Examples: (These have already been purchased)
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I do pen illustrations -- generally I draw whatever comes to me. I am willing to take VERY general theme requests (Crosses, skulls, trees, etc.). The small ones seen there are 2.5" x 3.5" (Artist Trading Card size). The one at the bottom was quite a bit larger. I might also use a little watercolor -- generally red, but again, if you have a specific color in mind, feel free to ask.

A trading card would be 1BTC, larger pieces more (8.5x11 would be 8BTC). They are all signed and dated.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Just throwing this out there -- I am an aspiring Costumer/Prop-Maker willing to work for BTC. I work in a variety of materials (leather, fabric, foam, some metal, etc.) and am willing to make just about anything (I've done costumes from video-games, anime, movies, as well as historical costumes ((my specialty))). 

I am slowly adding more to my Etsy (http://www.etsy.com/shop/dvanderbleek) and to my blog (http://dvanderbleek.com).

If you are interested, would like a quote on something, or more pictures of my portfolio, please feel free to post or PM me.

Hello everyone, I was thinking about Bitcoin the other day, and a problem frequently stated by detractors : that BTC is not backed by anything, except a few thousand users hopes and dreams. Yes, I understand it is a "fiat" currency, but the primary difference is other fiat currencies -- USD, for example, started as backed by something (gold) and are now backed by millions of users and the US military. So I got to thinking, what resource do we have that could make a digital currency more "real." I briefly toyed around with the idea of a coin backed by programming ability, but that's a resource most of us already exchange for USD. But we have gigahashes of computing power, devoted to pushing coins around. Is there a way to use that for something more?

What I'm thinking is a coin, backed by our hashpower. Coins would be directly and immediately exchangeable for time on the network -- think about it. I want to render a scene in Maya, and it would normally take me hours on my system at home. But if I was able to use the entire BTC network, it would be a manner of seconds -- I would pay in "timecoins" or whatever, and be on my way. In return for letting me use your hash power, the network would award you x amount of "timecoins", which you would be free to redeem for computing power at a later date, or sell to a company/individual who needs to run some code.

I don't think this could implement a blockchain, persay -- as the current hashpower is required to maintain one. The coins would have to be secured and verified some other way. The other issue is of course making this huge network work with current software -- there would probably have to be a driver so the network would show up as a graphics adapter. Other details would be how to measure time on the network? Clock cycles? I've also thought about having two networks, one for CPUs, one for GPUs, depending on the work you need to do.

Maybe the system could even be used to provide an OnLive style of gaming -- where you're essentially playing a stream that's hosted on the network.

I am a CS major, and this is a little outside of my expertise (have done hardly any driver work). I think it's an interesting concept, at least, and possibly worth exploring further. We need to make a digital currency that is directly redeemable for something if we want it to catch on in a timely manner.