I dont see it any different than owning a regular car with no markings - by driving that car you are proclaiming you have fiat - by wearing non-bitcoin clothes you are proclaiming you have fiat.
unless you are living in a ditch and homeless wearing threadbare clothes or nothing at all - you are not hiding the fact that you have funds available to you - whether it is Bitcoin and/or fiat.
people will not know if you have 100k sats or a 100k USD - unless you tell them how much you have.
high profile people are targeted whether it is fiat or crypto or Bitcoin that they flaunt.
And that is the difference here - while it will always be apparent by looking at me or listening to me that I support and believe in Bitcoin, you will never look at me and think of me as some rich fucker to knock off. As Bitcoin gains more adoption, I actually think the risk will diminish.
If normal people begin to be targeted, I might have to rethink my ways - until then, move forward - advance the awareness and the knowledge.
Yes, although fiat is not bitcoin. Fiat is the monetary energy of the collapsing slave system. Bitcoin is the monetary energy of the emerging system of cryptographic enabled freedom. The masses fail to grasp their fiat is not bitcoin and will never spend like bitcoin. A car with a bitcoin logo sticker is a car with a bitcoin logo sticker. The only difference is it reveals your hand and your affiliation to potentially a technology that may become censored and oppressed. |
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Wearing Bitcoin apparel normalizes Bitcoin. The more normal we make Bitcoin seem, and the more people see the logo the more adoption we will have. We can't live in the shadows forever. Just be smart about it. I wouldn't wear a Bitcoin shirt on Kensington Avenue in Pennsylvania, but in nicer areas I will without hesitation.
It is funny.... I wear a Bitcoin t-shirt daily. All 3 cars have various forms of B1TCOIN license plates. I try to advertise daily. HOWEVER, once Bitcoin starts to climb, I fear the reaction of the non-Bitcoiners. That being said both my wife and I are not renewing the license plates and I will slowly stop advertising as the economics of this country catch up with the majority of the public. I started off strong on pushing the narrative of Bitcoin to all whom I could, but again shortly I may stop doing so. What if bitcoin becomes not accepted by the masses and is instead demonized by the press. Alphabet agencies deem those using it to be criminals. This scenario is not very far-out. We may enter a dark-age where bit coiners are demonized, oppressed and hunted. Historically, those who wish to coin money free of debt are prosecuted and attacked vigilantly by the masters of the printing press. |
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Obviously, there is a point of contention here:
🟢 Wear bitcoin logos / Support bitcoin publicly.
🔴 Don't wear bitcoin logos / Don't support bitcoin publicly.
⚫ Express no relation to bitcoin what-so-ever, total stealth mode.
There are certainly pros and cons to all options expressed.
It is noted in the art of war when one possesses superior capabilities it is to his advantage to conceal them and feign naivety.
For example, the empire who walks with a cane to appear weak and haggard. While in actuality he is hyper capable.
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The problem faced is you never know who is watching and their level of capability.
Your bullets won't do any good if someone places or implants a key-logger on your computer, because you profiled yourself as a bitcoiner.
There was a case I looked at a few years ago where a threat-actor group combed bitcoin forums, bitcoin reddit and other places and compiled a list of the largest holders of bitcoin to stage sim-swaps. Linking their linked-in, and other social media accounts.
The group swapped a guy for 5 million in BTC.
Secret service caught the criminals in less than three months, but it goes to show you.
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Flexing bitcoin logos in pubic is generally not a good idea.
Edit: Advertising instead of flexing
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Hello coblee, I love the custom slab PCGS gave you for these with the signiture gap. This is something I have not seen before. GLWS  |
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Hi guys, time to get active here If you have any questions about the shirts, let me know! The shirts are from Imperial sons and come in all sizes. I collect orders until I've reached a few and then ask my partner to print the shirts. Single shirts can be shipped relatively cheap as 2$ inside of Germany or 4$ outside of Germany. If wanted, I could also send one big batch with all the collected shirts as a package for the US and send to one single person who distributes there. Let me know what works best for you Hello Hodlcat, I love the design of your shirt graphic. It reminds me of a retro concert tee-shirt. I look forward to embracing the style and giving this shirt a wear. |
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This thing is a very cool concept.
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I would take one, this shirt looks super cool.
also interested to see the stickers.
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anyone knows how long does it take for Stacks Bowers to payout the seller ? thanks
It took me less than 30 days to get paid by stacks. They sent me a check in the mail. |
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Frank, designer coin manufacturer and now watch maker. A man of many talents. Please elaborate on your "Money is time" phrase, it intrigues me.
One of the things that popped into my mind is that it would be really cool to have Block time there, either instead or along the "normal" time.
Block time (or block height) is superior to actual time. I think having my clocks switched to block-height (or at least a peripheral device) may be a more prudent time keeping mechanism opposed to general time. I wonder if an analog block clock could be built and worn on the wrist as if it were a Rolex. Pearl dials, gold two tone but it only keeps bitcoin block height. On a different note, bitcoin is more than just a monetary energy network. bitcoin is almost like a time machine that is forever protected by computational supremacy. With ordinals attached to PDFs that can be burned onto the blockchain. Documents can be in their untampered form for all of eternity. Just imagine the implications of being able to see an untampered and unrevised version of history hundreds of years from now. The history books will be rewritten several times over by that point, but the bitcoin blockchain ordinals and transactions will be available for our future generations of curious minds to explore. |
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Crypto Numismatic 10-Coin Master Collector Set - First-Ever Minted Bitcoin TokenI heard a rumor this guy accepts bitcoin for a 15% discount. These rounds have appreciated in value, by quite a bit now after 12 years has passed! https://www.ebay.com/itm/295975611054 Good coins, price too high though. |
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This auction is delusional in scale for a first offering.
"The Heritage Auctions sale includes 150 brass coins that are denominated 1 Bitcoin and 100 brass coins that are denominated as 0.5 Bitcoins."
We are looking at 200BTC load value in this auction, just shy of a cool $5.5 million.
Who they will find to come in and gobble these up with $5.5 million + is anyone's guess.
Is this a signal of the start of the next bullrun?
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Seeing the cold key section here makes me pretty upset.
So much effort and artistic vision destroyed.
Each design so high quality and customized. All for nothing.
Either way, the best collection I have seen.
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I can tell a lot of effort went into this, great work 5K. |
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By my personal estimates physical crypto is just starting to heat-up.
We got a taste of it during the last bull-run, but I really do foresee a flourishing collector's market for these coins.
The artistic expression, intertwined with the scarcity and the part where they are cryptographic access devices to the most famous crypto network ever known to man bitcoin.
I think in 50 - 100 years so long as blocks are still being added to the bitcoin network (bitcoin survives). These are museum pieces, or in the hands of absolutely ferocious collectors.
I reiterate in saying that only >0.5% (about 105,000BTC or less, most of this is on casascius) of all bitcoin total will ever be loaded onto physical storage instruments. Most will remain digitized bitcoin.
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If I am not mistaken, I was told by a collector that the CI gear set is one of the rarest CIs ever produced.
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Can you provide screenshots of you logged into the back-end
Also, why would a website with staff and employees be selling a website like this for $500.
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