I honestly don't think this is really that big of a concern.  I love to gamble, especially sports betting, but I really didn't get in to it until after high school.  I think in high school teens are more focused on where the party is going to be at that weekend and how they are going to obtain booze.  Plus, the majority of teenagers simply don't have enough money to buy their beer/weed and then to gamble on top of that, just too expensive for the majority of teens.

How about Kim Kardashian?  I remember when she posted this.  I texted Kialara who hadn't seen it yet.  We were both pretty taken back, as she had over 100M followers at the time.  I despise her and her family, but no denying she one of the worlds most famous people.  Or how about Apple Co-founder, or former US president "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" (he did lol).  

When Kim posted that, I don't think most had any idea how to find out what it was /where to find it.  However articles were written about it, for example (https://cointelegraph.com/news/kim-kardashian-west-raises-stakes-with-bitcoin-in-charity-poker-night-out).

Some people figured it out and every Kialara on ebay sold right away.  I happened to have a duplicate bar and it sold for 3 x normal price and immediately. I'm not sure if Max/Kialara had anything available on his website at the time, I will have to ask him. Definitely curious how sales went around that time if so.  



( https://thebitcoinnews.com/kim-kardashian-receives-her-first-physical-bitcoin/ )
Matthew Roszak gifts funded Kialara’s to other prominent individuals (US President Bill Clinton and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak









Moses is my boy.  He found me on Instagram  "PhysicalCryptocurrency", was brand new to collectibles and I remember spending quite some time teaching him the space.  Which lead him here.  



As for everything else in this crazy thread that kind of reminds me of the old days, I will say I think a good amount of you guys are off base.  I'm not sure if I'm a lying leviathan spirit, which I kinda hope I am as I think that's hilarious.  I also don't believe in "god", so I guess I'm going to hell where theres a red guy with horns and what not.  Bible versus, that's a new one.  

New funded collectibles are becoming and should be a thing of the past.  This isn't hate, or misinformation or anything like that, it's just how it is and should be, quite frankly.  Anyone can say or think whatever they want, but I know this space as well as anyone (sans MinerJones and Tweetious).  Most new makers just don't know what they are doing or how to appeal to the general collective.  I would say for any newer makers, take a page out of Alpen Coins book.  Despite being funded, which I know even he is on the fence about doing, he's the perfect example of how to become a new coin maker whos appeals to the masses, and does things right. I hold Frank in very high regard as his execution and continued progress has been great.  

Old funded stuff like Casascius and BTCC will always remain popular/desired/etc

Saw you post the other day for first time in ages I feel like. I like see old forum members I liked from the good ole days. Didn’t you do a little coding on the Monero chain? I remember you saying it wasn’t a lot of stuff or something like that. but still really cool, what I’m getting at is did you get any of these? Cuz I’ll trade ya for it  






Damn I haven’t duplicated a post in years. Sorry Mods.   Also..I don’t understand the “remove duplicate text” link ..

I had a black, blue, & green trio. I will post photos tomorrow. Bed time for me shortly,

This was a photo a forum member posted, which you can find via a link in my main thread.


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Sold two pieces privately to two very close buddies, at cost.  They weren’t cheap but the guy who has them I don’t believe really knew what he had. I paid what he asked, can’t ask for much more than that.  (The two who own them will never sell the, for those who might ask. I can say that much about it.


Have had some decent offers, still mulling it over.

I’ll start with I owe you a phone call! Lol. I’ll call ya manana if you’re gunna be around ?


Most “bitcoiners” don’t like the idea of funded collectibles, see the massive scam thread above for why, as you pointed out.. I posted a 1k Gold Cas on r/Bitcoin like 4-5 years back for someone selling one, just to help spread the word, and got downvoted in to oblivion and even “flagged” as suspicious or some shit lol.which I think only Mods can do and funny thing is the head mod for r/bitcoin is Theymos (tho of course it wasn’t his doing, but just funny as theymos knows this space well). Everyone was saying we are fucking up what “they’ve worked so hard to build” in btc, self custody etc etc. I ended up just deleting it a few hours after posting it, it got so bad lol. BUT, those days seem to have passed. Half of the Reddit posts I see now on there seem to think it’s okay to store coins on exchanges like Coinbase , which is a “trustworthy” exchange. Saw this recently, not a word about it being a big fat scam and not tons of hate, like it once would have gotten - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/s/10HRRT4rGx

I and LesbianCow are the esteemed mods of r/physicalBitcoin ..we moderate a whopping 20 members maybe once a year (just now remembering we even set this up a few years back lol).

