[ANN] [WTS] [PAINTING] - The Bitcoin Bull

[rusbitcoinuser]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to take this moment to provide everyone with an update. Before I begin, I just wanted to express our thanks and gratitude to this entire community. We never anticipated that *The Bitcoin Bull* would be met with the amount of exposure and positive feedback that it did. We are absolutely thrilled that many of you enjoyed the Bull, and that we are absolutely looking forward to bringing you more. Ludvig is currently working on his 2nd painting (if you are wondering, it will not be the Bear). We are very excited for this next piece. While I can't reveal too much information on it, sorry ; I can say that we expect to reveal it early next month. The Bear will follow afterwards as the 3rd in the collection.

Returning back to the Bull, we are happy to announce that all prints are ready for immediate shipment. Unfortunately, due to our local art store running out of 31” mailing tubes, we can only fulfill 7 more shipments until we receive a new batch next week. We have placed an order for the remaining  tubes.

Mailing tubes ready to go:
https://imgur.com/1V7FTuz
https://imgur.com/OqQMkJA

I also wanted to take this time to share with you a photograph of the man behind the brush, please note that we will have a more professional photograph when we are done building the online portfolio.
Ludvig Manukyan and the Bull: https://imgur.com/n8RvfPo

In other news, I also want to let you know that we are actively working on a website/online portfolio to showcase Ludvig’s paintings and collections. The website will also include contact information, a biography, and previous and older works.

Thanks everyone for the continued support, we appreciate it!

Best,
Mel

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Hey Og

You're right! So I was rather pleased to see one of my Notes used in a piece recently
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-needs-to-be-worth-1000000-to-be-a-legitimate-currency-2017-09-15

Viz

Very nice Viz!

Nice looking art an great idea. Congrats!

I'm sure they will sell like hotcakes.  

Thank you for the feedback! Yes, we have been receiving lots of emails and attention.

Wow, that looks hyperrealistic in my own opinion. Did you use any reference?

Thanks! I don't know if I would classify it as hyperrealism, hyperrealism paintings generally look like photographs with extremely fine detail. Personally, I think that it contains many Dali-esque elements.

The idea for the painting was mainly done in the form of a sketch -- specifically, in graphite pencil on paper.

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[vizique]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to take this moment to provide everyone with an update. Before I begin, I just wanted to express our thanks and gratitude to this entire community. We never anticipated that *The Bitcoin Bull* would be met with the amount of exposure and positive feedback that it did. We are absolutely thrilled that many of you enjoyed the Bull, and that we are absolutely looking forward to bringing you more. Ludvig is currently working on his 2nd painting (if you are wondering, it will not be the Bear). We are very excited for this next piece. While I can't reveal too much information on it, sorry ; I can say that we expect to reveal it early next month. The Bear will follow afterwards as the 3rd in the collection.

Returning back to the Bull, we are happy to announce that all prints are ready for immediate shipment. Unfortunately, due to our local art store running out of 31” mailing tubes, we can only fulfill 7 more shipments until we receive a new batch next week. We have placed an order for the remaining  tubes.

Mailing tubes ready to go:
https://imgur.com/1V7FTuz
https://imgur.com/OqQMkJA

I also wanted to take this time to share with you a photograph of the man behind the brush, please note that we will have a more professional photograph when we are done building the online portfolio.
Ludvig Manukyan and the Bull: https://imgur.com/n8RvfPo

In other news, I also want to let you know that we are actively working on a website/online portfolio to showcase Ludvig’s paintings and collections. The website will also include contact information, a biography, and previous and older works.

Thanks everyone for the continued support, we appreciate it!

Best,
Mel

----

Hey Og

You're right! So I was rather pleased to see one of my Notes used in a piece recently
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-needs-to-be-worth-1000000-to-be-a-legitimate-currency-2017-09-15

Viz

Very nice Viz!

Nice looking art an great idea. Congrats!

I'm sure they will sell like hotcakes.  

Thank you for the feedback! Yes, we have been receiving lots of emails and attention.

Wow, that looks hyperrealistic in my own opinion. Did you use any reference?

Thanks! I don't know if I would classify it as hyperrealism, hyperrealism paintings generally look like photographs with extremely fine detail. Personally, I think that it contains many Dali-esque elements.

The idea for the painting was mainly done in the form of a sketch -- specifically, in graphite pencil on paper.

Thank you and more importantly good luck with your sale.
Every bit of exposure helps so may be worth sending pics to other crypto media outlets... nothing to lose eh ?

