Kevin McCoy is a media artist and one half of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, whose work extends from the moving image and software to drawing, painting and installation. Their work Quantum played a pivotal role in early NFT history.

Once I clicked into that fundamental concept of digital scarcity—that this system makes digital information unique in the sense that I can send you my Bitcoin and I don't have it anymore. Then it was a pretty short step—given my background as a digital artist and art and technology person into net.art—to imagine you could make an artwork unique like that.
Kevin McCoy, Kevin McCoy on Bridging net.art and Blockchain
Net.art was just an element in a broader form of digital experimentation and digital creativity that was happening and that broader ethos was very much about decentralization, anti-authoritarianism, bottom-up approaches and anti-surveillance. Then I started seeing with Bitcoin, especially at that early time, a very cypherpunk, anti-authoritarian project.
Kevin McCoy, Kevin McCoy on Bridging net.art and Blockchain