TL;DR

• Pseudonymous conceptual artist OONA took a hardware wallet with an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin on it, bake it into a loaf of bread, then sold it at auction for 0.5 BTC

• Why? Idk, it's art ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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If we were to ask you to fundamentally investigate the ways in which Bitcoin technology is more progressive than the people that use it...

How would you go about it?

A) Write a research paper?

B) Dust off Powerpoint and build us a slideshow?

Or

C) Take a hardware wallet with an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin on it, bake it into a loaf of bread, then sell it at auction?

If you answered C), you have something in common with the pseudonymous conceptual artist OONA.

They sold a real, perishable loaf of bread with a Bitcoin wallet in it (aka Bit.Bread), for 0.5 BTC (~$13.4k).

This is usually the part of the article where we'd say: 'If you don't get it, here's what this all means...'

Unfortunately, we're in the same boat as you - and the best explanation we have for you is:

It's art ¯\_(ツ)_/¯