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Hey guys, I just found out this interesting thread on reddit :

In the 1991 video game Space Quest IV, the in-game currency, known as Buckazoids, had the Bitcoin BTC logo. ::)

In a way, before Bitcoin there were Buckazoids.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/03/30/lvQ23.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1jlcfye/btc_in_a_game_from_1991/?share_id=s30czhuqUf5XbNNhyTKyK&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1 (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1jlcfye/btc_in_a_game_from_1991/?share_id=s30czhuqUf5XbNNhyTKyK&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1)
https://medium.com/@viam_/the-mystery-surrounding-bitcoins-creator-may-soon-be-solved-c7e110ed31d4 (https://medium.com/@viam_/the-mystery-surrounding-bitcoins-creator-may-soon-be-solved-c7e110ed31d4)

I think it's a mere coincidence that the bitcoin logo is also found in that game even though guys on Reddit are trying to figure out some theories that will link bitcoin to the game yet I think it's all a coincidence that Satoshi chose that to be the bitcoin logo.

And if we remember the original logo of bitcoin was just a gold Coin with BC as the logo then changed to the popular logo so that only shows it had nothing to do with the game.

Bitcoin's logo isn't that special and unique, so it wouldn't be surprising if any similar logo was used before. Well, BTC isn't Bitcoin's logo strictly speaking. BTC is the sign of Bitcoin's currency which happens to be called Bitcoin as well.

Anyway, with our tradition of making currency signs by simply taking the first letter of the currency in uppercase and put a line or lines across it, it wouldn't be a surprise if an in-game currency called Buckazoids would have BTC as its currency sign as well.

I went to learn more about this game in detail. The development team of this game includes Hal Finney, who we all know is the first person in the world to receive Bitcoin. If it were you, would you transfer money to your own wallet or to someone else during testing? An early builder, the first person in the world to have received a Bitcoin transfer, a person who left this beautiful world after the last appearance of Satoshi Nakamoto due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, indirectly created a galactic universe token buckazoids and included the BTC logo that has been used ever since.

It looks similar to Bitcoin logo but the screenshot is blurry and you can not conclude that a man designed Bitcoin logo knew about this one and stole this icon idea.

The designer is bitboy. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2062)
New icon/ logo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=64.0)
More Bitcoin logos, buttons, and also some other graphics (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631.0)
Bitcoin history book. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M8z4M4oV4WC_aIGWkn-tO_T7Nkllj47C/view) You can read history of Bitcoin logo at pages 62 and 74.

This was a pretty obvious choice if they wanted to make some kind of bucka dollars in the game. They took the S from the dollar sign and switched it with a B. It's also how the bitcoin logo was made.

It's just a letter and two lines. Sooner or later somebody will come up with these simple ideas. Just compare different existing currency symbols, like Yen and Yuan, that are both ¥. Why? Because they both start with Y. Obviously bitcoin and other currencies starting with B might have similar or the same symbol, which you can observe with Thai baht ฿. I suspect the creator of the Bitcoin logo did not want it to be the same as any existing currency, which is why he used two vertical lines ₿

Yea, I agree that BTC isn't that kind of a unique symbol and neither is it patented. So, there won't be any troubles at all. Some years ago, I stumbled on the thread discussing bitcoins logo. And I think that it wasn't a creation of Satoshi. Besides, bitcoin is a decentralised currency, so it has made the symbol so relevant and 100% linked with bitcoin.

For a weird reason I find it very enraging and uncomfortable seeing the Bitcoin symbol next to a rocket typically used in a Shitcoin promotion.  About the 1991 logo, OP I just think you are thinking about the situation way too deep.  I truly believe this was simply a coincidence.  Somebody somewhere drew a doodle maybe years ago that looked like something I or you drew years ago.  That does not mean we time traveled or the first person who drew it was a genius.  It is simply a coincidence.

