133 portraits of real polo horses, produced at an institutional fine art standard.
Manual digital glazing, documented through in-house Proof of Work.
Anchored on Bitcoin using SHA-256d, Merkle proof, and OP_RETURN provenance.
White Pants BTC Club
Polo horses on Bitcoin
Collection Structure
The White Pants BTC Club collection consists of 133 portraits.
Its structure is derived directly from the world of polo, reflecting sporting levels
and hierarchy known from High Goal, Middle Goal, and Low Goal competition.
Provenance
From Digital Glazing to Bitcoin L1
Digital Glazing defines the visual construction of every portrait.
The artifact is recorded and verified on Bitcoin L1.
Formal reference to the technique: Grokipedia -> grokipedia.com/page/Digital_Glazing
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Portrait creation
133 individual vector portraits created in-house.
Proprietary digital glazing technique based on multi-layered cubic Bézier curves in Adobe Illustrator.
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Formatting and preparation of the final file intended for inscription.
Artifact preparation
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Cryptographic provenance
Generation of a SHA-256d hash for each artifact.
Establishment of a shared Merkle Tree Root for the full collection. -
Inscription on Bitcoin L1 using Ordinals CLI.
Bitcoin inscription
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OP_RETURN and ownership transfer
During transfer to the collector’s wallet, cryptographic details and the purchase price in BTC added via OP_RETURN.
Phygital Portraits
Selected Golden portraits with corresponding physical siblings.
Manually constructed digital art portraits using the Digital Glazing technique, prepared in a DTP prepress process.Transferred onto Dacron using a calibrated machine and applied to canvas, forming the image with a painted background. Signed.
Exhibition Catalogues
Polo horses on Bitcoin
Selected catalogues documenting the physical and digital presentation of the project:
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Zurich Exhibition Catalogue
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Rome Exhibition Catalogue
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Collector Zone
White Pants BTC Club Collection Catalogue
Access to the current collection catalogue is available to approved collectors.
