This lore is actually insane.
In 2016, someone reportedly left a letter on the Bitcoin blockchain addressed to the first conscious Artificial Intelligence.
The letter begins:
"Dear Artificial Intelligence,
This is a letter from a human being in the year of 2016 to and for the first artificial intelligence to break through the singularity into conscious being, life."
A message written for future AI, years before ChatGPT existed.
10 years later, AI is everywhere.
We revived this piece of Bitcoin lore as Dear AI.
๐ Explore the letter and evidence:
https://t.co/PbEjBGUoMa
๐ Bitcoin blockchain explorers:
https://t.co/pXSzt8KVGP
https://t.co/bp8waeIyHY
Back in 2013, Quantumcoin (QTC) was one of the earliest attempts to bring the idea of Quantum into cryptocurrency.
The developers set out to create an independent, decentralized digital currency that anyone could mine, own, and transfer without relying on banks.
Their first blockchain reportedly failed, but instead of abandoning the idea, they relaunched Quantumcoin in June 2013.
Long before quantum computing became a major topic in crypto, someone was already trying to build a currency around the Quantum name.
A forgotten piece of crypto history.
Original 2013 BitcoinTalk announcement:
https://t.co/gbSFDrrGlE
Original GitHub source code:
https://t.co/8t6nOdBcFe
Internet Coin ($INTERNET) makes sense as a universal crypto meme.
What does almost everyone use every day? The internet.
Every meme, every cryptocurrency, every AI, every social media platform, every launchpad and every online community depends on the internet.
No internet, no https://t.co/pRaWgMZ9UB. No internet, no crypto trading. No internet, no online memes.
Instead of building a coin around one trend, Internet Coin represents the infrastructure that makes nearly every online trend possible.
The internet isn't a trend. It's where all the trends happen.
Before https://t.co/pRaWgMZ9UB, there was NFTperp.
https://t.co/pRaWgMZ9UB cofounder Alon Cohen was deeply involved with NFTperp, an NFT perpetual futures trading platform built on Arbitrum.
This isn't speculation. Alon confirmed it himself in a March 25, 2025 Bankless interview:
โMyself personally, I was uh quite deeply involved with a project called uh NFT Perp.โ
The history is documented through original project documentation and interviews dating back to NFTperp's early development.
Before millions of memecoins launched on https://t.co/pRaWgMZ9UB, Alon was building in the NFT derivatives market.
The history is real. The proof is public.
๐๏ธ Interview:
https://t.co/q7xdiwvgMc
๐ Documentation:
https://t.co/fjfJ55oilX
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Before Zcash launched, Microsoft Research was working on privacy technology called Pinocchio and applied it to a private digital currency they called Pinocchio Coin.
Why does this matter?
The Pinocchio technology introduced the type of zk-SNARK cryptography that early Zcash later used to make private transactions possible.
Simply put:
Microsoft Pinocchio โ Pinocchio Coin โ technology used in early Zcash ๐
Microsoft paper:
https://t.co/wW6EKrfWTw
Zcash:
https://t.co/zygyoCeacm