Twitter / X..whatever Elon is calling that zoo these days has a strong collectibles /art “community”. Many projects are announced there that never see the light of day here. It’s a great place to find new stuff and old.

Instagram is a decent place for finding/advertising, as you know. Ive had quite a few collectors find my “physicalcryptocurrency” page (now defunct since facebook won’t help me recover the account) and DM me questions, who ended up becoming forum members..like that Tread93 mofo .  A few coin makers like Alpen coin came from Insta as well.  

I don’t have a twatter account and keep my facebook inactive, but as pointed out, def groups on facebook. I’ve found some old unknown projects there as well. Problem is many peoples fbook accounts would doxx them and aren’t interested in doing so.

YouTube IF you make videos, as “Bitcoin forum” “bitcointalk” “btalk” “btctalk” etc are almost immediately deleted if written in any comment section. Love Google. They allow for scams to pay them to advertise like crazy, let bots run wild on there with fake scam conversations..but heaven forbid you mention this forum. I still have no fckn clue why.

Shout out to the bitcoinTalkShow, who I believe is at least partially ran/organized by this forums admin Cyrus, who’s a frequent face seen around these parts. The shows second to last episode featured our little hobby here, which is awesome (@cyrus hoping to see the show continue!!) https://youtu.be/y7YxgElroyU?si=x0z3sZdIDg6Re2mY

We had a Discord group for all collectors interested in the hobby but I believe it got crowded with scammers and was shut down. Someone needs to re-establish the channel, which was the plan I believe.

Pretty sure there’s an AOL chat room for collectors.. “Anthony/Canada/50 seeking to chat with bitcoin collectors“ 😬

As stated in title, taking offers on this extremely rare black BitFlyer Satori .001BTC chip as well as a Pre-fork .001BTC  Satori, in this 2 chip “set”.  (DMs asking “how much” will be ignored most likely. I’m not sure yet, hence “taking offers”)

I was lucky enough to snag this custom Satori BitFlyer chip 5-6 years ago. Purchased from a seller out of Asia (I’m in the U.S.). 

These are next to impossible to find /obtain.. and believe there’s been just a handful that have found their way to this forum (a couple of BitFlyers, as well as one MissBitcoin Japan..that is known/public). Satori Co made 4 custom chip “sets”..BitFlyer (exchange), MissBitcoin Japan (I believe a Japanese “influencer”), OmiseGo (an alt coin), and Zaif (exchange.. though there’s yet to be one legitimate photo of one of these to surface to my knowledge. All known photos seem to be digital mock up’s).  There’s also some “custom one-off’s” that were made for the physical Satori shop, which were on display as examples of what could be ordered (like we almost made for this forum, right before Satori closed shop    )..I do believe. I even found one made for a wedding (interestingly post-satori closing shop).




More info on them (not surprisingly thx to MinerJones)- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5413165.0

I want to say there’s been two sales of BitFlyers here, this being one of them (looking for the other)  - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415704.0

Apologies, I can’t take photos worth a damn, I did my best ..

I remember shopping with my father once when I was younger.  We were shopping at Target (kind of like Walmart for those unfamiliar).  I remember running in to a man who had a handful of coupons.  He was a friend of my fathers and they had a nice chat and he went on his way.  I'll never forget my father saying "that is the richest man in our state, and even he clips coupons"  "those who get rich stay rich by making careful money and investing decisions".  He couldn't have been more right.

I fell in love with bitcoin when I discovered it sometime around 2013-2014.  I've been a long time financial advisor, one who's been around long enough to know how corrupt big banks are, and that is what really turned me on to bitcoin.  I am still of the mind that bitcoin should be used as a currency and that it's appeal as a currency is still something making it popular. 

I know a lot of people don't agree with me any more on this, but this is just how I feel, and have always felt.

I really wish that horse racing would go the way of dog racing here in the United States.  As an animal lover I'm highly against betting of this nature.  It really kind of amazes me how many people are willing to sort of just look the other way with how badly many horses are injured during these kind of races.  Let alone all the shit they are pumping in to them, like steroids and what not.  I just wish more people cared about animals like they should be cared aobut.

