Jurgen Ostarhild: DOGE Genesis Block (Discrete Symbols)

“Genesis Block of Dogecoin” is a depiction of the very first string of characters on the blockchain. Each block is identified by a 64 character hash and is composed of the 16 characters of the hexadecimal code (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d ,e ,f). A special typeface was designed to represent those 16 characters in order to depict the 64 character hash as an image. Each character is visualised by a 4 x 4 square consisting of 15 dots and a space, which makes the whole hash into a 960 dots and 64 spaces square, 32 symbol-long on each side. This system allows for a visual encryption of hashes.