Bitcoin is pretty much the Dollar sign but with a B instead of an S.  It is not that special to be surprised that somebody used it in the past.

i wouldn’t say that’s the bitcoin logo

that would be a bit of a reach i mean the BTC logo doesn’t look exactly like that it only has a BTC on the side which makes sense since the currency is buckazoids and since buckazoids came first maybe it’s buckazoids logo not bitcoin lol

Yes, we can even say that the Bitcoin BTC logo stole or copy the Thai Baht ฿ symbol, the official currency of Thailand.

So I don't know what people find it interesting, there are a lot of common symbols, sign around us that are very similar, years or decades or even centuries apart. But it doesn't mean that they are related or somewhat travel in the future or whatever we think on how our symbol was created.

This is actually pretty crazy and cool at the same time. Can you imagine if Satoshi really just copied this old game logo for the in game currency? I mean I'd say the odds seem good. Great catch here OP that is a good little nugget right there. Could Satoshi have played a role in the creation of this game you think 🤔?

Satoshi didn't create the Bitcoin Logo or his design didn't resonate with a B and a C.

So I doubt that him or the designer bitboy has anything to do with this game in early 1990's. Most likely the creation was just so simple, inspired by just letter B with slash on it. I don't understand why relate anything in the past here from Satoshi to the logo itself when everything is written already in the community.

Couldn't it be that Satoshi was inspired by this symbol, or even more possibly, that this symbol is nothing more than the dollar symbol with a B instead of S? It's a super common symbol, but if Satoshi played this game, it could no be a coincidence as well. It's just not very important, meaning it won't lead us to a significant acknowledgement. Good catch though to whoever found it.

Are you sure of that because I just did a little search and couldn't find any link between Hal Finney and this game.
If you do think there's a link then provide the source of that information.

I think it's just a mere coincidence that the logo is kinda matching with that bitcoin is currently portrayed.
In fact, the bitcoin logo as we have today is not even an official logo of bitcoin and is just how the community has portrayed it.

I don't believe that the guy, who made the Bitcoin sign(or Bitcoin logo) was inspired by this game. Thumbs up to the guy on Reddit, who found out about this coincidence. He might get the "NERD of the year" award. ;D Imagine Bitcoin being named "Buckcoin" or "Bitbuck". That would have been hilarious.
On which platform is this game available on? Nintendo? Sega Mega Drive? Atari? Maybe we could find the ROM file of this game and play it on a emulator like RetroArch. I have big nostalgia for old school video games from the late 80s/early 90s.

Yup, we don't know anything but maybe that guy is part of Bitcoin project with Satoshi and else. But if Bitcoin being named "Buckcoin" or "Bitbuck", I wonder if that will become popular like what Bitcoin got.

All things will not be the same as today.

But I found this from Wikipedia:

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest_IV

Floppy Disk? Hmm, that was very old because floppy disk is one media to save data at that time. But for kids in that year feels good played that games.

With the fact that you stated that the first Bitcoin logo had BC inscribed in it shows that the similarly between the present Logo and that of the game is mere coincidence. Coincidences happens in every aspects of life so we can't conclude that everything that looks alike must have something in common. Even if by any chance Satoshi, were to copy the new design from the game, it doesn't proof that Satoshi, had anything to do with the game coin Logo. We're making a big deal of this comparison because of the hidden identity of who the real Satoshi, is.

It was not Satoshi who designed the Bitcoin Logo. I think it was a user called bitboy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2062) that came up with the logo designed. I see this similarity as a coincidence because I have seen many unrelated artworks looking very similar. Sometimes people get the same inspiration, and you might conclude that they copied each other. We might also reduce that the designer have seen the game or played it.

Interesting but not significant.

It's a common motif to see lines added on a letter to symbolize currency. It has been like this for ages. So adding B on a coin's symbol could indeed be an inspiration for what BTC became, but it doesn't really mean much.

Afterall, before BTC had its own symbol in unicode there were multiple symbols that were similar already. For instance, look how similar the Thai Baht symbol looks: ฿

This was a stable symbolism for this coin years before BTC became a thing too. So does it mean anything? Most probably not. Even if there's a connection just by means of inspiration, it's just a symbol and doesn't contribute anything to the core idea.

