Alpacas: the unofficial mascot of bitcoin?
What's up with alpacas and Bitcoin? Well, if a digital currency movement can be said to have a mascot, alpacas serve that role for Bitcoin, albeit unofficially. In fact, a Bitcoin Forum discussion in April 2011 offered a "bounty for a bitcoin mascott (sic) drawing" and offered a photo of an alpaca to serve as a model. The individual who made the offer was not pleased with any of the drawings, and so there is no official mascot rendering for Bitcoin at present. The Bitcoin wiki page on alpacas traces the connection to a Feb. 10, 2011 Slashdot post about what people could buy with bitcoins....
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