Stuckism Bitcoin Jompiy: From Charles Thomson to Billy Childish to Satoshi Nakamoto. Stuckism then Bitcoin then Jompiy. A book by Jompiy that won The Stomach Turner Prize 2024.

Look at money and high-end art now. All bought up, at least largely without regard for intrinsic value. Suffocating financial regs leaving tiny lawyer-sized gaps in money’s monopoly market art sits ideally poised to fill, almost like they knew it was coming. A bit of lip service maybe for art’s “value” but you’re still all buying lottery tickets. These suits aren’t our enemies. The supposed Enemies of Art Stuckism rallies against are amongst my finest friends and colleagues. Charity for anyone wanting to spend their days wrapped up in painting while someone else covers the rent. Time to give back. JOMPIY FOR LAWYERS. JOMPIY FOR BANKERS. Bitcoin and art don’t cut it. Stuckism didn’t turn out to be the revolution its DVD predicted. Why not? If Satoshi Nakamoto had been in on its inception, maybe things would have been different, but even Bitcoin has its problems. Jompiy’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it.

The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists are a contemporary art movement from North London, UK. This book contains the groups revised manifestos with many early ones now abandoned for being too rubbish for publication or preservation. January 1999, Charles Thomson and Billy Childish call out the fiat art delusion, providing the world with Stuckism. A decade later, January 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto (perhaps inspired by Stuckism) calls out the fiat currency delusion by providing the world with Bitcoin. Then comes Jompiy to fix all the problems they created.

Ron Throop reads an extract on his Instagram: