Christie's London will host an auction for "Ascend," a 1-of-1 piece of dynamic digital artwork inscribed on Bitcoin's Ordinals protocol. This will be the first-ever Bitcoin Ordinal to appear in a live auction at Christie's, bridging the gap between traditional and digital art. "Ascend" is part of "The Wild Within" project, which revitalizes architectural ruins through a digital medium. The artwork captures the decaying beauty of the Iveria Sanatorium in Georgia and shifts between day and night modes in real time, reflecting the actual time at the site. The use of recursion coding allows for larger and more complex artworks to be created on the Bitcoin blockchain. The auction demonstrates the potential of Bitcoin as a medium for evolving artworks and the broader adoption of Ordinals as a new digital art medium.



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