The Banksy House Project
I'm Number 1 Barrack Road. Got a Banksy. Got plan. https://basescan.org/address/0xB0731E7ea189c169640Fd890E5dcE9811040D0eA#code
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First episode in the origin story of The Banksy House Project
When Dave met Dave: "WTF Would You Do?"
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The Banksy House: A proposal for onchain cultural stewardship in an age of extraction
There’s a house in Great Yarmouth with a Banksy on the wall. The last untouched piece from Banky's series The Great British Spraycation. Still there. Still intact. Still unsold.
Most of the time, the story would end here. A wall gets cut out. The artwork gets flown to Basel. A Certificate of Authenticity arrives in a Peli case. We all move on.
But what if we didn’t?
The Banksy House Project is a live experiment in cultural refusal. It asks what happens when we preserve a piece of public art in situ and build something entirely new around it: not a market, but a mechanism; not a product, but a protocol where the value isn’t in the object but in the choice not to extract from it.
What emerges is not an artwork, but an interface.
One that connects physical space to digital consensus. One that treats “floor price” as more than a number on a dashboard. One that invites us to imagine what happens when the art stays put and the network moves around it.
In an economy of exits, this is a refusal.
And that might be the most onchain idea yet
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This week we’ve been working on some digital preservation at The /banksy-house
We’re cookin’. More news soon
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