Bitcoin artist "Bnoiit.c" has created an Ethereum-based virtual museum "Cryptovoxels" that ensures censored artworks are immutably preserved for an online audience.

In its collection equally of Aug. 25 has been a Bitcoin mural by French street artist Pascal "PBOY" Boyart, which was painted over by French regime before this year.

Revolutionary stirrings

Cryptovoxels' site tells the story of the subversive landscape —  a modernistic-day reworking of Eugène Delacroix's classic revolutionary painting "La Liberté guidant le peuple" (Liberty Guiding the People).

The mural — created in honor of the 10th anniversary of Bitcoin'due south Genesis Block — had recast the rebels who rose up against King Charles X in 1830 as contemporary "Gilets Jaunes" (Yellow Vest) protestors.

Conceived as a street art treasure hunt, it contained a puzzle with a 0.284 BTC compensation, which could be solved entirely only by finding — and beingness physically in front of — the mural.

Information technology was painted over ane calendar month subsequently its creation.

The mural has at present been tokenized every bit a digital collectible — split into 100 ETH-based non-fungible tokens, which can be bought and sold via peer-to-peer digital collectibles marketplace OpenSea.

Users wishing to brandish their fragment of the mural need to purchase ETH-based "state parcels" on Cryptovoxels — only as with artwork, these land parcels tin can also exist bought and traded via OpenSea.

Art and the blockchain

In 2018, Cointelegraph reported on the world'due south purportedly offset cryptocurrency art auction, in which fractional ownership of Andy Warhol's 14 Small Electrical Chairs was sold via the Maecenas blockchain platform.

Similarly to Boyart, artist Andy Bauch has produced puzzle-like crypto artworks containing abstract codes, which provide hints to retrieving the private keys to wallets containing thousands of dollars' worth of cryptocurrencies.

In the jump of this year, blockchain-based art registry startup Artory raised over $7 1000000 in Serial A funding round from an early Spotify investor, amongst others.