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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 wellbeing. Bitcoin and stories are forces for good, though they must be used wisely. And there comes a point in many of our lives where we pass from consumer to active participant of these phenomena.

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 decentralised before.

Think of the building 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 that 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 tales 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. 

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*Introducing 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.**

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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. 
We hope you enjoy the stories in this book.

Visit [the website](https://21futures.com) to learn more.