Theer would really be that kind of reaction that would really be having in our mind specially if you are someone whose really that obssessed on trying to find on whose Satoshi is and other things on which that would really be leading into its creator. I do agree that conincidence do really happen and since letter "B" could really be having that different possible variations or styles then it wont really that too far that this kind of logo could really be used and since this wont really be just that talking about currency but also in other possible symbol as well like names or any other. It wont really be that Satoshi could be find out just because of some games and having that Bitcoin logo with it. Just been said that about BC icon or symbol was the first then i wont say that this will really be that relevant because if it was the inspired symbol then it will really be shown at the first and wont really be having any alteration about its original logo. Just like on what been said that we dont really know and we cant be able to connect the dots. It is really just that the community is really that too reactive whenever they do saw something that might lead into the creator of Bitcoin. Well, i couldnt blame them though and its not something a boring topic or discussion that they will really be that having.  :)

I tried to search for some things up, but I didn't find any connections to BTC in the game by some articles / reddit posts. Just a coincidence.

I just found this post and the buckazoid lore is insane to me. Buckazoids got the BTC logo in space quest 4, just when Hal Finney started working on the game as a programmer. And then him getting the first ever btc transaction in 2009, can’t be a coincidence. Finney was Satoshi or he worked very closely with Saoshion bitcoin

Isn't bitcoin logo a generic design? I mean it's obviously had nothing to do with the game. You can put those lines like the in the dollar signs in every alphabet letters so yeah, there's nothing to do with it and it's not even called Bitcoin as in-game currency.

So yeah, it's really a good narrative for meme coins but yeah, I hope it clears everything that we shouldn't believe any theories about it. Proper research should be done before believing something like this because it'll just cause misinformation to other newbies.

It even has rocket sign on it signifying it going to the moon, lol
 
Anyways, the logo has been used many places and I'm sure Satoshi didn't copy the logo off this game, although, the B in Bitcoin logo has a slight bend while this buckazoid B is straight up, so there's a different, yeah

it's just a coincidence though and I think Satoshi didn't meant to copy the logo from this game.

The influence to choose orange colour and the BTC symbol to represent Bitcoin came from somewhere. Coincidentally or not, it has some similarities with the game's coin shared here. Who knows, maybe Satoshi played that game a long time ago and some of its details remained on his subconscious.

I know that lots of ideas, concepts and designs I develop nowadays are directly and indirectly related to the meaningful content I absorbed during my childhood from places I visited, movies I watched, stories I read and games I played. Everything I develop has an element of those contents inserted.

And if you analyze carefully, you will conclude this same thing in your life as well.

As others have pointed out, I don’t really believe there’s a conspiracy theory surrounding the game and Bitcoin. It could just be a game, or maybe Satoshi had the idea while playing it back then and decided to incorporate the logo, who knows?? it might have been his favorite game.
Curiosity makes me wonder, though: what if the game could be used to mine Bitcoin, and I mean mine it efficiently? Maybe something like rewards for reaching new levels in the game?

It's really quite similar, I don't doubt that they took references from things they liked when they were kids/teenagers. After all, much of the inspiration we have in the things we create comes from the experiences we had when we were kids, for example, in my work I create machining jigs inspired by childhood toys, assemblies of parts and everything else... the inspiration comes a lot from that. In the world of games, Shigeru Miyamoto himself, the creator of Mario, created a lot of things inspired by his childhood.

Its just a coincidence that the logo is similar, but the Solana circus has already made it into a meme token & apparently it did over $6M in volume over the last 24 hours.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gnh8hc5WgAAHhnq?format=jpg&name=small

I think that's the entire reason this thread was created, to pump a shittoken, as I've seen it referenced on Twitter. Whats funny is someone created a similar shitter months ago but it never got nearly the same amount of traction. Kinda makes me wonder how these types of pumps are coordinated.

