Anime predicts the future of Bitcoin?

[bitfreak!]

I thought this was a pretty cool little coincidence. I was watching an anime called "Kiddy Grade" and something in episode 10 caught my eye. It appears that this anime first aired on TV some time during 2002, a long time before Bitcoin appeared on the scene.

If you haven't seen this anime, it's kind of similar to Outlaw Star or Cowboy Bebop if you've seen either of them... basically it's set far in the future when intergalactic travel is common, business and trade happens on a galactic scale, so on and so forth.

I can't recall any part of the anime so far which explains how their money system works in this fictional future world, but I would assume they must have some sort of galactic or universal currency to conduct business and trade between planets.

In episode 10 there's a short scene which lasts for a few seconds, where it shows what looks like some sort of credit/debit card. The card its self looks extremely plain, there's only two small characters on the card... one of which looks like a Bitcoin symbol.



I'm seeing "e฿", but obviously a ฿ with two vertical lines, a frontrunner in the selection of Bitcoin symbols (since the ฿ symbol is already used for another currency). If we stretch this theory even further, the "e" may mean electronic, as in electronic Bitcoin card.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Not usunual, the word bit and coin are used every day.

[bitfreak!]

Not usunual, the word bit and coin are used every day.

lol what does that have to do with anything? 

[foggyb]

"The number e is an important mathematical constant, approximately equal to 2.71828, that is the base of the natural logarithm.[1] It is the limit of (1 + 1/n)n as n approaches infinity, an expression that arises in the study of compound interest, and can also be calculated as the sum of the infinite series"

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Not usunual, the word bit and coin are used every day.

lol what does that have to do with anything?  

Huh? You were referring to the B on the card, my take is that it might mean Bitcoin in its own way. And the e meaning e-cash. Plus, Satoshi chose a Japanese name, it could be that he saw the same symbol.

[knight22]

probably just a coincidence 

[jwzguy]

probably just a coincidence 

I'm pretty sure he was saying it was a coincidence...cool coincidence though!

[FreeMoney]

Satoshi: <watching anime>
Satoshi: <pondering>
Satoshi: <serious voice> "I will build it."

[bitfreak!]

Satoshi: <watching anime>
Satoshi: <pondering>
Satoshi: <serious voice> "I will build it."

Hahaha. I like that theory. It'd be funny if that's how Bitcoin was inspired.

[Mjbmonetarymetals]

[adamstgBit]

lol YES!

[Lethn]

Satoshi: <watching anime>
Satoshi: <pondering>
Satoshi: <serious voice> "I will build it."

Hahaha. I like that theory. It'd be funny if that's how Bitcoin was inspired.

If he was Japanese that could well be true being the nut cases that they are

[AnimeFanJohnLee]

:/ http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Belly That was first <----

[Meuh6879]

probably just a coincidence 

Only normal people don't see the red lines in the past ... from points.

[5dollarbill]

someone was quite ahead of its time, eh?

[jonald_fyookball]

if you ever watched the animatrix, the computer nation "zero one" had its
own currency that was "soaring".

[hendra147]

so this is bitcoin  

[anderson00673]

Nice!  I have seen a great many shows/movies/books with digital currency of one form or another, but I don't recall ever seeing one that appeared so clearly to be bitcoins.  Really nice find!

[CEG5952]

probably just a coincidence 

We're pretty sure its just a coincidence because no one even knows anything that is in the bitcoin technology back then. Even the maker satoshi nakamoto haven't even came up with the idea yet.

[hendra147]

so this is bitcoin  

https://i.imgur.com/R83MeNA.jpg

That is definitely the Thailand Bhat, I think it might be a popular thing for animes to use as it seems a bit exotic to the Japanese people unlike the yen.

yes you right rubby ( one piece currency) use bhat
but i think bitcoin logo was similar bhat