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Hi,

This an official announcement of the "Credit card shaped 16GB USB sticks with engraved Bitcoin logo" project.This usb stick is now available for pre-orders. I need to sell at least 24 units otherwise the project has to be cancelled. I'm accepting bitcoin and paypal as a form of payment.This usb stick can store:

7618 photos
or 3809 MP3s
or 30.47 feature length films in Mpeg format


The 16GB is also great if you want to install a linux operating system on it.Think of it as a usb stick in the shape of a credit card.


The USB Card pushes the boundaries of slim design. It’s just 2.60mm thick but it still features 16GB of solid state memory. The stunning metallic finish presents a crisp and professional image and, of course, the USB Card features engraved bitcoin logo.The drives are made using A grade NAND components from Hynix, Toshiba or Samsung and are made out of 100% recycled aluminium (where applicable).The card comes with a 10 year warranty as  a standard.

http://198.199.70.251/small/WP_000149.jpg
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The price for the usb card is 0.3BTC
UK Customers will get the item shipped by Royal Mail for free!
USA,Canada Customers and EU will get the item shipped by Royal Mail Airsure and will have to pay around 0.15BTC.


The warranty does not cover the repair or exchange of products resulting from misuse, accident, modification, unsuitable physical or operating environment, incorrect maintenance by yourself, or failure caused by a product for which Teka is not responsible.Warranty becomes void if equipment is modified, incorrectly used, damaged by accident or neglect, or if any parts are improperly installed or replaced by the user.

How do I pre-order the card?

Post a reply to this topic with the amount of cards you would like to purchase and the form of payment you will be using.

I guess this runs the standad Bitcoin client which would be why you need 16GB for syncing?

This a simple usb stick that can store anything.The 16GB is also great if you want to install a linux operating system on it.

I'll take 2 cards and I pay in bitcoins  :)

-jarsumarsu

5 reserved please !

Hi StarenseN,

What is your preferred payment type? Bitcoin and Paypal are currently available.

Shut up and take my BTC!

I'll take 2, i'll pay BTC.

Btc of course :)

That's the spirit!  ;)

edit:
I also miss a deadline for the orders..
and address is funded with the 10x 0.3 + 1x 0.15 = 3.15 BTC for mine already, thank you for your offer :)

crosspost/announcment in German subforums: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179989.msg1878834
difference for 0.2 BTC shipping fee will be was added within the next minutes..

18 2348A apr 13: additional order (transaction a0696803aff90142dc085b317a6e6a9839d63b89d07126710ed67b22e55dd960) of 1 unit for the owner of 1JVsQBWrAfPD1n87xdrCjnnAYgypNRt42Y is now confirmed.
Total order of vv01f until now: 11 units.

The logo is engraved on the usb stick. Also due to size and value of the order the shipping price has to go up to 0.2BTC for 10 orders.This mainly because your order is worth nearly £200.

I will take two please will pay in BTC.
Any ETA on the product?

Hi Teka

Is it possible to engrave text additionally (company name) , if I buy 20, payment with BTC?

Greets
Tinu

The problems is that 24 is the minimum requirement. If you could send me a pm with more details and your budget.

I'll take 5. BTC payment.

I'll take one, payment in BTC.

So this is a flash drive with a bitcoin logo?

Not a portable drive running a bitcoin wallet client of somekind?

This a flash drive with an engraved bitcoin logo.

Early May.

In for 1.

Sorry but it was never mentioned that the design would be altered. The legend is simply ugly and makes the circle look out of round. I vote for the simple design with bitcoin logo only.

I've changed the design back to the original mock. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Tempted :P I will have to earn a little more BTC yet but put me down for 1.... I will ask about for you as well buddy :)

Andy B

Is there a client that would work for this?

What makes you think the Bitcoin-Qt client wont work? You can test with every USB stick that can store the blockchain..
It just has to be installed / mounted as portable and used with custom data-directory in options or configuration file..

I've yet to try but could one feesibly install bitcoin/ltc etc on a truecrypt version of this thing?

Ideally I'd love to see a self contained bootable/secured linux distro with copy of all the big wallet's pre installed as well as configured to surf the tor network.

Unsure how hard a custom distro or how secure it would be, having a heck of a time getting the litecoin and other wallets to install to linux.

I will be giving away 1BTC if the are 50 units on my pre-order list before the eta. To enter the giveaway you need to pre-order at least one 16GB drive before the eta.At the time of writing this the eta is set for early may.

Hi Guys,


I need everyone to confirm their order.Here are some pictures of the product itself:

http://198.199.70.251/small/WP_000149.jpg
http://198.199.70.251/small/WP_000153.jpg
http://198.199.70.251/small/WP_000155.jpg

These look amazing! These are a really good idea and I think I'm going to consider buying one just for the fun of it!