That something shares that same logo doesn't mean anything. People should stop digging things that are really unnecessary. Nobody knew anything about bitcoin until Satoshi Nakamoto invented it. There is also a whitpaper for bitcoin where everything was properly documented. They never made mention of any Buckazoids So whatever anybody who is digging anything and trying to relate bitcoin with any Buckazoids is of no value to anyone. It won't add or remove anything from bitcoin. So I don't know why attention should be paid to something like this.

No one is going to believe for sure that this logo has something to do with Bitcoin logo but let's pretend it does, so what?

Something from somewhere must have been how nakamoto was able to forge the Bitcoin logo but so what now?

Do you even know how many people forged a different looking Bitcoin like Logo, and called it the next Bitcoin? This is very easy for some people, but what they created failed the test of time.

Bitcoin worked out not because of how its Logo look, but what it does for humanity, if Bitcoin is rubbish today this Logo discussion won't come up.

It would just a cool easter egg, I guess.

I don't think OP intended it to be a "first BTC" or a different BTC, just a cool feature that is probably not related to BTC in the first place, yet may be seen like one.

The concept behind the Bitcoin logo is very easy and not something super unique that a designer with a good idea of the currency concept will not be able to coin out if given a name that starts with "B" and asked to make a logo that signifies currency. If it is also a game from a while ago, it is also possible that the designer of the bitcoin logo coined his idea from a game, this game, maybe he loved the game that much. I feel that there would have been more for discussion if probably there was an inscription of the name Bitcoin in the game from that far.

..But there isn't, so it's a nice little gag, or a thing to think about, and move on, unfortunately (or rather not ;)).

There is no conspiracy to keep unfolding.

Obviously mate both are not exactly the same and if they are, then that would be a big trouble as one can sue the other. As the OP said, one only has a similarity of the other. Maybe one only get an inspiration on the other? I think that is valid. Maybe Satoshi the founder of Bitcoin, is a fan of this game. I can see that there is also a rocket symbol which is also available in the Bitcoin/crypto world as it symbolize 'to the moon'.

However in the Buckazoid coin, the coin design is already like a moon, so having a rocket on it does make sense. By the way, upon searching it on Google, I found out that there is also a crypto with the same name and design and they are now being listed. More details here: https://x.com/WEEX_Official/status/1905848131251782141 . Redditors might also see it there and only made a topic about it.

It looks like the btc logo but there's differences. There's got to be a story behind it so ppl should be careful to believe every thing they're reading. If the game's from 1991 how's there a connection between Satoshi & the company which made the game ?

Anybody might have used bitcoin logo in the past before the invention of bitcoin, just as we already have several scientist and researchers who have carried out series of experiments regarding digital currency and none could afford to emerge being successful before the emancipation of Satoshi, if the bitcoin logo was then used in the past, then this shows that any other person we don't know about could have also used the same logo for their person intentions without being recognized or noticed until bitcoin took over to have such design for it logo and then everyone other person who have once used same in the past but not being recognized begin to show up.

i think it's just a coincidence.. because the bitcoin logo "BTC" is inspired by the usd logo "$" and the designer added an extra line to make it not the same as the baht logo. and in that game, they might also be inspired by the usd logo and then they made the currency design like that, but to make it not the same as the baht, they added an extra vertical line. basically it means nothing and doesn't show anything about who satoshi really is, as the author said-- he's just 'overinterpreting coincidences'.

Black Mirror - S1.E2 - seems like Monero is used in the future  ;D

https://i.postimg.cc/L5tfK122/Screenshot-20250403-111900.jpg

People do love to see what can be interpreted in different way, so I agree with this take - even if it's true, it's just a little easter egg, nothing more.

I don't mind ppl posting links about how the logo. I'm waiting for ppl to say Satoshi's connected to the devs which coded the game. It'll be a new reason for social media to become interested in finding out about Satoshi's identity. When stories like this make social media it's keeping bitcoin in headlines so it's more activity & news.

