Bitcoin Journal Books opened a third-anniversary marketing campaign Friday for Aaron van Wirdum’s The Genesis E-book, providing a redesigned Collectors Version restricted to 333 hand-signed, individually numbered hardcovers in an unique Genesis Block slipcase.
Every Collectors Version hardcover is hand-signed and hand-numbered by van Wirdum, the previous Bitcoin Journal editor-in-chief whose ebook traces the folks, initiatives and concepts that preceded Satoshi Nakamoto’s peer-to-peer money design. The usual package is priced at $221 and pairs the ebook with a restricted buying and selling card carrying a Certificates of Authenticity, a collector pin, a sticker sheet, the slipcase and a digital package deal.
Two one-of-one packages sit outdoors the odd quantity queue. The #1 package is listed at $5,000 and the #21 package at $2,500; every consists of the matching numbered copy, an identical one-of-one collector card and the identical equipment as the usual collector package deal.
Commonplace collector numbers are assigned in buy order beginning at #2 and skipping #21, the marketing campaign FAQ says. As soon as preorders shut, the signed Genesis print run won’t be reproduced.
What ships with the anniversary editions
Beside the signed run, Bitcoin Journal Books is promoting a Premium Edition hardcover for $160 with foil stamping, a ribbon marker, stained web page edges and customized endsheets. That version shouldn’t be restricted, signed, numbered or slipcased, and it doesn’t embody the collector equipment or digital recordsdata.
A standalone Digital Package at $9.99 delivers the book in EPUB and the audiobook in MP4 instantly after buy, impartial of whether or not the bodily marketing campaign clears its funding bar.
Bodily collector and premium orders are scheduled to ship in calendar yr 2027.
Van Wirdum, who discovered bitcoin in 2013 and later led Bitcoin Journal‘s editorial desk, frames The Genesis E-book as a historical past of laptop scientists, privateness activists and heterodox economists who chased government-independent digital cash lengthy earlier than the 2008 white paper — from early cypherpunk tradition by way of experiments similar to David Chaum’s ecash, Wei Dai’s b-money, Adam Again’s Hashcash and Hal Finney’s reusable proof of labor.
Retailer photographs for the slipcase and equipment are inventive renderings; the marketing campaign web page notes that coloration, supplies and finishes might differ in manufacturing. The marketing campaign is operated by BTC Inc., which publishes Bitcoin Journal.
