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For the final leg of a trek on digital platforms, daqhris publicly minted the set of 263 photographs, which he had miraculously recovered after another chaotic winter.
Blessed by the angelic support of a cryptocurrency wallet, that had been activated in 2017, bootstrapped in 2021, and put to use in 2022, he preserved them for the long run as non-fungible ERC-721 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform that allows developers to deploy self-executing code in the form of smart contracts and applications. The artworks were wrapped in a smart contract, recorded in the public ledger as awalkaday.art, and self-published so that they can be preserved, collected and exchanged. The smart contract address is 0xE31801C2E58b151C3deD2cB29dA56147b7f27eB1 and its source code has a file on-display below. Its ASCII art depicts the awalkaday logo encoded in the contract itself.
The monochromatic snapshots were assembled, named, and minted during a wintertime stay as a homeless person. The location: the ironically-named Palais des Droits, a state-owned financial building which had been converted into a squalid squat. He publicly safeguarded them on a financial network of computers on Valentine's Day in 2023, fortunately one day before a scheduled eviction from the infamous shelter in Schaerbeek.
Once released into a sovereign financial ecosystem, the fear of losing the awalkaday photographs vanished into thin air, transcended the confines of his last encrypted device — the Android One — whose secure updates had been halted near the end of 2022.
After landing on a blockchain terrain in a batch series, each photo began to carry a name, similar to the title of a page in a logbook, for example: awalkaday 185-2022.
Each name is a string of words and numbers that begins with the artistic theme awalkaday, then ends with a computer-calculated day of the year, linked by a hyphen to the year of when the photo was first dropped online without a parachute, and crossed the radar of cyberwarfare forces without a travel visa.
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