Block 5 (32.028611° N, 44.400833° E) #14/30

Block 5 (32.028611° N, 44.400833° E) by Robert Alice Location: The Great Mosque of Kufa, Iraq 801AD. Birthplace of Al Kindi. The father of modern cryptography and inventor of cryptanalysis. --- The first layer of the NFT displays the opening and closing digits of code in each segment of BTC v0.1.0. Drawing on the aesthetics of cuneiform tablets and the history of the written record, the digital digits are carved out of Houdini and based on top a fine blue mesh. The second layer corresponds to the location of each Block in the series, drawing connections between these particular locations and the pre-history of crypto, while formally alluding to the ideal of network structur...View all