Eleven years after it was brandished outside the offices of the Mt. Gox platform in Tokyo, Kolin Burges’ handwritten sign is now up for auction on the Scarce.City platform. A true symbol of bitcoin’s first major financial crisis. Starting price: 2 BTC, or around $160,000. MtGox Where is our money? [...]
A visual and temporal experience inscribed on Bitcoin. Monolith is a collection conceived by Japanese digital artist OTO. Much more than a series of generative works, it is a genuine artistic and technological exploration of Bitcoin as a medium, but also as an active element in the evolution of the [...]
A real digital nugget was sold on Magic Eden on March 4, 2025: a satoshi uniform 3D palinception of block 78 for 0.225 BTC, or $19.700 at the current Bitcoin price(see the transaction). A palinception uniform sat is a satoshi whose identifier is a palindrome, each subsequence of which is [...]
Since the introduction of the Ordinals protocol, Bitcoin is no longer just a monetary network, but also a medium for digital art. Unlike traditional NFTs, which store their metadata on third-party servers (IPFS, AWS…), the Ordinals protocol enables a work to be registered directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. This approach [...]
A double-page ad promoting art on Bitcoin appeared in the New York Times on February 9, 2025. It displays the eyes of Ordinals OMB’s iconic PFP collection on a black and white background, with the words “FINE ART ON BITCOIN”. Contact us to start a digital art collection on Bitcoin [...]
Today, we present STONES: a collection of beautifully detailed 3D digital stones on Bitcoin Ordinals. Designed by Léo Caillard, the artist behind the famous Runestone, the STONES collection takes a very interesting approach, blending aesthetics and interactive mechanics. With over 300 unique stone types, the 10000 inscriptions (decentralized files in [...]
Today on Symbole Art, we present Dropouts, a collection of 1295 avatars (PFP – profile images) representing hand-drawn characters with truly original attributes. Modern, poetic and imbued with references to popular culture, Dropouts stand out for their singular aesthetic and their roots in digital and crypto art. This NFT collection [...]
A historic Bitcoin fragment has just changed hands. On January 23, a rare Alpha sat from block 78 sold on Magic Eden for 0.12 BTC, or around $12,400. An Alpha Sat corresponds to the first satoshi of a Bitcoin. Block 78, mined on January 11, 2009, produced 50 bitcoins, and [...]
Arthur Simony is a Parisian artist born in 1985. With his roots in street art, his work today revolves around the power of words, poetry and interaction with the public. Inspired by mantras, calligraphy and the spiritual dimension of writing, he has given his art a universal scope, ranging from [...]
Ordinals represents a major breakthrough in the Bitcoin ecosystem. This protocol, designed by Casey Rodarmor, enables digital artifacts to be registered directly on the blockchain. How does it work? assigns a unique identifier to each satoshi (the smallest unit of Bitcoin). This makes it possible not only to track them [...]
Launched in December 2023, the NodeMonkes collection quickly defied all expectations. It has become a cultural phenomenon on the Bitcoin scene. Today, we introduce you to this now iconic collection. The rise of Nodemonkes NodeMonkes are not traditional NFTs. They are digital artifacts inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain via the [...]
Bitcoin is often perceived as a store of value, an alternative to gold. However, with the emergence of the Ordinals protocol, Bitcoin is also becoming fertile ground for on-chain innovation and NFTs. In this article, we’ll explain Bitcoin’s Ordinals protocol, how it works and why it represents a significant breakthrough [...]
