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April 13, 2013: Auction for 10 rolls of fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins.

See my blog, http://casascius.wordpress.com

Minimum bid: face value (50 * 1BTC = 50 BTC per roll).  Please bid in 0.1 BTC increments.
Shipping cost is a flat $35 for US Registered Mail, $50 for international Registered Mail,
regardless of the number of rolls won.

Unless otherwise specified, you are bidding for ONE of the eight rolls.  You can bid in any of
the following ways:

1. "I bid 51 BTC for any available roll".  If your bid wins, you'll win one roll.  You will not get
to choose which roll you get.

2. "I bid 51 BTC for roll 13B-A."  You will either win roll 13B-A for 51 BTC, or you won't.

If you post more than once with a bid that exceeds your prior bid, I will probably deem your
new bid as a replacement of your old bid.  Please be clear, preferably repeat all of your active
bids with each subsequent bidding post.

Unlike my last auction, the price you are bidding is your MAXIMUM bid.  The price the highest
bidder will actually pay is the second highest bid plus the minimum bid increment (0.1 BTC), plus
shipping.  All other bidders will pay their actual bid plus shipping.

The end time of this auction is April 14, 22:00 UTC forum time (approx. 24 hours from
now),  but any valid bid will extend the auction to 2 minutes past the timestamp of the post
containing the bid.

Roll 13B-A: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13B
Roll 13B-B: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13B
Roll 13B-C: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13B
Roll 13B-D: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13B
Roll 13B-E: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13B*
Roll 13C-A: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13C
Roll 13C-B: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13C
Roll 13C-C: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13C
Roll 13C-D: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13C
Roll 13C-E: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13C*

Note that A,B,C,D,E are not sequential: all of them are essentially random selections from the
200-300 coins that were made from each lot (max 300, actual production varies based on
mistakes, discards, etc.)  Of all these coins, they are essentially identical, other than that the
13B's were made just before the 13C's were made.

Of rolls marked with *, I may use some coins from other lots in the event that the lot runs out
before I can get the full 50 coins from it.

I reserve the right to cancel the auction if necessary for reasonable cause, as an escape
hatch just in case I've missed something critical.

Secure payment addresses (if you win more than 1 roll, OK to combine into single address)
(Please wait until winners are ranked before paying an address.  Please contact me if you
would like a different, non-published address, PGP signed of course).
Winner 1: 1HfCxfgt8kJacsyqv3aQSFe6kWkroGuCqh
Winner 2: 1JbtsGjn8fFcfw9HsxXK1TifCXVraED7go
Winner 3: 1JM3xXKM7Tw7XFgU6Rcj1kjDwTw9TqSgzJ
Winner 4: 1JpJQtGZn9Xq8UfoGD6EMjeyb6puJyzYjV
Winner 5: 1K556SsV2KD2YnCsBxYcdnp424H5fHjaQF
Winner 6: 1K8bGgT5ak9mGQfeqnsidyDjdPKMntABYn
Winner 7: 1KYhA2iCxAa5MitT1PDF8yzvDqYrvdJyPv
Winner 8: 1MVQQiSTkDc99xYSvV2ypxmzMoqRPbUcmi
Winner 9: 1NhaxekzZoBzbrXxCXGbWW5ShZK7CkDc4Z
Winner 10: 1NtsifrHAxhDpAngsS9Bd43Ak55AXCPaBw
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54 BTC each on any 5 rolls

hopefully that working works  8)


though i expect these to be bid up to outrageous amounts by people not reselling but instead burying in their personal collections

51 BTC on any available roll

Just an interesting discussion topic:  I was thinking, not for this auction, but for a future auction, including a potentially valuable giveaway available only to those who have ordered 100 or more coins from me before I shut down my order taking, or those who are visibly and actively reselling coins.

The giveaway would be: One uncut original sheet of 330 private keys from the series 1 set, which I will not be using due to the holograms having the spelling error, and are otherwise garbage.  The holograms would not be included.  I have maybe 10 such sheets, and giving them away would be no security concern because the keys will never be used in coins.  They are the only copy of the keys they contain.  This would be offered to deliberately prejudice the bidding toward those reselling the coins.  Others could bid but wouldn't be eligible to get the bonus item.  The sheets aren't something I'd sell separately (I consider it cheesy to sell "self-memorabilia"), but might make for a prized giveaway to honor and reward those who are making local markets for these.

