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Economy => Collectibles => Topic started by: Steeley on September 19, 2021, 08:57:28 PM



Title: A physical bitcoin article put up on Bitcoin.com today
Post by: Steeley on September 19, 2021, 08:57:28 PM
Thought I would share an article published today that is relevant to this forum:

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://news.bitcoin.com/2-billion-worth-of-unpeeled-casascius-physical-bitcoins-theres-less-than-20000-coins-left-active/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTA1OTY2NDgyMDc2NDczMzU3OTQyHDJlZWVmNDE5YTZiOTE3M2Y6Y29tOmVuOlVTOkw&usg=AFQjCNH2sqTm1Owrvp6pU042suTd7O7T6w (https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://news.bitcoin.com/2-billion-worth-of-unpeeled-casascius-physical-bitcoins-theres-less-than-20000-coins-left-active/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTA1OTY2NDgyMDc2NDczMzU3OTQyHDJlZWVmNDE5YTZiOTE3M2Y6Y29tOmVuOlVTOkw&usg=AFQjCNH2sqTm1Owrvp6pU042suTd7O7T6w)

I also see in other threads that Blucephus is making some of these gems available. Good timing.

Steeley


Title: Re: A physical bitcoin article put up on Bitcoin.com today
Post by: krogoth on September 19, 2021, 10:01:03 PM
 Great article...thankyou for sharing!


Title: Re: A physical bitcoin article put up on Bitcoin.com today
Post by: Hookzup1 on September 20, 2021, 12:16:31 AM
Thanks steeley for sharing, I can only imagine how valuable these physical funded collectibles are going to be once the masses learn about them. It will be like the current nft craze on crack lol


Title: Re: A physical bitcoin article put up on Bitcoin.com today
Post by: OgNasty on September 20, 2021, 12:27:48 AM
Thanks steeley for sharing, I can only imagine how valuable these physical funded collectibles are going to be once the masses learn about them. It will be like the current nft craze on crack lol

I too appreciate the share as I likely wouldn't have seen it otherwise.  I'm not sure about the masses falling in love with these coins though.  A lot of crypto folks aren't interested in physical crypto as it does defeat the purpose a little bit.  Having old pre-fork BTC is pretty cool and being tied to a physical collector is definitely cool in my eyes, but I still think we're a bit of a niche interest group.  NFTs exist on the blockchain and appeal to the digital future aspect so I can see why they are more in the mainstream.  Do I think that a .png image of a pixelated head is worth millions or even worth as much as a 1 BTC Casascius coin?  No way, but I understand why it is.


Title: Re: A physical bitcoin article put up on Bitcoin.com today
Post by: Steeley on September 20, 2021, 02:50:25 AM
I think Og is probably right, but I think Physicals will still have their day.


Title: Re: A physical bitcoin article put up on Bitcoin.com today
Post by: minerjones on September 20, 2021, 10:08:56 AM
Not sure where the "author" got his statistics from, but the numbers are off....


In that same series, Caldwell minted 16 1,000 BTC bars and so far 87.50% or 14 bars have been redeemed. There were 81 Series 2 100 BTC coins (worth $4.8M each) minted by Caldwell and to date 47 coins or 58.02% of the BTC has been redeemed from that minted set.


.... and FYI Jamie Redman is a paid hack