And here's a variation with a prominent mathematician:
here's another option with a Fibonacci seashell background. Mike am I getting closer?
Cool designs! I realize these are early mock-ups, but I feel that using the portraits of people like Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein is a bit pretentious.
It feels like one is trying to leach their status and wide recognition, since their work is wholly unrelated to Bitcoin and cryptography.
Instead, I would like to nominate
Claude Shannon, alternatively
Alan Turing for the portrait. Shannon and Turing were preeminent cryptographers, founders of the field of computer science, and widely recognized in name if not in portrait. As a third alternative,
Charles Babbage has a copyright free
portrait with the right dead president feel. He would not look too out of place on a 'bank note'.
In my opinion gsan's first fractal design looks the best, while bit-pay has the better layout.