I'm interested in feedback on the idea to help me decide whether to offer that.

55 on any roll

50 btc on any single roll

51 on any single roll.
//DeaDTerra

I would like to extend this auction so its ending time is 22:20 instead of 22:00.  The other auction shall remain at 22:00 (UTC).  This way, I don't have two different threads ending at exactly the same time, which might be a logistical problem for those trying to bid on them both.  Any objections?  I realize that the earlier auction might end up getting extended due to bidding activity, but at least there won't be a mad rush targeting the single moment of 21:59:59.

52BTC for any one roll.

I bid 52 BTC for any available roll

55 BTC for any roll

Aerobatic

In case my bid wasn't valid because I didn't say 'I bid'..  Here it is again.

I bid 55 btc for any roll

New bid at 52 BTC for any one roll.
Cancel the old one.
//DeaDTerra

I bid 55 btc for any one roll

New bid at 53 BTC for any one roll.
Cancel the old once.
//DeaDTerra

increase bid #10 to:

I bid 55 BTC for any available roll

Summary of current potential winning bids

CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
Twmz 51
BTCL 55
Otoh 50
DT 53
ZWE 52
Jut 55
aer 55
kjl 55

Increasing my bid to 56 BTC on any available roll

Summary of current potential winning bids

CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
Twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 50
DT 53
ZWE 52
Jut 55
aer 55
kjl 55
[/quote]

I bid 54.1 on any one roll.
Cancel my other bids.
//DeaDTerra

Summary of current potential winning bids

CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 50
DT 54.1
ZWE 52
Jut 55
aer 55
kjl 55

I bid 55 BTC for any available roll.

60 on any roll

53 for one roll

Summary of current potential winning bids

CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
CAM 54
twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 50
DT 54.1
ZWE 52
Jut 55
aer 55
kjl 55
Tech 55
BTCL 60
2wei 53

overriding old bid:

55 per on up to 5 on the condition that i'm winning at least 4 rolls combined between this and the .5 auction

I'm overriding my old bid of 55 BTC. New bid is 55.1 BTC for any available roll.

I bid 55.2 BTC for any one roll.
cancel my old bid.
//DeaDTerra

CAM 55
CAM 55
CAM 55
CAM 55
CAM 55*
twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 50
DT 55.2
ZWE 52
Jut 55
aer 55
kjl 55
Tech 55.1
BTCL 60
2wei 53

*CAM bids some condition attached, so unsure about these...

increase bid #16 to:

I bid 55.3 BTC for any available roll

Since there have been no objections, I assume this is definitely ending no sooner than 20 minutes after the hour (29 or so minutes from now), right?

55.5 each on 2 rolls

cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55*
twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 55.5
DT 55.2
ZWE 52
Jut 55.3
aer 55
kjl 55
Tech 55.1
BTCL 60
2wei 53

*CAM bids some condition attached, so unsure about these...

opps sry, summary may be drunk, pse check back for yourselfs

cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55*
twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 55.5
Otoh 55.5
DT 55.2
ZWE 52
Jut 55.3
aer 55
kjl 55
Tech 55.1
BTCL 60
2wei 53

*cam bids some condition attached, so unsure about these...

57 btc - one roll

I'm upping my bid

I bid 58 for any roll

Aerobatic

cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55*
twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 55.5
Otoh 55.5
DT 55.2
ZWE 52
Jut 55.3
aer 58
kjl 55
Tech 55.1
BTCL 60
2wei 53
can 57

*cam bids some condition attached, so unsure about these...

& one of the 55 bids drops out, the last bid I guess

I bid 56 BTC for any one available roll.  Please cancel my previous bid.

I bid 57.2 BTC for any one roll.

increase bid #30 to:

I bid 56.1 BTC for any available roll

55.4 on any one roll.
//DeaDTerra

Bid 57 for any one roll. If I wasn't too late.

