In this seminar we are joined by Stephen Chow, founder of Chow Art Fund, whose mission is to embrace the bitcoin standard in order to sponsor living artists to create masterpieces, and @FractalEncrypt, an artist who has produced a magnificent bitcoin full node sculpture. We discuss my book, The Bitcoin Standard, and how its discussion of time preference was influential in their artistic journeys; how they see art evolving in a bitcoin world; and the problem with "art on blockchain" nonsense. We conclude with a discussion of my favorite artist, classical Egyptian music's legendary diva, Umm Kulthum, and how she was the inspiration for my thoughts on time preference.

 

Chow Art Fund website: https://chowartfund.wordpress.com/

 

Bitcoin full node sculpture: https://scarce.city/products/full-node-sculpture

 

Umm Kulthum's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum

Some of her best songs: 

https://youtu.be/yvKNCW5B_DUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGHpBOt5sE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtlAw0FziDc