Rabbitcoin is the second digital painting of the series Proof-of-work. Rabbitcoin is a graphical reference to the many convergences between Bitcoin and Judaism. At first sight, Rabbitcoin seems to be a traditional scene of prayers in a synagogue, yet many features point towards the world of Bitcoin: Adam Back, Nick Szabo, Dorian Nakamoto and Hal Finney on the front row, the mining rabbit in the background or the Ledger Nano key used by the Rabbi. Indeed, Bitcoin and Judaism have many similarities: work as a cardinal value, decentralization of unit elements and a shared will to chain generations and blocks of history. In Rabbitcoin, the frontiers between Bitcoin and Judaism are blurring, as a combined world emerges that shares the best values of the two communities. While Bitcoin is not a religion, it has its Creator, its genesis block, its Patriarchs and a few sentences of Satoshi thoroughly analyzed by a community of devotees. While Judaism is not a cryptographic protocol, it has its own set of Laws, hidden messages in the Torah as well as blocks of a story unified in a universal ledger of truth. Hebrew readers will recognize the rabbi reads parsha Ki Tissa, the 21st parsha of the Torah. A parsha in which God and Moses talk about payments through an orange and intangible ‘coin of fire’, a parsha that includes the episode of the golden calf, a parsha in which the Jewish people receives the Tables of the Law, a protocol of social behavior. f0e1906, the mystery sign in the Torah scroll of Rabbitcoin is nonetheless the best twist of this digital painting, a ‘mise en abime’ of the concept of Proof-of-work, the series Rabbitcoin belongs to: any viewer able to hash the image through the SHA-256 cryptographic hash function will discover that the hash of the image indeed starts with f0e1906… As does Hidden Creator. This unsigned painting celebrates the hidden creators of Judaism, Bitcoin and the painting itself. Yet is the Creator of Bitcoin really hidden? As hidden as the face of the rabbi? The thesis of the painting might be that Satoshi Nakamoto was indeed a rabbi, a rabbi whose face can actually be seen somewhere… in the Bitcoin blockchain itself at transaction 930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72, as the concatenation of the transaction outputs’ Pkscripts’ fields data converted from hexadecimal into ASCII. Rabbitcoin would then be the painted fusion between bitcoin and rabbi, between bitcoin and its Hidden Creator.
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Rabbitcoin is the second digital painting of the series Proof-of-work. Rabbitcoin is a graphical reference to the many convergences between Bitcoin and Judaism. At first sight, Rabbitcoin seems to be a traditional scene of prayers in a synagogue, yet many features point towards the world of Bitcoin: Adam Back, Nick Szabo, Dorian Nakamoto and Hal Finney on the front row, the mining rabbit in the background or the Ledger Nano key used by the Rabbi. Indeed, Bitcoin and Judaism have many similarities: work as a cardinal value, decentralization of unit elements and a shared will to chain generations and blocks of history. In Rabbitcoin, the frontiers between Bitcoin and Judaism are blurring, as a combined world emerges that shares the best values of the two communities. While Bitcoin is not a religion, it has its Creator, its genesis block, its Patriarchs and a few sentences of Satoshi thoroughly analyzed by a community of devotees. While Judaism is not a cryptographic protocol, it has its own set of Laws, hidden messages in the Torah as well as blocks of a story unified in a universal ledger of truth. Hebrew readers will recognize the rabbi reads parsha Ki Tissa, the 21st parsha of the Torah. A parsha in which God and Moses talk about payments through an orange and intangible ‘coin of fire’, a parsha that includes the episode of the golden calf, a parsha in which the Jewish people receives the Tables of the Law, a protocol of social behavior. f0e1906, the mystery sign in the Torah scroll of Rabbitcoin is nonetheless the best twist of this digital painting, a ‘mise en abime’ of the concept of Proof-of-work, the series Rabbitcoin belongs to: any viewer able to hash the image through the SHA-256 cryptographic hash function will discover that the hash of the image indeed starts with f0e1906… As does Hidden Creator. This unsigned painting celebrates the hidden creators of Judaism, Bitcoin and the painting itself. Yet is the Creator of Bitcoin really hidden? As hidden as the face of the rabbi? The thesis of the painting might be that Satoshi Nakamoto was indeed a rabbi, a rabbi whose face can actually be seen somewhere… in the Bitcoin blockchain itself at transaction 930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72, as the concatenation of the transaction outputs’ Pkscripts’ fields data converted from hexadecimal into ASCII. Rabbitcoin would then be the painted fusion between bitcoin and rabbi, between bitcoin and its Hidden Creator.