The de minimis exemption was an exemption from tariffs on items shipped to the U.S. with a value of $800 or less. There seems to be a lot of cross-border trade in this forum.

Now that Trump has suspended the exemption, I'm wondering, how does this affect everyone here?

Has shipment of your envelopes been affected by the suspension of de minimis?

Ha! Did it again. Lucky for me, I got infinite email addresses -- try and keep up.

Okay, first of all, this dude is straight up lying. Period.

But wait—there’s more!

So like, a while back I changed my email on BitcoinTalk. And I didn’t realize I had left it set to public. Somebody emailed me right after I posted, and I was like uhh nope so I fixed it real quick. But then after that article and the Reddit stuff, my inbox started blowin up again. So I’m guessing that email’s out there in some database now or whatever.

But it’s cool—I wasn’t even trippin. It was just an alias. I deleted it and made a new one like click-click, done.

Not gonna lie, I don’t really vibe with people begging, so just don’t.

So yeah... I actually showed the private key on purpose ‘cause I wanted to prove everything was real. I could’ve just signed a message with it or whatever, but this just felt quicker at the time—and honestly, my head wasn’t all the way clear. I figured once the coins were moved, it wouldn’t really matter anymore (which... turns out, not the smartest assumption).

Something kinda like this happened back in 2013. This dude, Matt Miller, showed a paper wallet on TV and revealed the private key—and boom, someone snatched the coins right away. The person who took the coins actually reached out to him, and Matt was just like, “You can keep it.” But this ain’t the same. He didn’t even realize what that key meant. I did. I knew exactly what I was showing.

Some people might say that by putting the key out there on purpose, I basically gave up any claim to it. And whether or not I understood what I was giving up? Doesn’t even matter.

I have no idea who took the coins. Probably never will. And I don’t know what kinda person they are. Like, if they were honest, they would’ve seen it, realized it was probably a mistake, maybe taken the forked coins, hit me up, and asked for a reward or something. That would’ve been fair. A selfish person would’ve just grabbed it and been like, “Wow, free money, lucky me!” But a shady person—the criminal type? They look for stuff like this. Waiting for someone to slip up so they can pounce.

Anyway... $45K is a lot, don’t get me wrong. But what can I do? And compared to 100 BTC? At the end of the day, I’m just gonna take it as a lesson learned.

Lot's of people are asking. I'm not selling.


It is a lot of money, so yeah, I was kinda nervous something might go wrong.


Alright, so here’s the quick version. It wasn’t as easy as I thought, but since I kinda know my way around this stuff, I managed.

First, I tried using a razor to peel the sticker, but that was a mistake. Ended up just using my nail and it came off no problem.

I thought Electrum could take mini private keys, so I made a new wallet on my phone with the key, but nope—it didn’t work.

Then I found out bitaddress.org can turn a mini key into WIF, so I downloaded it off GitHub and opened the file on my laptop.

Scanned the QR code of the uncompressed key and boom, new wallet.

I wanted to split the BTC across a few addresses, but Electrum on Android doesn’t do that, so I redid everything on my laptop.

Opened Trezor Suite, made a new account, got a bunch of addresses, copy-pasted those into Electrum, and sent the BTC. Waited for it to confirm before saying anything.

Later, I remembered BCH was a thing (oops). I don’t really use it, so I had to look stuff up, found a wallet, imported the key... and yeah, someone had already used mini key in the image I posted and took the BCH. lmao

I didn’t test anything beforehand, and I wasn’t really thinking too hard about security, tbh.

Ugh, I totally forgot about the forks, and someone else got to it 9 minutes before me... Now they’re like $40k richer. I just hope they’re not shady or anything and actually a decent person.

Okay, so remember how I mentioned I had one of those Casascius Bitcoin bars? Yeah, it’s a 100 BTC one, and I got it back in 2012 for like $500.

When Bitcoin went over $10k a few years ago, I started getting real nervous. I mean, holding onto something worth over a million dollars? That’s a lot of pressure.

I didn’t want to redeem it, though. To me, a physical Bitcoin that hasn’t been redeemed feels like it’s worth more than just the money. I did try to sell it a few times, but it’s hard selling something that valuable, and you really can’t trust just anyone. I even looked into auctions, but I’d be getting less than what the Bitcoin itself was worth.

Now that it’s worth over $10 million, I knew I couldn’t keep just sitting on it. So, yeah… even though I was kinda unsure, I finally redeemed it today. I didn’t sell the coins or anything—I just moved them to my hardware wallet to keep them safe.

Before:


After:


Transaction:
https://mempool.space/tx/118d50e57eedbdc37e55edd176b49fb561d2df45d16ac7aabb1365b66d100d43

Sorry...

Otoh,

Can you briefly describe the process and logistics of auctioning those 250 coins?

I am mostly interested in knowing:

• How were they transported to Heritage? What was the security like?
• Did you end up receiving more or less than the value of the BTC from the auction?
• Were there any costs to you?

I still have that bar and I don't feel comfortable holding such a valuable item, but I would hate to peel it. Perhaps I could auction it on Heritage.

I recently ordered and received a full set and I am very happy with them. The main appeal of the Kialara pieces to me are the mechanical features, but in this series, I also like that every avatar is unique.

I was thinking that they should each get a name since they are unique.

As of June 28, 2021, I own the Series 1 Casascius 1 BTC coin with the address beginning with 17E9BEio. I bought it from an anonymous person in 2013.

JohnGalt on bitcointalk.org

19mzFU4zFrZHkAkHSUta6LapJ6fTFJyhiH
H5zjvt/A4CgQ3+5wNmridHzwv0ZZ5B9KTq+O0tPMUipIPXokyxGMO400p2En+aFXqWHXPFC6ZgtpbNKGX5Vfq2k=

Mike gave me a bunch of the aluminum blanks and made my own coins a long time ago. No tamper evident stickers though.

It's too late now, but using escrow would have been better, especially when dealing with someone with no rep.

I have one that I would be willing to sell; however, I am out of the country for another month. Contact me in a month if you haven't found one.

Also, where are you located? I live in the U.S. on the west coast.

Received in perfect condition. Thanks for holding the raffle!

I posted pictures a while back, but they somehow got deleted. Here is an image that I found lying around. It is difficult to access the bar (for security), so this is the best I have on short notice.

I feel like peeling it would be wrong. There are only 48 unpeeled bars left, and the closer that number gets to 0, the more important it is to keep the bar whole.

Woot!

I got the original Sol Noctis a few years ago and I so happy that I was able to get this one, too.

I would like 0, 4, 8, and c.

txid: 96cd6dfc1461ca15c82a6043835a2eaabb02a765ddf86b211a6ecb1ce086a669