That's actually a good point. Maybe I should do pre-orders, have people generate a key themselves and I'll calculate a vanity address for that person, send them the part private key + the address via secure communication (forum, or something else).

So how that would work:

User1 would like to buy 1 item (it's not a coin).

He buys/sebds escrow funds/is the highest bidder.

He then follows the instructions in the PM and sends me a Hex public key.

I generate 1itemXXXBiTcoiNADdReSs and send him the private key with it.

He combines the keys, he already has the public address which is either funded or not (his choice), I do up some final work on the item to have the public key and voila, I shop it out and they have a completely secure address.

This sounds like a little more effort on my part and the client's part but I think if anyone is going to 'trust' me, that's going to be the best way (mainly because then you don't have to trust me).

Of course if they don't want it funded and never really care about funding it then this is irrelevant, they pay their base price to an escrow or myself and it's shipped out.

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I'm thinking 10 for this may be the perfect number or not enough. I'm going to have a lot of speculation going on in my head because nothing like this has been done before. It's kind of a fun item to just look at and enjoy. I have a story behind how I came up with it that I hope people enjoy. I also may very well sell 0 because people don't care about it and I keep them all for myself haha.

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It's a good point. There are lots of risks with Bitcoins. We definitely all know that. I just don't want people to trust me if they don't want to. Don't want to send me Bitcoins directly? Use an escrow. Don't want me to generate the address for you? It will take longer to create the item but if it's important to you it's important to me. I think I'll make that an option and go from there.

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A big question though: if the item is going to be unfunded, should there still be something on it saying (for example) 0.1BTC on it? Or just leave it blank? I may have to buy a few different labels or create my own to order if people want a certain number on theirs.

It's from Amazon.com, so shipping to Canada is usually terrible. $15 American is already very high for a small candle + shipping just isn't worth it for me. Thanks for looking, but keep in mind the USD/CAD exchange rate is terrible atm. It'd be much better if someone found a candle in Canada (so as to deal with Canadian dollars)

Could you give me a quote on 1BiaBChris (case sensitive) vs 1biabchris (case insensitive). I'm aware that it's 9 characters long and case insensitive is over 45 trillion difficulty, but just want to know (mostly for curiosity.. I probably can't afford the price you give just being honest).

I'd have to assume case sensitive is impossible and will cost me literally a limb / organ if I sold it on the black market so I'm more interested in the non-case-sensative quote  

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Edit: Assuming your prices are based on difficulty, I see from your last post that LexiBits was .0076 @ ~50 trillion difficulty so I'm assuming this would cost somewhere around .00684 for case insensitive 1biabchris @ 45 trillion difficulty. Let me know!

I think that makes the most sense too. Optional funding and most likely not high amounts. With the product I'm selling I really don't think anyone will want a huge amount. It's not as easy as hiding a silver 1oz coin.


I thought I would just sell them at a flat rate but actually an auction would probably be the smartest as I'm having a hard time figuring out about where these should be priced. It may be difficult with ~20 items.

That's actually a really good idea to set up a poll.. Hmm.. can I do that now that I've already started this thread? I may just lock this topic and start a poll.

EDIT: I'm not selling a coin. I'm asking the physical bitcoin community for help because they are the only types of 'physical bitcoins' at the moment. I'll be referring to what I'm producing as 'the item'.

I'm working on a project at the moment. It's going to be at least a few months until I have a prototype ready, thus having an actual product [rather than some research and a great idea (IMO)].

Basically this is a physical collectible item that I would make 5-20 of in the first batch only, and depending on how it does I may do a second batch within a few months (or less. I know, lots of details here /s)

Basically this is a kind of 'physical bitcoin' but really taking a different approach on it. It's not a coin. I just had the idea pop into my head and I can't get it out now!

What I need to know is: should I start with 5, 10, 20?

Is it a good idea to have these funded with a small amount (0.01BTC)? a bigger amount (0.1-0.25BTC? Or make a few with a huge amount (1, 5, 10BTC)? Would people rather self-fund (aka: I sell them unfunded)?

It makes it a little difficult because I don't want to give out any details of what it actually is but if I get some answers that would help a lot! Thanks in advance!

 

It's been stated many times, all over the forum. Trust is not moderated. If you wanted negative trust taken off you'll have to contact the person who gave you negative trust in the first place and see if they're willing to remove it.

