Bitcoin Vs. Western Union

bySmeggletoot

Bitcoin Vs. Western Union

bySmeggletoot

77M sats

$57,953.75

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Description

"Smeggletoot's ""Bitcoin vs Western Union"" piece is widely regarded as the most viral spoof bitcoin ad in history.

It all started back in 2014 in the r/bitcoin reddit after Smeggletoot saw an MS-Paint post by a fellow bitcoiner mocking a legit Western Union ad campaign that came out that Christmas.

For the lols, Smeggletoot quickly set to work creating a highly polished version of the ad, expecting nothing to come of it.

Only to wake up the next day to the ‘Streisand effect’ kicking in after Western Union filed a takedown request at Facebook and the ad ended up everywhere, receiving widespread media coverage from ArsTechnica and Coindesk, amongst others.

For the next 2 weeks, pretty much every search on twitter for 'western union' returned the spoof bitcoin ad, and it has since been used in university case studies on the ‘Streisand effect’.

After the dust had settled, Smeggletoot then flew back to London and, alongside a fellow bitcoin artist and photographer friend, the work was set to canvas whereupon the pair went around London Piccadilly Circus with the piece held high, posing outside money exchanges as part of an ad-hoc guerilla bitcoin promotional effort.

The piece then appeared at a number of exhibitions and London's 'other art fair' at the Truman Brewery (London's second biggest art fair) before finding a home in the offices of bitcoin design agency 'proof of work'.

This is one of three pieces set to canvas.

You are bidding on number 3/3 signed and numbered by the artist.

Links to media coverage:

*** Coindesk

Western Union Faces Backlash Over Removal of Spoof Bitcoin Ad

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/11/26/western-union-faces-backlash-over-removal-of-spoof-bitcoin-ad/

*** ArsTechnica

Western Union doesn’t like Bitcoin spoof ad, files DMCA takedown claim

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/western-union-doesnt-like-bitcoin-spoof-ad-files-dmca-takedown-claim/

The lot Includes:

Physical Artwork:

Dimensions: 23 x 13 x 2 (Inches)
Materials: Classic Cotton Deep Edge Canvas
Weight: 0.8 (lbs)

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