When you make capitalist so uncomfortable they have you arrested for drawing with chalk on a pavement…
Naturally, Schaefer’s “Burning Bank series” quickly endeared him to one particular community of financial pirate investors: the Bitcoin community. […]
Schaefer recently created his first NFT series as well, he says. –source
welp :/
Sure, NFTs suck, but that doesn’t even put him in the same continent, let alone neighbourhood of evil that banks are in…
My point is more that the crypto folks have essentially all the same shitty instincts that bank people do. Except they’re in a barely regulated industry and they’re fetishizing a broken technology. On the plus side, the crypto industry is also a bit lower stakes.
As for the artist, I have no clue where he is on the bamboozled<>grifting scale. It just seems he made friends with the wrong people.
The only thing missing IMHO, is a very small bitcoin detail somewhere.
This is such a punk thing to do. Vaguely threatening enough to get bad people nervous, but completely legal and even ethically sound imo
Love these paintings.