Maybe try sending them a PM that you're willing to delete any posts about the Ponzi Scheme you were investing in/helping/promoting and promise you’ll never do it again. That's a start. Either that or make a new account and don't promote ponzis!!!

This should either be in Meta or off topic, I can't really decide.

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Paid shill, shill, they're all the same. They have an agenda to take down a certain company/cryptocurrency and it's always obvious (because shills aren't the brightest/subtlest).

Might as well throw my name in the hat. Good luck everyone

1Chris4GEoLLjdh4juFXGwY7snaazuxvKb

I've worked for bitcoin for for year and that shows my saving lol. 1000BTC would help a lot

This has absolutely nothing to do with bitcoin being fundamentally broken?? What a you talking about?? What's broken is people thinking 'oh mt Gox went, but this exchange is somehow better because X, Y and Z.' t what's wrong. People don't learn from history. They don't listen to peo saying 'Don't u online wallets or keep money on exchanges ever!'

TL;DR learn your lesson for onc people. Stop leaving money on exchanges a online wallets. There will ALWAYS be another hack/breachginsid job o whatever you want to call it.

Bought $100 worth. Why not? This is your one chance to ever get them this cheap. Buy up while you can people! To the mooooooon . Seriously though, I think this will get the volatility going that we do desperately need in the market right now. No one gets excited over flat prices!

Haha they're coming soon.


This is the only place I've seen it so far. I'm assuming within the next few days (hopefully) there should be more information.
It's just yet another reason why you should never keep any amount of BTC on any exchange ever.

Ohhh that's why Bitcoin dropped off the face of the earth since I last checked it. I guess I'm a little late getting the news. Sorry to hear about your funds. Hopefully you get all (or at least some) of them back.

Am I the most unlucky person in the world or what? The isn't the first time I've been around 99% probability a I'm sure it won't be the last.



I decided to go from 1-9 and then a-k (making 20 vanity addresses) and I think that should be plenty for what I need them for. Thanks for the help Shorena! They're almost all done at this point. I'm sure on a GPU this would have been less than 10 minutes haha.

Intel(R) HD Graphics.

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Assuming that's a GPU, how do I use the GPU version? I've always just used vanitygen64. Oclvanitygen is for Linux from my understanding... Do I just put in another command and that will us my GPU?

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Also, why does Vanitygen get me double the speed Vanitygen64 does? I thought it would be the opposite.

Meh. I just don't like the look! I'll probably do capitals. Haha then of course I'll get to (I) and be screwed all over again. Hmmm what a predicament.

Another noob question. Like REALLY noob so don't laugh. How do I tell if I have a GPU in the laptop? I'm assuming I don't have one at all but have no idea how to check. Why am I asking? It just took my CPU... 7 minutes to find a 4 character vanity address hahaha.

Yes I know I don't need to use split key, but I don't trust the system I'm on so I just generate the original addresses on an Ubuntu Live USB to be extra secure.

I actually didn't even think that I couldn't do 10... or any multiple of 10. Hmmm. I'll have to figure that out. Maybe I'll just use characters after 1-9. That way I don't have to add an extra letter to save some time anyways 

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I'm going to do a little test and see how this works. BRB AFK! Lol.

I need to make a series of 5 letter vanity addresses. In order to do so I think there's a command and I do something with bracket (Yes. I definitely completely understand what I'm doing /s).

Question: Can I use the same HEX public key '04AC6402...' if I'm doing split key vanity gen to create a series of vanity addresses?

So what I mean is my public key is '04AC6402...' can I use that to create multiple addresses, all at the same time?

1test1
1test2
1test3

Let me know if you understand what I'm asking and if it makes sense. Basically I'm trying to save some time rather than generating 100 addresses on an Ubuntu Live USB then going to Vanitygen and 1 by 1 find the part private key.

Ugh it sounded promising but it's in USD and there are the 'mandatory' import charges program attached to it (Whatever stupid name eBay calls that). In the end it would cost me about $61.80CAD so I can't justify it. Thanks though.

Does it behave like a credit card in the sense that you can buy things online with it? Or is it more of a debit card and it will be harder to find places that accept it? This sounds a lot like a Visa Debit or something very similar. A 16 digit debit card that can act as a credit card but comes from your bank account.

I'll just lock this to prevent useless spam...

I'll just keep looking for online stores for accept bitcoins. We'll see what I can find that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg.