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*Higher, unframed, edition numbers of this artwork are available for $420 at SovereignRemnant.com*

- x1 16” x 20” Archival serigraph print framed with anti-reflective museum grade acrylic (Edition 1/21)

- x1 Custom titanium seed plate set framed in a shadow box with anti-reflective museum acrylic (made in collab. with Stamp Seed)

- x1 Loose set of custom titanium seed plates

- x1 Custom UV ink Hahnmuhle Certificate of Authenticity This artwork is an artistic study created by Asanoha in the eternal quest to conceptualize bitcoin. If one were to say that bitcoin is the knowledge of a private key that allows an individual to transact with the balance of a seed on the Timechain, then both in essence, and in actuality, this art has the potential to be bitcoin. The artwork is the Cipher Key, the custom seed plates contain the Ciphertext. It is a hybrid transposition cipher that must be user-loaded, and is reusable. There are 48 glyphs in the Cipher Key, each glyph representing one letter of a 12 word truncated seed phrase. Two custom seed plates may be used to encrypt a 24 word seed. All BIP39 seed phrases can be truncated down to the first 4 letters of each word. The value of the glyphs remains arbitrary until they are assigned a letter by the user based on a seed phrase they have generated. Once assigned according to the order of glyphs on the Cipher Key, the letters are written next to their corresponding glyph on the Ciphertext Seed Plates in a scrambled order. The art is the key that decrypts the order of the letters, and thus the seed phrase. Since the letters are scrambled on the Ciphertext, the words are unrecognizable. This provides security, since anyone finding the Ciphertext would have a hard time decrypting it without the Cipher Key. In order to decrypt the seed phrase, one needs both the Cipher Key and the Ciphertext, making this a type of seed XOR. If the Ciphertext is used to encrypt an address that contains bitcoin, it must of course still be securely hidden. What is interesting, is that the Cipher Key itself can be displayed publicly, and without knowing what value the glyphs have been assigned, the chance of someone cracking a seed phrase that has been encrypted to it is the same as randomly guessing any 256-private key. The odds of guessing a 256-bit private key are approximately 1 in 115,792,089,237,316,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000. In an attempt to understand how large that number is, consider that it is more than the approximate number of atoms in the observable universe. There is something magical about the process of rolling dice in the physical realm, using the entropy of the universe to pick a seed that a private/public key pair is derived from in order to sign digital transactions of a monetary unit backed by time itself. It is fascinating to then take this modern wonder of digital cryptography in the form of a mnemonic phrase and encrypt it using art depicting an ancient glyph-based transposition cipher. Combining simple cryptographic methodology developed over a thousand years ago with some of the most advanced cryptography of today, this artwork eloquently bridges the past and present, the physical and digital. It is also an interactive art study, a collaboration between the artist and the viewer, as one might say it is not complete until the cipher on this serigraph has been used to secure a small amount of bitcoin, hidden within its paper surface. Along with a variety of Bitcoin symbology, iconography, and cryptography, Asanoha creates geometric artwork. The shapes and patterns he paints and draws speak to the same mathematical truth bitcoin is built upon. Transcending the borders, ideology and flaws of man, both bitcoin and sacred geometry honor the fundamental structure of all life and the universe itself. Whether perceived from a scientific or spiritual perspective, they both remind us that everything is connected. As bitcoin is the newest and purest form of time storage and transference, sacred geometry is the oldest and purest form of illustrating and contemplating the mysterious and wonderful formula known as life, the universe and everything. Whether tattooing or painting, Asanoha primarily works by hand. Utilizing oil-based metallic paint pens, gold leaf, and acrylic on canvas, he also creates fine art limited edition archival prints of select pieces. Working to conceptualize the mystery of bitcoin in an elegant fashion, he inspires the viewer to ponder its intricacies while simultaneously promoting the sound money values of scarcity, integrity and honesty. Asanoha is the Art Director at Bitcoin Trading Cards (btc-cards.com), and he is the Ops Director at simplestbitcoinedu.com You can view more of his artwork at SovereignRemnant.com primal.net/asanoha // twitter.com/asanoha_gold