Oh I see, yes I think I remember seeing something about Satoshi just basically asking everyone here one Btalk one day and he sort of put it out there like hey everyone good with the logo? And everyone was good with it, and so it was and will be and is! Maybe the designer did have the original idea and there is a coincidence I mean it is a fairily simple logo a B with the dollar sign notches. I mean how original can that be? Perhaps the lad subliminally remembered the logo and drew from deep unconscoius memories from playing that game when he was younger and thats what happend, a possible theory :D

It's pure coincidence and the B thing for currencies in a game logo or even shows are mostly being used.

There is no connection. Maybe satoshi also seen the game or anything that's related to these B logos. And obviously with the staring letter of Bitcoin, he's got to make it known through its logo that also signs as letter BTC. I've seen almost the same logos all around but I don't think they're significant or any relation to actual Bitcoin and how satoshi decided for it.

It's a coincidence there's no connection between the game & Satoshi. The logo doesn't mean any thing but it's being discussed in social media like it's a big story. Some ppl will say Satoshi's got some thing to do with it but isn't a significant breakthrough to connect them.

I do not believe in conspiracies but I have to admit that some conspiracies do make sense and might be true but in this case, I don't think there is any secret. Buckazoids are a currency in this game, $ symbol is the most acknowledged symbol of a currency in the world, so game devs had to make a symbol for buckazoids to represent them as a currency. Buckazoids starts with B, let's take that one line | from $ and put it on B and call it a buckazoid currency.
As one user above me said, Bitcoin's original logo was BC on a round, yellowish circle.

Okay for some people who doesnt know about that "BC" original Bitcoin logo back then.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/04/07/xXnRq.png
Source: https://www.appypiedesign.ai/blog/bitcoin-logo-history

I do love conspiracies but there are things on which its explainable or something that you can say that it is just coincidence and having that very valid reason on why
this game ends up on having that Bitcoin Logo, just like on what you have said from the initials "B" + $ of a currency then its most likely they will be able to
came up with the idea on adding it up.

Come to think that $ could be having a double line basing up on the fonts.
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/04/07/xXC1j.png

I’m a bit late commenting on this here, but it’s funny how fast this news went from a cool screenshot online to someone creating a token for Buckazoids (I think that’s what they were called) to try and profit. There’s a whole other side to this crypto world that isn’t really serious, but plays around with lots of money.

Three more articles on Bitcoin logo history and its evolution with time.

True Bitcoiners who are investors will have lot of time by approaching with long-term investment and DCA strategy, so that they can learn about Bitcoin from its developments since Cypherpunks, adoption to logo evolution.

The History and Symbolism Behind Bitcoin’s Logo. (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-history-and-symbolism-behind-bitcoins-logo)
The BTC origin story: Who designed the Bitcoin logo? (https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-btc-origin-story-who-designed-the-bitcoin-logo)
About That Orange B... The History of Bitcoin’s Logos. (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/05/18/about-that-orange-b-the-history-of-bitcoins-logos)

As always - money is milked where it is possible, and it's the sad reality we are in.

I have to admit I'm a bit surprised it hasn't nuked to zero yet.

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/04/09/xZrgT.png

That's quite a wild ride for a token that just points to a Reddit link. However, if you bought at any time from April 1st to now, you'd be sitting on a loss.

Just goes to show the power of the BTC meme, even if its not really BTC in the picture.

By the way, don't buy this token, if it still needs to be said.

"It's all bullshit, and it's bad for ya." - George Carlin

They're trying to make a profit so they'll use top news makers on social media to promote ideas. They know they can't make every opportunity go viral so they'll try to be the first to put top news memes on the market. The ppl behind the tokens know it's going to fail but greed doesn't stop them.

Nakamoto quotes:

"I know this sounds really retarded, but I still haven't been able to get the sourceforge login page to load"

"the same login that could pwn the website."

from https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi

"retarded", "pwn", ... Nakamoto was a gamer.