Viz

[rusbitcoinuser]

Thank you and more importantly good luck with your sale.
Every bit of exposure helps so may be worth sending pics to other crypto media outlets... nothing to lose eh ?

Viz

Good idea Viz, thank you. I'll probably go ahead and follow that route after I finish up this online portfolio.

Work in progress :-)

https://ludvigart.com/

Best,
Mel

[rusbitcoinuser]

Hey everyone,

Sorry for my inactivity over the last week or so, I just started my new job and have been really busy. I am pleased to announce that 4 of the prints have been shipped and successfully delivered to the buyers, we have been receiving really positive feedback so far. I hope to see some framed copies on here soon heh

I also want to provide some updates on a few developments.

1. It appears that a good number of the people that put in reservations for prints have not been responding, I am going to consider them as no longer interested and have updated the OP accordingly with the updated and most current list of sold/available copies. To summarize, prints #3, #5, #7, #8, #11, and #21 are all available again now.

2. We are also updating the price of the copies to be measured in USD (variable BTC) rather than a fixed BTC price. We are updating the price to 600 USD, and also removing shipping costs to mainland US. This change was made due to short sightedness in the rapid swings in USDBTC. These changes can be reflected on the main page.

3. I am also happy to announce that the official website/portfolio is now completed -- https://ludvigart.com. Due to popular request, high resolution copies of the digital scan can be found on the main website. We hope you all enjoy.

4. We can also now be found on OpenBazaar: ob://QmURQhp9SH1s3ggCDhAp7Y31TGnAKVBJuQbXYBbm8jZcaP/store

5. I am also very happy to announce that Ludvig's paintings will soon be available on Crypto Greetings! See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2214790.0

Thank you everyone for your continued support!

Best,
Mel

[rusbitcoinuser]

Hey everyone,

Sorry for my inactivity over the last week or so, I just started my new job and have been really busy. I am pleased to announce that 4 of the prints have been shipped and successfully delivered to the buyers, we have been receiving really positive feedback so far. I hope to see some framed copies on here soon heh

I also want to provide some updates on a few developments.

1. It appears that a good number of the people that put in reservations for prints have not been responding, I am going to consider them as no longer interested and have updated the OP accordingly with the updated and most current list of sold/available copies. To summarize, prints #3, #5, #7, #8, #11, and #21 are all available again now.

2. We are also updating the price of the copies to be measured in USD (variable BTC) rather than a fixed BTC price. We are updating the price to 600 USD, and also removing shipping costs to mainland US. This change was made due to short sightedness in the rapid swings in USDBTC. These changes can be reflected on the main page.

3. I am also happy to announce that the official website/portfolio is now completed -- https://ludvigart.com. Due to popular request, high resolution copies of the digital scan can be found on the main website. We hope you all enjoy.

4. We can also now be found on OpenBazaar: ob://QmURQhp9SH1s3ggCDhAp7Y31TGnAKVBJuQbXYBbm8jZcaP/store

5. I am also very happy to announce that Ludvig's paintings will soon be available on Crypto Greetings! See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2214790.0

Thank you everyone for your continued support!

Best,
Mel

Thanks for the update!!
Some good news indeed

Absolutely! And I am especially excited about our partnership with Crypto Greetings! It's a very exciting development for us.

Best,
Melik

[rusbitcoinuser]

The owner of the #1 painting just forwarded my a picture of their now framed painting... looks pretty nice!!

Thanks for sharing that! Looking really good, nice choice of framing, compliments the painting really well. :-) Good framing always makes a difference.

Thanks!
Mel

[rusbitcoinuser]

Wooo! The Bitcoin Bull is now available on Cryptogreetings.com, we are super excited for this!! I should be receiving a few copies shortly, will take some pictures and post here!

https://www.cryptogreetings.com/collections/ludvig-manukyan/products/the-bitcoin-bull

[ChiBitCTy]

Absolutely love this art work. I wish there were perhaps smaller/more affordable options. Beautiful nonetheless!

[rusbitcoinuser]

Absolutely love this art work. I wish there were perhaps smaller/more affordable options. Beautiful nonetheless!

Thanks ChiBitCTy!

We have the high-resolution freely available for download!

Link to page: https://ludvigart.com/the-bitcoin-bull/
Link to hi-res image: http://ludvigart.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Bitcoin-Bull-Final-HD.png

You are more than welcome to download it and get it printed on any medium/size that you like! Thanks again :-)

Best,
Mel

[ChiBitCTy]

Absolutely love this art work. I wish there were perhaps smaller/more affordable options. Beautiful nonetheless!

