These are called vIRLs and because they can be traded instantly they are worth more than physical sneakers on sites like Stockx. The same pair of sneakers are often traded several times a day or even occasionally several times a minute.

From the FAQ:

What can I do with my vIRLs?

Instant-Sell: Get cash back for your vIRLs - instantly. Instant-Sell your vIRLs to OPSkins and have cash in your bank account within minutes. You can also cashout to cryptocurrency like Ethereum, bitcoin, or WAX tokens.

Sell on a marketplace: List your vIRLs for sale on a marketplace like OPSkins without ever taking physical possession of them. No storage, no shipping, no hassle..

Instant-Gift: Gift a vIRL to anyone in the world with just a few clicks, immediately after unboxing it. Visit WAX ExpressTrade to start gifting..

Trade: Swap your vIRLs for any other items that trade on WAX ExpressTrade including everything from video games to V-Bucks, sneakers to skins, gift cards to game items. .

Redeem: Ship your vIRLs to an address. Visit OPSkins.com to complete the redemption process.

Notbatman:

- On BlackArrow all I know is I bought 100 units from them and they refunded 2/3rds of my money when I asked them (they were no longer profitable and they had some shipping delays) and they didn't have to do the refund but they did. They shipped me approximately 40 FPGA miners which worked great. Since that time I have no idea what they are doing. The experience I had with them went well. So Yes kudos to them for that.

- On KNCMiner. I bought around 40 units from them (actually did the very first pre-order with them or at least this is what they told me). Didn't get a single one. It is a long story but to say the least I wasn't happy with the ending.

You may and others may have had a bad or good experience with either of the companies. I am just relaying my experience with them.

Bruno K.: No way I am going to feed the trolls here. I have no doubt I would lose as anyone who reads these forums know that you are the King of Trolls =).

P.S: For fun on your posts on me (I know you spent a lot of time researching my posts to troll me so I will reply this one time).
- Black Arrow guys actually refunded 2/3rds of my money. So Kudos to them.
- Not sure what that second part is about. I can't even put it in context as I didn't write it.
- F*CK KnCMiner

Also, just to take the high road here: I sent 10 BTC over to Sean's Outpost.
https://blockchain.info/tx/ffe9742f16126262f0b7f534d6d63a9c27d7ee77ff492427b3d45a7a4195ea9e

I cut and pasted my response form the other Brock hate thread:

Truth from a long time friend, enemy, business partner & competitor:

Pretty amazing the amount of damage someone can do with some fake facebook accounts. I have to wonder what the agenda is here and if it has something to do with the Bitcoin Foundations elections...or worse someone trying to hurt Bitcoin as Brock is one of the most outspoken people in the Bitcoin space.

I clicked on Brock's timeline on his real facebook for the supposed above dates and he was in Los Angeles, California and not in Spain. Don't let someone troll you with fake facebook accounts.
Instead of reading all this made up crap and coming up with a bad opinion I suggest you reach out to him and talk to him yourself.

The true facts are pretty simple:
- Brock was associated with Rector when he was a teenager. I don't know any details. I personally think he was a victim. He has never mentioned it and I don't bring it up.
- Think about this one: Brock was my #1 competitor. If I could have used it against him I probably would have if there was something to use.
- Most everything is about money. People sue and make stuff up to try to get you to pay something. Sadly this is how it is.
- If you noticed on the lawsuit on his partners suing Brock for cheating his partners I took no part of because it was mostly lies.
- Brock makes more money for his investors that you know. He might fail in 3 out of 4 of his companies but that fourth one makes so much money for his investors which is why they keep investing in them.
- People get fired from businesses which why you only hear their side of the story and its always negative.
- I can also guarantee you without a doubt is Brock is a lover of women (so much that I fear that it keeps getting him into trouble).

From someone who knows all the facts. There is some agenda being played out here. What a better way to take one of Bitcoin's star advocates and link him to Paedophilia. This is FUD in the worst possible way.

As for Sunlot I suggest you guys read the FAQ before bashing it and make your own opinions and reach out to John if something isn't on there and get a real answer. Its your money after all.
http://www.savegox.com/?page_id=35

Truth from a long time friend, enemy, business partner & competitor:

Pretty amazing the amount of damage someone can do with some fake facebook accounts. I have to wonder what the agenda is here and if it has something to do with the Bitcoin Foundations elections...or worse someone trying to hurt Bitcoin as Brock is one of the most outspoken people in the Bitcoin space.

I clicked on Brock's timeline on his real facebook for the supposed above dates and he was in Los Angeles, California and not in Spain. Don't let someone troll you with fake facebook accounts.
Instead of reading all this made up crap and coming up with a bad opinion I suggest you reach out to him and talk to him yourself.

