If you scratch the matrix
pixels disappear
but digits stay
BLOCK0 ****– GIF 1000x1000 pixels, 37 frames
The genesis scratch and the first block of The_Chain https://the-chain.xyz/users/horomox
Minted on 9/20/2023 on The_Chain Ethereum contract.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xda39c7dce54956d5d152650119c87dbc4fbb6dba/0
This GIF cryptographic hash SHA-256 is 00000003b8998e591b09a73079241e3e821f41e38f8c6ed0474eb7a2418d969a - beginning by 7 zeros in reference to the structure of Bitcoin blocks’ hash and to the number of BLOCK0 first still frames of the “absolute zero order” that represent true random nothingness (visualized by blacked out pixels). These 7 zeroes are achieved through the “scratch” process by Scratch Tech that brute forces the GIF hash by altering its colour palette; thus imitates the Bitcoin Proof-of-Work mining process.
List price: 120,000,000.010309 Eth (the total current circulating supply, minus some Eth for gas)
The Bitcoin Genesis Block came from nowhere and is not connected to any previous block. Antithetically the BLOCK0 ****is a link which provides the art chain inheritance – from the pre-The_Chain past to the next blocks of The_Chain.