Thanks ChiBitCTy!

We have the high-resolution freely available for download!

Link to page: https://ludvigart.com/the-bitcoin-bull/
Link to hi-res image: http://ludvigart.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Bitcoin-Bull-Final-HD.png

You are more than welcome to download it and get it printed on any medium/size that you like! Thanks again :-)

Best,
Mel

I meant to say I very much appreciate that! First up- new background screen  Awesome Artwork again

[rusbitcoinuser]

Absolutely love this art work. I wish there were perhaps smaller/more affordable options. Beautiful nonetheless!

Thanks ChiBitCTy!

We have the high-resolution freely available for download!

Link to page: https://ludvigart.com/the-bitcoin-bull/
Link to hi-res image: http://ludvigart.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Bitcoin-Bull-Final-HD.png

You are more than welcome to download it and get it printed on any medium/size that you like! Thanks again :-)

Best,
Mel

I meant to say I very much appreciate that! First up- new background screen  Awesome Artwork again

Thank you! You can also check the latest one at:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2395208.0

[rusbitcoinuser]

Wooo! Look what I just received Thanks tothemoonsands!

[rusbitcoinuser]

Wooo! Look what I just received Thanks tothemoonsands!

https://i.imgur.com/jnuaB42.png
https://i.imgur.com/vCHB1cK.png

Wow... congrats... you are now a cross-medium artist

Bumping this up in celebration of 10K. We still have a few signed prints of the bull left :-)

[frankbitcoin]

received mine and it's absolutely gorgeous  

Picture here:  https://imgur.com/a/htugV

[Champtrade]

Hello new users I’m interested

[rusbitcoinuser]

received mine and it's absolutely gorgeous  

Picture here:  https://imgur.com/a/htugV

That looks really awesome Frank! Thanks for sharing  

Hello new users I’m interested

Hello hello! I am sending you a PM now

[rusbitcoinuser]

Hey guys,

I've been hard at work in seeking a better method for payment processing rather than the DM system. Long story short, I stumbled upon some really great piece of software called BTCPayServer. It is a self-hosted, open source alternative to BitPay. It was really easy to implement and truly a great piece of software. It allows you to load your 'xpub' key from your Trezor or Ledger Nano S so for each payment it automatically pulls the next address and auto calculates the amount at time of payment. Pretty damn amazing!

We just finished implementing it on my dad's website, so all new purchases will be processed over the website. We will still honor all DM's and requests over Bitcointalk; but the website is a far simpler and streamlined solution.

https://ludvigart.com

If anyone is interested to learn more about BTCPay, please feel free to DM me or post here. I will be more than happy to answer any questions.

https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver

Thanks everyone!

Best,
Melik

[rusbitcoinuser]

Hey guys,

I've been hard at work in seeking a better method for payment processing rather than the DM system. Long story short, I stumbled upon some really great piece of software called BTCPayServer. It is a self-hosted, open source alternative to BitPay. It was really easy to implement and truly a great piece of software. It allows you to load your 'xpub' key from your Trezor or Ledger Nano S so for each payment it automatically pulls the next address and auto calculates the amount at time of payment. Pretty damn amazing!

We just finished implementing it on my dad's website, so all new purchases will be processed over the website. We will still honor all DM's and requests over Bitcointalk; but the website is a far simpler and streamlined solution.

https://ludvigart.com

If anyone is interested to learn more about BTCPay, please feel free to DM me or post here. I will be more than happy to answer any questions.

https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver

Thanks everyone!

Best,
Melik

Thanks for the update and great news

Nice to see people not having to rely on SKAM Shitpay wallet.

Thanks! It's quite amazing knowing that you are your own payment processor on an e-commerce store .

Its one thing to accept Bitcoin payments, but to have the entire process streamlined/automated is another

[tothemoonsands]

Will be reaching out in regards to setting up the BTCpay server soon! Was keeping an eye on it, but wanted to see it in use first. If it's working well for you, sounds like it is time to make that transition! Woocommerce -> Shopify -> Back to Woocommerce!

WOO 

[rusbitcoinuser]

Will be reaching out in regards to setting up the BTCpay server soon! Was keeping an eye on it, but wanted to see it in use first. If it's working well for you, sounds like it is time to make that transition! Woocommerce -> Shopify -> Back to Woocommerce!

WOO 

Test it out on the website, go try to check something out!

Yeah, message me on Slack. I believe they are working with Shopify to integrate BTCpay.

Best,
Melik