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A r/Bitcoin post claims that Charles Stross's novel Neptune's Brood was the first work of fiction to mention bitcoin, citing a Stacker post and a 2015 archived version of the Wikipedia bitcoin page. The post also cites an Overcoming Bias blog post it says provides quotes where Stross mentions bitcoin in the book.
Why “Rumor”
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What the sources claim
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Charles Stross's Neptune's Brood was the first work of fiction to mention bitcoin, according to a post the author read.
“Charles Stross's *Neptune's Brood* was the first work of fiction to mention bitcoin”
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A 2015 version of the Wikipedia bitcoin page states that a modification of bitcoin is used as the universal interstellar payment system in Neptune's Brood.
“a modification of bitcoin is used as the universal interstellar payment system”
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An Overcoming Bias blog post provides quotes where Stross mentions bitcoin in the book.
“provides actual quotes where Stross mentions bitcoin in the book”
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Summary and claims extracted by AI with prompt analyze-story@5 on 2026-10-28 20:10 UTC. Labels are computed from the sources, not by the model.