Bitcoin Magazine Books opened a third-anniversary campaign on Friday for Aaron van Wirdum's The Genesis Book, featuring a redesigned Collectors Edition limited to 333 hand-signed, individually numbered hardcovers in an exclusive Genesis Block slipcase.
Each Collectors Edition hardcover is hand-signed and hand-numbered by van Wirdum, the former Bitcoin Magazine editor-in-chief whose book traces the people, projects and ideas that preceded Satoshi Nakamoto's peer-to-peer cash design. The standard package is priced at $221 and includes the book, a limited trading card with a Certificate of Authenticity, a collector pin, a sticker sheet, the slipcase and a digital package.
One-of-one packages
Two one-of-one packages sit outside the ordinary number queue. The #1 package is listed at $5,000 and the #21 package at $2,500. Each includes the matching numbered copy, a matching one-of-one collector card and the same accessories as the standard collector package.
Standard collector numbers are assigned in purchase order starting at #2 and skipping #21, according to the campaign FAQ. Once preorders close, the signed Genesis print run will not be reproduced.
Premium and digital editions
In addition to the signed run, Bitcoin Magazine Books is selling a Premium Edition hardcover for $160 with foil stamping, a ribbon marker, stained page edges and custom endsheets. That edition is not limited, signed, numbered or slipcased, and it does not include the collector accessories or digital files.
A standalone Digital Package at $9.99 delivers the ebook in EPUB and the audiobook in MP4 immediately after purchase, independent of whether the physical campaign clears its funding bar.
Physical collector and premium orders are scheduled to ship in calendar year 2027.
About the book
Van Wirdum, who discovered bitcoin in 2013 and later led Bitcoin Magazine's editorial desk, frames The Genesis Book as a history of computer scientists, privacy activists and heterodox economists who chased government-independent digital money long before the 2008 white paper — from early cypherpunk culture through experiments such as David Chaum's ecash, Wei Dai's b-money, Adam Back's Hashcash and Hal Finney's reusable proof of work.
Store images for the slipcase and accessories are artistic renderings; the campaign page notes that color, materials and finishes may vary in production. The campaign is operated by BTC Inc., which publishes Bitcoin Magazine.
