FTX decimates the crypto space... but you almost wouldn't know if you spent most of your time on @tezos. @fx_hash_ dropped news about fx(params) and #fxhashturnsone triggered gas wars?! Simultaneously #RIPHEN dances along producing spectacular works

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FTX decimates the crypto space... but you almost wouldn't know if you spent most of your time on @tezos. @fx_hash_ dropped news about fx(params) and #fxhashturnsone triggered gas wars?! Simultaneously #RIPHEN dances along producing spectacular works from artists everywhere... 🧵

A deep signal rumbling beneath the noise is taking shape through a medium of expression representative of our time and this anonymous bagel with a monkey avatar is diving in. While SHTF in the rest of the cryptoverse, Paul G. Allen Collection was busy raking in an astronomical...

$1.5 billion in a single evening, breaking records across the board and becoming the most valuable art auction in history (you heard that right). For perspective, those 60 auctioned pieces at @ChristiesInc held a collective value just shy of double the entire market cap of @tezos

The auctioned pieces are all "Grails" from notable ground-breaking artists of their time: Georges Seurat, Paul Cezanne, Gustav Klimt, Francis Bacon, Claude Monet, Jasper Johns, Vincent Van Gogh, etc. Meaningful, expressive, marvelously revolutionary pieces. However ...

they are also clearly not a reflection of our time. One has to wonder... what is that "Prussian Blue" of our generation? Do these works reflect our experience? Like many things we take for granted, we are collectively experiencing, curating, and partaking in its creation already.

As the Digitalist Movement blossoms into a garden of innovation weaving mathematics, code, computer intelligence, immersive reality, and artistic creativity, the budding seeds of a new Genaissance are sprouting up everywhere - if you are looking 👀.

Why the recent interest in @tezos? The surge of activity at @fx_hash_ and @objktcom? No clue. My guess? Has a lot to do with the artists and collectors organically congregating there because it's very art-centric. Artists build tools and continue exploring new forms of creative

expression all while experimenting in a robust ecosystem that has a notably different vibe than the rest of the "uponly" space. All of this coincides with a significant period in our history, the Digital Revolution, a period that impatiently beckons the future to arrive earlier.

And it kind of did, or it sort of has, and with it solved some notable problems like provenance, royalties, and storage @clubnft, etc. When the RCS* people eventually get over the stigma of "virtual" products as they did with losing their Blackberry keyboards for touchscreens

they will discover what @ChristiesInc and @Sothebysverse have been frantically scrambling to be at the heart of - the sands of time are shifting, right under our feet and there's no turning back. The digitally native cultural legacies of today are being created ... today.

The truth is remarkably unremarkable, but we somehow overlook it. The most sensible way to express our overwhelmingly digitally immersed human experience is to express it ... digitally. All the growing pains, turmoil, and fear will eventually subside to the footnotes of history.

What the internet did for information, the social graph did for distribution, [permissionless] distributed ledgers will do for transactions, and NFTs and Defi will likely be at the heart of it. If you are curious, look beyond the horizon, ignore the noise, and transcend.

How do you do that? Start. Go with the flow. For starters follow @0xDecaArt go to deca.art and browse. Learn about self-custody and grab a @Ledger and @TempleWallet and visit @fx_hash_ @objktcom. Join a solid @discord. Let the floodgates of creativity pour in.

There is something beautiful sprouting. You just have to zoom out, smell the flowers and revisit what's important. Something better is emerging from this chaos.

Take a look at these wonderful works released within the last few days/weeks and for what? 1 tez. If you are still reading this, thank you. I would have tried to go for that 80+ thread packed with artists but, unfortunately, this takes a lot of time and I think you get the idea.