Bill Cosby, Billy mays, Jason Alexander, Shigeru Miyamoto or Reggie Fils-Aime
Bill Cosby for sure. I'm serious about that. 
Topic: What people would you like to see on denominated bitcoin bills? - page 2. (Read 5185 times)
December 31, 2011, 07:30:11 PM
December 31, 2011, 07:29:23 PM
The Face of Bitcoin: It Was Born that Way
For real this time.
December 31, 2011, 05:42:39 PM
Bill Cosby, Billy mays, Jason Alexander, Shigeru Miyamoto or Reggie Fils-Aime
December 31, 2011, 02:25:00 AM
The Face of Bitcoin: It Was Born that Way
December 30, 2011, 09:25:49 PM
Why has no one suggested Bill Cosby?
At the very least, use a shot of something who's smiling or otherwise happy. No matter how noble or respectable the subject, every piece of currency always has someone who looks like a log was stuck either going in or coming out. Bitcoin is a system that mostly manages itself, freeing people up to live their lives, so a symbol of joy and a live-and-let-live sentiment would be a genuine and welcome change.
At the very least, use a shot of something who's smiling or otherwise happy. No matter how noble or respectable the subject, every piece of currency always has someone who looks like a log was stuck either going in or coming out. Bitcoin is a system that mostly manages itself, freeing people up to live their lives, so a symbol of joy and a live-and-let-live sentiment would be a genuine and welcome change.
December 30, 2011, 04:48:24 PM
Charles Babbage
December 29, 2011, 11:23:29 PM
Ugh. I'm not in favour of the Gnu at all.
It has a strong association with a certain virally incompatible licensing system - which thankfully not much software in the Bitcoin world uses.
Even if (unlike me) you are a fan of the Gnu philosophy - why would you want it associated with Bitcoin?
How is it even relevant to Bitcoin?
It has a strong association with a certain virally incompatible licensing system - which thankfully not much software in the Bitcoin world uses.
Even if (unlike me) you are a fan of the Gnu philosophy - why would you want it associated with Bitcoin?
How is it even relevant to Bitcoin?
I think gnu has been vital in the development of software technology, but I do see how it presents issues to this project. Keep in mind that many of the utilities used for cryptography in bitcoin related software are gnu based.
December 29, 2011, 10:54:23 PM
Al Gore, for inventing the internet.
December 29, 2011, 09:04:03 PM
Ugh. I'm not in favour of the Gnu at all.
It has a strong association with a certain virally incompatible licensing system - which thankfully not much software in the Bitcoin world uses.
Even if (unlike me) you are a fan of the Gnu philosophy - why would you want it associated with Bitcoin?
How is it even relevant to Bitcoin?
It has a strong association with a certain virally incompatible licensing system - which thankfully not much software in the Bitcoin world uses.
Even if (unlike me) you are a fan of the Gnu philosophy - why would you want it associated with Bitcoin?
How is it even relevant to Bitcoin?
December 29, 2011, 07:25:28 PM
Abe Vigoda
This is exactly what I was going to suggest. I can't believe he's still alive, and with a movie coming out to boot. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464762/
December 29, 2011, 07:03:04 PM
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That is great.
Ok, so we have an Alpaca, a Camel (silk road), a Gnu. I could see doing an animal series. Any other suggestions on animals that would be related.
If animals are done, the porcupine should be included.
I was going to say the porcupine also. The freestaters would love that.
December 29, 2011, 06:59:24 PM
Abe Vigoda
December 29, 2011, 05:05:00 PM
As long a the bills can be determined to be legitimate through non-aesthetic methods (validation of balance sent to its address, for example), I would suggest allowing whoever initiates the "minting" of the bills to put whoever they want or whatever graphic they want on them, essentially custom-ordered at the time of purchase/exchange.
All bills have a public address on them that is visible, and is easily checked via a cellphone qr scanner.
I did a set of 20 of these for IBB with their logo on them. I don't think I would do it for smaller batches though as it is a little laborious to do.
December 29, 2011, 04:32:14 PM
As long a the bills can be determined to be legitimate through non-aesthetic methods (validation of balance sent to its address, for example), I would suggest allowing whoever initiates the "minting" of the bills to put whoever they want or whatever graphic they want on them, essentially custom-ordered at the time of purchase/exchange.
All great suggestions. If anyone can do this please let me know and I will pay to have the feature implemented into www.bitcoindebit.net
December 29, 2011, 04:17:42 PM
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MUSMOemxoHQ/S_GCyziGg2I/AAAAAAAAAAs/0ikCivddX1s/s1600/563px-Official_gnu.svg.png
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That is great.
Ok, so we have an Alpaca, a Camel (silk road), a Gnu. I could see doing an animal series. Any other suggestions on animals that would be related.
If animals are done, the porcupine should be included.
December 29, 2011, 04:16:49 PM
I do like the idea of a mirror, or if that's technically difficult, some embodiment of it belonging to "the people". Maybe a picture of a crowd (one so large that faces can't really be made out), or of the Earth, or something like that.
Maybe a symbolic representation of p2p nodes. Something like some dots to represent nodes w/ lines forming a mesh between nodes (links).
I like where this is going.
- A space view of the Earth
- A p2p network representation
- A crowd of individuals
December 29, 2011, 03:29:19 PM
I do like the idea of a mirror, or if that's technically difficult, some embodiment of it belonging to "the people". Maybe a picture of a crowd (one so large that faces can't really be made out), or of the Earth, or something like that.
Maybe a symbolic representation of p2p nodes. Something like some dots to represent nodes w/ lines forming a mesh between nodes (links).
December 29, 2011, 03:19:23 PM
I do like the idea of a mirror, or if that's technically difficult, some embodiment of it belonging to "the people". Maybe a picture of a crowd (one so large that faces can't really be made out), or of the Earth, or something like that.
December 29, 2011, 02:46:49 PM
heh, how about Kevin Mitnick, or some such ...
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