Date: 2026-01-06 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
@SPACEBULL
A Q&A with the bitcoin artist behind Madex, signed by the handle @SPACEBULL, covering his 2012 first contact with bitcoin while trying to build banking software and his slow conversion to maximalism by 2018. Madex calls modern art "a scam, a closed club", claims fiat price tags are a symptom of broken money, and lists influences from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged to the Sovereign Individual. He explains why bitcoin businesses need a fiat cushion, why builders should onboard local tradespeople and suppliers, and why he keeps a weekly Thursday intelligence-style cadence of work. The interview also includes the hotel-room anecdote about Sessions seeing him nude, which the magazine note ties to a centerfold in issue 5 (Round 5).
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Madex is a signal in a world full of noise—a testament to the enduring value of craftsmanship.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/what-is-madex-why-does-it-matter-to-bitcoin/
My first brush with bitcoin was in 2012.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/what-is-madex-why-does-it-matter-to-bitcoin/
I became a bitcoin maximalist. I became fully committed to its success.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/what-is-madex-why-does-it-matter-to-bitcoin/
Q&A with the artist behind Madex on bitcoin, art, sovereignty and building a design house.
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Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 61, category interview-profile. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/what-is-madex-why-does-it-matter-to-bitcoin/