I am one, I am done

Photopolymer etching, Silkscreen on manualis paper 280g
60 x 60 cm (each)
2022

“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust” - Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin inventor.

Currency wars is an art project that has the aim of explaining to everyday people what inflation is, by reinterpretation national currency banknotes. It is important to understand where the old system (the fiat standard system) is failing,  in order to embrace the solution that the new decentralize digital money (bitcoin) is offering to the world. The more governments print money, the less your savings will worth.

The Bolivar Fuerte has been the currency of Venezuela since January 1st 2008. The name is literally translated as “strong bolivar”. By December 2016, the 100 bolivares fuerte note, Venezuela’s largest denomination of currency, was only worth about $0.023 USD on the black market.

In 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto published the bitcoin white paper, and bitcoin is now considered to be digital gold.

As trust in institutions like banks has decreased after the financial crisis of 2008, cryptography is now the new paradigm that allowed to create a new hope for people.

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