When Feeling Becomes Form: US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

Created for and published in The History of Bitcoin, this work marks the announcement of the United States Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, a moment when something born outside traditional systems of power entered the machinery of the state. The image brings together fragments of physical and digital works created over time, forming a turbulent history of ambition, authority, conflict, and belief. Bitcoin appears here not simply as currency or technology, but as an idea whose journey from the margins to the center of institutional power raises a larger question: what happens to a revolutionary idea when the establishment embraces it?