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Economy / Collectibles / Re: Kialara Physical Bitcoins/HAVEN: Update
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on: July 28, 2023, 08:49:08 AM
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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.
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Economy / Collectibles / Re: My loaded 100 BTC Casascius Bearer Bar
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on: December 10, 2020, 05:18:42 PM
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Any pictures of it?
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.  |
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Economy / Collectibles / Re: My loaded 100 BTC Casascius Bearer Bar
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on: December 09, 2020, 06:45:43 AM
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Personally I would just peel and store funds on a trezor. There are numerous risks with holding a Cas with this much value. Fire/Water damage, theft, degrading of private key under hologram, compromised Cas private keys (yes I know it's highly unlikely). It'll be difficult and not really worth the premium to find a buyer, so I'd just peel, redeem all the forks, buy a new car  , and hold the 100btc on something that you know is more secure and password protected. 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. |
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Economy / Collectibles / Re: My loaded 100 BTC Casascius Bearer Bar
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on: December 04, 2020, 10:42:59 AM
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Well, here we are nearly 3 years later and I still have the 100 BTC bar. I got busy and I never got around to trading it. Anyway, the price was dropping so there was no hurry. Well, now that the bar is worth almost $2 million again, I thought I should establish some provenance in case I hold it for another few years. Unfortunately, I didn't take advantage of Mike's offer to sign a statement saying that I bought the bar from him, so this is the best I can do. The following is my original April 15, 2018 post, signed using my account's signing address ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.msg55749015#msg55749015): Many years ago, I bought a loaded 100 BTC Casascius Bearer Bar. Now, its value has gone up so much that I no longer feel comfortable holding it.
The first bits are 1Gop7ok6. It is version 2. I don't have any good pictures but I will take some if there is interest.
I don't want to peel it, but I don't know anyone that can afford to buy it. Is there anyone here might be interested in buying it?
Some stats from uberbills:
143 100 BTC Bearer Bars were made.
91 have been peeled.
11 were opened last year.
1 has been opened so far this year.
There are only 52 left (12 are v1 and 40 are v2).
Also, 1344 Casascius coins and bars were opened last year. 357 have been opened since the beginning of this year. They are getting more and more scarce.
19mzFU4zFrZHkAkHSUta6LapJ6fTFJyhiH H4F9vVJE0FfHJDnZw9LDOR7XywQUvowJJdYifufm74LDS5xuD1DzILTxkYQWQwyuYM7Nb2S/5FL0DZEU8F9v92I= The following is a statement of ownership, signed using my account's signing address ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.msg55749015#msg55749015): Today is December 4, 2020. I own the 100 BTC Casascius Bearer Bar with first bits 1Gop7ok6. I bought it directly from Mike Caldwell in 2012, and it has remained in my possession since then.
19mzFU4zFrZHkAkHSUta6LapJ6fTFJyhiH H64jsIbQ3pQ99eL4v+/s59UYslRvCtQY/dldFtRHCD/WM/zPXSDAzg4jE1YY/HrYzhzfacrv4ydjk3TcVcwXV9o= |
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Economy / Collectibles / Re: 🌟CLOSING SALE🌟 [DENARIUM] | Next Gen Physical Bitcoins 🌟NEW DISCOUNTS🌟
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on: May 20, 2020, 07:51:08 PM
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It's been like 2 months since you had your closing sales...there doesn't seem to be all that much "demand". Do you have links to transaction details to show that Kadir-66 actually bought ~1 BTC worth of gold last month? They were active for 11 days and have no Trust to indicate they actually made any sales with you even though they won I think 3 items.
I don't spend much time on BCT, so I don't know the source of this animosity, but I found out about the closing sale and decided to grab these. Perhaps it isn't the best time to buy gold, but I didn't want to miss out on these items.  |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: HONEST QUESTION: would YOU be tempted to manipulate BTC to make HUGE profits?
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on: May 16, 2018, 12:07:29 PM
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Why would it only work in fairy tales? And let's not forget that we assume in order for this work, you (with a group) have such a huge amount of the BTC market that it is possible to influence the price. Of course it doesn't work if you only have 0,1% of all BTC...but lets assume 1-10%. That would already be pretty huge.
In order to work, the price must continue to move in the right direction after the manipulator has finished buying or selling. Ideally, the manipulator would want to set off an avalanche of stop losses, but there is no way to know if that will happen. The manipulator loses money if it doesn't. It is very risky, and the bigger the attempt, the riskier it gets. Does this manipulation happen in the crypto market? There are plenty of shitcoins that have experienced huge pump and dumps, so it doesn't look like a fairy tale to me  Pump and dump is a different story. In this case, the scammer convinces a lot of people to buy a bunch of coins all at the same time. The price goes up and the scammer sells to those people at inflated prices. The price crashes when the buying frenzy stops and everyone wants to unload. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: HONEST QUESTION: would YOU be tempted to manipulate BTC to make HUGE profits?
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on: May 16, 2018, 10:29:49 AM
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- you sell, btc goes down, you wait until it drops further then you buy cheap and resell after market corrects
- you buy, btc goes up, everybody FOMOs, you sell again
You left out the other equally likely possibilities: - you sell, btc goes up and you lose a bunch of money - you buy, btc goes down and you lose a bunch of money Your manipulation strategy only works in fantasies and fairy tales. |
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