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The Forgotten Bitcoin Comics

Preservation

Kept, not owned.

Forum images break, personal sites lapse, Facebook pages disappear. Here is how this archive works, what it could not recover, and how to help.

Method

Five rules

  1. 1

    Original files first

    Images come from the files the artist himself uploaded, which are still served from their original Google-hosted URLs. Where those are gone, we use the Wayback Machine’s copy of his site. Nothing is redrawn, upscaled or watermarked.

  2. 2

    Every date has a reason

    A date is marked “verified” only when a timestamped BitcoinTalk post by the artist contains that strip. Otherwise it is “inferred” from the posts around it, and the record says how.

  3. 3

    Titles are the artist’s

    Episode titles come from the artist’s own 2013 archive pages. When the forum post used a different title, both are shown.

  4. 4

    Credit, always

    The artist published the comic under Creative Commons Attribution. Every page credits Z1Xwitch ArtWork, links to www.z1x.dk and links to the licence. This archive is non-commercial and not endorsed by the artist.

  5. 5

    Gaps stay visible

    Five episodes are known to exist but their images were not recovered. They keep their place in the catalogue and are marked as missing instead of being quietly dropped.

  6. The licence

    Artist’s legal page (2013)(opens in a new tab)CC BY 3.0 deed(opens in a new tab)

Wanted

Not yet recovered

  • 001Gain 2 Mhash/sJune 9, 2011
  • 033Trust me, I'm a Pirate!September 2, 2012
  • 2013-001Another brick in the wallApril 11, 2013
  • 2013-002502 Bad Gateway - DDOSApril 24, 2013
  • 2013-003the MtGox Dwolla seizureMay 15, 2013

Contribute

Found something?

Send a link to a lost strip, a mirror, an old screenshot or a correction. Every submission is read and checked against a primary source before anything changes. The archive never publishes your contact details.

If you are the artist and want something changed or taken down, choose “I am the artist”. That request comes first.

What is it?