This is a 1 of 1 collectible token commemorating the first journalistic article I wrote and published about bitcoin under my real name. Hilariously, I used very simple and wrong math to project a bitcoin price of $476,190.47

It predates the launch of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show and even predates The Daily Bitcoin show. At the time I was writing about additive manufacturing (3d printing), drone technology and Bitcoin, which had recently gone to $100 for the first time.

Personally I was highly skeptical, people had been trying to do "internet money" for years and a lot of suckers had lost everything believing the hype. But while that'd been a compelling argument when bitcoin was trading for pennies in 2011, when I saw it go past $100 I realized a threshold had been crossed, which resulted in two actions on my part...

First, I started actively looking for co-hosts for a bitcoin podcast. This is when I met Trace Mayer, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and a handful of others. They responded to my call for co-hosts and collaborators. There was so much going on and the only ways people were communicating were IRC or forums. There was a hole and I was going to fill it.

Second, I started telling people about it. This was the start of Let's Talk Bitcoin.

Links| google docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UzXVU8pc2IPqnhRlmvoGcGNx3CRtB900mY2RxnDKWeU/edit?usp=sharing bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=164545.0 reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bgoqj/we_should_talk_about_bitcoin_examining_the_new/ mindtomatter.org (now defunct): https://web.archive.org/web/20130501000000*/http://www.mindtomatter.org/we-should-talk-about-bitcoin.html

The NFT itself is a very large uncompressed image collecting all the publications and reactions to this article (excluding mindtomatter.org, which was replaced with letstalkbitcoin.com later that month.) At the bottom of the image is the google doc timestamps of the entire creation and edit process