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Bitcoin Retro
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
Vintage Bitcoin Shirts.
Retro lettering, old-school dates and a classic Bitcoin feel, on brand new black tees.
A quick bit of honesty before the nostalgia: none of these is a thrift-store find. Bitcoin is only a teenager, so a truly vintage Bitcoin shirt does not exist yet, and we would not fake one. What you get here is a retro bitcoin shirt in spirit: brand new black tees whose artwork borrows from eighties arcades, nineties band merch, old coins and the earliest days of the network. If you like the feel of an old school bitcoin tee, with chunky lettering, real dates and Latin mottos, this is the page. Pick the era you want to wear, and we print it fresh after you order.
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Bitcoin Est. 2009
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
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Sound Money
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
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Vires in Numeris
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
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Genesis Block
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
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White Paper
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
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Running Bitcoin
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
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Bitcoin Pizza Day
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
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HODL
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
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Satoshi Smiley
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
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Infinity / 21M
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
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Pacman BTC
Unisex tee · XS–3XL
$39.99
No tee matches that. Try “HODL”, “pizza” or “logo”.
Three kinds of throwback
Arcade. Bitcoin Retro is the loudest of the lot, with yellow BTC letters and a pink stacked shadow. The Pacman BTC tee shares that cabinet-glow humor, and Infinity / 21M sets its math joke in blocky pixel-style type.
Band tee. The Satoshi shirt pairs yellow lettering with a smiley whose eyes are Bitcoin symbols, a design that looks like it belongs on a touring merch table. HODL is heavy block capitals and an orange coin, a word that has been around since 2013.
Old coin and old record. Sound Money and Vires in Numeris lean on the language of coinage and Latin mottos. Bitcoin Est. 2009 reads like the stamp on an old shop sign.
When the throwback is the real history
Some of the most old-school shirts are the ones with dates on them. The White Paper tee carries 31.10.2008, the Genesis Block tee reads 03 JAN 2009, Running Bitcoin marks January 10, 2009, and Bitcoin Pizza Day points back to May 22, 2010. If you want the whole story behind the first block, start with the genesis block guide.
Which retro direction suits you
Want people to spot you from across a parking lot? Go arcade. Want something that looks like a favorite old concert shirt? Take the Satoshi smiley. Prefer to be quietly clever? Sound Money and Vires in Numeris are the ones to wear, and our guides to what sound money means and the Vires in Numeris motto give you something to say when someone asks. Whichever you choose, the shirt is a plain crew neck in black, so the print does all the talking and pairs with whatever jeans you already own.
Questions
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Are these real vintage or secondhand shirts?
No. Every tee is new, black and unisex, and the shirts are printed to order. "Vintage" here describes the artwork and the era it nods to, not the garment.
Do the prints come pre-faded or cracked?
None of the designs here is a distressed-print effect. The old-school feel comes from the lettering, colors and dates in the artwork, and we make no claims about how a print will age.
Which shirt shows the oldest date?
The White Paper tee, with 31.10.2008, the day the paper went out. The Genesis Block and Running Bitcoin tees follow in January 2009.
What is the easiest retro tee to wear to work?
Bitcoin Est. 2009 is the calmest option, since it reads as a clean wordmark. Sound Money is a close second for the same reason.
Read
Guides
Bitcoin basicsSound Money Meaning, and the Debate Over Whether Bitcoin QualifiesSound money means money that keeps its purchasing power because nobody can easily create more of it. Here is where the phrase comes from, why bitcoiners use it, and why many economists disagree.Bitcoin cultureVires in Numeris Meaning, the Latin Motto on Early Physical BitcoinsVires in numeris is Latin for strength in numbers. Bitcoiners picked it up in 2011 and it spread on Casascius physical bitcoins, the brass, silver and gold coins with real bitcoin locked under a hologram.Bitcoin historyWhat Is the Genesis Block? Bitcoin's Block 0 ExplainedEvery bitcoin transaction ever made traces back to one block mined on January 3, 2009. Here is what the genesis block is, what its hidden newspaper headline says and why its 50 BTC can never be spent.