TL;DR
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Pseudonymous conceptual artist OONA took a hardware wallet with an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin on it, baked it into a loaf of bread, then sold it at auction for 0.5 BTC
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Why? Idd, it’s art ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Full story
If we asked you to fundamentally explore the ways Bitcoin technology is more progressive than the people using it…
How would you handle it?
A) Writing a research paper?
B) Dust off Powerpoint and build us a slideshow?
Or
C) Take a hardware wallet with an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin on it, bake a loaf of it, and then sell it at auction?
If you answered C, you have something in common with the pseudonymous conceptual artist OONA.
They sold a real, perishable bread with a Bitcoin wallet inside (aka Bit.Bread), for 0.5 BTC (~$13.4k).
This is usually the part of the article where we’d say, “If you don’t get it, here’s what all this means…”
Unfortunately, we’re in the same boat as you – and the best explanation we have for you is:
It’s art ¯\_(ツ)_/¯