My ArtVenture: Acrylic painting “Past and future: Da Vinci and Bitcoin” Exclusive on Steem
Hello my dear Steemians and Art Fans,
Hope you are all well and like us enjoying your extended holiday.
How do you start your morning?
My morning starts with the reading the news. Actually not reading myself, my hubby is the first who is up very morning and, of course, he checks up what is happened in news.
Except ordinary news about Covid and its number, that almost became a part of our routine life. There is another news that these days became one of the obligatory must, that we check everyday.
Yes, it is a price of Bitcoin. Every day we wake up with a new step forward for Bitcoin, on 2d of January it reached $33000 USD. There is a definite trend up but what is the reason and how far it will go?
There are few reasons why Bitcoin went up:
- Weak economy
- The last year the economy of many countries with strong industry impacted by the fact of Covid cases. The countries were in lock down. That means the manufactures have reduced the production, some of them had to be put on hold for sometime or longer.
- Many people either working from home or off work, government of many countries organized social support packages for individuals and for businesses
- Businesses like travel, entertainment, transport are falling apart due to financial problem
Governments printing more money and the Federal Reserve expected to leave interest rates near zero for several years, which is not in the best interest if investors.
- Investors would like to secure their finance and Cryptocurrency is one of the attractive alternatives to traditional fiat money.
- PayPal entered cryptocurrency market and users can buy and sell in Bitcoin that gave a final push for all Cryptos to go up.
- The limited number of Bitcoin on its place makes the value stable and tendency only to go upwards. There are some prediction that I heard in December:
“Bitcoin BTCUSD, +8.94% should eventually climb to about about $400,000, Scott Minerd, chief investment officer of Guggenheim Investments
What do you think, does it sounds realistic for you?
While hearing all these news that made me to return to do some Artwork and of course two things came to my mind: my favourite Multi-talent Leonardo da Vinci and Bitcoin.
Here is what came out from trying to combine the Genius Personality and Genious creation of 21st century:
Really nice
Thank you :)
Nice painting.
As good as bitcoin is breaking new records ☺
Thank you, Bitcoin is unstoppable :)
What if one day Steem was like bitcoin today? :)
Oh, wow, this is an amazing piece of art! I loooove the idea, to combine ancient with modern. Top!
Thank you for your comment. I love old masters works and it is always good to use it for something new and not simple reproduction :)
Hello @stef1!
I very much like the counterpoint of DaVinci and Bitcoin... an interesting perspective, given how DaVinci was a great innovator of his time.
I am not sure how high BTC might go... what is different from 2017 is that so much of it is now tied up in the portfolios of investment companies, so there is much less liquidity than three years ago. Remember buying Bitcoin for under $1000 in 2017, and it went to almost $20,000... applying the same multiplier to now would give us about $110,000, if equal to 2017. But who really knows?
Thank you @denmarkguy for your feedback, I remember it was Initiative in old Steem called @sndbox and @creativecrypto who were organizing such contests where they asked to combine Old Masterpieces with Crypto symbols, I really loved it and of course took part. That is also something that people have to switch on their fantasy. Since then I just on and off do something like that.
My post was 3 days ago when Bitcoin was 34 thousand but today it is 41 Thousand., unbelieveable but if it continues to grow like that there is now wonder it will easily reach $400,000,
Wow Nice my friend i upvotes your post and restm i wish you all the beste to beatthe top we win togther
Thank you, glad you like my work :)
Another reason may be that governments are trying to move away from fiat money and put everyone on credit cards, bank cards. I think not everyone likes the dependence on banks, when you can be cut off from the power at any time. Cryptocurrency is more reliable in this sense.
Nice picture turned out :)
That giv es people the feeling of being real owner of their finance. Like banks hold our money when we transfer for 3 days, why? When we transfer Crypto it is immediate and at any time of the day.
I agree. Banks hold on to finances because they let them go through transactions that generate additional income for them. With cryptocurrency, yes, faster. But there is still dependence on networks. But it is safer than bank cards.
Hi @stef1, a brilliant concept and beautiful painting 🙏🏽
Thank you @fleur, I am glad you like it. I always wanted to do the hands like Leonardo and that was a great moment for that :)
Cool painting, xd and very good info...
Thank you :)
Love your "Past and Future" art work @stef1 Very creative, I must say :)