The OG Bitcoin Mascot

$ALPACA

The alpaca was there first.

Before Bitcoin was mainstream, there were alpaca socks.

Contract address

0xaea9b64ec09d1b0816af5c108e1857edb6727777

Cartoon alpaca wearing pixel sunglasses and a Bitcoin medallion

alpaca socks ₿75 btc ₿hodl ₿early adopters were weird ₿grass hill alpacas ₿unofficial mascot ₿alpaca socks ₿75 btc ₿hodl ₿early adopters were weird ₿grass hill alpacas ₿unofficial mascot ₿

bitcoin.terminal — 2011

> welcome to bitcoin.
> grass hill alpacas accepts BTC.
> 75 BTC per pair of alpaca socks.
> enjoy.
> _

Artifact 001 — recovered

2011.

Alpaca socks.

One of the earliest and most memorable Bitcoin merchant stories involved alpaca socks.

75 BTC/ pair

fig. 1 — recovered from the early Bitcoin internet

Casting call

Bitcoin needed a mascot.

Bull

too corporate

Whale

already taken

Honey badger

Laser eyes

not an animal

Alpaca.

chosen by the crowd

Bitcoin never officially chose an animal.

But the early community had an idea.

One of Bitcoin's unofficial mascots was born.

Years passed

Bitcoin got big.

2011socks
2013forums
2017mania
2021laser eyes
2024ETFs
2026everyone

The alpaca never left.

Unofficial photo album

The alpaca knows everybody.

Alpaca posing with a Satoshi Nakamoto statue — Legend.

Alpaca posing with a cartoon of CZ — Thumbs up.

Illustrations. Parody. No endorsement implied.

The whole story, one poster

How has nobody done this yet?

Comic strip explaining the $ALPACA story: 2011 alpaca socks, 75 BTC, and hold $ALPACA to earn BTC

The twist

Now the alpaca earns BTC.

Hold $ALPACA. Earn BTC.

Buy

Get your alpaca.

Hold

Keep your alpaca.

Earn

Receive BTC rewards.

Reward asset: BTC
Distribution: to be announced
Reward fee: to be announced

Reward mechanism not connected yet — no live numbers, no contract address.

The alpaca was there first.

$ALPACA

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Contract address

0xaea9b64ec09d1b0816af5c108e1857edb6727777