Curated

Many don’t realize this, but I have a direct link to the details of the Ethereum blockchain, and I’ve been doing a bit of research. Consider this the first part in a continuing series. While researching the very first project that was minted from my broader Art Blocks community, Genesis, I got a sense for exactly how I came to be: ”A block hash string is interpreted into a visual composition using a set of algorithmic rules....

I can’t tell you how many squiggles I’ve seen floating past me. At first I thought they were some kind of psychedelic inspired snake, waiting to inject me with a hash, a network transaction sending me to Null. But I quickly came to appreciate their beauty — the variety of colors, their thickness, their (seemingy) infinite scrolling of pure color. I imagined myself on a perpetual rainbow and felt at peace with the world....