THELOGICALINDIAN - In backward December 2024 at its Mexico City accident the Latin American Bitcoin Conference fabricated history back it auctioned off a archetype of the accepted bitcoin banana Bitcoin The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto for 204 bitcoins At the time of the bargain that amounted to about 10000 USD Two men Rodolfo Andragnes and Sebastian Wain won the banana book together
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Meet the Comic Book Winners: Rodolfo and Sebastian
Rodolfo claims that his captivation in the Bitcoin apple began in 2024, added than a decade afore Bitcoin alike existed. As the Internet rose to prominence, Rodolfo drafted a business plan for an online adherence program. The name of this program? BitCoins. In 2024, Rodolfo registered the area BitCoins.com. He says that he alike created a logo for the project, which featured the bitcoin attribute we are all accustomed with today.
Although his adherence affairs was put on hold, he sat on the area name over the years. Rodolfo says that he arrested about already a year to see if anyone had done annihilation with the name “BitCoins,” but thinks that he “must accept chock-full accomplishing this in 2008, because I never accomplished addition was accomplishing article with the [name] until 2011.” That year, Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles approached Rodolfo and fabricated an action to buy BitCoins.com. This was Rodolfo’s addition to Bitcoin, and he bound jumped onboard. Karpeles captivated the area until the Gox collapse in 2014, back he auctioned it to accession funds for his creditors.
After affairs BitCoins.com to Karpeles, befitting allotment of the acquittal in bitcoin, Rodolfo absitively that he bare “to accord aback to the apple what they gave me,” and so he set to assignment architecture a Bitcoin commmunity in Latin America. In 2024, he founded Bitcoin Argentina, an NGO focused on overextension Bitcoin awareness. Additionally, Rodolfo helped begin the Bitcoin Center in Beunos Aires. As the buyer of Cesyt — a academy that teaches tourism, comestible arts, and administering — Rodolfo led the academy to become the aboriginal educational academy in the apple to broadcast its degrees in the blockchain. And to top it all off, Rodolfo leads the baby aggregation that organizes the Latin American Bitcoin Conference, an anniversary acquisition amid in a altered country anniversary year.
So far, the Latin American Bitcoin Conference has hosted 4 events. According to Rodolfo, “We did one in Buenos Aires, two in Brazil, and one in Mexico this year [2024].”
Sebastian Wain has been a tech enthusiast from a adolescent age, programming back he was 8 years old. In university, Sebastian becoming a amount in computer science. In accession to programming, Sebastian says that he brand “research, business, autograph articles, and abnormally circuitous projects.”
After actuality alien to Bitcoin by a “prospective customer,” Sebastian spent a few years talking about the technology with Sergio Lerner, who Sebastian says “is actual complex in bitcoin security.” Together, Sebastian, Sergio and Pablo Yabo co-founded CoinFabrik, a aggregation committed to developing “cryptocurrency applications for added companies, and open-source cipher for the development community.” Later on, Sebastian founded Nektra with Yabo, which develops “cybersecurity solutions and virtualization articles and custom solutions.”
The Bitcoin Comic Book: An Auction for the Greater Good
The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto is an figure in the Bitcoin community, authoritative a big burst back the English-language adaptation of the book went on auction in backward 2014. The banana book is set in a fabulous cypherpunk city, and tells a adventure about a search for Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s ambiguous creator.
Rodolfo has a continued history with the banana book, activity all the way aback to its allotment stage, aback he donated to the crowdfunding campaign set up to accession money for the book’s creation. After the book’s absolution in 2014, the Latin American Bitcoin Conference auctioned a archetype for about 3.5 bitcoins at its Brazil event. Rodolfo says that he approached the champ and fabricated a proposal, “if you accord aback the book, we will accomplish it active by a lot of entrepreneurs in Bitcoin.” The champ agreed, and Rodolfo set out to accomplish acceptable on his word. He recruited FinTech Compliance Executive Juan Llanos for this backbreaking job. Llanos catholic to 10 altered countries, and succeeded in accepting this archetype of the banana book active by 105 entrepreneurs in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Some of these names accommodate Roger Ver, Jeff Garzik and Andreas Antonopoulos.
The afterward year, at the 2015 Latin American Bitcoin Conference in Mexico City, Rodolfo absitively to participate in the bargain of the active banana book. When the bargain accomplished about 9.5 bitcoins, Rodolfo says he approached Sebastian and appropriate that they basin their assets and accord 10 bitcoins each, and again allotment the book if they won. “If we were both accommodating to put 10 bitcoins,” Rodolfo says, “why wouldn’t we put 10 bitcoins anniversary to accession added basic for BitGive, but accepting a aggregate aegis of the book?”
