The Bitcoin Annotated

The Bitcoin Annotated is an editorially curated archive of the memes, phrases, events, and iconography that built bitcoin's culture. Each entry documents a specific cultural artifact — what it is, where it came from, who made it, what it means, and why it has lasted.

What we do

We catalog cultural artifacts. Not influencers, not market commentary, not investment advice. The artifact is always the subject. People appear in entries as creators, sources, and witnesses, never as personalities in their own right.

Every entry is researched, sourced, and dated. We attribute creators by name where attribution is verifiable. We mark provenance honestly when origins are diffuse. Where we cannot find a primary source for a claim, we say so, and where we are uncertain about a fact, we publish the uncertainty.

What we don't do

We do not make trading recommendations. We do not predict prices. We do not cover altcoins. We do not write about people without writing about something they made. We do not use AI-generated images: hero images are sourced photographs, screenshots, or hand-rendered plates. We do not invent quotes or paraphrase to the point of substitution. When we are uncertain, we say so.

Editorial standard

Every claim is sourced. Every quote is verbatim, fewer than fifteen words, and traceable to a primary source linked at the bottom of the entry. Every era classification is drawn from a locked ten-value taxonomy. Every entry has an origin date, a block height, a source platform, a creator (where known), and at least one verifiable primary source. The tone is plain, the framing is dry, and the joke — when there is one — is in the artifact itself, not in the writing about it.

We speak in the first-person plural. The editorial board is small, anonymous, and unaffiliated. The "we" is real but deliberately uncredited; the work is intended to outlast the people doing it.

The catalog

The catalog is finite. It documents what we judge to be the cultural artifacts that built bitcoin culture, not everything that has ever happened in bitcoin. Entries are released as they are completed; the published count is always smaller than the editorial bench, and the bench is always smaller than the universe of plausible candidates we have considered and declined.

Errors and omissions will happen. Where we find them, we revise.

For the full editorial taxonomy — the era enum, the type enum, the rules governing what constitutes an artifact, the rules governing what does not — see Methodology.

Provenance

The Bitcoin Annotated is published anonymously and is not affiliated with any company, fund, exchange, publication, or political organization. It accepts no advertising and runs no sponsorships. It is funded by nothing in particular.

Bitcoin only.

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