I don't see a serial number on the coin. Am I missing it, will it be stamped or engraved later? Thanks!
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Here is the twin to @teeGUMES' brass SAMSARA looking forward to the silver:
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More shorts closing out their position. We swap back to a bullmarket once the ratio of leveraged longs:shorts hits 2:1. IMHO. Currently 1.84:1 and rising. Where can you see this ration? Do you have a site/graph for this? Tradingview Go to charting and enter “BTCLONGS / BTCSHORTS” in the top left panel(without the quotes). You might need a pro account but you can get a free trial. Edit: BNM mostly beat me to it. Yup looks like you need a pro account to list the divisions but with a free account you can graph both BTCLONGS and BTCSHORTS on the same graph and calculate the ratio yourself.
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More shorts closing out their position. We swap back to a bullmarket once the ratio of leveraged longs:shorts hits 2:1. IMHO. Currently 1.84:1 and rising. Where can you see this ration? Do you have a site/graph for this? Providing some help sorry I don't recognize the source could be Bitfinex. You can always go to tradingview and create a chart yourself here is an example (not my work.)
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I didn’t mean literal sand, but my ignorance is showing. Plastic cups was the piece of the puzzle I was missing. I’m a bit surprised that size is large enough to shield against heat transfer, but again, I have no experience with silver and very little experience with aluminum in this area. Would still love to see a video of the pour, mostly for my own educational purposes, but also because melted silver is sexy.
Reminds me... Wasn’t there someone who made their own silver bars by melting silver in a wooden mold using a microwave back in 2012? These alternate DIY minting methods are cool.
Well you can use literal sand, I have about 100 lbs of sand that I sifted through a very find micron mesh, mixed with equally fine bentonite clay, called greensand that you can use for sand casting. I also have some oilsands called Petrobond that I'm going to try casting into as well. With it, I'm going to cast a pan out of copper, and then plate it very heavily with silver. The plastic cup is just something to pour the plaster into. With the bread loaves, I have about a half inch of clearance on each side. The molds are typically one use only, so even if they crack, its not until after the loaf has been poured and started to cool enough that it wont lose its shape. I've got lucky and got two pours out of a single mold, but most of the time, the silver burns some of the detail away, so I dont cast a second time. I will certainly get a good video for you this upcoming weekend Here is a little better of an example of mold making https://i.imgur.com/LsfiCOn.pngThe stainless steel ring fits into the bottom rubber portion. The plaster will be poured in, and left to set. After that, when it dries, it goes in the oven, and the PLA will melt out, leaving a little tunnel to the cavity in the plaster. Silver is poured in, and then the sprue is cut off and the piece is sanded, polished, etc. Same deal as that youtube link I posted previously. Also, I've done the microwave method before. Its obscenely dangerous. I disabled all of my microwave's safety features, increased the frequency of the "microwaves" by overclocking it, and it made the waves small enough to get outside of the microwave through the venting slits. Took me a minute to figure out why my face was getting itchy. Do you have a investment vibrator to get bubbles out of the mold? You can get one cheap and also find good deals on centrifugal casting machines on ebay.
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Very fair solution to the new account bid problem rather than just just excluding them from bidding.
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Most physical cryptocoins have a public key displayed (or first bits) and private key under a hologram. This coin requires you to maintain the private key separate. You can't load the coin and give to a friend to transfer bitcoin, you would also need to transfer the private key separately. I assume if you use a hardware wallet you could have one of your public keys engraved and carry the coin as an easy way to accept payment but I see limited utility here. You can just use a wallet on your phone instead. Good luck with your new project!
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Since http://silverwallets.com returns "The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable" I assume Silver Wallets is no longer in business and will not return.
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If you just google search custom tamperproof hologram stickers, a handful of companies that produce them will come up.
A couple companies to check are Novavision, Mavericklabel, and Intertronix though there are plenty of others. Most of the ones I've found require a minimum order of 1000 though.
So Salty, can you take me through the process of making these cold wallets with the diy holograms? Thank you so much for your help! If its a diy coin then there isnt much too it as far as "process" goes since you wont be assembling them or generating key pairs. You need to start where salty gave you for holos and start calling around different mints to see how they operate in quantity, price, material, etc. Thats the gist....google is your friend Don't you worry about the coin making process. I've already got that down pat. The last piece of the puzzle I was missing was the holograms, I just could not for the life of me find the right key words to use on google lol. So I guess my last question is, do people generate their keys and then put them on little pieces of paper under the hologram? (I'm asking all of these questions because I want to provide an easy resource to the Garlicoin community when it comes to cold storage. Seeing as the coin is a very good starting point for people unacquainted with Crypto.) Here is a guide to how Polymerbit recommends you do it works for coins as well as paper notes And another guide from Silver Wallets no longer in business.
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Good looking coins well done. Hope the first series sells out and you decide to produce a second series in .999 silver.
