A humble attempt to contribute something.

[cryptid]

It felt dishonest to try for a "modern-style" superhero, with body armor and gadgetry. If the Bitcoin Movement is about anything, it's about old-school waffle-knit sweatshirts with vinyl accents.

As to powers, I gave that issue a lot of thought and came up with a few alternatives:

* No powers (lame)
* Something to do with Bitcoin (obvious and lame)
* ...Pass!

When it came time to brainstorm a codename, my creative faculties were already completely spent from the above:

* Pass.

(Was the best I could manage.)

The nemesis would be pretty obvious, though: An incarnation (human or robotic) of a block chain fork. He (or she!) would be constantly trying to fork the block chain and put a stink on the entire concept of crypto-currencies. "Pass" would be summoned to beat him (or her!) up on a regular schedule, say...once per month, which would dovetail nicely with a Marvel or DC publishing schedule.

Naturally, there would be a crew of "miners", armed with pick-axes and poisoned ASICs, but here again my imagination fails me and I can't think of any stories that would involve them more deeply than a simple off-screen reference to their existence.

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[Mike Christ]

That's pretty awesome man   Sounds like you've got the workings of a BTC graphic novel going on.

[Herodes]

If you make a site and put up some cartoons, I am sure there will be plenty of attention and donations!

[cryptid]

Seriously? Donations!?!?! Hmmm, maybe I should have concentrated harder.

[Rawted]

He can process data at the speed of the combined btc network, easily 'out-thinking' even the most sophisticated of supercomputers. He quickly processes all possible outcomes within nanoseconds and reacts accordingly. He's like dr manhattan on speed.

He grows in power with popularity. The more people that know about him, the stronger, smarter, and faster he becomes. As such, he is prone to outlandish attention seeking behavior and six o clock new interviews.

He cannot be destroyed or stopped, and any damage suffered only causes his aura to fork, resulting in a strengthened and more stable btcman.

His first crime fighting mission was saving a pizza delivery guy being robbed.

[genuise]

what about central bankers, banksters, gov, cia agents and bosses, corrupt businessmen?

paypal, WU (cosmo-diabolic-....)

[cryptid]

Yeah, all this stuff! This is what I should have come up with.

[moni3z]

BTCMan needs a neckbeard

[genuise]

Can he save Cyprus depositors? And punish a bunch of politicians controlled with strings from EU puppeteers?

[edd]

Nice work. This character seems destined for dark comedy.

[cryptid]

"The Cyprus Depositors" would be a good sub-title for the first trade paperback. Or..."Psyprus% Depositors", to give it more of a manga feel--and a better shot at global uniqueness.

[zif33rs]

Dude..a star was born.

BTCMan

Someone help this poor schmuck get set up with a copyright and maybe a domain name...

[genuise]

in the end when bad guys punished, people of Psyprus depositors nation adopt bitcoin as island currency

[matt608]

It's BITMAN and he can be travel via computer to any other computer in the world at any time, even on bank holidays!  


Then there'd be his sidekick, "CONFIRMATION MAN", who can do the same thing but it takes him a couple of hours.

[Herodes]

He can process data at the speed of the combined btc network, easily 'out-thinking' even the most sophisticated of supercomputers. He quickly processes all possible outcomes within nanoseconds and reacts accordingly. He's like dr manhattan on speed.

He grows in power with popularity. The more people that know about him, the stronger, smarter, and faster he becomes. As such, he is prone to outlandish attention seeking behavior and six o clock new interviews.

He cannot be destroyed or stopped, and any damage suffered only causes his aura to fork, resulting in a strengthened and more stable btcman.

His first crime fighting mission was saving a pizza delivery guy being robbed.

You should write the scripts! I already love this stuff!!! Awesome! I also though about the speed things. However, he should have a nemesis, something that could break him, so there's always a looming chance he can be broken, but he should always make it in the last second!

Perhaps the large firetruck of China, the angry bulldog of North Korea, and a congressmann stinging bee or something.

[cryptid]

The peer-to-peer-ishness probably makes the whole notion academic: Clearly this character would be peerless among mortals.... Sigh, back to the drawing board.

[genuise]

ECB-FinCEN - Regulator - fat bald guy with dial knob in his hands, with analog indicators, printing presses, and abacus

[Mike Christ]

Ha!  Now we really gotta bring this idea to life.  I can lend my artistic talents OP if you ever have the time

[cryptid]

Hahaha! Well, it was originally posted as parody of an idea--but it seems to have legs of its own, whodathunk? I'll give it some thought.

[edd]

The peer-to-peer-ishness probably makes the whole notion academic: Clearly this character would be peerless among mortals.... Sigh, back to the drawing board.

Actually, his powers could be drawn from his relationship to his crew of anonymous "miners".

Better yet, he could be the Frankenstein monster created by a genius (Satoshi) experimenting with genetically modified human DNA, drawing his strength from a nebulous network of mysterious individuals located around the globe. His kryptonite would be the 51% attack on his personal network which his nemesis is always scheming to discover.