Thread by @bitcoin__apex

1/ In a period of 23 days my work '#Bitcoin - Creation of Human ₿ ' is completed with block 776051. This drawing means a lot to me, let me explain why:

2/ For comprehension, especially in relation to Bitcoin, it is essential to understand Michelangelo's 'Creation of Adam', which is a section of the ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel, created in 1508-1512.

3/ God is seen trying to touch Adam powerfully, with great effort and devotion, in order to breathe life into him. Adam, on the other hand, is very reclined and raises his finger with downright indifference and no enthusiasm, without effort.

4/ All Adam has to do is try just a little bit harder and lift his finger to create the connection with God. I think this is a great scenario to project onto people today, especially Bitcoin skeptics:

5/ Many Bitcoiners are Bitcoiners by conviction, conscience and urge to do something good and extremely important for the planet and its creatures and to stand up for them. They have spent countless of hours of their lives to get to this point.

6/ The realization that everything which has been tried so far to solve fundamental problems in this world in a sustainable way does not work and can never work if the money of this world does is broken, creates a gigantic energy in Bitcoiners.

7/ Out of this conviction and energy, Bitcoiners want to share their insights with other people, because it is essential that fundamental problems can only be solved if they are recognized as such by the masses.

8/ We Bitcoiners try our best every day, with so much effort, energy, vigor, perseverance and strength to reach the fiat person, to touch him. To build the connection, to make him awaken. Just like God wants to reach Adam in Michelangelos' magnificent paining.

9/ All the fiat person has to do is accommodate the Bitcoiner a little. A little more effort on his part. A little more openness. A little more interest. A little more open-mindedness. Get out of his comfort zone just a little bit.

10/ This small effort of each, single individual to give Bitcoin a chance would have a gigantic effect in the mass.

11/ Since the problem in which our civilization finds itself due to the fiat debt money system of states and central banks is becoming increasingly fatal, I have tried to visualize some consequences stylistically and artistically on the basis of Adam's depiction:

12/ In the center of my drawing, both the fiat victim and the Bitcoiner face each other and focus their attention on almost touching. To create more tension on this pose I chose colors. Orange to match Bitcoin and as a complementary contrast blue for the hand of the fiat person.

13/ To support the colors and strengthen the overall image, I engraved "hope" and "despair" on the arms, representing both sides. The despair is also reflected in the facial expression of the Fiat victim.

14/ I have deliberately used a blindfold to cover the eyes of the fiat man. A metaphor for the lack of transparency and clear-sightedness, what is possible through inflation and state-controlled money and how momentous this is, which hardly anyone who doesn't know ₿ can imagine.

15/ Likewise the blindfold to symbolize at the same time that still quite a few people have not discovered Bitcoin, or if so, overlook it. A missed insight into fundamental things of this world, which would probably be groundbreaking and formative for them.

16/ Furthermore, I have placed a $ on the bandage. Many are blinded by money and have a distortion of their personality that they often do not recognize. This also distorts the image of ₿. ₿ is not simply a means to get rich. Sadly, that's exactly what a lot of people see.

17/ The tears are meant to underline the despair and suffering that more and more people are feeling globally because of the exploitative system. The solution is real, but it is not recognized.

18/ I have embedded the fiat man in a multitude of spawns of the inflation-debt-money system which has become more and more mature and catastrophic over decades. Downright uncaring he lies in a bed of garbage.

19/ Needless to say, we have a serious garbage and plastic problem globally and especially in the world's oceans. We and in particular large corporations continue to close our eyes too much. The greed for profit makes coops blind, the consumerism the single individual as well.

20/ The major share of people consume completely unconsciously, indifferently, just too spoiled and far from sustainability due to high time preferences. Coops make this possible because they are forced by the functioning of our monetary system to produce more, better and faster.

21/ Fiat man is both the perpetrator and the victim of his megalomania. Always more, better, newer. Showing off, status symbol, having money, proving it to others, instead of being at peace with oneself and living altruistically, sustainably, for the sake of the planet

22/ Greed is diabolical and unscrupulously pulls wealth from the future with ever more perfidious means into the now. Completely detached from physics, the laws of nature and without respect for nature, animals, fellow human beings.

23/ Especially oil, the black gold, was and still is a main reason for world powers to instigate war in other countries. Often with pretext and lies. In the end, nothing remains but scorched earth, a destroyed people and hyperinflated money in these countries.

24/ War for peace. A contradiction that is unprecedented. Never before could and never will peace be possible through violence and war. People like Julian Assange and @Snowden , among others, have drawn attention to this. The thank is persecution and deprivation of liberty.

25/ The mass media, which are almost all state-funded and therefore already predestined for completely distorted reporting, is a powerful tool for governments. They contribute considerably to the fact that the blindfold of the fiat victim fits very tightly.

26/ Martin Luther King Jr's 'I Have a Dream' is the dream for civil rights and equality. In a world based on state-controlled money that can be manipulated by central banks, this will always remain a dream.

27/ I also have a dream. I dream that fiat man will finally loosen his blindfold, begin to see with foresight and acuity, and cast a new perspective on the world. That he will make just a little effort to reach the hand of the Bitcoiner.

28/ The drawing is made on 290g/m² heavy watercolor/oil drawing cardboard with a variety of different pencils (hardness and lead diameter), brush and set square. Measures 11.6 x 16.5"/29.7 x 42cm.

29/ A limited edition of 21 signed and certified baryta art prints of this drawing is available at bitcoinapexart.com/de/product-pag…. Normal prints will follow.