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#22 - 0.026 BTC #27 - 0.026 BTC
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#22 - 0.022 BTC #27 - 0.022 BTC
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Sorry to hear of the loss. Unless you purchased insurance I don't think USPS has any liability. Priority Mail with tracking provides $50 insurance and you can buy extra plus you have tracking. Expensive items should probably best be sent registered mail.
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You are aware that the Case hardware wallet no longer works? Case did not upgrade the firmware when bitcoin fees increased. Melanie Shapiro moved on to her new project Token: We have some news!
We’re excited to share with you some updates that are a couple of years in the works. But first, we’d like to extend a thank you to all of our customers and supporters. We’re happy that so many of you from around the world share our vision for a secure and easy way to manage private keys. We very much believe that for a private key to be truly protected, it needs to be born on, live on, and never leave purpose-specific hardware.
We started Case in June 2014 believing that for bitcoin to succeed, it needed an experience-layer that would make the “average” user comfortable using it. This belief became our mission, and eventually informed the design for our wallet.
Our vision, which ideologically extends past the way we design our own products, is that convenience and ease shouldn’t have to be compromised for the sake of security. This is especially true in a world where so many aspects of our lives are being digitized, and the risk for not protecting these digital artifacts is ever increasing. Meeting this ideology at Case didn’t go untested. Specifically, our decision to use a 2G GSM chip for mobile connectivity (the 2G chip took up less board real estate and enabled us to slim-down the device) instead of a 3G chip meant that people in certain parts of the world had limited connectivity due to the telecom industry’s decision to sunset support of 2G.
This particular challenge tested the core of what we believe in and brought usability into the crosshairs for everyone on our team (a tenet of our company culture now, concern for U/X is not just reserved for Product). With this at the forefront of our minds, we started thinking about the friction associated with managing private keys, and how problematic this is for a future where we will increasingly have to rely on cryptography to protect our digital artifacts.
We believe in a future where our digital identity is represented by private keys. And we believe that for this future to be secure, a mainstream audience needs to be comfortable with the changing interface. So, it’s not just bitcoin that needs an experience layer...it’s cryptography.
With that said, we’re excited to announce that we will be releasing a new product at tokenize.com today. We will be supporting Case for the foreseeable future and you can continue reaching out with any questions.
Thank you for your support as we continue working toward a future where identity is more easily proven and protected.
To the moon, Melanie Case claims they are still supporting the hardware wallet but bitcoin fee is set too low for the wallet to actually work. I don't think the thing even works at all anymore. More important is once a Case is setup with the owner's fingerprint you can't reset the device so it can be transferred to a new owner. Edit 10/18: Melanie Shapiro still does not have the Token Ring in production after over a year of promises. Based on poor support of the Case wallet I would not buy a Token ring. Just like the Case wallet it could well be useless after a year or so: she says thanks for your support! and then moves on to her next project:)
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NWTM is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy (reorganization) and has closed the bullion business but seems to be still minting (I would be hesitant to use them though:) Here are some useful links: http://about.ag/NWTMint.htmhttp://existingbullionorders.com/It looks like Medalcraft Mint, Inc is buying the dies Medallic Art mint may have so if you have done any projects with NWTM that appears to be where your dies will end up. The Trustee has just filed a motion saying that he has accepted "stalking horse" bids from two companies for two sets of assets. A stalking horse bid means that the company making the offer must pay that amount, unless there is a higher bidder (and in exchange for guaranteeing a sale, the stalking horse bidder may get a small amount of money if they are outbid).
In this case, Industrial Assets Corp. and Maynards Industries USA LLC would be purchasing the majority of the NWTM assets for $1.95M. Medalcraft Mint, Inc. would buy the Medallic name, website, customer lists, dies, and related items for $700K. The companies would provide a deposit of $295,000.
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If the dies are that important to you contact a bankruptcy attorney. From public records in September 2017 it looks like a buyer for NWTM is being solicited: The Trustee is in discussions with a potential buyer for the estate and continues to entertain offers for the operating business. The terms are under discussion and we anticipate obtaining a term sheet in the next 30 days. The Trustee objective as of this point is to sell the company to maximize the recovery for the estate and for creditors. Any party with an interest in acquiring the business should contact the Trustee. Total filed claims are in excess of $70 million and the recovery will be limited such that creditors should not expect a high percentage of recovery on their claims. If the tight cash flow issues cannot be resolved, the Trustee will need to close the business and liquidate the assets on terms that will provide very little return to creditors.
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I am new to it, but can you explain a newbie, if i buy this bond pack, so i will have a "paper wallet"? What is 5000 bits, what equals it to? Is there a online version of the wallet? How it can be used? Sorry for the silly questions. Thank you!
There are one million bits in a bitcoin, so 5000 bits is 5000 x 0.000001 = .005 bitcoin. About $55 right now. Just read the original post here on how to use. The instructions on how to use are printed on the bond. @BG4 really like the looks of that bitcoin cheque is there an ETA yet?
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