{"id":16527,"date":"2014-06-08T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/and-it-seems-to-me-that-the-bitcoin-network-meets\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:07:22","slug":"and-it-seems-to-me-that-the-bitcoin-network-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/and-it-seems-to-me-that-the-bitcoin-network-meets\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16527 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/and-it-seems-to-me-that-the-bitcoin-network-meets\/attachment\/16528\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n6vir8HZ1c1qbup7mo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>And it seems to me that the Bitcoin network meets LeWitt\u2019s description of conceptual art. If nothing else, it conforms to his edict that \u2018the basic unit\u2019 of the work \u2018be deliberately uninteresting so that it may more easily become an intrinsic part of the entire work\u2019. Boetti\u2019s absurdist bureaucrat has been downsized: a computer is capable of accomplishing nothing whatsoever in far less time. \u2018Art is noble through being useless,\u2019 wrote the French-born historian of ideas Jacques Barzun, and in the perversity of these easy calculations made deliberately hard we recognise a festival of uselessness. One might object that cryptocurrency mining isn\u2019t useless because, if all goes well, it makes money for the person who does it. But then, so does art. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/altered-states\/there-is-fortuitous-beauty-in-a-brute-force-attack\/\">The fortuitous beauty of the brute-force attack \u2013 Ned Beauman \u2013 Aeon<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it seems to me that the Bitcoin network meets LeWitt\u2019s description of conceptual art. If nothing else, it conforms to his edict that \u2018the basic unit\u2019 of the work \u2018be deliberately uninteresting so that it may more easily become an intrinsic part of the entire work\u2019. Boetti\u2019s absurdist bureaucrat has been downsized: a computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16529,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527\/revisions\/16529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}