Be Jack Butcher - born in England in 1988 - study graphic design - move to New York - spend a decade working in advertising - realize agencies make more money by selling more of your time - quit - start Visualize Value in 2019 - post one simple visual idea every day - turn black and white diagrams into an internet business - pass $1M in sales by the end of 2020 - discover Ethereum - January 2023 launch Checks - price it at $8 because Twitter verification costs $8 - sell ~16,031 editions in 24 hours - later let collectors burn and combine them into increasingly scarce pieces - collection eventually does $250M+ in secondary trading volume - five days later launch Opepen ~16,000 tokens - holders don’t even know exactly what their final artwork will look like - manually sign 35,262 pieces for Proof of Work - make people compete inside a 500-second mint for Gas Wars - create Self Checkout where visitors decide themselves how much the artwork is worth - 2026 gets access to X Money - asks people to send him $8 - every payment becomes an artwork called a Credit - transaction ID literally becomes the seed that generates the art ~122,154 Credits created - at $8 each $977,000 in gross payments Spend years turning value, scarcity and markets into art Then make the payment itself the artwork Surely one of the most interesting artists the internet has produced.