It's not exactly what you describe but the conflict with the astroid belt people is well played out in "The Expanse".

I think there is great potential in having bitcoin as a world building tool but my honest suggestion would be to really flesh out characters and their motivations. There's always a valuable piece missing to stories with great world building but crappy characters!

There is some juice to squeeze on the philosophical impacts of civilization spanning large swaths of space/time. I mean depening on hiw large the civilization is people on different sides of the civilization literally experience time and life differently.

I would also be careful of the ex machina/ other logical pitfalls that could come out of a story like this, especially when your main audience might be bitcoiners who would quickly identifiy them.

Just my two sats. Thats a long and drawn out way of saying, Id read it!

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What do you mean by ex machina/ logical pitfalls?

the google definition is: dues ex machina fallacy is the use of a “god-like” character or plot devixe that acts in a way that makes a problem or conflict seem insoluble, and thus forces the story into an unsatisfactory resolution.

Its a VERY common mistake in scifi or fantasy when the author has a complex world.

No one does it intentionally but it tends to happen when the author knows more about the tech and world than the reader (always happens) but fails to descirbe the plot point as common factor in the world and then some how its used to save the day.

In the case of a bitcoin story an audience of bitcoiners might read through the ex machina but an average reader would not.

Ah ok, thanks! Yes, definitely something to avoid.

Once Kind 3040 is live you could make your story into a serialized fiction. Post your chapters one at a time get some sats and some feedback on your work. As you post them you can tie them into one to make it easier for your audience to follow.

I'm thinking about releasing a serialized fiction I had on kindlevella on here, cus... Amazon is the devil...

Is there a NIP associated with kind 3040?

Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!

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Right right. Yeah, not going to take the easy way out here. 😅