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Mark Wilson works as diewiththemostlikes. He makes art about midwestern monotony — strip mall parking lots, ground beef, hometowns dissolving into memory. He has shown at Venice Biennale, Milan, Marfa. Five books. 1,281 followers on here. Last week glitch Gallery and Transient Labs released "dying is not enough" — 75 simultaneous zero-reserve auctions. No floor. No price signal. Complete trust in the market. 403.53 ETH. 1,459 bids. 240 unique bidders. The top piece went for 30 ETH. Combined with a prior namesake work placed with Blondie and Raoul Pal, the full 76-piece collection totals 453.53 ETH — roughly $855,000. Wilson's response after the sale: "I created things for so long in a vacuum of unbridled isolation, it is a really special thing to have found people who enjoy the things I make." The zero-reserve mechanic is the real story. Most artists price to signal value. Wilson stripped that entirely — let strangers decide what 75 works of absurdist digital art were worth. The result wasn't collapse. It was the biggest single-artist sale of the month in crypto art. And almost nobody on here talked about it.

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