2 Ethereum Note

THE DEPLORABLES:
ROSS ULBRICHT

The Avatars of The Great Awakening

The Deplorables is a series of designs that honor popular figures who advocate principles of privacy, transparency, and truth. The notes are denominated in the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum and have been specially produced as NFTs – Non-Fungible Tokens – digital assets on the blockchain with a prescribed scarcity. Accordingly, all characters features on the banknotes have some affinity with blockchain or cryptocurrency. A physical version of these series is in production, while the NFT artwork of this design is available on Blockchain Art Exchange, in a limited edition of just 15.

The third design in the Deplorables series, featuring Ross Ulbricht, available exclusively on the Blockchain Art Exchange.

This third note to be released features Ross William Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road website – an online black market and the world’s first darknet market. Of course, it’s appropriate the such a figure should be featured on a banknote that honors chaos!

Republica de los Deplorables is a fictional country; an alternate underworld where secrets are revealed and chaos thrives. The notes heavily draw on the symbolism of the frog, associated mythology, and the frog’s incarnation as Pepe. The frog, and Pepe, are symbols of chaos, change, the underworld, and the revelation of secrets.

The Venezuelan Bolivar was used as a template for the design, both as a reference to Venezuela’s intention to launch its own cryptocurrency, and as a way to reinforce the idea of a jurisdiction in disintegration.

The background features extensive illustration, borrowed from the original edition of The Princess Bride, where Ulbricht took his online name – Dread Pirate Roberts. The background is also peppered with a man riding a camel – Silkroad’s logo.

This note is special for a number reasons. First, it demonstrates the results of new techniques in portrait engraving. The portrait was completed in record time, and proves a technique that significantly reduces the working time of this otherwise labor-intensive process.

The physical version of this note will be printed on authentic banknote paper and will include multiple security features, making it extremely difficult to replicate.

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