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Aw so my trip to Israel just barely missed this?! Too bad, would have loved to be at this upcoming meetup. Thanks so much for meeting up, Meni, it was a pleasure!
-Gabe
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Attended my family's Hanukah party last night, and gave out some BTC's! Got a few new blockchain wallet users out of it.
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Will BTC accounts be insured as well? Are there plans to try and incorporate BTC-insured accounts (meaning that BTC accounts will be insured for their equivalent fiat value)?
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The situation regarding the Sandy fundraising effort that I have posted about has hit a critical timing need.
I just got word from Mike Hoffman with the volunteer team, and they are currently completely out of funds.
This volunteer team is strictly seeking funds to secure a UHaul van which stores and transports donated equipment to help Sandy victims and volunteers to clean up affected homes.
I feel this is a very worthy cause (no bureaucratic mess to deal with - funds go directly to the volunteers) and if a significant amount of donations are made, this story could very well be picked up by the same media reporting on this volunteer couple. Feel good about yourself, help out Sandy victims, help publicize a good name for Bitcoin. It's a win-win.
Thank you all for your help
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I had an idea after watching this story on NY 1 last night: www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/173222/couple-helping-sandy-victims-worried-they-will-no-longer-be-able-to-rent-u-haul. This Staten Island couple has been renting a UHaul truck filled with tools/materials to help cleanup efforts post-Sandy, and apparently they are starting to have some trouble raising the funds needed to keep the UHaul truck, which has been essential to their efforts. Apparently in the 4 weeks since Sandy has hit, they've cleaned up over 1,000 houses with the help of volunteers; sounded pretty free-market efficient to me (and willing to bet FEMA isn't putting up the same #'s per $). As a NYer, I've been wondering who I can donate to where the money wouldn't be wasted going towards some bureaucratic mess, and this seemed like a great opportunity to help. I've gotten in contact with Mike Hoffman (the husband), and he said their current cost for the UHaul truck is $45/day. The story mentions that they might lose the truck as early as today, but I've spoken with Mike and know that they have secured it for at least today. Paysius.com has been generous enough to offer to convert BTC to USD for this volunteer team free-of-charge. I will speak with Mike soon to see if he would like to post a BTC address on his facebook page, once he lets me know he is ok with doing that I will post his facebook page along with what I hope will be a direct BTC address. In the meantime, I have created a Blockchain address to accept BTC on the couple's behalf: 13FcRkmXyqf38UXpZo8Lj5nFKR11A6MkPs The Paysius team will be happy to confirm that this is legit and all funds go directly to the Hoffmans. Thanks so much Bitcoin community, it's exciting and empowering to know we can directly help out others with our magic internet-money powers! I will be making a donation myself shortly to kick things off. |
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Fred Wilson, is a huge VC. I would like to see a post confirming that he did it and a little insight as to why. Also they say 5 companies got the business membership. Is these 5 companies including Mt. Gox and Bitinstant or excluding them?
Honestly I wish Fred Wilson would directly invest in more Bitcoins companies, if he just handing out 500 BTCs to the foundation, I don't think they deserve that funding, when they have done nothing this far, and the community has brought bitcoins to where it is.
Uh, The Bitcoin Foundation has done nothing? Guess you don't recall that Bitcoin Foundation funding goes in part to finance programmers' work on the Bitcoin client? |
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Fred Wilson is a big-time tech-focused venture capitalist who founded Union Square Ventures. USV has been involved with investing early in companies such as Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, 10gen, Codecademy, and Zynga.
He's definitely one of the highest-profile investors in the Bitcoin space.
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Images sent  Carlos, you rule. Thanks so much. Please post a BTC address here or by PM or email.  ...you gotta love the BTC community. <3 |
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Prices have been updated to the site. Happy shopping everyone! And again, thanks to whomever is able to help us out and get our logo up on BitcoinFriday.com |
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Hi Bitcoin'ers, Now I'm sure this will sound silly, but I need help from the BTC community getting some file images together so that MyBitcoinMint.com can participate in the Bitcoin Friday sale today. Unfortunately I'm at regular-people work right now and don't have the ability to make the image files myself, so if somebody can take the MyBitcoinMint logo and create a 240x240 image file and a 240x240 image file of our Silver Bitcoin shown on the homepage of MyBitcoinMint.com, I will happily send you some BTC's for your effort. Please email the two image files to Jon Holmquist [ jon@bitcoinfriday.com] and CC myself [ gabriel.sukenik@gmail.com]. For the Bitcoin Friday sale, we will be discounting our Silver and Gold Bitcoins by $1.50 per coin. I will be updating the MyBitcoinMint.com website with these price discounts shortly. If anybody places an order before I am able to update the site, just let me know and I will make sure to refund you the extra $1.50 Thanks in advance for the help, and apologies for my own computer illiteracy! Have a great shopping day everyone! Gabe Sukenik
My Bitcoin Mint |
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Wow great info, I will look into both websites.
So these are smaller companies that have just emerged within this market? Are you the sole owner/employee etc? Just wondering how big these bitcoin to gold exchanges are.
Do you offer "normal" gold bullion not in the shape of a bitcoin?
Is the ordering/checkout/shipment process for both websites very secure & anonymous?
Once the order is placed with bitcoins how long before it's shipped & how is the bullion actually shipped? (is it shipped insured?)
