Josie Bellini is a multimedia artist and designer who came to crypto art from a background in finance, working across painting, print and fully on-chain digital collections that explore Bitcoin's history and the ethics of digital permanence. She began making crypto art in 2017 with Genesis, and in 2021 released CyberBrokers, one of the first fully on-chain avatar collections, comprising 10,001 characters stored entirely on the Ethereum blockchain.
In 2019 she made The People, a print of a woman whose face is spray-painted with the words “We Are Satoshi”, alongside portraits of Bitcoin's early contributors cut from dollar bills. That year she also painted Out of Many, One, a two-panel work on wood combining acrylic, US dollars and pages of the Bitcoin whitepaper. She released Free Ross, a print whose profits went to Ross Ulbricht through freeross.org. In 2020 she painted Hal, a tribute to the Bitcoin developer Hal Finney approved by his wife, Fran Finney, and the first work in a planned series on the history of Bitcoin. Half of its proceeds went to Finney's ALS Association chapter. In November 2020 she contributed one of the surrounding figures to First Supper, a collaborative piece minted on Async Art in which thirteen artists, including Hackatao, Matt Kane and XCOPY, each rendered one layer of a scene modeled on the Last Supper.
