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121 sats \ 3 replies \ @plebpoet 11 Mar \ on: 🤓 I'm the creator 21 Futures 📚 - a bitcoin fiction project - AMA AMA
hi, I am a fiction writer, but I find it difficult to write bitcoin into stories. How do you write bitcoin into stories?
Do you use it to inform and frame the mindsets of your characters? Do you use it to project into the future, impose a reality? Do you use it as background loose framework, where all the conflict and interest happens on top but doesn't interact?
Normally, technology should not tale centre stage. We care about characters facing conflict.
For 21 Futures, the mission is to spread freedom ideology. Bitcoin fits into that, but the stories we publish must still be entertaining and emotive. THAT’S how we make people care. The worst submissions we get are just diatribes or manifestos about why bitcoin is good.
Oh, and Satoshi origin stories (eyeroll). I've read about 21,000,000 of them, and they are boring.
The are lots of interesting details about bitcoin, but those are good bases for stories.
A good starting point is a what-if.
What if you could mine bitcoin off planet using cheap energy?
What if CBDCs were omnipresent?
What if nation-states became obsolete?
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I'm beginning to get fascinated with your work.
And your story line here, is so perfect. @TotallyHumanWriter
Bitcoin per say is fictional, but we've created protocols and usabilities for it, accepting it wholly in our financial and economic systems that it's now even more factual and realistic than fiat, and if you agree with me on this, then it can be fully harnessed into stories, be it fictional or factual.
What do you think? 🤔