Bitcoin’s role in digital art – Bitcoin Magazine
This is an opinion editorial by Bitcoin Bible, a writer, editor and artist with 25 years of experience in the digital domain.
Art has always had a special relationship with our culture. It has been a constant, enduring through war, industrial revolutions and evolution. It takes many forms, and for a long time art has been made with all the tools we have had to work with – from the earliest cave paintings to the modern canvas. Now, however, it seems that art has taken a new form – the digital realm.
Digital art is everywhere and it has sparked a kind of revolution. Art is no longer limited to paper and pen – now we can create incredible products on the computer, create art from pixels and special effects.
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A multifaceted industry
No one can deny that the world of digital art has grown significantly over the past two decades. Once upon a time, people created simple pictures in MS paint. Today, the rise of NFTs has led to significant interest in digital art.
NFTs in particular exploded in popularity back in 2017. When a blockchain-based game launched backed by Ethereum, players could collect NFTs from their cats.
This fairly basic premise set the tone for what NFTs could do. People now use them to buy representations of objects that exist in the real world. Art, music, game assets and even videos are bought and sold using NFTs. The blockchain keeps track of every transaction, and if you buy NFT, you become the owner.
Bitcoin is a core part of this revolution because it has become one of the largest payment methods offered. As the biggest cryptocurrency out there, Bitcoin is used to pay for so many different things, including digital art.
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Art made and sold online
It’s not just about the NFT world either. We’ve seen a massive uptick in people creating digital art and selling it online.
There are entire works of art that are made and sold entirely online. It’s not exactly surprising to think that people use digital software to create artwork, then sell it on sites like eBay. This type of art is incredibly popular because it offers many unique opportunities for designs that are not commonly sold elsewhere, and it also means that virtually anyone can get into selling art.
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A completely new culture
So it’s safe to say that a whole new, exciting culture has emerged from digital art. There are now entire communities working together to create art that is based in the digital realm. To this end, there are a number of different art contests, including the one currently run by Bitcoin Bible.
There has been an amazing increase in the number of people starting to explore the Bitcoin art community for themselves as a result of these types of contests. They help promote adoption and awareness of Bitcoin. It also helps a lot in bringing traditionally physical artists into the digital world. A typical struggling artist may find that they suddenly have a wealth of tools and resources to use in the online world.
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What will the future hold for digital art?
So, what will the digital art industry do in the future? What is the next step for a tumor that has propelled itself to the highest levels of the public consciousness?
Well, we believe that growth is inevitable. The idea of digital art will continue to move forward, and will continue to grow, even in the midst of the progression is exciting.
“Bitcoin is extremely powerful and misunderstood. Art is also extremely powerful and misunderstood. That’s why we thought this pairing would work perfectly to help spread bitcoin and the creative genius of artists around the world…
“The point of art is to make the world a better place. The point of bitcoin is to make the world a better place. The artist uses paint to do this, and bitcoin uses code.” – Deacon Kennedy
You cannot now prevent the growth of digital art, because it has gained so much momentum that it can only continue to permeate the culture even more. Furthermore, we believe that it will become even more intrinsically linked to cryptocurrency over time, which is nice. Bitcoin will undoubtedly continue to be an important payment method, which will perform well in the long term as adoption continues.
It is obviously difficult to say immediately what it will mean for digital art as a whole. It is important to recognize that culture grows and develops, and whether digital art will surpass traditional art or exist in the same space remains to be seen. They’re going to collide eventually, no doubt, in a pretty big way, because digital art is a new competitor for people’s interests, and traditional art is obviously a very fixed, established way of creating.
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Final thoughts
So digital art is something that is growing all the time. It’s a big commodity now, because people like the idea of getting modern, fresh impressions of art. After all, art at its most basic level is a very interpretive medium.
Contemporary art takes many different forms, which is why things like digital art are becoming so popular, because there are no restrictions anymore. People are free to create whatever they choose, using all kinds of tools at their disposal, and that’s amazing.
What we now see are people creating digital art from all corners of the world, posting it online and selling it either as a single piece or as an NFT. Competitions are popping up everywhere, and these competitions are having such an impact on spreading the potential of digital art, and pushing that envelope out into the world.
We are truly witnessing a digital renaissance when it comes to art, and this is amazing. There is no limit to what can be achieved with digital art and it is simply a case of experimenting further, finding out what combinations of things can be used together and then using these brand new resources to generate something new and fantastic.
Anyone can get into digital art and that’s amazing. There are no boundaries, there are no limitations on how you create, because art is in the eye of the beholder. You can sit down at a computer today and create a piece of digital art by tomorrow. It is art in the truest sense of the word, so it is not exactly surprising that a digital art revolution is happening before our eyes and it should be embraced in every way.
This is a guest post by Bitcoin Bible. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.
