Nice detective work. Looks like Mike Caldwell first put them up for sale on June 24, 2011 while www.bitaddress.org was not registered until Sept 4, 2011.

Here's what they looked like from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/File:FirstBitcoinBills.jpg never seen one for sale.

Very cool! Creativmuse app even works when scanning the photo of the piece on your website.

On a piece this valuable have a local art gallery build a wooden shipping crate. They know how to protect expensive art during shipping. I would not trust cardboard and foam at all. You could probably do it yourself if you have the inclination, time and tools there are guides if you just do a search.

Beautiful piece! If you really want to research the artist from that illegible signature this service might give some provenance.

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Wish the t-shirt was 2XL

Yup I got the same goodies I like your white box better:) @Denarium is solid, class act.

Thanks LC forgot how useful walletexplorer can be.

@wheelz1200 am I reading the first bits wrong? I see 135AGdfB and https://www.titanbtc.com/verify/135AGdfB/ says code does not match any known coin.

IMO I am probably not the only customer who may experience panel warping. With respect: consider instead of just using four mounting blocks glue half inch thick hardwood mounting strips routing the top one for mounting. Suggested design drawn in red. The mounting strips should not add much weight at all and would completely stiffen the panel, should prevent anyone else experiencing the warping I had. Just a thought.

That makes sense see Bead and Brightsetting Stones. Pro job for sure.

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I'm curious about that myself. It almost looks like some silver pins were soldered into holes drilled out in the recesses to act as prongs to secure the diamonds. If that is the case it took a talented jeweler and makes the modified coin more unique than if the stones were set with epoxy.

Just use the search and the auctions will pop up there have only been a handful. Probably some private sales also.

Received no. 2 you can see it registered on the Denarium site at this link. Shipping was fast, great communication.



Came in a festive box and also has a wallet card you can carry to fund the coin or check balance.

Gridseed and Zeus Miners were legit companies that made miners they sold under their own brand. GAW also resold them and had Zeus Miners make some miners for GAW that were rebranded with names like Falcon and War Machine. The Thunder was a Zeus made and branded miner.

Garza had good legal representation as he got off with a light sentence. His was the number one cryptocurrency scam I wrote about back in 2015; Litecoin GEAR came in second place.

Right, the two bar Sets are numbered 22 to 100.

To the Moon’ Denominations:

‘two bitcoins‘ Limited Edition of 21 (serials 01-21)
‘500,000 bits‘ Limited Edition of 100 (serials 01-100)
‘100,000 bits‘ Limited Edition of 250 (serials 01-250)

There were only 14 three bar Suites for sale on the website at $1800 and sold out in five minutes. Max kept No. 1 Suite for himself and pre-sold 6 Suites to help fund the project. The last three bar Suite auctioned sold for 3.0 bitcoin ($18,500) at time of sale. Other Suites sold at auction as high as 6.0 bitcoin. The two bar Sets like the one here sold out in one day.

Thanks MJ. The work itself is excellent (except for the broken bits) but there is just no excuse for shoddy packaging an expensive piece.

Edit: Kirk has already responded to my email and he will replace all damaged pieces so he does take customer service seriously. When I get the replacements and can confirm everything is as it should be I will update.