The World’s First Bitcoin Fiction Anthology has Arrived

Bitcoin 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, 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 and how its invention affected us. 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 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 submission 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.

Watch the video to listen to publisher Niko Laamanen discuss the birth of the idea.

21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain

Here’s a trailer for the book with some of the original artwork which accompanies the 21 stories.

“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.”

Read Bitcoin Magazine’s review of 21 Futures and buy the book.