Are these still up for sale?

Hi Guys,

I'm extremely sorry for all the delays but I've had a few unexpected business meetings away from home. The deadline for orders is tomorrow 14:00pm and I will be requesting payment at 14:30 PM tomorrow.


Thanks Everyone,

Teka

Do you have a shipping estimate?

The worst case scenario is that items will be shipped out on the 15th of may but I'm hoping that I can ship them out on the 10th.

What a great idea. I would love to purchase one but I simply don't have the BTC/paypal to get one right now. Congratz on getting more than the 24 orders you were originally looking to get and best of luck in the future :).

Plus a free bump :D

Hello Teka! Just saw this neat little product of yours. Since I am in the USA, I would like to buy 3 to mitigate the shipping costs. I am expecting ~ 1.05 btc as a total. Just send me a PM with your wallet address and I will pay and reply with my shipping address when you are ready.

Thanks!

PS. Did you make your 50 quota?

I'm in the UK and I'm very interested in taking 2 if that would at all be possible? Pay by BTC.

Hi Everyone,

The cards have been ordered. The manufacturing time takes around 1-3 days and shipping normally takes around 2-4 days.



Thanks,

Teka

Just posting to say I've made 3 purchases from Teka in the last two days and I can vouch for him being legit :) I know that he's already pretty trusted, but just thought I'd add my reassurance as thanks to him. Can't wait for my USB!

Hi, any update on these?

Don't worry, Craynon vouched for him being legit.

I am Craynon :P
I'm not worried about them being legit, just wondering if they'd been manufactured yet or what stage they're at

The units have been manufactured and are being shipped out to me so they will probably arrive on Wednesday. If you have a any doubts about me not being legit you could always ask Tinua (His Order has been fulfilled and he has received 25 working units) . There were simply no updates to give out until today.

That's fine, just wondering :)

The units have arrived and will be shipped out tomorrow afternoon.

Cool, can't wait. :)

Do you have any idea what (speed) class the memory is?

It is a USB device and should be Version 2.0 - you can see the contact so it aint 3.0 . And there are no "speed classes" - Version 2.0 varies, more on e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus ; the speed data of this device was not communicated and was not subject to this product as it is IMHO more a matter of design.

By the way I cannot imagine a usb 3.0 device to be this thin because all connectors I can find are quite well shielded and thus not thin enough.

I personally think of putting several preconfigured wallet software on these ones  with additional information to give away to beginners (bitcoin-qt without wallet.dat but with a preloaded blockchain signed by me, brainwallet.org and bitaddress.org, vanitygen as "offline files", list of shops, links and some tutorials/howtos).

The memory will have a read/write limitation, regardless of which bus (USB) is being used.
USB2.0 has a max. data rate of around 60MB/s, but the type of memory inside the stick (I'm not sure what is being used) will have a performance limit.
If, for example, an SD card at class 10 is used, then the maximum write speed will be 10MB/s, regardless of the fact USB2.0 can hand a bandwidth of 60MB/s.

Sounds good, it would make a nice, small, gift.

I like to remaster my own live Linux distributions, so I'm thinking about putting a couple of them on their for personal/computer repair use, along with a version of Linux for using an offline Armory wallet.

Nice one, looking forwards to it!

Hey everyone.

Units have been shipped out. The EU and US units were shipped out via Airsure and depending on custom they should arrive within 2-7 working days. The UK units were shipped out via Royal Mail 1st class. I don't know about the class of the cards but I will test them out tomorrow and give you an estimate of what speeds you should expect.  If you need any more information send me a pm or reply to this topic.

Thanks,

Teka


edit: Bulk orders above 25 units are still accepted.

Read/Write speeds if any one is interested (using FAT32):

Read:  26.20 MB/sec
Write: 6.3 MB/s



So I'd guess from a quick test that these are class 6 cards- pretty good :)

Just received my card, looks very nice :) Thanks!

A quick update to EU and USA customers:


Your package has arrived in its destination country and should be with you shortly.


Thanks for the feedback Craynon and Openyoureyes.

To OpenYourEyes: Thanks for the performance numbers and some more information on the probable class of the card .

Just some feedback on the thread:
The cards arrived yesterday in Germany, redelivery in the country also is done. AFAIK no problems at all.
Tested one of them for the speed question with H2testw v1.4:

Received my 2 USB devices also, had forgot I had asked them to be delivered to my work address and they had been lying there probably for some time so very happy with both the product and the seller.
Thanks!

Batch 2 is now open for Pre-Orders.

Here is the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228921.0