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I was playing around with the idea of printing some BTC currency for use amongst my circle of friends for paying each other back for random stuff as we do. (only a few hundred BTC worth, backed by my wallet, trusting that they don't counterfeit them)

I'll be putting silly/irrelevant characters on mine from movies/cartoons/games, but that lead to an interesting discussion:

Who's face would you like to see on official BTC currency?*

*Barring any arguments as to the viability of a physical BTC currency

EDIT: I missed this one:

http://meemi.info/images/thumb/8/81/Heikki_tonniHQ.jpg/180px-Heikki_tonniHQ.jpg

This is my favourite (sorry, it is Finnish meme...)

Or this:

http://flanders.naurunappula.com/bigthumbs/86/51/865153a0f81ec7a4/0/562975.jpg

Or if these are not good, any of the rage faces...

Rage faces lol

Trollface gets the 10000BTC note

lol, Rage faces, good idea.

But clearly this was the wrong place and the wrong time to ask for serious suggestions  ;D

I was thinking more along the lines of contributors to computer technology that may not have gotten their due respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Adleman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

See this older thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55948.0) for some ideas.

I don't think you should have faces just geometric shapes but if you did have faces then Alan Turing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing) - then inventor of modern computer science should be on the 100BTC note.

Edit:  He presented a paper on 19 February 1946, which was the first detailed design of a stored-program computer.

i do not mean to be insulting, but don't your friends have phones and mobile wallets? The whole concept of paper money in conjunction with bitcoins is wierd and kinda scary much like the visits by the gov'ment..

On another note bitcoin currency, if i exist should probably show our dear old friend guy fawkes, after all, this is shadyAn0nim0usdealerCoin (according to some commentators)

No faces.  Faces are a concept for fiat money (an extension of putting the King on the coin).

Bitcoin is more than any individual.  It exists without any individual.

That's what I said about geometric shapes. A line for a one, a cross for a two a triangle for a three a square for a four a pentegon for a five and a solid circle for a ten then all other values based off them and/or some mesh/random design related to the bitcoins sha code for possibly the other side or just a bar/QR code?

Edit:  Like a for a 500BTC note a solid circle with a pentagon drew inside?

There are a lot of people alive and dead that I look up to significantly because of either their work or their thinking but I refuse to worship any of them. No man is infallible and I think it's detrimental to our future to raise certain mere mortals to an elevated status of admiration and worship something that it is only in our human nature to do to such icons. Yes we should praise achievements but we should also remain critical of everything they do and not just blindly follow anyone.

I find it appalling how certain people nowadays worship Ron Paul for example as if he is some sort of godsent higher being that can't make a wrong turn which of course is the furthest thing from the truth. Although he is one of those people I look up to and I really appreciate his achievements, I think for example his integrity is something every person should strive to match and I think there's no one on this planet who did more to promote the cause of freedom and peace in recent history but even so I also think he is plain batshit crazy when it comes to his beliefs about evolution and religion and even the mere 4 pieces of paper those minarchist so desperately cling on to.


Bitcoin is something completely new, it is something the world hasn't seen before, it's a technology that stands on reason, logic and science, concepts that not nearly enough people appreciate and live by today. Despite their great contributions I see no need to copy a very old tradition of raising certain individuals on a pedestal and effectively giving them special treatment. They are merely people and they are not infallible and we should do everything we can to prevent them being treated otherwise.

i agree that skipping the faces would be best.  do a google image search for cryptography, and browse various cryptographic devices through history.

Yeah if you did feel the need to have an honorific image on each coin/note/bill I would use things like enigma machine, babbages analytical engine, shot of the naked 5970 PCB (the classic although slowly being displaced by FPGA hashing engine), etc.

Agreed, faces aren't a very good idea.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The May 512 issue of Bitcoin Magazine dedicated all its pages to the Stone(d) Money of Yap. They're just like Bitcoin: Round (when in physical form); Mysterious guy (Anagumang); An Irish guy (David Dean O'Keefe); Proof of work (mined from quarries far away, then transported via canoe); After several hundred years, the Stoned Money is still being used, albeit by a fringe group.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7264/6915285608_cb92afe8b3_b.jpg

Why not have some imagery related to cryptography/mathematics/computer science? Like for example the sha-256 diagram. Stylized, of course.

SHA-256:

http://kl2217.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/sha-2.png

ECDSA:

http://www.ps3hax.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ecdsa3.png

RIPEMD160:

http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bosselae/ripemd/rmd160-3.gif

Or whatever comes to your mind. I agree with others that faces suck for this... Or just go with the rage faces.

For geeks, kangasbrus, your idea is fine. But the general consciences is that "Math Sucks!" and the majority of people won't care to see math symbols on anything physical, for it may cause panic attacks. But Stoned Money...that's marketable.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Rai_stone_from_Yap_currency.jpg

~Bruno~

Or maybe they'll feel good about themselves for using something highly sophisticated indicated by the images it carries even if they don't fully understand the science behind it.

Very good point, hazek! Let's make them feel real good about themselves by overlaying highly sophisticated images onto Stoned Money.

~Bruno~

a mirror.

Maybe this guy, he's definitely got that Bitcoin Glow ;D
https://i.imgur.com/r6F2y.jpg
"Then...sob...then...the terrorist bastards dipped me in chocolate!"

Matthew from Korea!  Hahahahahaha

What is this guy's name again? I've seen him around.

There is no official bitcoin anything. the blockchain and the BIP system are the is the closest to official things in the Bitcion space. maybe you should submit a BIP about who wants their face on Bitcoin propaganda. IMO, since Bitcoin is a direct challenge to both the institutions of central banking and nation states, putting your face on anything Bitcoin related is playing with fire. That said I nominate YTkilledrawdog especially from the Bitcoin Insurance Internet remix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJlqbCq8Yio)

I for one am in favor of the V for vendetta face. it's an anti authoritarian symbol with a bold and powerful mustache that lets users know bitcoin is not something to be trifled with.

this is a no brainer.

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/william-shatner-star-trek.jpg

Put the faces of central bankers on them in the hope the secret service will go after them.

I'd like to see coins with this:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zd2mIio-xCs/ScS4QtFu73I/AAAAAAAAACY/hJtM6lKu1iE/S208/temp-header-bg.png

or this:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zd2mIio-xCs/ScPXbM1SLqI/AAAAAAAAACQ/0Dxp-8LY6h4/S208/Obama_Coin_ExactChange_160.gif

I would prefer to see Ron Paul than Obama anytime anyday

If the image were a hologram, then this elliptic curve would be nice.

http://plus.maths.org/issue47/features/pieprzak/torc_slow.gif

cosbycoin ftw

I second this