Meet the Guys Who Paid $10,000 for a Bitcoin Comic Book
In late December 2015, at its Mexico City event, the Latin American Bitcoin Conference made history when it auctioned off a copy of the popular bitcoin comic, Bitcoin: The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto, for 20.4 bitcoins. At the time of the auction, that amounted to around $10,000 USD. Two men, Rodolfo Andragnes and Sebastian Wain, won the comic book together. Rodolfo claims that his involvement in the Bitcoin world began in 1997, more than a decade before Bitcoin even existed. As the Internet rose to prominence, Rodolfo drafted a business plan for an online loyalty program. The name of this....
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Visitors to the Bitcoin Center Buenos Aires, home of Bitcoin Argentina and several bitcoin startups, are reminded of the dramatic saga of bitcoin’s elusive founder Satoshi Nakamoto when they get a glimpse of a comic book on display titled: “BITCOIN The Hunt For Satoshi Nakamoto.” But in addition to drawing attention to one of bitcoin’s greatest mysteries, the comic book has its own story beyond the one told in its pages. The comic book, written by Josep Busquet and Alex Preukschat with graphics by Jose Angel Ares Garcia, was announced at the Coin Summit in London in 2014. The story covers....
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Following a successful crowdsale, the English version of crypto-focused comic book Bitcoin: The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto has now gone on sale. The book, which was launched at CoinSummit in London back in July, was created by Alex Preukschat and Josep Busquet, and features illustrations by José Ángel García Ares. According to the authors, the comic weaves together the action, facts and fictions of bitcoin technology and its "anarchic cypherpunk culture". The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the supposed pseudonym of the anonymous creator of bitcoin, provides a vehicle for "a wild adventure....
The world is changing in terms of how content is being distributed, and more importantly, in which we are consuming it. Whereas families used to be huddled in front of one television set just a decade ago, everyone in the house now has their tv. And where you used to go the comic books store for the latest comics, you can now obtain a digital copy from popular platforms such as Comixology. Looking at the example of comic books, the paradigm has shifted quite a lot in terms of how it is both distributed and consumed. At a young age, there was a certain excitement when you could enter a....