Ethereum-Based Virtual Museum Tokenizes Censored Bitcoin Artwork

Bitcoin artist “Bnoiit.c” has created an Ethereum-based virtual museum “Cryptovoxels” that ensures censored artworks are immutably preserved for an online audience.

In its collection as of Aug. 25 has been a Bitcoin mural by French street artist Pascal “PBOY” Boyart, which was painted over by French authorities earlier this year. 

Revolutionary stirrings

Cryptovoxels’ site tells the story of the subversive mural —  a modern-day reworking of Eugène Delacroix’s classic revolutionary painting “La Liberté guidant le peuple” (Liberty Guiding the People).

The mural — created in honor of the 10th anniversary of Bitcoin’s Genesis Block — had recast the rebels who rose up against King Charles X in 1830 as contemporary “Gilets Jaunes” (Yellow Vest) protestors. 

Conceived as a street art treasure hunt, it contained a puzzle with a 0.284 BTC bounty, which could be solved entirely only by finding — and being physically in front of — the mural.

It was painted…