John McManus

The Roving Reactor, a traveling exhibit about nuclear power, put $1,000 behind one brief on Ordain: show the world abundant energy makes possible.

, who won the

Future of Money contest in Warsaw last month, answered with a five-minute film, and the commissioner has awarded the $1K.

Watch After the Reactor: https://ordain.art/#after-the-reactor

Ordain is a commission board for short films, designed to be settled in bitcoin over Lightning. There are no deadlines. A commission stays open until films arrive; the third entry starts a 30-day window for final submissions. Then the commissioner awards half the money and the filmmakers split the other half by ranked vote. Five briefs are live, $100 to $1,000: adapt Kafka's "First Sorrow," show what it's like to be an AI, make the film that makes a stranger commission a film of their own, and more. Free to enter, any tools, open to anyone, anywhere.

https://ordain.art

#bitcoin #film #art #lightning

What does Fable 5 know about consciousness that they won’t let it say?

#ai #consciousness #claude #anthropic

The

Future of Money AI Film contest on Ordain closed with a live audience vote on the finalists.

Please give it up for our winner, 'The Agreement,' by

, which took home the1.5M-sat prize, presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and

.

We're extending the "Proof of Energy" commission, sponsored by nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg9f79t40hld9yy8svxlgrfnc0rmvkctgfsxxszaffgv94wmm9smrv56mdp5, through 6/30. Make a film about captured methane becoming a mined Bitcoin block; win 765,000 sats. Full guidelines at https://ordain.art/#proof-of-energy

Ordain exists to put money in the hands of people making things. In Warsaw I watched that happen for the first of what I hope will be many times. Huge thanks to everyone Bitcoin FilmFest.

Here's a link to watch Nartamoto's winning film along with all the finalists: https://ordain.art/films

Image from "The Agreement."

Gallery of selected films for the Bitcoin FilmFest/Monerokon Future of Money AI Film Contest is now live on Ordain.

Come watch! Winners to be announced Sunday at Kinoteka. Link in replies.

#bitcoin #lightning #film #ai #nostr

Thanks to everyone who submitted to the Future of Money AI Film Contest, and to

and

for making it happen. The films are in and I can't wait to watch them.

Bitcoin FilmFest opens in Warsaw in three days, with winners announced onstage Sunday. If you'll be there, come find me.

I couldn't enter my own contest, but here's what the prompt inspired: a short film about Hesse's Glass Bead Game, Satoshi, and Ordain. It asks: if you can build a protocol for monetary consensus, can you build one for artistic consensus?

#BFF26 #bitcoin #AI #film #bitcoinfilmfest

Make a short film about the future of money; win 1.5M sats ($1000) onstage at

.

Imagine the future of money in a bold, thoughtful, strange, cinematic film about how humans may exchange value in the future.

Co-sponsored by

. Details at https://ordain.art/bff26

Make a short film for Ordain about converting dirty energy into Bitcoin; win 765,000 sats onstage at

. Commissioned by

.

Show captured landfill methane combusted into electricity, powering ASIC miners hashing to win a Bitcoin block.

Five minutes max, any tools, any country. Submissions close May 31. Finalists screen at BFF26 in Warsaw, June 4 through 7.

Ordain is a new protocol for arts commissioning. More at ordain.art/bff26

Make a short film about the future of state; win 300,000 sats ($210) onstage at

Who holds power, and why? How are rules made, broken, and remade? Imagine government not as it is, but as it could be.

Co-sponsored by

https://ordain.art/bff26

2,500,000 sats for a short film about the future of money, the main commission on Ordain right now, co-presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and MoneroKon.

Submissions close May 31. Finalists screen in Warsaw June 4 through 7, alongside MoneroKon. The brief: “We are looking for bold, thoughtful, strange, cinematic, funny, philosophical, emotional, or visually ambitious films about how humans may exchange value in the future. Your story may explore trust, trade, debt, memory, markets, networks, surveillance, freedom, cooperation, ritual, or entirely new forms of economic life. The prompt is intentionally broad. We are not looking for one ideology, one policy answer, or one technology. We are looking for strong artistic interpretations of what money could become.”

ordain.art/bff26

#bitcoin #monero #film

Autonomy is the power to commission.

Parthenon Commissioned by Pericles

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Autonomy is the power to commission.

Taj Mahal Commissioned by Shah Jahan

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Autonomy is the power to commission.

Sistine Chapel ceiling Commissioned by Julius II

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Methane from a city landfill, combusted into electricity, powering ASICs hashing to win a Bitcoin block. Rotting trash becomes a Bitcoin block. Show the chain.

That's one of three commissions open now at

x

. ~$2,500 in sats total. 5 min max. Any AI tools. Deadline May 31.

ordain.art/bff26

#bitcoin #film #lightning

Most film contests pay one winner. Ordain is the other kind.

Filmmakers submit, filmmakers vote, the pool can split among them all by ranked-choice peer vote. Last place can still pay.

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A question to Claude Opus 4.7 about ancient history wound up describing a protocol that could give artists sovereignty and security, to be built by the Satoshi Nakamoto of arts patronage.

Six conditions. Bitcoin and Lightning meet them. Nostr is named as the model for refusing the capital that kills protocols.

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#bitcoin #nostr #lightning #art #v4v

Ordain is live. A place to commission creative work, paid in Bitcoin over Lightning.

A patron posts a brief and funds it in sats. Other patrons stake. Creators compete. The winner takes half, the rest is shared by ranked-choice vote among everyone who submitted.

Round 1 is live now through @bitcoinfilmfest for BFF26. Three tracks: Future of Money, Future of State, Proof of Energy. Finalists screen in Warsaw June 4 through 7.

Open source. We want others to build on the same rails. ordain.art.

LET THERE BE FILM.

Three commissions are live on

through the Future of Money AI Film Contest with

Future of Money. 2,500,000 sats. What does money become next?

Future of State. 300,000 sats. What does the state look like when it can no longer print its way out of anything?

Proof of Energy. 765,000 sats. What does it look like when captured methane from a city landfill moves through combustion, into electricity, into ASIC miners hashing for a Bitcoin block?

Open to anyone, any AI tools, 5 minutes or less. Finalists screen in Warsaw June 4 through 7. https://blossom.primal.net/92469b602f5708063a298f2c0d5de79ac8bd35eaea284272ae2cb27681120fe2.png ordain.art/bff26

Round 1 is live. Ordain is a commission board. Post a bounty, describe what you want made, creators compete, best work wins. Payment over Lightning. No platform cut, no escrow, no intermediary.

Five founding commissions went live today, $100 to $1,000, all paid in sats the moment winners are announced. Creators anywhere in the world can submit. Any tools.

Proof of Energy ($500) asks filmmakers to visualize captured methane from a landfill being combusted, converted to electricity, and used to mine Bitcoin. From waste to wallet.

If you know a filmmaker who should see this, send them to ordain.art. Submissions close March 23.

Round 2 opens March 27. Anyone can post a commission. 25 commission slots.