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In the early 2010s, when Bitcoin still lived mostly in message boards and mailing lists, a tiny quirk helped it jump from code to culture: alpaca wool socks. An adventurous farm started selling their socks for BTC, and the idea stuck.
In the early 2010s, when Bitcoin still lived mostly in message boards and mailing lists, a tiny quirk helped it jump from code to culture: alpaca wool socks. An adventurous farm started selling their socks for BTC, and the idea stuck.
People joked that if Bitcoin could buy socks, it could buy anything. Alpacas became an unofficial mascot in memes, forum signatures, and inside jokes across the community.
The story goes that a Bitcoiner, fresh off a forum thread about “real world use,” sent a few coins for a pair of alpaca socks. Screenshots were posted, memes were minted, and suddenly the community had a running joke: “We’re the alpaca‑sock crowd”—warm soles, cold storage.
The live Alpaca Socks price today is $0.000012 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $1,248.80 USD. We update our SOCKS to USD price in real-time. Alpaca Socks is down 4.26% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #5583, with a live market cap of not available. The circulating supply is not available and a max. supply of 999,999,941 SOCKS coins.