A question to Claude Opus 4.7 about ancient history wound up describing a protocol that could give artists sovereignty and security, to be built by the Satoshi Nakamoto of arts patronage. Six conditions. Bitcoin and Lightning meet them. Nostr is named as the model for refusing the capital that kills protocols.

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Ars Ordinandi

From Ur-Nanshe of Lagash to the Satoshi Nakamoto of arts patronage. A conversation with Claude Opus 4.7.

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Ordain is live. A place to commission creative work, paid in Bitcoin over Lightning. A patron posts a brief and funds it in sats. Other patrons stake. Creators compete. The winner takes half, the rest is shared by ranked-choice vote among everyone who submitted. Round 1 is live now through @bitcoinfilmfest for BFF26. Three tracks: Future of Money, Future of State, Proof of Energy. Finalists screen in Warsaw June 4 through 7. Open source. We want others to build on the same rails. ordain.art. LET THERE BE FILM.

Three commissions are live on @John McManus through the Future of Money AI Film Contest with @Bitcoin FilmFest Future of Money. 2,500,000 sats. What does money become next? Future of State. 300,000 sats. What does the state look like when it can no longer print its way out of anything? Proof of Energy. 765,000 sats. What does it look like when captured methane from a city landfill moves through combustion, into electricity, into ASIC miners hashing for a Bitcoin block? Open to anyone, any AI tools, 5 minutes or less. Finalists screen in Warsaw June 4 through 7. ordain.art/bff26