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BITCOIN AND ART

BITCOIN ART — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 09:44:08 +0000

👋 Hi! I’m Aksana Zasinets (b. 1980), also known as 5Ksana (my artist name/pseudonym)!
🌍 I’m a Bitcoin artist and Fashion designer from Poland (Warsaw)!
🪙 I’ve been creating Bitcoin Physical Art since 2017!
✂️🧵 I’m also a professional tailor (a person who cuts and sews) with 22+ years of experience:

🪡 Substantial experience in altering clothes and operating sewing machine
🪡 Exceptional knowledge of performing all alterations and repairs
🪡 Designed an efficient bridal and women's wear collection for the organization

EDUCATION
👗 Vocational-Technical Education (Professional Technical Program based on General Education with a specialization in Women’s Outerwear Cutting), 2001.
🎓 Bachelor’s Degree in Consumer Services Technology (Instructor of Cutting and Sewing Technology), 2008.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS /ASSOCIATIONS:
🏆 CoinFest, Manchester, UK, 2021
🏆 Lugano Plan ₿, Lugano, Switzerland, 2023
🏆 Bitcoin Atlantis, Funchal, Portugal 2024
🏆 Bitcoin FilmFest, Warsaw, Poland, 2024
🏆 Lugano Plan ₿, Lugano, Switzerland, 2024
🏆 Bitcoin FilmFest, Warsaw, Poland, 2025
Main Technique: ✋🧵 Hand embroidery (cross-stitch embroidery) and sewing.

MY ARTIST STATEMENT
Style: Craftivism ✂️ 🧵 🧶 🪡 ✊

To me, Bitcoin embodies the idea of absolute freedom, and I want to share that message with the world through my art.

🧵✨ One of my favorite ways to be creative is through embroidery.
I love making pretty paintings about Bitcoin using colorful threads.
Embroidery lets me add a special touch to each piece, making them unique and interesting.

🎨 All my paintings have a unique and one-of-a-kind design, just like Bitcoin itself.

🪙 Just as Bitcoin has been “declared dead” many times, my embroidery is a cultural heritage that I am bringing back to life.

💫 Bitcoin art is modern art, but every modern art form eventually becomes traditional.

❤️ Art is the love of other humans made tangible across space and time.

When a person can’t get a hug from a friend, art is there to make them feel seen and understood.

📰 Publication: Weaving Bitcoin into Art: The Unique Creations of 5Ksana

🩷CHARITY🩷
💓With the help of kind and caring people during the COVID-19 pandemic, I made over 500 free two-layer DIY masks for kids. I used about 300 meters of fabric, 50 meters of elastic, and spent 200 hours making them!💓
💪 Proof of work X (Twitter)

My website https://buybitart.com/
Why Bitcoin and Art https://buybitart.com/faq
My project BITCOIN ART https://github.com/buybitart/bitcoinart

WAF for CLOUDFLARE

BITCOIN ART — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 09:31:30 +0000

🚀 Free Cloudflare security toolkit (WAF rules, DDoS protection, HTTP headers, AI Bot Control). Perfect for Bitcoin artists, indie creators, and anyone valuing freedom & safety. 🔒✨

This guide will help you protect your website using Cloudflare. It includes firewall rules, DDoS protection, security headers, and bot settings.

It includes:

✅ Firewall rules
✅ DDoS protection
✅ Security headers
✅ Bot management settings

My Cloudflare rule is:

✅ Tested and safe
✅ Does not break your site
✅ Blocks harmful bots, including AI scrapers
✅ Based on a ZERO TRUST approach

https://github.com/buybitart/cloudflare-security-art

BitcoinArt: open‑source site for Bitcoin art and independent art

BITCOIN ART — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:54:28 +0000

An open-source solution giving Bitcoin artists, makers, and independent creators their own customizable, self-hosted website complete with e-commerce and auction tools to showcase and sell handmade, Bitcoin-inspired artworks directly to collectors. Because an independently hosted site is the only place you fully control your content and presentation and the only place immune to deletion or censorship, it becomes your forever home on the web.

The goal is to give artists and creators an independent, customizable website that they host themselves. This way, there is no risk of censorship.

Principles & Values
We align with UNESCO’s definition of artistic freedom the right to imagine, create and distribute diverse cultural expressions free of governmental censorship, political interference or pressures of non-state actors, and the ability of individuals to access diverse cultural expressions

Features
Gallery & Storefront
Browse, filter, search and purchase original artworks.
Auction System
Place bids, view bid history, receive notifications.
Payment Integration
BTC (Bitcoin network - BTC) or USDT (Tron network -TRC20) via BTCPay Server
USD & credit cards via Stripe
Responsive Design
Works seamlessly on desktop and mobile.
Static Content
Bio, exhibitions, and contact pages.

Tech Stack

Frontend: React (Vite), Tailwind CSS
Backend: Node.js, Express
Database: PostgreSQL
Payments: BTCPay Server, Stripe
Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose

Roadmap
1 Localization & Internationalization
Add support for multiple languages, locale-aware formatting, and right-to-left layouts where needed.
2 Accessibility Enhancements
Improve compliance with WCAG guidelines: keyboard navigation, screen-reader labels, color contrast, and assistive technologies support.
3 User Experience (UX) Improvements
Refine user flows, optimize performance, enhance mobile and low-bandwidth experiences, and gather user feedback for iterative design.
4 Login with NOSTR
Censorship resistant open source communication protocol that is incredibly
5 New CMS panel with KeystoneJS
Self-hosted, open-source headless CMS

GitHub https://github.com/buybitart/bitcoinart
If you'd like to support the project, please visit the donation page https://buybitart.com/support

Let’s make BitcoinArt stronger together! Thank you very much!