Auction is technically over. Extension has ended at April 14, 2013, 10:21:35 PM

Mike extended to April 14, 22:20 UTC forum time here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175972.msg1837708#msg1837708

Last valid bid was April 14, 2013, 10:19:35 PM

Well, fuck this format then. Got distracted for a minute and that was it. My max bid isn't even anywhere close to these numbers. Perhaps I should've bid high right away, I don't entirely understand the format yet.

I am sure Mike can be flexible if not then there will be more auctions.
//DeaDTerra

We came to an arrangement already. All is good. Mike is the best.

cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 55.5
Otoh 55.5
DT 55.4
ZWE 52
Jut 56.1
aer 58
kjl 56
Tech 55.1
BTCL 60
2wei 53
can 57
Mel 57.2

I think...

cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
twmz 56
BTCL 55
Otoh 55.5 7/8
Otoh 55.5 7/8
DT 55.4 9
ZWE 52
Jut 56.1 5
aer 58 2
kjl 56 6
Tech 55.1 10
BTCL 60 1
2wei 53
can 57 4
Mel 57.2 3

I think...

fail, sry

cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
twmz 56 6/7th
BTCL 55
Otoh 55.5 8/9th
Otoh 55.5 8/9th
DT 55.4 10th
ZWE 52
Jut 56.1 5th
aer 58 2nd
kjl 56 6/7th
Tech 55.1
BTCL 60 1st
2wei 53
can 57 4th
Mel 57.2 3rd

I think...

BTCL 60 1st
aer 58 2nd
Mel 57.2 3rd
can 57 4th
Jut 56.1 5th
twmz 56 6/7th
kjl 56 6/7th
Otoh 55.5 8/9th
Otoh 55.5 8/9th
DT 55.4 10th

Tech 55.1
ZWE 52
2wei 53
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
BTCL 55


I think...

BTCL 60 1st
aer 58 2nd
Mel 57.2 3rd
can 57 4th
Jut 56.1 5th
twmz 56 6th
kjl 56 7th
Otoh 55.5 8th
Otoh 55.5 9th
DT 55.4 10th

Tech 55.1
ZWE 52
2wei 53
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55
cam 55

I think & in the order of original first bids, rather than updated to any later bids order.

Absent any objections, I accept this as the ranking

Please text me a non-published address and the total amount of bitcoins. Shipping to germany!

BTCL top bid of 60 btc should re-adjust to 58.10 yep

Hey
Unfortunately I ve got whitelisted too late so I couldn't bid on BTC.
Since I didn't have a chance maybe I can get 1 roll?
You name the price.

I'm sure this won't be the last auction.  You'll have more chances.

I sent you a PM asking for a non-public payment address.  I also want to know how much (in BTC) you want for the $35 shipping: some specific exchange rate, or just the rate at the instant that I send the payment?

Just do $100/BTC to keep it easy (this is more favorable than Gox).  Will send address shortly.

Payment sent for the 4 rolls that I won, no rush for them, if possible please vacuum pack 0.5 btc roll # 1 with 1 btc roll # 8 and mark them as these are for storage, the other 2 rolls are for resale in Spain, EU & Europe.

edit: or for #1 and #8 rolls to be separately vacuum packed & labeled, but np if not possible. Once received I'll make a re-sellers page & ask to be listed on your site.

OK, just so everyone is aware, most of my opportunity to handle Bitcoin shipping is on the weekends.  It's very likely that these will not ship out until next weekend unless I catch a break during the week.

Also, I use a rather paranoid approach to accepting Bitcoin payments.  I must manually check for the payments, so I will not be sending out notifications acknowledging the payment.  Rather... I have published signed payment addresses, and so if you've paid and it's in the blockchain, you've got indisputable proof that you've paid, so the "end game" in any misunderstanding is in your favor.

If your payment is in the blockchain at the address I asked you to pay, and the PGP signature is valid, (and especially if you're able to prove control of the sending address)... then... you've paid!  The worst case is that if I can't find your payment, I will prepare your order anyway, but will contact you and just not mail it until I'm satisfied the payment arrived (e.g. I sent you a PGP-signed private address or whatever).  As a personal policy, I do not ask anyone to send Bitcoins to me without digitally signing a message containing the bitcoin address.

If you walk me through how to do something like that, I'll gladly do it.  Sorry, I'm not as techno saavy as others in this space, but can learn!

