TECH NEWS PRESS RELEASE

September 20, 2022 Mindful Degens Ethereum Blockchain / Metaverse gm@mindfuldegens.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Metaverse, September 20, 2022) The Mindful Degens community is announcing the historically significant mint of “GN//GM” a digital diptych which is the only collection to bridge Ethereum’s PoW and PoS chains, by American artist Cat Russell (https://twitter.com/@Cat_Russell\_). 

With GN//GM, Cat looks back to 80s car advertisements for his palette. Grids and 'futuristic' line work from those blend into the pieces to allow retro futurist landscapes to form a diptych themed around death and rebirth, with the two themes bridged across the merge.

While there are many artists that rushed to mint either the last available PoW block or the first available PoS block, Cat was the only one that was able to accomplish both, utilizing the blockchain as part of the artistic concept itself in a way we have never seen before.

The mint occurred at 2:45AM EST on September 15th, 2022 as the Ethereum merge was taking place. 

Cat worked with 2 developers, each one with a unique approach. Whitelights (https://twitter.com/Iamwhitelights) was tasked with a “spray and pray” method, while fetzeth (https://twitter.com/fetzeth) created a custom bot to target the blocks based on total difficulty which would trigger the transactions. Using Fetz’s method, the 2-piece collection was successfully minted on blocks 15537392 and 15537394, respectively.

This level of blockchain comprehension and utilization of the minting process can not be described as anything other than total domination of the tech and a complete victory. Fetzer posted an explanation on his website (https://fetzverse.com/) which details how this feat was accomplished.

Cat Russell is a mixed media collage artist based out of Appalachia whose art has been on display at NFT NYC, Art Basal in Miami, ETH Denver, SXSW, Paris NFT and Crypto Portal in Prague. His experiences working in end-of-life care along with his Catholic upbringing are common subjects in his work which often reflect on life and death. 

Cat’s NFT journey began in January 2021. Since then he launched his own sold out 100-piece collection - 🌐therworlds - and is now of Head of Community at Blockparty (https://blockparty.co) where he helps other artists leverage NFTs. Cat also hosts several weekly shows including Due Diligence with The Mindful Degens.

More info on Cat Russell can be found on his website, https://www.catrussellart.com/ or through his management STOLEN (https://discord.gg/83UUhPjJvt) 

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TECH NEWS PRESS RELEASE

September 20, 2022 Mindful Degens Ethereum Blockchain / Metaverse gm@mindfuldegens.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Metaverse, September 20, 2022) The Mindful Degens community is announcing the historically significant mint of “GN//GM” a digital diptych which is the only collection to bridge Ethereum’s PoW and PoS chains, by American artist Cat Russell (https://twitter.com/@Cat_Russell\_). 

With GN//GM, Cat looks back to 80s car advertisements for his palette. Grids and 'futuristic' line work from those blend into the pieces to allow retro futurist landscapes to form a diptych themed around death and rebirth, with the two themes bridged across the merge.

While there are many artists that rushed to mint either the last available PoW block or the first available PoS block, Cat was the only one that was able to accomplish both, utilizing the blockchain as part of the artistic concept itself in a way we have never seen before.

The mint occurred at 2:45AM EST on September 15th, 2022 as the Ethereum merge was taking place. 

Cat worked with 2 developers, each one with a unique approach. Whitelights (https://twitter.com/Iamwhitelights) was tasked with a “spray and pray” method, while fetzeth (https://twitter.com/fetzeth) created a custom bot to target the blocks based on total difficulty which would trigger the transactions. Using Fetz’s method, the 2-piece collection was successfully minted on blocks 15537392 and 15537394, respectively.

This level of blockchain comprehension and utilization of the minting process can not be described as anything other than total domination of the tech and a complete victory. Fetzer posted an explanation on his website (https://fetzverse.com/) which details how this feat was accomplished.

Cat Russell is a mixed media collage artist based out of Appalachia whose art has been on display at NFT NYC, Art Basal in Miami, ETH Denver, SXSW, Paris NFT and Crypto Portal in Prague. His experiences working in end-of-life care along with his Catholic upbringing are common subjects in his work which often reflect on life and death. 

Cat’s NFT journey began in January 2021. Since then he launched his own sold out 100-piece collection - 🌐therworlds - and is now of Head of Community at Blockparty (https://blockparty.co) where he helps other artists leverage NFTs. Cat also hosts several weekly shows including Due Diligence with The Mindful Degens.

More info on Cat Russell can be found on his website, https://www.catrussellart.com/ or through his management STOLEN (https://discord.gg/83UUhPjJvt) 

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