Awesome Bitcoin Culture is an open list of 300+ Bitcoin artists, books, films, games and places. Artist of the day: Anik Malcolm.
Anik Malcolm spent more than 900 hours painting every one of the 21 million bitcoin as its own tiny bead. The cube that came out of it is hard to stop looking at.
He trained in London, got tired of the art world there and later in Reykjavík, and poured himself into music and street projects. Bitcoin gave all that a point. In early 2025 he asked how to show 21 million of something, his wife Una said "a cube of beads", and the maths worked: 276 cubed minus six squares of 64 beads is exactly 21,000,000.
The oil painting, 128 by 128 cm, debuted at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas on April 27 to 29 and sold at the BMAG auction for 0.107 BTC. Since then he has talked about it on Bitcoin For The Arts (August 2026) and Timechain Art Magazine (September 20). Next are a bead sculpture and a planned 8 metre public monument in Prospera, Roatán, made of 21 million recycled glass beads.
Start with The Whole Entire Universe.
Site: https://anikmalcolm.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anikmalcolm/
X: https://x.com/anikmalcolm
Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub139sq6kl73vwjmw7a4mrstjaumjtg3yu53k43y5ntnk2h460j7rxsy8w6n6
On the list: https://awesomebitcoinculture.com/a/anik-malcolm/
Anik Malcolm spent more than 900 hours painting every one of the 21 million bitcoin as its own tiny bead. The cube that came out of it is hard to stop looking at.
He trained in London, got tired of the art world there and later in Reykjavík, and poured himself into music and street projects. Bitcoin gave all that a point. In early 2025 he asked how to show 21 million of something, his wife Una said "a cube of beads", and the maths worked: 276 cubed minus six squares of 64 beads is exactly 21,000,000.
The oil painting, 128 by 128 cm, debuted at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas on April 27 to 29 and sold at the BMAG auction for 0.107 BTC. Since then he has talked about it on Bitcoin For The Arts (August 2026) and Timechain Art Magazine (September 20). Next are a bead sculpture and a planned 8 metre public monument in Prospera, Roatán, made of 21 million recycled glass beads.
Start with The Whole Entire Universe.
Site: https://anikmalcolm.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anikmalcolm/
X: https://x.com/anikmalcolm
Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub139sq6kl73vwjmw7a4mrstjaumjtg3yu53k43y5ntnk2h460j7rxsy8w6n6
On the list: https://awesomebitcoinculture.com/a/anik-malcolm/
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