It felt dishonest to try for a "modern-style" superhero, with body armor and gadgetry. If the Bitcoin Movement is about anything, it's about old-school waffle-knit sweatshirts with vinyl accents.
As to powers, I gave that issue a lot of thought and came up with a few alternatives:
* No powers (lame)
* Something to do with Bitcoin (obvious and lame)
* ...Pass!
When it came time to brainstorm a codename, my creative faculties were already completely spent from the above:
* Pass.
(Was the best I could manage.)
The
nemesis would be pretty obvious, though: An incarnation (human or robotic) of a block chain fork. He (or she!) would be constantly trying to fork the block chain and put a stink on the entire concept of crypto-currencies. "Pass" would be summoned to beat him (or her!) up on a regular schedule, say...once per month, which would dovetail nicely with a Marvel or DC publishing schedule.
Naturally, there would be a crew of "miners", armed with pick-axes and poisoned ASICs, but here again my imagination fails me and I can't think of any stories that would involve them more deeply than a simple off-screen reference to their existence.
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