Here's to hoping you find a break this week to ship those coins :)

If someone else wants to walk me through how to do this so Mike can focus on shipping, great.  Send me a PM with what you did to satisfy his request.

you don't need to do anything special, just send payment to Winner 7: 1KYhA2iCxAa5MitT1PDF8yzvDqYrvdJyPv

it will show in the blockchain (http://blockexplorer.com/address/1KYhA2iCxAa5MitT1PDF8yzvDqYrvdJyPv), he'll check that & send your roll

56 btc + 0.5 btc P/P = 56.5 btc to Winner 7's payment address shown in the OP: 1KYhA2iCxAa5MitT1PDF8yzvDqYrvdJyPv

Could you send me a single payment address where I can send the money for both the auctions, thanks!
//DeaDTerra

He mentioned you can send it to just one of the addresses, which is what I did.

I just want a confirm before I send anything.
Just a precaution.
//DeaDTerra

I know Mike said shipping happens on the weekend.  I assume that will be today?

If not, an update would be cool.

I have most of these prepared and anticipate them hitting the post office on Monday.

you rock!  Thanks for super quick response.

In case anyone is interested, I have a batch of series 1 coins for auction here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186198.0

Have these (and/or the 0.5 BTC rolls) been shipped out yet? No rush - just looking for an update. Thanks.

Everything has been shipped out and is in transit.

When you receive them, let me know so I can fund them.

Rock on!  You mentioned you won't be giving any confirmation or anything.  So I assume that means no tracking info.  No worries. I'll just excitedly look at my mail tomorrow, but I'm guessing I may have to wait until Monday when I get back in town.

Cheers!  Thanks for the update!

Great, thanks!

Roll 13C-C: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13C
Roll 13C-D: Fifty 1 BTC Casascius Coins made April 13, 2013, with address prefix 13C

Rolls # 8 & 9 received, please to fund at your convenience, many thanks.

I would say that is a good idea, maybe if you frame it and sign it with a couple of unused coin blanks or something and post a photo of it, might generate some interest.

I didnt received my roll yet. Is that normal? Shipping did go to gernany. 

Received my  Roll today, after I had a battle with the german customs. (had no invoice and no payment proof) But iam a good shooter so I handled it quick!

Thanks to casascius :)

Please fund 13B-D

how did you deal with them, then?

I should really not talk about that :D

I would buy your ebook on how to deal with German authorities without going crazy or postal, if you make it :)

Well here we are just over a decade later and I'd like to say a warm Hi! to everyone/anyone who's still around from that era, and an especial huge thanks to the Legendary Casascius for providing the best 'cold storage' ever, I've long since sold all my digital coins over the years, and the ATHs, but I hung on to all of my physicals, in fact I fished my first one out of the bank security box where it's lived for so long and peeled it yesterday, I've never peeled before and it was an exciting, and a little nerve racking, an experience to say the least.

I've just had my offer accepted on an extremely nice apartment next door to one of mine and I'm going to need some extra cash in about three months time to complete on that, and then hopefully to convert them into a stunning double lateral one.

I used a Ballet wallet to import the bitcoin private keys, which also included the major forked coins:

BCH Bitcoin Cash, BSV Bitcoin SV, XEC eCash, BTG Bitcoin Gold, BCD Bitcoin Diamond. Their total value was approx. $200

The Ballet wallet (https://store.ballet.com/) worked brilliantly, you just need to find out how to turn on the 'expert' mode in order to import private keys.

I then sent the bitcoin to my main vanity addie 1otohotohMoQoxHuxLBveQiZcV3Pji3Tc for now, eventually it'll go to Bitstamp, along with some others.

https://casasciustracker.com/ shows the peeled coin: https://www.blockstream.info/address/13CwnigvhNucwGnyvS5r5h9TzcTTJHW72r

http://www.casascius.com/fulllist.txt Ctrl F to search, was handy for finding the full public address from the First bits one on the coin: 13Cwnigv

There are still some shitcoin forked coins left on it, these probably aren't worth trying to harvest https://findmycoins.ninja/ with: 13CwnigvhNucwGnyvS5r5h9TzcTTJHW72r

Eventually I'll probably get the redeemed coins graded by ICG and sell them for a few hundred dollars each on eBay, or somewhere.