Cypherpunk Comic 'Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto' to launch Crowdfund on SWARM platform

Last week, we told you about the Bitcoin themed comic book currently funding on Swarm. Its working title is The Hunt For Satoshi and it is the first project launched on the Swarm discounting the platform's own crowdsale. So, why are we bringing it up again? Because the creator has announced that Bitcoin's number two guy (after Satoshi himself) will be signing five copies and giving them away in memory of legendary cypherpunk cryptographer, early internet pioneer and PGP creator Hal Finney. You might be thinking that you'll need a lot of swarm coins or BTC to get your hands on one. But the....

Hunt For Satoshi fundraiser page. Alex Preukschat, Josep Busquet and José Ángel Ares García, the trio behind 'The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto', the new Bitcoin Comic which previewed at CoinSummit and was recently written up on CoinDesk, are gearing up to launch their project Kickstarter style on the new SWARM platform which recently raised over $1,000,000 worth of Bitcoin in startup capital. Preukschat says he wants to take 1,000 pre-orders of the comic before it goes to print and those who sign up will receive crypto-tokens from the SWARM platform in return for their donations allowing them....

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 of bitcoin is about to get its first comic book, courtesy of three Spanish artists with a penchant for the geek culture. Bitcoin: The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto was written by Alex Preukschat and Josep Busquet and illustrated by Jose Angel Ares Garcia, who has previously illustrated and published several novels. As the name suggests, the plot revolves around the mysterious creator of bitcoin, but for obvious reasons the team cannot reveal too many details at this point. Preukschat told CoinDesk that he hopes the graphic novel can be a 'Matrix'-like story that makes people....

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....