The Story
In early 2018, BTC Flower made its debut on the streets of Paris. An unusual kind of Ludo piece, sharing the same techno-flower chimera archetype, but with a different tone and style. R.I.P Banking System was an uplifting symbol framed with an elegantly simple message. There’s not a forced entanglement, but a genuine symbiosis of the natural and technical. Greenery keeps its original plant form with Bitcoin at its core, able to bloom from the remains of a failed Fiat system. A seed had been planted, if you will.
This story cuts closer to the ideals of crypto than most realize. BTC Flower started as a street piece, the first large Bitcoin art the world has ever known. Egalitarian in nature, it has no owner and is free for everyone — Ludo’s gift to the world. This was only the beginning. Ludo went on to stay involved in the space throughout crypto winter. He created and privately sold physical versions of BTC Flower in March 2020, remaining a symbol of hope in the market’s darkest days.
The next iteration of R.I.P Banking System is coming in the form of 2,009 digital NFTs, commemorating the year of Bitcoin’s genesis. They will exist natively on the Internet Computer, the only global blockchain with Bitcoin interoperability. The art itself will be a true chimera, a single piece of art in iterable and varied forms, distributed as a network species. BTC Flower’s move from physical to digital isn’t a happenstance scenario nor an opportunistic NFT play, but an utter necessity in reaching levels of creativity and equity that should be representative of anything in crypto.
The BTC Flower is more than just an artistic representation or symbol for the Bitcoin movement — it’s a distillation of Bitcoin’s story that reminds us where we’ve been, where we’re going, and most importantly, why we Bitcoiners do what we do.
Frequently asked questions
- What is BTC Flower?
- BTC Flower is the digital version of the R.I.P Banking System art piece. It exists as an assortment of 2009 unique variations, the original plants that will spawn a garden commemorating accomplishments of the cryptosphere.
- Who is Ludo?
- A French artist known for exploring a world where biotechnological chimeras offer to merge plants and animals with our technological universe. In 2018 Ludo unveiled R.I.P Banking System, the first large Bitcoin art that would later become the most iconic street art in crypto history. Using the same theme of BTC blooming from the remnants of a failed fiat system, his generative art collection emerges as BTC Flower. You could learn more about Ludo’s work at thisisludo.com
- What are the benefits of holding BTC Flower?
- BTC Flower is a purely artistic expression that expands on the chimera archetype Ludo has dedicated his life to exploring. That said, just as Bitcoin was at the center of the crypto space it gave rise to, BTC Flower will remain at the heart of the garden Ludo plans to create.
- What is pricing for participation?
- The floor price for each flower at launch will be 3 ICP for whitelisted members and 5 ICP on the open market. They will each be issued as uniform seeds that grow into a uniquely generated flower decided by the Internet Computer’s randomness. The fee for trading on secondary markets is 8.5%.
- What makes a BTC Flower unique?
- Each flower will have several possible textures (gold, diamond, silver, black, green, white) for several component parts (grave, flower, bitcoin). Graves will have one of nine possible symbols, and each BTC Flower will have its petals alternate in a unique pattern that correlates with recent BTC price. For more details check out our blog.
- How is rarity determined?
- Statistical rarity will be used to calculate each Flower’s uniqueness. Simply put, the product of all the probabilities for each trait occurring in a given Flower will yield a rarity score that ranks from #1 to #2009.