Bitcoin Magazine Books Opens 333-Copy Collector Edition of 'The Genesis Book' for Third Anniversary
Key Takeaways
- •The Collectors Edition of The Genesis Book is limited to 333 hardcovers, each hand-signed and individually numbered by author Aaron van Wirdum, a former Bitcoin Magazine editor-in-chief.
- •Standard collector packages are priced at $221, while the one-of-one #1 and #21 packages cost $5,000 and $2,500 respectively, with regular numbering assigned by purchase order starting at #2 and skipping #21.
- •A $160 Premium Edition hardcover and a $9.99 standalone digital package, which delivers an EPUB ebook and MP4 audiobook immediately after purchase, are also available.
- •Physical collector and premium orders are scheduled to ship in calendar year 2027, and the signed print run will not be reproduced once preorders close.
- •The book chronicles the pre-Bitcoin pursuit of government-independent digital money, covering figures such as David Chaum, Wei Dai, Adam Back, and Hal Finney, whose Hashcash and b-money projects are cited in Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 white paper.
Bitcoin Magazine Books opened a third-anniversary campaign on Friday for Aaron van Wirdum's The Genesis Book, unveiling a redesigned Collectors Edition limited to 333 hand-signed, individually numbered hardcovers housed in an exclusive Genesis Block slipcase. The slipcase takes its name from the genesis block, the first block in the bitcoin blockchain, mined by Satoshi Nakamoto in January 2009.
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 pairs the book with a limited trading card carrying a Certificate of Authenticity, a collector pin, a sticker sheet, the slipcase, and a digital package.
Two one-of-one packages sit outside the ordinary numbering 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. According to the campaign FAQ, standard collector numbers are assigned in purchase order starting at #2 and skipping #21. Once preorders close, the signed Genesis print run will not be reproduced.
The Genesis Book Collector's Edition is live! 333 copies. Individually numbered. Exclusive Genesis Block slipcase. Hand-signed by Aaron van Wirdum. Once they're gone, they're gone. pic.twitter.com/BgiJoCVt8m
— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) November 6, 2026
What Ships With the Anniversary Editions
Alongside the signed run, Bitcoin Magazine Books is selling a Premium Edition hardcover for $160 featuring 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 priced at $9.99 delivers the ebook in EPUB format 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. For readers following the physical editions, the campaign's funding bar is the nearest-term milestone to watch.
Van Wirdum, who discovered bitcoin in 2013 and later led Bitcoin Magazine's editorial desk, frames The Genesis Book as a history of the computer scientists, privacy activists, and heterodox economists who pursued 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. Hashcash and b-money also appear among the references of Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 Bitcoin white paper, placing part of the book's subject matter inside the lineage the founding document itself cited.
Store images of 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., the publisher of Bitcoin Magazine.
