Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — December 2, 2025 — Cultural preservation, inventive collaboration, and academic affect shall be on the forefront of this 12 months’s program at Bitcoin MENA 2025, with the exhibition and public sale of the primary version of Bitcoin Historical past. This can be a one-off, museum-quality artwork e book that has shortly emerged as one of the crucial necessary bodily artifacts in Bitcoin tradition.

4 years within the making and dropped at life by 128 artists from 37 international locations, this primary version chronicles the evolution of Bitcoin from its cypherpunk origins to its rise as a worldwide technological and cultural motion. The e book’s 256-page construction pays homage to Bitcoin’s SHA-256 cryptographic basis, and its manufacturing incorporates over 40 specialised printing strategies.

Housed in a 5,000-year-old fossilized black oak collector field and certain in bullskin with a customized Asprey Studio silver emblem, the First Version bridges Bitcoin’s digital beginnings with a bodily type designed to final for generations.

The First Version is at the moment the highest public sale merchandise at Scarce.Metropolis, which is internet hosting an internet public sale in assist of the Bitcoin MENA occasion. After touring the UK, Bitcoin Amsterdam, Pubky in New York, and Mondoir Gallery in Dubai, the e book will culminate in Abu Dhabi on December eighth, the place it will likely be exhibited in a purpose-built multi-wall set up contained in the Bitcoin MENA Artwork Gallery.

International training mission

Smash Toshi, the group behind the challenge, has pledged to donate 79% of the public sale proceeds to My First Bitcoin, the world’s main nonprofit group selling community-driven Bitcoin training. The remaining 21% shall be distributed among the many 128 collaborating artists whose unique work is the centerpiece of the e book.

My First Bitcoin goals to supply accessible Bitcoin training to over 200 million learners all over the world, with structured applications already energetic throughout Latin America and quickly rising internationally.

For collectors, first editions are each necessary cultural artifacts and instantly contribute to the development of Bitcoin training all over the world by means of assist of organizations like My First Bitcoin.

Bitcoin MENA’s Cultural Anchor

At Bitcoin MENA, First Version shall be on the coronary heart of the complete artwork program, serving because the centerpiece of the gallery and the ultimate vacation spot of the worldwide exhibition tour. The set up consists of chosen art work, projected visuals, supporting analysis findings, and stay public sale broadcasts.

By means of visible storytelling, the 128 commissioned works spotlight the breakthroughs, conflicts, and cultural tipping factors that formed Bitcoin’s rise, turning the historical past of the know-how into an emotional and human story that may be felt in addition to discovered.

“That includes the primary version of the historical past of Bitcoin on Bitcoin MENA confirms what Bitcoin creator Stephen Rees typically factors out: that enduring tradition relies on greater than screens and memes, particularly on the subject of the estimated 40-60% of early web historical past. Much more so in a world the place Bitcoin has already disappeared. Selecting up this e book, feeling its materials, and returning to its pages at any time creates an encounter with the story of Bitcoin that’s deeper and extra enduring than some other digital format. ” — Dennis Koch, Bitcoin Artwork Gallery Curator

collective cultural report

The historical past of the Bitcoin challenge is predicated on the next:

128 commissioned works reinterpreting key moments from 1979 to 2025

Over 100 interviews with early Bitcoin contributors together with Martti Malmi, Max Keiser, Samson Mow, Hint Mayer, and Aaron van Wirdum

Visible and conceptual contributions from notable artists with over $250 million in mixed market artwork gross sales, together with Jesse Draxler, GMUNK, Billeris, Cypherpunk Now, Ryan Koopmans, Jenny Pasanen, Robert Aris, Jake Fried, and Hakatao.

This e book is mixed with:

Associated analysis booklet for notice taking

Public Digital Archive (historyofbitcoin.io)

A worldwide collection of lectures and exhibitions

Following the public sale of the one-off first version, a collector’s version of two,139 items shall be launched. Every version incorporates a singular fragment of Bitcoin’s unique supply code, so every version collectively holds the entire codebase. This symbolically displays the decentralized nature of Bitcoin.

Public sale & itemizing particulars

Public sale platform: scarce.metropolis https://scarce.metropolis/auctions/history-of-bitcoin-first-edition

PREVIEW: In-person occasion stay on-line at Pubky in New York on December 1st and Mondoir Gallery in Dubai on December 4th. RSVP right here: https://luma.com/85mk1pzg

Bidding interval: December 1st to December tenth, ending December eleventh

Abu Dhabi Exhibition: Bitcoin MENA — December 8, ADNEC https://mena.b.tc/

The inaugural version will embrace curator-led walkthroughs, gallery programming, LED wall options all through the venue, press entry, and appearances by members of the Smashtoshi workforce.

Additional data, visuals, and background materials can be discovered at https://www.historyofbitcoin.io/.

Get your tickets to the Bitcoin MENA Convention and see the artwork gallery in individual right here: https://tickets.b.tc/occasion/bitcoin-mena-2025/tickets

About Bitcoin Convention

Bitcoin Convention is a worldwide occasion collection hosted by Bitcoin Journal’s mum or dad firm, BTC Media, that includes outstanding trade audio system, workshops, exhibitions, and leisure. These occasions function an necessary platform for Bitcoin trade leaders, builders, traders, and lovers to collect, community, and change concepts. The flagship occasion was held in Las Vegas in 2025. Bitcoin 2026 has been introduced to be held in April 2026 in Las Vegas. Its worldwide occasions embrace Bitcoin Hong Kong (August 2026), Bitcoin Amsterdam (Autumn 2026) and Bitcoin MENA (Abu Dhabi, December 2025).