Bitcoin artist. Public gate: @V21Art. Full work on the site. Website: volatile21.com/enter

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A look back at the BTC Prague 2026 art gallery.⚡️ Thank you @FractalEncrypt for putting it together. Much love. The line up of artists I shared the space with 👇
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New reference: the sleeping one. Curious what the projection does when nobody is looking back... ₿
Sweet dreams, by Antonio Frilli (1892)
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Everybody need the protection of a Bitcoin Warrior !
I've created an army of Warriors who embody Peer to Peer values. Check them out on the website. clctibles.com/catalogue/art/…
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Whitehats or blackhats? Shadow vs open verification. The AI war is just getting started. Who finds the bug first ? ~4000 BTC just left Liquid on a promise. Bitcoin didn't move. The idea whose time has come is still Bitcoin. Don't trust, verify. Patch. Repeat. Bitcoin never asked you to trust the mask. "It's Time"
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"So, how'd you get into bitcoin?" Me: LSD
Replying to @FractalEncrypt
And to bring it all back home, this is the art that brought me into bitcoin. I made some 900-hit sheets of blotter art from my Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary art, and a guy from Brazil wanted to buy 50 sheets, and wanted to know if I would accept Bitcoin. I told him I would, but I had no idea how to accept it. He helped me set up a web wallet and sent me 3.1 bitcoins for the art, and quietly disappeared back into the internet. I ever heard from him again, but whoever you are...thank you, and I think of you often and warmly.
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Happy Sunday ! Happy reading and self reflection … Bitcoin Tales !
What would you do if you found the private key to an address holding 250 BTC? Join us for the first ever Tales From The Timechain, where we answer what one of us did... This is a true cypherpunk story exploring the early archaeology of Bitcoin. Read all 13 pages now for free right here on Twitter. Featuring my man @HodlTarantula as the anonymous miner "Chuck" because he's perfect for the part! (likeness used without permission). All art made using @GeminiApp 3.1 Pro. For those who want to learn more behind the story, keep reading. If you want to read the story itself - get to it! ------------------------------ This is an adaptation of a talk by a security researcher named Ryan Castelluci, given at DEFCON 23 (2015). You can still watch the presentation today on YouTube. See source notes at the end of the comic. I also did my own blockchain archaeology, found all the relevant wallets from his talk and verified the evidence on-chain, myself. See source notes at the end of the comic for the addresses and on-chain data. I came across this topic while researching how to add a security feature called anti-exfil to DIY bitcoin signing devices and coordinator software (@SeedSigner @SparrowWallet @selfcustodykrux (also Kern), @nunchuk_io @BULLBITCOIN_ - and shoutout to @BitcoinShooter for getting it working on @BlockstreamJade - now we're teaming up!), and while working on that, I wanted to dig deep into the types of attacks it helps prevent. This sent me down a long rabbit hole, ECDSA failures, reused/predictable nonces, Dark Skippy to "The Curious Case of the half-Half Nonces", and then to this story - about brainwallets, as almost a footnote in the half-half story...So I'm starting here, it's the easiest one to tackle, and I'm hoping to learn this well enough that I can explain it clearly...here's hoping. The comic panels aren't perfect, it's AI, and I did this relatively quickly, so I can move onto the deeper levels of this project. To create the script, I watched Ryan's YouTube presentation about 5 times, downloaded and corrected the transcript, and then made a 12-page sketch of what I hoped to show on each page to detail the story. I fed that transcript and my 12-page sketch into a BUNCH of models; - GPT 5.6 Sol Medium - Very bland and boring! - Gemini 3.1 Pro - Did better, gave some stuff to work with, still not great. - KimiK3 - now this one did really good! I liked this one the best. - Deepseek V4 Pro - I accidentally left the Kimi script in the same folder, and it just told me "the script already exists, but I corrected some inconsistencies"...oh well. In the end I took all 3 scripts and rewrote them into one. Then I kept adjusting it - honestly until the very last page was done, I kept making changes...hope it came out good. All in - about 1-2 days of research and thinking. 1 day of script wrangling, and then another 2 of generating pages and then fixing individual panels or text boxes. Some fixes I had the AI do, some I had to manually do myself in Illustrator. Anyway, this is getting too long - I'll let you get to Page 1 of 12! Enjoy and let me know what you think!
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I got the board today, plugged it in, flashed Kern from the web flasher and had it working in minutes. Built from source in under 20 minutes and re-flashed. The board needed a case tho, so I designed something quick in illustrator and walked out to the laser...custom wood case in another 20 minutes...
