Ethereum
Since August 2022
Last updated
Since August 2022
Last updated
For the final leg of a trek on digital platforms, publicly minted the set of 263 photographs which were miraculously recovered after another chaotic winter.
Thanks to the angelic support of a cryptocurrency wallet created in , bootstrapped in , and set in motion in , he preserved them for the long run as non-fungible on the Ethereum blockchain.
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is a decentralized blockchain platform that allows developers to create and deploy self-executing code in the form of smart contracts and applications.
The artworks were wrapped in the awalkaday.art smart contract and self-published on a public blockchain, where they can be verified, collected and exchanged. The smart contract address is .
The monochromatic snapshots were assembled, named and minted during a wintertime stay as a homeless person at the , a former financial office building which had been converted into a squalid squat in Brussels.
He was able to safeguard them on a state-of-the-art blockchain on in 2023, fortunately one day before a from the infamous Schaerbeek shelter.
Once released into a sovereign financial ecosystem, the fear of losing the awalkaday photographs vanished into thin air, escaping the confines of his last encrypted device, the Android One, whose secure updates had been halted near the .
After landing on a blockchain terrain in a batch series, each photo began to carry a name, like the title of a logbook, for example: .
The name is a string of words and numbers that begins with the artistic theme awalkaday, then ends with a computer-calculated , linked by a hyphen to the year of when the photo was first dropped online without a parachute and crossed the radar of on a tourist visa.