The Roving Reactor, a traveling exhibit about nuclear power, put $1,000 behind one brief on Ordain: show the world abundant energy makes possible. @npub1ye03...49wf, who won the @Bitcoin FilmFest 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
John McManus
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Fiction writer. Founder of Ordain (ordain.art). Author of five books, most recently Famous Children (Sarabande, 2027). Whiting Award. Old Dominion University.
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The @Bitcoin FilmFest 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 @npub1ye03...49wf, which took home the1.5M-sat prize, presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and @MoneroKon .
We're extending the "Proof of Energy" commission, sponsored by @npub148c4...l538, 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 FilmFest @MoneroKon @John McManus
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#bitcoin #lightning #film #ai #nostrThanks to everyone who submitted to the Future of Money AI Film Contest, and to @Bitcoin FilmFest and @MoneroKon
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 @Bitcoin FilmFest.
Imagine the future of money in a bold, thoughtful, strange, cinematic film about how humans may exchange value in the future.
Co-sponsored by @MoneroKon. Details at https://ordain.art/bff26

