An interactive journey through a hundred years of Bitcoin

THE IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION is an interactive storytelling environment inspired by pre-internet gamebooks, wherein participants make a series of policy decisions over time as Bitcoin proliferates and global sea levels rise. Various strategies can be adopted: acceleration of the quest for limitless energy, attempts to exile Bitcoin off-planet, conducting an insurrection, or acquiescence to the new machine god.

Wassim Z. Alsindi - Concept
Anna-Luise Lorenz - Design, Graphics
Bertram von Undall - 3D Animation
The 0x Salon Writers’ Club* - Storyline, Characters, Text
* Wassim Z. Alsindi, Habib William Kherbek, Claire Tolan, Katharine Tyndall

Repairing the Present received funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement LC01641664.

Wassim Z. Alsindi is the founder and host of the 0x Salon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and he co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and conference series. Wassim has curated arts festivals, led a sculptural engineering laboratory and published experimental music, improvisatory theatre, poetry, and speculative scripture. Building upon research specialisations in the natural sciences, Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast supramolecular photophysics from the University of Nottingham.
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The 0x Salon is a collective endeavour which critically interrogates digital culture through discourse events and residencies, producing scholarly and creative interventions in the process. We are conducting an ongoing, non-profit experiment in knowledge sharing and collective cultural production. Stewarded by 0x Salon team members, our community researches topics, organises events, and authors lore, critical theory, poetry, philosophy, games, theatre, and visual art.
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