Damn that was a tough game for the Mavs to open up the championship.  I had a few bucks on them, despite feeling that the Celtics probably had the upper hand in game 1, especially being that they were at home, which always has a nice advantage.  I personally feel like this series is going to go the distance, and likely to end up at either 6 or 7 games, or at leas that is what I am hoping for.  Really looking forward to the game tomorrow.

I've seen a lot of these lists now that we are nearing the 2024 season.  I just hope to find Caleb Williams somewhere decently high this same time next year!


I'm pretty sure anyone who has Netflix is going to be able to watch the fight.  I don't see why not.  It's already an "expensive" stand alone television service.  If there is an extra charge, this would be the first time I belive that Netflix has a stand alone event that costs extra money.  I sure as hell hope not!

Retirement is what I deal with on a daily basis.  Many advisors suggest you try and save around 15% of your current income (of course it all depends on your current age).  Also, the goal should be to try and replace roughly 70-90% of your current annual salary.  If you're towards the end of your career, that is, so that you may continue to live the same current level of lifestyle.

IF ANY of you actually give a shit about this topic, and truly what to better your financial situations, here's a fantastic link with some really good helpful financial tools.  TRUST ME when I say this is worth anyone's time!  Number 1, do you run a monthly budget at least once a year? If not, you NEED to be ( it's the first calculator on the page)- https://www.empower.com/learning_center/calculators/index.shtml#/

This is great to see. I love whenever someone whom owns a business on here comes forward ands shows how they are starting to accept bitcoin as payment.  I was able to help /convince my dog groomer to do the same thing.  It's so much easier I feel like than a lot of them ( business owners) ever realized.  I am all for using bitcoin as a means of payment, using it for it's initial / traditional reason.  Keep up the good work OP!

I mean no one should be investing in heavily speculative and volatile assets/investments/commodities unless they have the money to do so.  Everyone should be trying to invest in their future, but for the vast majority of those people, doing so means doing so responsibly until one builds up enough assets that sets them on track for retirement but has additional money they could be investing, then investing in alternative assets such as bitcoin could make sense.

This being the main factor in deciding a match insane.  I don't think anyone with a properly functioning brain would really thing this way.  I mean there's no question that it's a large deciding factor when it comes to picking the outcome of a game, and sometimes can be the "deciding factor" but that doesn't make it the largest factor. 

I have a feeling that if your buddy thinks this, he's not winning that many games huh? lol

That's pretty cool, I appreciate you sharing that info.  I am trying to think of some way to get rid of my YouTube TV.  It's damn near $90 a month and I really just have a basic package.  I feel like when I first signed up just maybe 3 years ago, it was something like $60.  No surprise coming google.

Man I lost HBO when I moved recently.  Even though it was really not that far away, my internet speed dropped big time so had to get something else and lost HBO.  I had watched all but maybe 4-5 episodes of final curb.  I'm just being cheap right now and will prob sign up for HBO stand alone soon.  



They've got as good a chance as any team.

I'll give you a shout.  I'm definitely interested in that #98. 



Oh wow, you've got some pretty cool comics here!  I'll take a closer look and shoot you a message.  Definitely a few that I'd like to own here.


Don't even get me started on leaving shit at your parents house.  I have saved damn near everything from my childhood, and some of the coolest things I owned were lost my by my parents when I went off to college.  My parents moved so damn much shit would get lost in the shuffle.  Ticks me off just thinking about it.

This is great news!  I also prefer to hold/own/buy bitcoin directly, but there's a lot of people who've got money in retirement plans, like IRA's here in the United States that can't access the funds prior to the age of 59.5, so investing it a bitcoin ETF allows direct exposure as well as limits tax liability (potentially) or is simply the only source of money that they have that is able to be invested in bitcoin.

I wonder if in AU, or other countries across the glove if your stock market allows for US ETFs through ADR's, or a similar type product (ADRs= American Depository Receipts.. a way to own a stock that is not listed in the US)

Your headline is a bit misleading, are you assuming your brother-in-law has passed away? I would sure hope not.

Just because your brother in law was reckless with his money, doesn't mean that anyone else who's gambling will be to. It's one of those things that can carry negative consequences, but that doesn't mean it's going to.  Just because one person dies form taking some experimental medicine, that doesn't necessarily mean everyone who takes it is going to suffer the same consequences. 

If this is a real story, I certainly hope for the best for your family.