{"id":7648,"date":"2021-04-21T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:48:44","slug":"satoshi-nakamoto-saves-world-in-nft-enabled-comic-book-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/2021\/04\/21\/satoshi-nakamoto-saves-world-in-nft-enabled-comic-book-series","title":{"rendered":"Satoshi Nakamoto saves the world in an NFT-enabled comic book series"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a Reddit <\/b>post<\/b><\/a> from August 2013, in which a purported time traveler shared a dystopian future brought on by the proliferation of Bitcoin in the year 2025.<\/b> \u201cThings are looking bleak here, and some of you will carry blood on your hands,\u201d the time traveler warned readers, telling them of a world of vast inequality and economic decline. The Bitcoin \u201cearlies\u201d live in fortified cities, as there are no more governments due to the difficulty of enforcing taxation.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the inspiration of the setting created by ENCODE Graphics, a comic publisher <\/span>committed<\/span><\/a> to \u201cexpressing the myths of the crypto scene and the metaverse in narrative form.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Characters PR1MUS and ONESHOT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Part of the vision is to breathe life into the comic book industry, which suffered a crypto blow last month after DC Comics <\/span>barred<\/span><\/a> its artists from creating NFTs featuring any DC Comics intellectual property. This means that they cannot mint art featuring the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman or Superman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite this, ENCODE<\/span> is seeing the artists from both DC and Marvel join forces with crypto artists around the world to create a new \u201cuniverse with well-designed characters, which in turn will provide a basis for many more sub-projects.\u201d All will be based around the concepts of crypto in a style that might be referred to as \u201ccryptopunk.\u201d An ENCODE spokesperson tells Magazine:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe vision to establish a comic project that provides a wonderful base for comic artists to make artworks in the spirit of Bitcoin, CryptoArt and our crypto community. This universe, with its beautifully designed characters, offers a potential that goes far beyond the creation of comic literature.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who\u2019s behind the mask?<\/span><\/h4>\n

ENCODE Graphics is headed by an Austrian artist going by the pseudonym PR1MAL CYPHER, who started off as an individual artist but is now better described as the artistic director for his project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Originally versed in oil painting, he focused on digital CryptoArt with an element of social critique. He has taken an interdisciplinary approach to combine text with digital art on platforms SuperRare, MakersPlace and Nifty Gateway, and has also produced a run of silver coins funded with 0.01 BTC, in a style reminiscent of SATOSH1. His five-part <\/span>NFT series<\/span><\/a> \u201cRIOT DAYS\u201d featuring George Floyd is an example of his sociopolitical approach.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to PR1MAL, the goal of ENCODE is to offer \u201ca glimpse into the future \u2014 a project that still guarantees the professionalism of the old publishers, but wants to live up to the symbols of CryptoArt and the Metaverse with new technologies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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