I resolved several years ago to make at least one deep change in my life before the fourth decade of my life dawned. Be it having a wife, a house of my own, or a new job. I found something much more brilliant before the age of 30: my Ikigai - Bitcoin.
Stagnation is poison. Evolve, discover, learn, step out of your comfort zone with whatever interests and talents you have. Bitcoin is a universal tool for just that and I believe millions, billions of people will figure it out and use it.
The inspiration for this work appeared while visiting the local cemetery. The two figures are a beautiful old architectural grave decoration.
The main feature are two figures, Satoshi Nakamoto and the modern man suffering under the fiat system. Satoshi has the figure close to him, in his arms, gently leaning over him. In one hand, Satoshi holds a light to bring it closer to the fiat man. The light is called Bitcoin.
The fiat human wears a blindfold to symbolize that he is clueless and blind in a matrix from whose effects he increasingly suffers and does not realize why. I have chosen a helpless body language to represent this better.
The texture of the robes/skin I have intentionally depicted as meticulously as possible to visualize a kind of wear, tear and wounds of the fiat system. I also portrayed Satoshi's robe in this way to show that he, too, is a person shaped by the system, like all of us.
Satoshi is/was a human /group of humans, just like any other human in this world. It's not him as a person that counts, but the idea in his mind. That he as a person is not significant is also shown in his vanishing. He has sown an idea, which has managed to grow independently.
On the robes and skin of the two figures I have engraved some core concepts that are characteristic of our current world trimmed to state-controlled money and how a world can be with neutral, free and scarce, not man-directed money.
Such a money can't just be pulled out of thin air and be discovered several times. It has to have a symbiosis and combination of a lot of characteristics and it has to be at the right time. The Bitcoin whitepaper is symbolic for this money, that's why I chose it as background.
Finally, I gave the drawing a sort of drawn frame, since the powerful lettering 'BITCOIN' and the text of the whitepaper gave it a poster-like look, and I think a frame completes the ensemble.
I have provided the frame with various Latin engravings: VBI LIBERTAS IBI PATRIA, 'where there is liberty, there is my home'.
ENERGIA - VIRES IN NVMERIS - TEMPVS, ‘Energy - Strength in Numbers - Time’.
IN HONOREM SATOSHI NAKAMOTO CVIVS DONVM HVMANITATEM AD CVLMEN DVCET, ‘In honor of Satoshi Nakamoto, whose gift will lead humanity to its apex’.
As a finishing touch, I drew a small string of blocks along the word 'BITCOIN'. With the block Alpha (block 782921), where I started this work and the block Omega (block 785921), which contains the last pencil stroke.
Satoshi personifies complete altruism and with his idea ensures that people will find more selflessness in themselves again, because preserving their lifetime and prosperity in the medium Bitcoin allows this again.
In my opinion, this personality development and new attitude in people is the most beautiful effect of Bitcoin. It's like waking up from a bad dream, having a rebirth, or removing a blindfold that has kept you from seeing the truly significant things in life.
Bitcoin is the only construct I know of that makes it so that when people act supposedly selfishly by accumulating as much Bitcoin as possible, there is a positive side effect not only for themselves, but for all other living beings on the planet.
I don't see this effect anywhere on our fiat-system. Striving for more wealth in Bitcoin is different from striving for more wealth in fiat.