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The first cryptocurrency, launched in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Since 2023, Ordinals have let artists inscribe works directly onto it.
Right from the beginning, the big political questions were asked by blockchains. Bitcoin is a very politicized project, and it asks a huge amount of questions about value right off the bat, even before artists got anywhere near it.
Simon Denny, Simon Denny on Society, Technology and Art
The only thing that seemed close was Rare Pepes, using Bitcoin and some other tokens. That was still a little different in that most of the Rare Pepes or all of them were basically just a coin.
John Watkinson, Matt Hall and John Watkinson on Beginning Movements