Dilbert · July 2013

DOGBERT IS SATOSHI.
MEET BERTCOIN.

In a 2013 Dilbert strip, a cartoon dog invented digital money he named Bertcoin, vowed to rule the world, and refused to show his face. Crypto called him Satoshi. Thirteen years later, the community made it real.

Official contract — accept no imposters

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Dogbert — Satoshi Nakamoto
The 2013 Dilbert strip — Dogbert invents a digital currency
The 2013 Dilbert strip · Dogbert names his coin ‘Bertcoin’
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THE FIRST DOG COIN.

Bertcoin was named in a Dilbert strip back in July 2013 — the oldest dog in crypto. A punchline that sat waiting for over a decade.

JUL 2013

Bertcoin in the funnies

In a Dilbert strip, Dogbert invents a digital currency and names it Bertcoin himself. An anonymous genius's coin.

JUL 2013

Dogbert is Satoshi

A BitcoinTalk thread argues Dilbert's dog is the real creator of Bitcoin. It becomes forum legend.

2013–2025

The thread goes quiet

The punchline sits dormant on BitcoinTalk for over a decade, waiting for someone to get the joke.

2026

The community takes over

$BERT is reclaimed on Solana. The first dog coin finally gets its coin.

THE ORIGINAL
CRYPTO MEME.

July 22, 2013. A BitcoinTalk user named Phinnaeus Gage posts a thread titled “Dogbert is Satoshi Nakamoto!”— arguing that Dilbert's megalomaniacal dog is the real creator of Bitcoin.

“I invented a digital currency that I call Bertcoin. Soon I will control all of the money in the entire world. BUWHAHAHA!”

— Dogbert, Dilbert strip · July 2013

The coin already had its name from the funnies — Bertcoin— so the forum runs with it, giving every Bitcoin fixture a Bert version: Mt. Bert, BertExplorer, BertPay, Bert Baccarat.

THE PROOF?

“Dogbert and Satoshi have the same amount of letters. This is exactly what Satoshi would do to cloak his identity.”

That thread sat dormant for over a decade. BertCoin is the punchline that became real.

BITCOINTALK #260841

OG

July 22, 2013 · bitcointalk.org

Phinnaeus GageOP

Thanks to subcoin and OnkelPaul for bringing it to our attention — Dogbert is Satoshi Nakamoto!

Phinnaeus GageOP

"I invented a digital currency that I call Bertcoin." "Soon I will control all of the money in the entire world. BUWHAHAHA! Maybe you should hide your identity."

Forum Member

This is exactly what Satoshi would do to cloak his identity.

Forum Member

You want more proof? Mmmkay! Dogbert and Satoshi have the same amount of letters.

Forum Member

so, who is launching bertcoin now?

THE PROPHET VANISHED

Phinnaeus Gage — the man who named the dog — last logged into BitcoinTalk on June 6, 2020. Then he disappeared. Exactly like Satoshi did.

The real thread — receipts

Archived BitcoinTalk thread #260841 — Dogbert is Satoshi Nakamoto
Forum users coining Bertcoin, Mt. Bert, BertExplorer, BertPay
Unedited · bitcointalk.org · July 2013
BitcoinTalk 2013: so, who is launching bertcoin now?
BitcoinTalk · thread #260841 · Jul 23, 2013

ASKED IN 2013.
ANSWERED IN 2026.

For thirteen years the thread's last question just hung there: “so, who is launching bertcoin now?”Nobody ever did. Until the community picked up the torch. Somebody finally launched Bertcoin — and it's us.

ANSWER THE QUESTION →

THE BERT EMPIRE

The 2013 thread already sketched the whole empire. We're just shipping it. Any day now.

Mt. Bert

The exchange. Definitely won't lose your coins.

“OFFLINE”

BertExplorer

Every wag, on-chain.

SYNCING

BertPay

Tap. Bark. Paid.

FETCHING

Bert Baccarat

The house always wags.

ALL IN

BertCoin Magazine

Issue #1: ‘Kiss My Wagger’.

PRINTING

MyBertCoins

Your wallet. Rumor: an Expo is coming.

SOON™

STRAIGHT FROM THE FUNNIES

Certified 2013. Go ahead — Google it.
Certified 2013. Go ahead — Google it.
The prophecy pays. Diamond paws.
The prophecy pays. Diamond paws.
Even Dilbert kept preaching it.
Even Dilbert kept preaching it.

HOW TO BUY $BERT

1

Get a Solana wallet

Install Phantom or Solflare and fund it with a little SOL.

2

Copy the contract

Grab the official $BERT address below. Accept no imposters.

3

Swap on pump.fun

Paste the address, pick your amount, confirm.

4

Kiss the wagger

Hold. Bark. Tell two friends the first dog coin was Bert.

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Bertcoin

THE JOKE IS
13 YEARS OLD.
THE COIN IS NOW.

BertCoin — community-driven, zero pretense. Built on the oldest crypto meme that ever existed.

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