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@ Totally Human Writer
2025-04-07 15:25:58Bitcoin and stories are much alike.
They can be described in powerful simplicity or astonishing complexity. Both are unique developments in human history and feed our well-being. Bitcoin and stories are forces for good, but they must be used wisely.
By removing himself from the equation, Satoshi Nakamoto left it to us to write the future of bitcoin. It’s not surprising that we have been tentative to propose a narrative. Stories have never been decentralized before.
Think of the pyramids, the invention of the printing press, or the release of the iPhone 1. Instead of the technology itself, we focus on the people who made it possible and how its invention affected society. But in relity, the story of the pyramids survives in every tourist’s photograph; the joy of reading touches a higher percentage of the world’s population every year; the garage-to-keynote-speaker tale of Apple’s late CEO inspires would-be entrepreneurs worldwide.
To unite interest in bitcoin, we need to be better at telling its stories. Only stories have the power to stop us, to wake us, to make us feel rather than think.
In late 2022, Konsensus Network, the Freedom Publishing House, announced a call for submissions for the world’s first bitcoin fiction anthology. The book seeks to link the emotive power of stories with the possible effects and ramifications of a hyperbitcoinized world.
For most people, great change doesn’t arrive from binary logic and a working knowledge of code. Understanding grows through narrative. It is stories that bring change.
Here’s https://www.youtube.com/embed/vIQ41B8jFPI?si=pN2kr44P-Th3bug4 for the book with some of the original artwork which accompanies the 21 stories.
21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain
Political dissidents scramble to cross the threshold to freedom. A decades-long hunt for keys incites a change in world order. A clear-blood dares to question the oppression of noderoids. A cryo-frozen oligarch wakes into his worst nightmare.
A lowly space station miner buys a planet.
In this book of diverse stories planted firmly in the bitcoin-verse, reality fractures into 21 futures. Some are wonderful, others terrifying.
You are not prepared.
[https://21futures.com] (21 Futures) is now an imprint of Konsensus Network, publishing a variety of freedom fiction stories and books.
In my next blog, I'll go into some of the many developments in the bitcoin fiction space in the last few years.
For now, let's keep sharing stories.