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Writing
Ideas, rules and revisions, in the words used at the time.
18 reading records bring together 87 selected posts from Jack Butcher’s downloaded X archive. Each preserves dates and original links. Editorial headings and notes are separate from the transcribed text.
The source export was prepared on 4 November 2025 and includes posts through 3 November. This selection focuses on project history; it is not the complete account or a record of later work. Posts are artist testimony, not independent corroboration. Missing replies and attachments are not reconstructed.
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18 records · oldest first · dates shown in UTC
Artist statement · 14 August 2020 – 30 October 2024
Visualize Value: constraint and a change of medium
Two statements distinguish an early visual format from later works that use the systems they once illustrated.
2 selected posts · Visualize Value
Artist statement · 7 January 2023 – 10 January 2023
Checks: an image becomes a set of rules
Early process notes distinguish the original image, a rejected distribution idea and a developing compositing system.
10 selected posts · Checks / VV Rare
Artist statement · 7 January 2023
Checks: a stated precedent and a correction
Butcher names The Currency while developing Checks, corrects the figures he initially used and distinguishes his proposed mechanism.
4 selected posts · Checks
Artist statement · 21 February 2023
Opepen: the initial image and an unplanned continuation
A February 2023 account names the geometric Pepe reference and describes the lack of an initial development plan.
1 selected posts · Opepen Edition
Artist statement · 17 July 2023
Checks Elements: the print claim
A July 2023 announcement connects physical claims to the token’s single/pair status.
1 selected posts · Checks Elements
Artist statement · 22 November 2023
Trademark and Signature: the marks and their medium
A release-day thread explains how the registered-trademark sign connects trade, movement and the mark of a practiced activity.
5 selected posts · Trademark / Signature
Artist statement · 8 December 2023
Oviators: launch and the Wynwood invitation
The December launch explains redemption and gives the address of the prototype presentation.
3 selected posts · Oviators
Artist statement · 12 December 2023
Signature: reading the numerical layer
The artist explains the viewing control that exposes rotations and circumference, then connects the work to Signed.
3 selected posts · Signature / VV Editions
Artist statement · 21 March 2024 – 2 November 2025
Opepen: changes, proposals and interface sketches
Dated statements distinguish an announced opt-in change from later proposals about releases and the token’s interface.
3 selected posts · Opepen Edition
Artist statement · 8 April 2024 – 16 April 2024
Oviators: serial numbers, images and redemption
An April explanation connects serial numbers with binary compositions; a later update records a redemption problem.
7 selected posts · Oviators
Artist statement · 21 May 2024
1 of 1 of ?: release and the planned signature work
The release thread links the open edition, unique inscription and a physical work whose signature count would follow participation.
6 selected posts · 1 of 1 of ?
Artist statement · 28 May 2024
Proof of Work: completion and the reason for signing
A later account reports the completed 35,262 signatures and explains the relation between physical effort and perceived authenticity.
6 selected posts · 1 of 1 of ? / VV Rare
Artist statement · 26 November 2024 – 27 November 2024
Latent: notes after Paris Photo
Retrospective notes describe prompting, selection, naming and the comparison between a digital negative and a photographic print.
10 selected posts · Latent / Visualize Value
Artist statement · 1 January 2025 – 2 January 2025
Hardware: release, correction and image-making
The launch thread corrects the maximum supply from 554 to 544 and describes the image-generation and selection process.
10 selected posts · Hardware
Artist statement · 10 January 2025 – 12 January 2025
Full Set: the condition for a collective change
The original statement explains both possible outcomes of the threshold, followed by a progress post and a checkmark response.
4 selected posts · Full Set
Artist statement · 27 July 2025 – 29 July 2025
Lemonade Stand: an unintended token becomes a project
A July account of an unintended creator coin precedes a post titled Lemonade Stand and its early grid.
4 selected posts · Lemonade Stand
Artist statement · 13 August 2025 – 27 September 2025
Lemonade Stand: a proposed market simulator
Work-in-progress notes propose an interactive extension and later describe keeping the idea contained.
6 selected posts · Lemonade Stand
Artist statement · 30 September 2025
Gas Wars: a proposal to include failed minters
A September announcement proposes participation for both holders and wallets whose mint attempts failed.
2 selected posts · Gas Wars