CYPHERPUNKNOW
CypherpunkNow creates physical Bitcoin art through hand-pulled screenprinting in Prague. The work explores Bitcoin, cypherpunk culture, cryptoanarchy, privacy, decentralization and individual sovereignty.
The artist behind CypherpunkNow, Martin Fischer, has been a member of the Czech art collective Ztohoven since 2003. In 2014, he co-founded Paralelní Polis in Prague and created its original visual identity. Immersed in its Bitcoin-only environment and the ideas of cryptoanarchy, he began creating Bitcoin-related screenprints in 2015.
His practice combines hand-pulled screenprinting, collage, drawing, digital pixels and fragments of historical engravings. Works are produced by hand in Prague, primarily as small editions on paper, individually signed and numbered.
Between 2017 and 2019, the project was known as Crypto Art Lab. In 2020, Fischer adopted the name CypherpunkNow, reflecting an increasingly Bitcoin-focused practice and its roots in cypherpunk culture. Originally kept separate in the spirit of privacy behind the project, the identities Martin Fischer and CypherpunkNow are now publicly connected as the same artistic practice.
Physical screenprinting remains at the centre of his work, while blockchain technology is used to document provenance and authenticate physical editions.
Artshows: Hackers Congress Paralelni Polis 2017-23 Prague / Baltic Honeybadger 2019 Riga / The Lightning Conference 2019 Berlin / LA Crypto Art Show 2019 Los Angeles / Cryptoart Revolution 2021 Paris / #Trashart : NFT Garbology 2022 Paris / BTC22 Miami / Baltic Honeybadger 2022 Riga / BTC22 Amsterdam / NFTFactory Drop 2022 Paris / BTC23 Miami / BTC25 Las Vegas
GALLERY 2014 - 2026
The archive below traces more than a decade of physical Bitcoin art, from the first screenprints in 2015 to recent editions. Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin White Paper, monetary freedom and privacy appear throughout the work, connecting the prints through recurring ideas and imagery.
Explore the work by year below, or visit the Art Shop to discover editions available to collect.
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2020 — THE BEGINNING OF CYPHERPUNKNOW
In 2020 the project became CypherpunkNow, marking a clearer commitment to Bitcoin and the ideas of cypherpunk culture. Physical screenprinting remained central while recurring subjects expanded around Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin White Paper, monetary freedom, privacy and the people and ideas that preceded Bitcoin.
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THE CRYPTO ART LAB YEARS
Between 2017 and 2019, the work developed under the name Crypto Art Lab. Bitcoin increasingly became the dominant subject, alongside cryptoanarchy, privacy and decentralization. Screenprinted works such as I Am Satoshi Nakamoto, HODL, Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and Bitcoin White Paper established a visual language that would later develop into CypherpunkNow.
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EARLY BITCOIN ART
The origin of the work lies in Paralelní Polis, co-founded in Prague in 2014. Immersion in Bitcoin, cryptoanarchy and the emerging culture around decentralized technologies led to the first Bitcoin-related physical artworks and screenprints in 2015.
These early works mark the beginning of a practice that would continue to use physical printing as a way of translating ideas born in digital networks into tangible objects.
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