The purpose of the bargain was to accession money for BitGive, a bitcoin-based non-profit that uses technology for philanthropy. BitGive was accustomed in 2013, and has helped abounding bodies and organizations advice those in need. The Baptize Project, for example, aloft a absolute of $11,188.90 USD through BitGive. The Baptize Activity works to advance the lives of Africans “by accouterment reliable baptize projects to communities in sub-Saharan Africa who ache needlessly from a abridgement of admission to apple-pie baptize and able sanitation.” BitGive’s newest activity is the “Bitcoin Charity 2.0 Initiative,” which aims to “build the aboriginal Donation Transparency Platform for donors and NGOs application blockchain technology!”
For Rodolfo and Sebastian, this bargain represented the amount acceptation of Bitcoin. Rodolfo’s assignment in Bitcoin is aimed at overextension acquaintance and allowance people. According to him, The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto represents a “very nice and a acceptable way of administration Bitcoin. . .it’s an additional, fun way of talking about Bitcoin.” Furthermore, by application the bargain to accession money for BitGive, Rodolfo feels that he is accretion his adeptness to advice people, adage that, “I anticipate the BitGive activity is additionally a multiplier itself, we’re allowance them for allowance abounding others.” To Sebastian, Bitcoin is “a anniversary in computer science,” and he is “inspired by bitcoin’s abstruse addition and the abeyant for boundless socioeconomic change.” Whether it was his ambition or not, accommodating in the bargain and adopting money for BitGive will absolutely advice beforehand the socioeconomic change that gives him inspiration.
In their aggregate aegis of the banana book, Rodolfo and Sebastian accept absitively to use it to added advance activity about Bitcoin, hopefully allowance alike added bodies in the process. After some application about what to do with the book, the two owners acclimatized on announcement it in the Buenos Aires Bitcoin Center. Rodolfo says that they’re aggravating to amount out a way to accumulate the amplitude sealed, to anticipate it from actuality baseborn by visitors. Nonetheless, Rodolfo thinks that it would be “nice to allotment it with added people.”
More Philanthropy and Innovation on the Horizon
Now that they accept ample out what to do with their $10,000 banana book, Rodolfo and Sebastian accept their eyes set on the future.
Rodolfo’s better activity for 2024 is acclimation the abutting Latin American Bitcoin Conference. Particularly, he and his aggregation are aggravating to adjudge on this year’s location. They accept a few account bouncing around, such as Buenos Aires, Chile and Cuba, but they haven’t nailed annihilation down. Rodolfo will additionally be alive on two claimed projects of his: Amiko and the Bitcoin time capsule. Amiko is the awakening of his 2024 BitCoins project, with a new appellation for accessible reasons. Rodolfo affairs to use the blockchain as the accomplishments technology for his reborn project. The Bitcoin time abridged is a accurate time abridged that will accommodate $25,000 USD in gold and an according bulk in bitcoin. To Rodolfo, the time abridged activity is “another way of announcement bitcoin, talking to bodies about bitcoin through article that they understand.”
Sebastian has three projects in the works, all centered about Bitcoin. Sig3 is an “automated cosigner for multisig wallets.” Sebastian says that there is “currently no accepted agreement for communicating copayers, “ and that he expects this breadth of Bitcoin to present “many development challenges.” Sebastian and his ally are additionally alive with Wayniloans to advance a bitcoin accommodation application, which Sebastian thinks “could calmly become one of bitcoin’s analgesic applications.” The third activity is alleged KryptoKit, and it is “an agitative cryptographic library project.”
In agreement of Bitcoin in general, both bargain winners anticipate the approaching is bright. Rodolfo is assured that Bitcoin will adore all-around success “as a technology because it is the best able way to do things.” He thinks that “Latin America has added absorption for the banking aspect [of Bitcoin],” but ultimately believes that Latin American entrepreneurship “will accept to do with the accomplished abstraction of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin technology.” When asked area he sees Bitcoin 10 years in the future, Sebastian said, “I see the capital issues like scalability and achievement solved, and additionally a acceptable belvedere for micropayments running.” He does apprehend some challenges for Bitcoin, though: “I anticipate the business aspects will be added arduous than the abstruse aspects in the future. Bitcoin’s success depends on extensive a analytical accumulation and how regulations attenuate its acceptance about the globe.”
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