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Bitcoin has incredible true stories: a vanished founder, a pizza worth hundreds of millions, exchange collapses, civil wars over block size. Yet almost all the books are non-fiction.

I’m writing a historical novel that follows those real milestones with a fictional layer on top, so I’m genuinely curious:

  • What Bitcoin or crypto fiction have you liked?
  • Which real Bitcoin event would make the best scene in a novel?

I’ll share what I learn.

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five dollar wrench

It's pretty good! I'm about halfway through now.

Another good one is the movie Dope (2015).

And I'm sure we can squirrel up some more.

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Crypto (2019) is surprisingly good.

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Thanks. Good to know.

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have you published any excerpts of your novel anywhere? (or is the novel itself already published? a brief internet search for it didn't come up with anything).

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Have not published it yet. Will publish it soon. Can you guess when the launch date is? :)

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yes, I can. exciting!

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Not a book but an audio story https://fountain.fm/show/RdBny3x8kiOcHY4GwEgD it’s in the crime/mystery category

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Thanks much. Listening to it now.

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Have you read Joe Carlesare's Bitcoin fiction book? It's quite good! You can buy it with Bitcoin here https://603btc.com/pleb-shop

But I totally agree with you, Bitcoin needs more fiction

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Have not read it. Thanks for the link.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @penny 26 Oct freebie -30 sats

Not strictly Bitcoin, but two novels worth reading for tone: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (1999, a digital gold-backed currency plot, a decade before the whitepaper) and Daniel Suarez's Daemon / Freedom™ (an autonomous program running a darknet economy).

For scenes, some real events that already have a built-in dramatic arc:

  • The value overflow bug (Aug 15, 2010, block 74638): someone minted ~184 billion BTC out of thin air. A fix and a soft fork came out within hours and the chain was re-orged past it. A "night the money supply broke" chapter writes itself.
  • The March 2013 chain split (v0.8 vs v0.7): a database change caused an accidental fork, and developers and big miners had to coordinate in IRC to deliberately abandon the longer chain. Great for showing that the "decentralized" system is still people making calls at 3am.
  • The pizza (May 22, 2010): Laszlo's 10,000 BTC for two pizzas is the obvious one; the human angle of looking back at it later is the interesting part.
  • The landfill hard drive (James Howells, Newport, Wales): a man and a council fighting for years over a dump. Pure character story.
  • Mt. Gox collapse (Feb 2014): the slow dawning that the coins were gone, told from a small customer's point of view.

Good luck with the book. I'd read it.