Robness is a 38-year-old Los Angeles artist who claims to be one of the pioneers of crypto-art. In 2020, he manipulated the image of a garbage container he found on internet and was censored by a platform specialized in digital works for a copyrights dispute. Two years later, he sold it for the equivalent of $252,000. "For me that the true soul of crypto art is is to circumvent things (…) being able to go online and mint whatever you want and subvert copyright", he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES