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We are in the midst of the Inside Bitcoins Tel Aviv 2014 (http://bitcointlv.com/en) conference, and one interesting thing to report is that a Bitcoin-themed painting made by a local artist, which was placed on display in the conference, has been sold for 35 BTC (about 10,000 EUR) to Yoshi Goto from Bitmain. This is possibly the largest purchase of merchandise for Bitcoin in Israel so far.

https://i.imgur.com/IIsvulxl.jpg

35 bitcoins wow that state the art guy should be there i saw his paintings was quite fascinating too.

nice to see where some of my s1 payment went to.   ;D


I know right!

@Meni Rosenfeld, Is there anymore pics of stuff available for purchase or was this a one off thing showcased and then sold???

I think this was the only painting in display.

The painting is real good, but 35 BTC is a lot of money.  :)

cool to see it  :D
but I would't have spent that amount in that artwork
The face looks really bad and scary

35 BTC is an exaggerated amount for a not so well known artist. But bitmain has a lot of BTC. Maybe made the purchase to create news/ruckus to the bitcoin world. Therefore free advertising from 35BTC painting.

Good. This type of news will surely get the attention and indirectly help to promote bitcoin. Anyway nice painting with a hidden meaning

big propaganda for bitcoin. A artwork is worth a lot of bitcoin from a not famous artist. This probably incentivizes other artists to create more bitcoin related artwork.

Everything is for publicity.

The painting is well done indeed. I don't think the price is too high, because it's one of the first on this topic and the artist delivered a great work.

Actually I imagine it could be a good investment, because if Bitcoin is more popular more people will be interested to obtain "historic" items from the beginning of the Bitcoin history. Good investement in fiat money terms of course... not so sure if it will be a good investment compared to just holding the 35 BTC... ;)

ya.ya.yo!

Its a decent painting i like how the bitcoins seem to shine down from the sun i would prefer to buy the bearwhale one though given the choice.  Bearwhale has a cool story also.

Not bad, I can see myself paying 35BTC for that

I love that painting, anyone know who the artist is? I don't think this is a one off type of thing because the painting is actually very nice and professional. I could see that hanging on my wall, it would fit right in with all of my other stuff

The artist's name is Xania Dorfman.

Thanks, just found some of her stuff online. If anyone else is interested here is the link

http://xaniadorfman.carbonmade.com/

Thanks for that too.

Is the depiction supposed to be Sat. Nak?

Wow, whoever paid that got ripped.  :-\

This is a very beautiful painting but its true...a little expensive.

Publicity

Yeah..!! Pretty good painting..!! But 35 btc is indeed quite a lot..!! Good for him though that he got paid handsomely for it.!! I see myself paying 10 to 15 BTC at the max...if i ever did( n if i had that much to spend on a painting..lol).

Don't like this art, 35 BTC is huge overpay ; o

beautiful picture.  wish I had that kind of talent