Shroomtoshi is an anonymous digital artist working with Bitcoin Ordinals, inscriptions of unique data onto individual satoshis on the Bitcoin blockchain.His BitcoinShrooms collection, one of the earliest Ordinals projects on Bitcoin, eventually grew to 210 unique Shrooms and 12 Protoshrooms referencing memes and technical moments from Bitcoin's history.,,
The first cluster of Shrooms he inscribed, beginning at Inscription 19, spelled out the phrase “The Shrooms R Coming”.The collection's imagery pays tribute to moments in Bitcoin's history such as the Mt. Gox collapse and the concept of a hot wallet.He also inscribed Inscription 21, a reference to Bitcoin's 21 million coin supply cap, at a time when, in his words, “there were literally me and four other early believers in the entire world inscribing on Bitcoin”.
In December 2023, Sotheby's Digital Art Department held its first auction of Bitcoin Ordinals art, offering three pieces from BitcoinShrooms, two individual mushrooms and a pixelated avocado seed, which together sold for five times their estimate.,,The following month his Inscription 21 was included in Sotheby's “Natively Digital: An Ordinals Curated Sale”, a curated auction of Bitcoin Ordinals alongside work by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy and Nullish.
