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin — the Genesis Block — and with it, a quiet revolution. Embedded in that first block was a headline:
“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”

It wasn’t just a timestamp. It was a statement. A challenge to the system. A message for those who knew where to look.

This work is a commemoration of that origin. A portrait of resistance through silence. It doesn’t depict an event — it crystallizes a moment: the precise second that a new monetary era began, not with a speech, but with software. The code didn’t just run — it spoke.

Satoshi could’ve started on any day. But that headline made it undeniable. Bitcoin wasn’t apolitical. It was a protest — against bailouts, against central banking, against the fragility of trust in institutions that never earned it.

The Genesis Block cannot be spent. It is fixed in time. Untouchable. Untainted. A monument encoded in the chain itself — a cathedral built from code and cryptographic finality.

This piece honors that stillness. That defiance. That elegance. It reminds us that the most powerful shifts often begin quietly — not with noise, but with intent.

Crypto didn’t begin with hype. It began with principle.

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Edition of Two, Each Unique
Only two mirrors exist at this scale — one mounted on a varnished wood panel, the other on black acrylic. Each is accompanied by a hand-signed certificate of authenticity, certifying its rarity and provenance.

Materials
Acrylic and polymer on mirror, mounted on wood panel. Silkscreened using our overprinting technique: multiple layers of paint meticulously applied to create a subtle, tactile depth within the text.

Year
2025

Dimensions
11.75 x 11.75 x 2 in. (30 x 30 x 5 cm)

A reflective artifact of crypto culture—where permanence meets perception, and meaning shifts with the viewer.