The true facts are pretty simple:
- Brock was associated with Rector when he was a teenager. I don't know any details. I personally think he was a victim. He has never mentioned it and I don't bring it up.
- Think about this one: Brock was my #1 competitor. If I could have used it against him I probably would have if there was something to use.
- Most everything is about money. People sue and make stuff up to try to get you to pay something. Sadly this is how it is.
- If you noticed on the lawsuit on his partners suing Brock for cheating his partners I took no part of because it was mostly lies.
- Brock makes more money for his investors that you know. He might fail in 3 out of 4 of his companies but that fourth one makes so much money for his investors which is why they keep investing in them.
- People get fired from businesses which why you only hear their side of the story and its always negative.
- I can also guarantee you without a doubt is Brock is a lover of women (so much that I fear that it keeps getting him into trouble).

From someone who knows all the facts. There is some agenda being played out here. What a better way to take one of Bitcoin's star advocates and link him to Paedophilia. This is FUD in the worst possible way.

If you could send some here it would be great. Thanks!

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Gocoin.com by far the best.

I bought 40 or so from them. Overall a smooth transaction and I received them when they said. They are still working today (though doubtful I am making anything from them). I would personally buy from them again based on my previous experience in June. (I didn't read this whole thread so I don't know if things have changed since then and I am just stating my experience for others).

Keep in mind Digital Ocean limits you to 5 instances for Crypto mining. They actually DO NOT want you to Crypto mine on their servers.

Got it =) Thanks!

Date: 12/15/2013 20:49
To: MBg3M57jnAwLb4pbkFDNrbtYAyY8RuhsNf
Debit: -1.00 MMC
Transaction fee: -0.0001 MMC
Net amount: -1.0001 MMC
Transaction ID: 5cc20171382ae86e343a6e78453a4c0793204a40a9a19dc9e3e55241c20ce128


Send BTC to 17QRhLCdENZkNbLDxDq1CP9gJyQD61Kthu (or not. Really not stressing it either way). I saw you did some updates on github to various things I actually like so its all good either way.

I have a decent amount due to the protoshares premine and might let some go if the price is right.

Keep in mind even though these are slow to mine right now there is already 730,000 of these pre-mined so don't let people scam you into paying a ton of money for this coin. You are much better off just buying protoshares in that case. I am not trying to talk people out of wanting to buy my coins but one thing is a fair deal and the other is the blatant pump and dumping going on in this thread.

nt

Looking to buy some more of this. I have some shares already but would like some more. Shoot me a PM if you are interested in selling with your price. (Please make sure to include your price. Don't ask me how much I will pay for them).

Just sent another 180 BTC for a total of 280

https://blockchain.info/tx/73fb62ccc15101ffbe44c6b79b1110e7bf2dd503aeecbd8b2fcdd69aee14514d

100 BTC invested in this.

https://blockchain.info/tx/4ff007ea31dc6e1258188532e3c6fa7f7f411f2511154b780f9aeb69bca8b4be

David Johnston and Bitangels convinced me it is worth a shot.

tl;dr - How do you secure the private key on publicly sold paper wallets (coins, cards, bills etc)?

Since there are a lot of smart people on these forums I figured I would bring this up here and see if anyone can come up with a solution to what I think would change the security of Bitcoin in a big way.

I am a huge fan of paper wallets. So much that I store all my Bitcoin on paper.. When I go out to eat I even tip the waiter/waitress in Bitcoin by pre printing out some piper paper wallets and leaving one as a tip with a note on how to use it.

Over the years I have watched people sell Bitcoin cards with holograms, Bitcoin bearer bonds, Bitcoin paper money etc and have seen these same wallets have the funds stolen from them because the creator knew the private key. There are close to 60,000 BTC in unopened Casascius coins out there. I know I would lose a bit of sleep knowing at if this 7 million in value turned into 700 million and someone decided to claim the coins because they had the private keys backed up somewhere.

What I would like to create is a Bitcoin card that you can buy with absolute confidence that only you know the private key. Then anyone can put Bitcoin in cold storage without any fear of it being hacked.

Imagine being able to buy an empty Bitcoin card and push any amount of Bitcoin to it and know with 100% certainty that this Bitcoin is secure as long as Bitcoin is (ie: proper random number generation, only inbound transactions etc, no brain wallet keys etc). Then you just send BTC to this address and watch it on the blockchain without ever losing any sleep.

To pull this off though there needs to be a way to put the private key on the card without actually having an opportunity for an employee or manufacturer or anyone for that matter to see it without breaking the tamper mechanism. Even more importantly that the end user knows that his key is secure and known only by him and that the key will actually work when he goes to access it.

One idea that might work would be a multi signature approach where you need both the private key on the card and the private key that you generate online to access the BTC then the creator can't steal the BTC.

I would recommend: https://github.com/jtobey/bitcoin-abe which then dumps everything into a database (PostgreSQL, MySQL's InnoDB engine, and SQLite).  You can then query that database for everything you need or run the web server and query that.

Its Linux based so if you want to do this in Windows just setup a Linux Virtual machine with Vmware or Virtual Box for running Abe.

I tried this today with a TP-LINK TL-WR703N  20130703 but it looks like it bricked it. After the flash I couldn't connect to it at all.  Also, unlike the routers in the Avalons or a Raspberry PI it required an external power supply to work but when I used it the Avalon wouldn't power up at all. Am I missing a hardware mod or something?

Kano - Awesome! Will check them out. Thanks for doing this.