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I wanted to explore this idea so I created https://transactionbitmap.com which operates on the principle that art can be found in unexpected places, including the mathematical patterns and data inherent in blockchain transactions.
Art is subjective, just like value is.
408 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 20h
This is a bit nonsensical really...
I mean, you could as well say that all Bitcoin transactions are text, if you consider each 7 bits of data as an ASCII character, or more if you use UTF-8 or other encoding... you would end up with random sequences of letters, forming a unique "text" per transaction.
The "art" that is being generated here in OP is simply interpreting the original data in a different way, as a color, which usually just give you random data. As an image, it's just randomly colored dots.
I thought they had found some interesting visual pattern or something, but there's no structure, it's just random noise, as expected.
Also, mentioning JPEGs when referring to an image in this context is just wrong as JPEG is a lossy image format, which means that the original information is lost when generating the JPEG file. At least mention a lossless format like PNG which preserves the original data.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 15h
Your right. But also: it's not even true. It's not valid metadata. The files are invalid. They are not jpegs.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 7 Sep
That you Paul?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 7h
Paul seems to be trying to make an argument for or against something with this?
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BMP needs to be converted to JPEG using ezgif later.
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I know that I am a simple ignorant and stupid ape... but not sooo stupid. If these are the best arguments of these people I already know which side of the story I want to be on.
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I am ignorante man, wich side do u choose?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 22h
I bet this is how ordinals started
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