Kuno Goda is a

pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...

ous Germany-based artist. By his own account Goda was born in the

GDR East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

in the 1980s.
The name Kuno Goda is a pseudonym, borrowed in part from

Konrad Zuse Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-c ...

, creator of the first working computer and a painter under the guise “Kuno See”.
With a degree in engineering, most of Goda's works relate to technology in some way.
He owes his foray into the international art scene to the digital currencies

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and

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.
His work "200 Bitcoins" was inspired by

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

's "200 One Dollar Bills" and is regarded to be the first contemporary artwork for digital currency. The work is dedicated to anonymous bitcoin protocol creator

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. In March 2014 the work was sold to a Seattle businessman for an undisclosed amount.

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reported a selling price of $125.000 but the artist later clarified that the price was much lower.
His Ethereum-related work "Glideth" features all four permutations of the renowned hacker emblem the "Glider", hand-printed on a copper-clad plate.
On

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2016 he published a book called "Tell All - How To Bypass Media Censorship". As a commentary to

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, the book itself is 90% blacked out.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goda, Kuno German male artists Living people German contemporary artists Year of birth missing (living people)

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