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Create a coat of arms based on my x account.
Create a coat of arms based on my x account.
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RT @Volatile_21: #Bitcoin is the tangential point between zero and Infinity. Happy #Bitcoin Infinity Day! ♾/21M #Bitcoininfinityday https:/…
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It would be cool to encode a bitcoin seed within the colors of a painting...maybe people are already doing this. But hex codes are SO specific that I think only a computer could solve the puzzle if they were out there...color blends also make paintings difficult, so maybe stained glass would be a better carrier...yes stained glass on the citadel cathedrals...
"BIP29colors is an open-source project that converts bitcoin keys into color hex codes, started by @EnteroPositivo"
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Algorithm, please show this photo to the few folks on the planet who will grok the intersection of LSD blotter art and manual BIP39 seed word entropy generation.
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Volatile21 retweeted
Artists. For a century these rooms held ambassadors and a republic. This November they hold your art. I am honoured to direct & curate the House of Ralfus Bitcoin Art Gallery at the National Palace of El Salvador in collab with the National Bitcoin Office and Casa Presidencial. Physical art only. Show and sell. Submissions close 31 August. houseofralfus.com/historico-…
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I'd like to point out that this exceptional and notable because this is a Free and Open Source project that charges ZERO for their software and I believe the whole team is unpaid (because how would they pay them?) Peak bitcoiners! BTCpayserver is donating almost half a bitcoin to OTHER Open Source projects helping or affected by the issue. They're also putting up a bounty for recovering stolen funds, 10% of amounts recovered, up to 3 BTC max. If you have info that could help recover the funds, contact security@btcpayserver.org. Share their tweet for visibility if you're feeling inclined to do so...
We're donating 0.21 BTC to @craigraw and 0.21 BTC to the Bitcoin Red Team for their responsible security disclosure of the recent critical vulnerability. In addition, friends and supporters of the BTCPay Server project have committed to funding a bounty to recover the stolen funds. The bounty will be 10% of the amount recovered, up to a maximum of 3 BTC for full recovery of the funds. These are modest contributions, but they are what we can offer as a FOSS project and a way to appreciate people doing critical security work, which helps the entire ecosystem. To anyone with actionable information that could lead to a recovery, including the attacker, please contact: security@btcpayserver.org. Signal and other secure communication channels can be provided upon request. If multiple reports contribute to the recovery, the bounty will be split in coordination with the victims, based on the amount each victim lost, the funds recovered, how useful the information was to the recovery efforts, and other relevant factors.
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Bitcoin’s true power isn’t one granted wish. It’s the freedom to keep wishing. Again. And again. 🧙‍♀️⚡
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The main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required…
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Volatile21 retweeted
Hubris check: I have said multiple times in public that if I hadn’t come up with @SeedSigner, that I would probably have been a coldcard user. I liked their messaging on privacy issues, I liked that they were bitcoin-only, and even I had the impression that rodolfo’s arrogance was the product of some level of expertise and having-your-shit-togetherness. I can’t blame many people for being convinced by the marketing. What matters from here is how people move forward. Dive in. Learn more. Do the work. Ask questions. Trust less. Get to a point where you have failsafes and diversified custody. Learn about multisig and at least give it a try (hint: you just need one SeedSigner to do this). Even if you decide it’s not for you, you’ll feel better about your setup and can share what you’ve learned with others. Take more control, not less — don’t be a cold storage NPC. 🧡
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RT @Volatile_21: Ancient allure whispers to an unchangeable future, defying assaults on a permissionless fortress code, growing stronger wi…
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A look back at the BTC Prague 2026 art gallery.⚡️ Thank you @FractalEncrypt for putting it together. Much love. The line up of artists I shared the space with 👇
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I forgot to tag @GusGrillasca who inspired me with his AB24 edit 🔥 and @asanoha_gold who will make it to Prague next year🙏🧡
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Bitcoin is a mirror.
Understand Bitcoin - the best you can. It’s a teacher of many subjects and disciplines. It’s a mirror. It’s a revolution. It’s a transformation.
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I did my own investigation because I obviously don't trust them. What I found is that the external dependency of the firmware with the critical vulnerability hidden in it was written by CoinKite's CTO @DocHex pretending to be someone else. All of the following can be verified:
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In order to hide a secret , you must first hide it from yourself .
Don't trust your skull for a seed, human brains fail at random, guaranteed !
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