Incredible: Where Crypto Meets Art

Cryptocurrency has already revolutionized the financial industry, offering a faster, more secure and more transparent system opposed to traditional currency. The ideology behind crypto, mainly its aim of enforcing freedom, has made it an iconic symbol in the world.

The art world has especially drawn a lot of inspiration from the past and future of currency. Crypto artwork can be as simple as an upside-down Bitcoin, but the innovative community that is cryptocurrency wouldn't settle for that. Cryptocurrency is somewhat inspired by cryptography, in terms of encryption, to say the least. The origination from cryptography flowed into crypto artwork, creating unique and encrypted compositions riddled with hidden prizes. Artists created influential pieces, resembling historical figures entangled with crypto, which also hold hidden clues leading to cryptocurrency wallets. These wallets and crypto artwork pieces can hold small or large amounts. One of the most popular and hard puzzles to be solved is known as "Torched H34R7S", which rewarded the winning user 5 BTC. Crypto artwork doesn't have to hold crypto to add value to the world; artists continue to incredibly express themselves through technique, but the puzzles have proven to be more fun.

Online crypto art gallery and virtual reality experience

A recent piece of crypto artwork to gain a lot of mainstream media attention is the rework of "La Liberté guidant le peuple" done by Pascal Boyart, labeled as "Liberty leading the people 2019".

The composition was done on the streets of France and offered viewers a chance to claim 0.284 BTC by visualizing the clues in front of them. The artwork was painted over by French authorities, and so the piece was lost, or so people thought. But Bitcoin artist Bnoiit.c had another and more permanent plan. Bnoiit.c started a crypto art gallery, backed by the Ethereum blockchain, which would enable him to recreate the "Liberty leading the people 2019" piece digitally, immutably and securely. The digital crypto artwork is sold in this virtual reality experience, through Cryptovoxels, and pays back artists for their pieces. Pascal Boyart even retweeted a post mentioning his artwork and the Cryptovoxels crypto art gallery. The gallery within Cryptovoxels is called "Museum of Cryptoart", and is only one of the few incredible collection exhibits throughout the virtual reality experience. The platform can be understood through their website statement, quoted below:

"Cryptovoxels is a virtual world powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Players can buy land and build stores and art galleries. Editing tools, avatars, text chat and voice chat are built-in. Explore Galleries, Artists, Portals and curated Collections."

The future is a virtual reality experience

Cryptovoxels sells land 'parcels' to users, who can then turn them into anything they want. Whether it be pixel statues, museums, theaters, restaurants, or parks, anything is possible in a virtual reality experience. The main aim of the platform is to display digital and crypto artwork. The busier and more 'trendy' a neighborhood is, the more expensive land and listings are. As the world moves towards a more digitized era, we can expect a lot more people to take advantage of these virtual worlds, allowing their art to be seen on an international scale with payments as instant as a button click. Blockchain continues to revolutionize the world in every and any way possible.

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