I am the sole owner/operator for MyBitcoinMint, and at the moment we do not offer typical bullion products (Coinabul does, and is definitely respected in the community). Our site only accepts Mt Gox BTC codes at the moment, we're making changes to accept all BTC payments. However, if you're interested in something, send me a PM and we can do a simple BTC transfer. We can keep it as anonymous as you'd like, as long as you let me know where I need to ship it  And yes, we do insure our shipping, and wouldn't take longer than 1-2 business days. I'll let Coinabul and his customers talk on his behalf |
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Hi JohnnyScience,
Both myself, MyBitcoinMint.com, and Coinabul.com sell gold and silver bullion in exchange for Bitcoins. Admittedly, Coinabul is the current market leader and sells gold and silver bullion/coins/bars/etc. We sell silver and gold coins that physically resemble the Bitcoin image. Our prices at the moment are within ~2.5% of each other (our prices are currently price pegged to USD, Coinabul has priced at a floating spot rate).
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sunnankar: get yourself on Capital Account. she's cute too. Perhaps you could nudge them? I have an interview lined up to be released around the first week in October with a finance/economics blog that does about 10m visitors per year and the author interviewing me recently gave a speech at the NY Fed. Hope I can handle the heat! Going to be fun exposure for Bitcoin either way. Oooooh, an interview with the Economic Policy Journal?! Very exciting!!! Way to start blowing up the Austrian map, Trace! |
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Very true. Our goal is slightly different, because we are trying to completely remove the counter-party risk of having someone else create and be in control over your public + private key at any point. Now I'm no computer whiz, but after consulting with nerdier friends of mine, I believe it is possible to develop an app that can create a public and private key, and transfer those keys to an NFC chip. This would mean we could sell the NFC chip / Physical Bitcoin, and the customer would be able to create and export the private/public keys on their own. Thus, customers would not have to trust us and our ability to keep their keys a secret (or steal them  ). Just to play devil's advocate: you're right that the customer would not have to trust you, but someone receiving a loaded coin from somebody other than you would instead have to trust whoever loaded the key - someone they will never be able to identify let alone take action against in the event of a fraud. A user could already remove the counter-party risk on a Casascius coin, simply by printing his own private key on a round piece of paper like I do, attaching it to the coin under a round sticker of his own choosing, and funding it himself. But by doing so, his coin would not have the property of being spendable to somebody else who doesn't trust him, because that next party has no independent way to know who generated the key within it and/or whether they still have a copy of the key. Using NFC or RFID or any other similar technology in place of the paper doesn't improve on that problem in any useful way. Hi Casascius! Always glad to have your input. Agreed, a person-to-person physical exchange of these coins definitely has the trust problem. However, my main goal with this project isn't for these coins to be traded, but rather maximize the security of the public/private keys for the customer. With all the hacks Bitcoin has had, in particular the last few months, I think a product that the average person can both physically hold and also trust is an important product for timid Bitcoin noobs as well as serious Bitcoin investors looking for a safe, secure method of storage devoid of counter-party risk. Now I'm not sure if this is possible (you'd know much better than I would), but I would also like these NFC-Physical Bitcoins to be able to transfer a limited amount of Bitcoins to another NFC-capable device, such as a friend's cell phone or your own cell phone. Say you had 1,000 BTC stored on your secured NFC Physical Bitcoin, but wanted to transfer 5 BTC for use on your phone or to pay a friend, these NFC devices could get around the 'trust' issue by directly transferring the coins between NFC devices. |
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*awakens the zombie thread*
Has anybody ever ordered and received one of these?
Hi icebreaker, We've been working a bit behind the scenes to try and revive this zombie product as well We're looking for NFC app developers to help us create NFC-enabled physical Bitcoins. A few Bitcoiners purchased these rounds at the first NYC Bitcoin Conference, BitInstant's Erik Voorhees has one, and forum member ercolinux (if i remembered that correctly) has ordered from us as well. They can all assure you these rounds are real If you'd like to purchase a Silver Bitcoin, feel free to PM or visit MyBitcoinMint.com AFAIK, All you really have to do is write a private key to it. Very true. Our goal is slightly different, because we are trying to completely remove the counter-party risk of having someone else create and be in control over your public + private key at any point. Now I'm no computer whiz, but after consulting with nerdier friends of mine, I believe it is possible to develop an app that can create a public and private key, and transfer those keys to an NFC chip. This would mean we could sell the NFC chip / Physical Bitcoin, and the customer would be able to create and export the private/public keys on their own. Thus, customers would not have to trust us and our ability to keep their keys a secret (or steal them ). |
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You should keep an eye on the projects being done at the London Conference Hackathon as I know there is activity in this area.
It's not my project so it is not fair for me to mention anything else but I will forward this thread URL to the dev involved.
Thanks Jim618 and Evolvex. If you could send me contact info for these developers, it would be greatly appreciated! |
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*awakens the zombie thread*
Has anybody ever ordered and received one of these?
Hi icebreaker, We've been working a bit behind the scenes to try and revive this zombie product as well We're looking for NFC app developers to help us create NFC-enabled physical Bitcoins. A few Bitcoiners purchased these rounds at the first NYC Bitcoin Conference, BitInstant's Erik Voorhees has one, and forum member ercolinux (if i remembered that correctly) has ordered from us as well. They can all assure you these rounds are real If you'd like to purchase a Silver Bitcoin, feel free to PM or visit MyBitcoinMint.com |
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Hi Developers!
My Bitcoin Mint is looking to initiate a new project: to create physical Bitcoins with an NFC-enabled wallet. We have coins, we can get NFC stickers, but what we need is an NFC app developer who can help implement an app that will allow people with NFC enabled smartphones to create their own public and private keys, encrypt them, and transfer/store them onto an NFC sticker.
If you have any suggestions, would like to help, have any useful tips, or would be interested in being paid to write this sort of App, please let us know!
My Bitcoin Mint
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Very good point, FreedomFest attendees in my experience tend to have deeper pockets than say the Free State Project crowd... maybe the BitInstant crew will find the time and funds to make the event?
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