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OG Bitcoin Miner Bit Hasher 0001 by House of Ralfus
Description:
The original ledger device.
An antique wooden abacus mounted on an original French antique oval solid wood plinth, finished with a solid brass plaque engraved using traditional techniques: "OG Bitcoin Miner / Bit Hasher 0001 / House of Ralfus."
Before ASICs, before GPUs, before CPUs - there was the abacus. The oldest computing device known to humanity, the original tool for counting. Modern Bitcoin miners run trillions of hash operations per second. But strip away the silicon and the cooling and the megawatts: every hash is, at its core, counting.
This sculpture honours the work at its most ancient form. The first miner. The genesis hasher. The original ledger device.
A wink and a thesis at once.
From The Bitcoin Lexicon by House of Ralfus - an ongoing collection of one-of-one works building the visual vocabulary of Bitcoin. The first complete public showing takes place at a dedicated launch later in 2026. Collection enquiries: studio@houseofralfus.com.
Antique wooden abacus on original French antique oval solid wood plinth, solid brass plaque engraved using traditional techniques ("OG Bitcoin Miner / Bit Hasher 0001 / House of Ralfus"). The OG Bitcoin Miner.
54.5 x 38 x 17.3 cm (H x W x D, abacus on plinth)






















