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Just as we are all special, we should have special values.
Final Fantasy 3 Story1x printout
When your favorite game hinted that you should have bought bitcoin before it even existed in 19941x Golden Bitcoin
1x ASIC USB Bitcoin Miner
1x Final Fantasy 3 Game for Nintendo DS
A screenshot from Final Fantasy III showing an icon which looks a lot like the Bitcoin logo
A symbol which looks suspiciously like the Bitcoin logo has been spotted in a game made more than 20 years ago. The icon was seen in a screenshot from Final Fantasy III, which is widely considering to be one of the best games of all time and was released in 1994.
It has sparked debate (and jokes) on Reddit after being posted under the headline: ‘When your favourite game hinted that you should have bought bitcoin before it even existed in 1994.’ The strange symbol was spotted at the end of a bed occupied by the character Celes, who falls asleep for a year after a cataclysm which turns the world into a nightmarish apocalyptic dystopia. She then awakens in a bed with the Bitcoin logo on the end of it, before racing out to catch fish with her bare hands to save the life of a slightly creepy bloke who’s been watching over her as she slumbered.
The Bitcoin Story1x printout of the Genesis block and the front page of The
Times 03 / Jan / 2009The raw hex version of the Genesis block looks like:
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Broken down it looks like this:
01000000 - version
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 - prev block
3BA3EDFD7A7B12B27AC72C3E67768F617FC81BC3888A51323A9FB8AA4B1E5E4A - merkle root
29AB5F49 - timestamp
FFFF001D - bits
1DAC2B7C - nonce
01 - number of transactions
01000000 - version
01 - input
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000FFFFFFFF - prev output
4D - script length
04FFFF001D0104455468652054696D65732030332F4A616E2F32303039204368616E63656C6C6F7
2206F6E206272696E6B206F66207365636F6E64206261696C6F757420666F722062616E6B73 - scriptsig
FFFFFFFF - sequence
01 - outputs
00F2052A01000000 - 50 BTC
43 - pk_script length
4104678AFDB0FE5548271967F1A67130B7105CD6A828E03909A67962E0EA1F61DEB649F6BC3F4CE
F38C4F35504E51EC112DE5C384DF7BA0B8D578A4C702B6BF11D5FAC - pk_script
00000000 - lock time
The Times 03/Jan/2009
The Simpsons Story1x printout:
The Simpsons saw it coming in 19961x DVD Collectors Edition Season Eight
There can you see in an episode from the eighth season, „My Sister, My Sitter“ the Crypto Barn
The Simpsons has once again been found to predict the future.
As if it needed any more kudos for trendsetting, The Simpsons has once again been found to predict the future.
Video phones, robotic librarians, even horsemeat scandals have all been casually hinted at far ahead of their real-life appearances – and now, guess what has joined the canon of Simpsons predictions.
In an episode from the eighth season, “My Sister, My Sitter,” first aired on 2 March 1997, the show neatly presents Homer and Marge on a date outside the ‘Crypto Barn’, outside of which a slogan casually states, “A place for codes.”
While perhaps designed to be part of the neighborhood’s less illustrious infrastructure, selling spy equipment in addition to these generic ‘codes,’ its echoing of today’s cryptocurrency outlets is uncanny.
In 2014, you can enter a physical brick-and-mortar establishment in many countries and procure physical codes such as Bitcoin scratch cards, just as you would have gone to cash a cheque seventeen long years ago.
Interestingly, the Crypto Barn also features in an extension of the video game The Simpsons: Tapped Out, where users should rebuild Springfield following a small accident caused by Homer at the Nuclear Power Plant. Fittingly, the property is the most expensive available in the release, with a price tag of US$81,000.
While it is now perhaps not such a quantum leap to imagine a crypto-themed episode in the near future, it remains to be seen what the show’s next haunting prediction will be. Its 26th season is currently in production and set to air in October, and it would seem prudent to watch this space.
The Milton Friedman Story Economist predicted Bitcoin in 1999 - and made an amazing prophecy for the futureVideo / Interview:
https://youtu.be/6MnQJFEVY7sNobel Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman, was an economist.
In 1999 in an interview it was confirmed exactly how Bitcoin works. His quote: I've heard that the Internet plays a role in weakening the importance of people. The one thing that is still missing, but is going to be bald, is reliable e-cash. "
In 2008 the idea of Bitcoin ... an "electronic money system", decentralized, no bank, no political rights, free and autonomous.
He lost the technology, “a method by which men on the Internet can move funds from A to B without Party A knowing Party B or Party B knowing Party A would weaken the government's influence on the economy. Now that Bitcoin keeps increasing its value to new record values and thus becoming relevant, that will also come true.
