In “The Consensus”, CryptoZR sorted out some of the comments about Bitcoin from mainstream media or celebrities after its birth in chronological order and presented them in the format of the Times. The work records the publishers, positions, article titles and contents, information sources, publishing times, corresponding BTC prices, and original links of these comments. These opinions span time and space and form a kind of consensus.
在「The Consensus」中，艺术家将比特币诞生之后来自主流媒体或知名人士对其的部分评价按时间顺序进行了整理，并以泰晤士报的排版格式进行呈现。作品中记载了这些评论的发布者、职位、文章标题与内容、信息来源、发布时间、对应的BTC价格以及原文链接。这些意见跨越时空，形成了某种共识。
The total number of articles collected by the artist is 410, covering a 15-year period from 2010 to 2024. If a person purchased $100 worth of BTC at each report, they would currently own 1,043 BTC, with a total value of more than $100 million. Among these media materials, most of the content comes from influential traditional financial media such as CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes and Financial Times.
艺术家收集到的文章总数量为410篇，涵盖了自2010年至2024年跨度长达15年的报导。如果一个人在每次报道时购买100美元的BTC，当前将拥有1043枚BTC，总价值超过1亿美元。在这些媒体素材中，内容大多来自CNBC，布隆伯格，福布斯以及金融时报等有影响力的传统财经媒体。
The core of “The Consensus” is the data structure corresponding to 410 media information, which will present different forms due to different media carriers. A single media segment contains the publication time and the corresponding BTC price. The artist arranged these commentary articles in chronological order from left to right, making each piece of information a timestamp, and indexing and locating it through the QR code of the article link. The audience can recall their state at this point in time: maybe they have not heard of Bitcoin yet, maybe they have just heard about this weird asset in a TV series, or maybe they accidentally read an introductory article about it in the technology media…
「The Consensus」核心是410条媒体信息对应的数据结构，会因不同的媒体承载方式而呈现出不同的形态。单一媒体片段中包含了发表时间以及对应的BTC价格。艺术家将这些评论文章按时间顺序自左至右排列，使得每条信息都成为了一个时间戳，并通过文章链接的二维码进行索引和定位。观众可以在这个时间点上回想起当时的状态：也许尚未听说过比特币，也许在电视剧中刚刚听到这种怪异的资产，也许在科技媒体偶然阅读到一篇关于它的介绍文章…
“The Consensus” presents the audience with a dynamic timeline: for an article at a certain historical moment, it is inevitable to be a bit of hindsight from the current perspective. The audience can observe from the perspective of that time, what kind of reaction would they make if they were in his place? The corresponding comments after 2025 are actually implied in the work. When the audience looks back at this work released in 2024 at some point in the future, they will find that it has a deeper meaning.
「The Consensus」呈现给观众的是一个动态的时间轴：对于某个历史时刻的文章，以当前视角来看不免有点事后诸葛亮。观众可以站在当时的视角去观察，如果换做自己的话会做出什么样的反应？与此对应的2025年之后的评论内容，其实也隐含在了作品之中。当观众在未来的某个时刻回顾这件2024年发布的作品时，会发现它要表达的更深层次涵义。
As crypto culture gradually influences global politics, technology and finance, we can see that several important sovereign countries have changed from their initial opposition to support, while Buffett and other older generation investors still stick to “rat poison squared”. Perhaps the real consensus does not come from these conservative media and opinion leaders, but from everyone who is willing to take action.
随着加密文化逐渐影响全球政治、科技与金融，我们可以看到几个重要的主权国家已经从当初的反对态度转向了支持，而巴菲特等老一代投资者仍然固守着“老鼠药的平方”。也许真正的共识并不来源于这些保守的媒体和意见领袖，而是来自于每个愿意付出行动的人。
