Hello Hive Fam!

Welcome back to "12 Days of Crypto Christmas" - day seven! It can be hard to come up with gift ideas for the crypto lover in your life, and so for the next twelve days I'll be highlighting a different item that you can actually wrap and put under the tree. 🎄

So far we’ve looked at a few good book options, the open dime, crypto socks… steel backups … a bitcoin mug, the Shieldfolio stonebook and ghost pen and today… we are looking at one of my favorite crypto artists!

His store is actually crypto-art.com and I’ve had a few of his pieces for over a year now. What I really like about his art, is that it not only has this revolution rousing, non-conformist vibe to it - but it actually doubles as cold storage and soon will be available as NFT’s as well.

So let’s take a closer look at how the cold storage aspect works. So just quickly to define cold storage - it’s the process of moving your funds into a completely offline capacity. Now there are a lot of potential ways you could do this - but crypto art is one of my favorite because you also get to enjoy a cool piece of art as well. So the way this works is pretty simple … if you flip the art over - you’ll see that there is a sticker. Under the sticker you’ll find a piece of paper with a QR code that you can scan within a bitcoin wallet to move funds onto the art. And then to retrieve the funds in the future - you would basically do the process in reverse and scan the QR code that’s on the back into a bitcoin wallet.

So I mentioned NFT’s earlier - the artists is currently in the process of iterating the art into NFT’s on OpenSea - which will allow collectors to trade their pieces on the secondary market. I chatted with him about what would happen with current art holders and there will be a process for them to claim an NFT - which i thought was really cool.

You can see here on his site that there are a bunch of really cool designs and sizes you can choose from based on your preference and budget - just be sure to order soon to make sure it gets here in time for christmas.

That’s a wrap on day seven and i’ll be back again tomorrow and then 4 more days after that with more holiday gift ideas.

Check them out! ➡️ https://cryptoart.com/

XO, Lea