A Dublin-based gallery MyArtGallery.ie started accepting bitcoin as payment from customers for works of art.
The gallery offers original paintings, hand painted copies, and even painted customers' photographs with prices starting from €185. With MyArtGallery users can order their pets, babies, or favourite masterpieces of world art to be oil painted on canvas for reasonable price. For instance, you can buy the copy of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry night for this amount. The users can choose different sizes for their order. The startup's founder and CEO Kritika Ashok who worked for Accenture in the past made a decision to integrate bitcoin last week in order to facilitate the payment process for her clients.
The gallery that has the goal of making art more affordable through digital technologies launched more than a year ago, then called ArtNouv.
MyArtGallery is not the only enterprise in art-related industry that adopted digital currencies. Art dealers believe that the blockchain is the best solution for digital art. Digital artwork can be easily copied, complicating copyright issues. Verisart announced their plans to launch a mobile app to help artists and owners to verify the authenticity of art items. CoinFox wrote earlier about MAK Vienna, the first museum in the world to buy a work of art with bitcoins.
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