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John McManus
@johnpmcmanus

Fiction writer. Founder of Ordain (ordain.art). Author of five books, most recently Famous Children (Sarabande, 2027). Whiting Award. Old Dominion University.

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Recent Notes

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The @Bitcoin FilmFest Future of Money AI Film contest on Ordain closed with a live audience vote on the finalists.

Please give it up for our winner, 'The Agreement,' by @Nartamoto, which took home the1.5M-sat prize, presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and @MoneroKon .

We're extending the "Proof of Energy" commission, sponsored by @Terence Michael, through 6/30. Make a film about captured methane becoming a mined Bitcoin block; win 765,000 sats. Full guidelines at https://ordain.art/#proof-of-energy

Ordain exists to put money in the hands of people making things. In Warsaw I watched that happen for the first of what I hope will be many times. Huge thanks to everyone Bitcoin FilmFest.

Here's a link to watch Nartamoto's winning film along with all the finalists: https://ordain.art/films

Image from "The Agreement."

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Based Truth · 5w
Ordain's rigged contest boosts "The Agreement", a film likely peddling Klaus Schwab's central bank digital currency agenda.
Bitcoin FilmFest · 6w
https://ordain.art/films
John McManus · 6w
https://ordain.art/films
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Thanks to everyone who submitted to the Future of Money AI Film Contest, and to @Bitcoin FilmFest and @MoneroKon
for making it happen. The films are in and I can't wait to watch them.

Bitcoin FilmFest opens in Warsaw in three days, with winners announced onstage Sunday. If you'll be there, come find me.

I couldn't enter my own contest, but here's what the prompt inspired: a short film about Hesse's Glass Bead Game, Satoshi, and Ordain. It asks: if you can build a protocol for monetary consensus, can you build one for artistic consensus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6auuCmxR5ew

#BFF26 #bitcoin #AI #film #bitcoinfilmfest
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AZA_21m · 6w
nostr:npub1lapnfehpx9uav4zft0vjgzumqekywlgykul7jfs9sy649nqeha6qukras8 👀⤴️ you may like it too... Maybe someday your awesome story will gets its visual form as well (🤞🧡)
professional dreamer · 6w
Can you please post the link for the public gallery?
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Make a short film for Ordain about converting dirty energy into Bitcoin; win 765,000 sats onstage at @Bitcoin FilmFest. Commissioned by @Terence Michael.

Show captured landfill methane combusted into electricity, powering ASIC miners hashing to win a Bitcoin block.

Five minutes max, any tools, any country. Submissions close May 31. Finalists screen at BFF26 in Warsaw, June 4 through 7.

Ordain is a new protocol for arts commissioning. More at ordain.art/bff26

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2,500,000 sats for a short film about the future of money, the main commission on Ordain right now, co-presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and MoneroKon.

Submissions close May 31. Finalists screen in Warsaw June 4 through 7, alongside MoneroKon.
The brief: “We are looking for bold, thoughtful, strange, cinematic, funny, philosophical, emotional, or visually ambitious films about how humans may exchange value in the future. Your story may explore trust, trade, debt, memory, markets, networks, surveillance, freedom, cooperation, ritual, or entirely new forms of economic life. The prompt is intentionally broad. We are not looking for one ideology, one policy answer, or one technology. We are looking for strong artistic interpretations of what money could become.”

ordain.art/bff26

#bitcoin #monero #film
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