Author: David Canellis / Source: Hard Fork | The Next Web
The White House has been tagged with digital Bitcoin BTC graffiti, thanks to a new augmented reality platform powered by cryptocurrency.
Satoshi’s World allows anyone in the world to add text, images, and GIFs to real world settings for a small Bitcoin fee.
Posts are made viewable through a special Google Maps feed.It was launched over the weekend, and it took just a few hours for “bitcoin” to be scrawled across the White House.
It works like this: you drop the little orange ‘Pegman’ anywhere on the map, and its first person view will appear on the right hand side of the screen.
For 50 Satoshis ($0.0018) per character, you can then type in any message you would like to “appear” in that location. It supports emoji directly, as well as images and GIFs through links.
It’s a neat spin on a Bitcoin project from last year, Satoshi’s Place, which allowed users to purchase pixels on a blank canvas for a very small amount of cryptocurrency. It also used the Lightning Network.
Doing our part
In the spirit of advancing Bitcoin adoption, Hard Fork decided to give this a go.
TNW is based in the Netherlands, so we couldn’t resist spraying some choice cryptocurrency graffiti all over Amsterdam Centraal station.
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