False Profits (Framed Fine Art Print Edition)
MEAR ONE · 2016
Part of the BMAG Permanent Collection
Creator
MEAR ONEYear
2016
Dimensions
18 × 24 in
Materials
Signed offset lithograph (open run)
Location
BMAG Nashville
Collection of
Tommy Marcheschi
Type
About This Work
False Profits is the painting that put MEAR ONE on the Bitcoin map. It began as a 2012 mural going after the central bankers and the debt machine, and grew into a 36 by 48 inch acrylic on canvas. When the original came up at the Bitcoin 2022 art auction in Miami it sold for 2 BTC, one of the headline results of that show and the work that introduced MEAR ONE to the Bitcoin community. The piece held at BMAG is an 18 by 24 inch offset lithograph from that edition, signed by the artist, not the original canvas. It brings the same image into the museum, where False Profits still reads as a single painting making one blunt argument: the people who print the money are the ones running the con.
BMAG Note
The work shown here is a signed 18 by 24 inch print from the False Profits edition, not the original painting. MEAR ONE's original 36 by 48 inch acrylic sold for 2 BTC at the Bitcoin 2022 art auction in Miami.
Provenance
Current
Tommy Marcheschi
Acquired
Purchased directly from the artist (signed)
From the artist
MEAR ONE
Now on View
THERE'S MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM!
MEAR ONE — painted live at Bitcoin 2026, Las Vegas
— July 31, 2026
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