Elon Musk is one of the most famous and important humans to ever live. His cards from the Currency Series 1 go beyond this niche card collecting realm.
Aside from the #1 Bitcoin card, I believe the Elon Musk #28, #28A will be the most valuable cards in Series 1. As far as his Cold Foil in Series 2, still collectible, but not as valuable as his Series 1 cards.

Good luck guys! Much love to BTCTC. I got stacks of packs.

Doesn't seem too valuable based off of the sentiment. Most are trying to sell their Holiday cards for profit instead of collecting. Seems more like a shitcoin money printing event for Cardsmiths Currency.

People are sleeping on these cards. Bitcoin only. Killer artwork. Might be a little too scarce however. 21k packs per series is such a limited supply.

Definitely post your results here. There's a different group dynamic here. Many more collectors that started with Series 1 before the Diamond redemption program. The subreddit is cool for what it is, but more of a shitcoiner mentality there.

Will be interesting to see if they do another Diamond or other redemption program for Series 2. Many of the subreddit people only started collecting after GameStop started selling the cards. They were salty that they missed out on the Diamonds and quite a few claim that the 1/1 Diamond refractors aren't official Series 1 Currency cards and they don't consider them part of the set. I'm sure they will change their tune with a Series 2 redemption program because they actually have a chance to get in on it this time.

There's apparently some big drama on the Reddit discussion about the distribution of the Series 2 cards.

Anyone here opened enough cases/boxes to shed some light?

Redemptions are 1 per case, so you would likely have a 1/4 chance of having a redemption. Not sure of the amounts possible, but they say there are whole bitcoin redemptions to be had.

But yeah, check the cards out for yourself. It's just my opinion from what I've seen, and as a fan of the series, I'd rather be honest about it and hopefully Cardsmiths will turn out a banger of Series 3.

I've checked out the Series 2 cards and I am disappointed. The quality of the cards and the gamification are improved.

The art is bad. It's as if they came up with ideas for a card, did a little sketch and said... this is good enough... onto the next card.
There are definitely a few cool cards in the series, but overall, it feels rushed and unintelligent in design.

There appears to be less congruence in this series. The tone and feel of the set is just... what is it? The only word I can think of is, lame.

It's unfortunate, as I collected Series 1 with some serious fervor.

Seems like most people on here are sleeping on the Bitcoin Trading Cards.

I collect BTCTC and Cardsmiths Currency, and think that the BTCTC actually have better long term value.

Has this ever been done before? Wouldn't it make more sense to just destroy the cards that didn't make it into the Series 1 packs?

I get why they would want those cards to be distributed, but to me, it's part of the history of Series 1. A production error meant certain cards
never made it into the packs and that should remain as is.

If this card was pack pulled from Series 1, I expect to see more popping up eventually. There are plenty of Series 1 unopened boxes and cases out there. Many people only collect and have no intention of posting online about their pulls or selling on secondary markets.

Thanks for the new thread, MJ!

Me and a buddy went hard collecting Series 1.

Hoping to see some cool stuff from Series 2, however, the preview cards are a bit underwhelming so far.

Really think that the artwork should have been a big improvement for this series, but the wine bottle and Einstein, as well as the emerald black cloak satoshi? are really lame. Just looks like cheap copy and paste clip art.

The promo pics for Series 1 with the Bitcoin Bull, Satoshi Jones, Elon, etc. are really eye catching. Nothing really comparable in the Series 2 promo pics.

You would think they'd add some of the best artwork for the Series 2 promo pics like they did with the first series.

I'm keeping my hopes up, but will wait and see before I jump into collecting Series 2.

Currency Series 1 officially sold out. Currency Series 2 soon to be released.

New topic/thread for Series 2?

https://scarce.city/collections/bitcoin-trading-cards-8

Latest auctions just ended.

Lot of S1 and S2 sealed boxes went for $9100.

Nobody ever said you were wrong for wanting to only use escrow. When you started insulting people and calling them scammers is when it started getting thrown back at you. If you attack people, don't be offended if they retaliate. Maybe don't call people MF'ers and to F off. There's no way to progress with that vitriol.

I personally only trade with trusted people or use escrow.

Nobody is forcing you to blindly send sats.
Nobody ever told you to send BTC to anons.

You have the right to only do trades using escrow. Seems simple to me.

And like I said, I don't participate in posting there. I just read the chat.

I didn't ban anybody. I just read the messages and gave my view on what happened. I'm not an admin on their telegram and I don't even post there. I just read the chat.

But it seems pretty clear to me that you have anger issues. Telling people to F off and F that calling people MFers.
This is the toxic and belligerent behavior that caused your downfall. Good luck in life. Maybe use some of those satoshi's for a therapist instead of trading cards.

Well, I've spent a while reading through the chat.

It's pretty clear that you were kicked from the group for being belligerent. Many people agreed with your position that using escrow for transactions is a more secure way of trading. Nobody was forcing you to send sats first. Nobody can force you to send sats. Ultimately, if a seller asks for payment first, and you will only do transactions through escrow, then the deal doesn't happen. Just move on and find the cards from a seller willing to do escrow. It's as simple as that.

Your aggressive language and attitude are the problem. You were asked several times by the admins to take the discussion to private DM's instead of spamming the chat with the vitriol. You refused to take the discussion to DM's and that's why you were removed from the group.

The telegram chat is free to join and anyone can go and read exactly what happened. @StackItUp is only posting a select few of the hundreds of messages.

While I agree with him about using escrow, his immaturity, rage, and refusal to take it to DM's are what got him removed from the group.

PSA has been rejecting the 1/1 diamonds and/or mislabeling them as 1/1 Onyx cards. PSA was unaware of the existence or validity of the 1/1 Diamond refractors. Cardsmiths submitted a handful of the "Diamond Proofs" to PSA at the national. I believed the purpose of submitting the proofs to PSA was to prove that the 1/1 Diamonds are Series 1 Cards and can/should be graded and slabbed as 1/1 Diamond Refractors as part of the Currency Series 1 set.

When checking the official Pop report, PSA didn't just "check" the proofs to verify that 1/1 Diamonds are part of the Currency set and they can grade and label them that way. It appears as if PSA just graded the "proofs" and now include those in the official set list. There is still no verification that the 1/1 Diamond refractors will be accepted and graded by PSA.

You submitted Diamond Proofs as a way of jump starting the addition of Diamond refractors to their database.

I didn't think this meant that they graded the Diamond proofs and now include them in an the official Pop report for Series 1.
Doesn't this now make all the Diamond Proofs official cards to collect? This is just weird. What other card proofs are official graded by PSA?
It's bizarre.

I thought what submitting some Diamond proofs to PSA would do is that they can verify that the 1/1 Diamonds are official cards that they can now grade and include in the Series 1 Pop, not now include the proofs as official cards.

https://www.psacard.com/pop/non-sport-cards/2022/cardsmiths-currency-series-1/240381

So PSA graded the diamond refractor proofs and they are listed in the official Pop report.

Can Cardsmiths and PSA get on the same page or something? WTF is going on?