Episode notes
In this episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Bitcoin for the Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Lady Nakamoto, the Alaskan digital artist whose work has become one of the most distinctive voices in Bitcoin art. This is the first time she has sat down for a full interview.
The conversation traces a path almost no one else in Bitcoin can claim: from the X Games and snowboarding World Cups, to the Rolf Institute, to years that nearly broke her, to a vision quest that led her into Bitcoin and digital art.
Lady Nakamoto represented BFTA on the floor at Bitcoin Is For Everyone in Portland, where she sold her first artwork peer-to-peer with Bitcoin. She has been a supporter of Bitcoin for the Arts from the beginning. Her work has been featured at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas and lives at the intersection of Bitcoin, sovereignty, and Alaskan landscape.
IN THIS EPISODE:
• Growing up in Girdwood, Alaska
• From age 7 skiing to X Games snowboarding
• A family of competitive snowboarders
• Rolfing, structural integration, and personal agency
• Discovering Bitcoin in 2010 during the bailouts
• Years in the wilderness and the vision quest
• COVID, awakening, and the birth of Lady Nakamoto
• Along the Watchtower, The Patriot, and The Greatest War
• Her first peer-to-peer art sale in Portland
• Why peer-to-peer is the most overlooked line in the white paper
• Indigenous Alaskan sovereignty as a Bitcoin frontier
• Why she would use a BFTA micro-grant to "buy time"
ABOUT LADY NAKAMOTO:
Alaskan digital artist, former X Games and World Cup snowboarder, and Rolfer trained at the Rolf Institute. She creates work exploring sovereignty, politics, the American experience, and Bitcoin.
Art: https://www.ladynakamoto.com
Journey: https://www.radicalindividual.com
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/o29FeRGsu6o
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
1:23 Growing up in Girdwood, Alaska
4:00 From skiing to X Games snowboarding
9:00 The Rolf Institute
26:00 Peer-to-peer and Bitcoin
29:00 Finding Bitcoin in 2010
35:00 The vision quest
47:00 Lady Nakamoto and digital art
52:00 Portland peer-to-peer sale
54:30 "I would buy time"
55:00 Closing
Bitcoin for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin micro-grants, workshops, and education.
https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org