Screaming George

Silkscreen, gold leaf, mixed media on canvas
85 x 200 cm
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 USA keeps raising its debt ceiling and printing money. George Washington is screaming because fiat has lost its value. Since 2000 the inflation has been 76%.

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