📌 Historical Timeline of the Physical Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Collectibles

[Steeley]

Why skip over NastyFans Minted Seats?  These were such a massive innovation on physical crypto collectibles at the time that hasn't been matched nearly a decade later...  There are still only a handful of coins with engravings and vanity addresses, and no coins ever produced tied to an organization that generates revenue for the coins (as far as I'm aware)...  Given that hundreds have been sold here, you'd think that would be a tough one to miss as an oversight...  There are even still some available for sale at https://nastyfans.org/mint for anyone who wants a piece of the longest publicly traded Bitcoin organization in existence, a title that can never be taken so long as trading continues unabashed.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=352515.0

I agree. One of the early coins still obtainable; although a few Finite Design are still for sale too on their site.

Steeley

[Suzuki Matt]

This was a great read. Thank you for doing this.  We definitely need a updated version of the encyclopedia. Thats for sure..

[nullama]

Excellent thread, here are a couple of Physical Bitcoin collectibles that are not in the original post, using a similar format:


April 11, 2015

Denarium coins are presented in this forum. They recently had started their company in Finland with the intention to provide affordable Bitcoin physical coins worldwide. These were available from 2015 to 2020.



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1021159.0

There's even a collectible about this collectible, The Denarium Souvenir Book. It tells the story of these coins over the years, full of images.





November 09, 2021

Frank from Alpen Coin, who has been producing great collectible coins from Switzerland, announced the Alpen Coin 1 Million Satoshi Gold Plated Bar in this forum as a raffle. A total of 100 bars were sold here in this forum.



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5369780.msg58378182#msg58378182

[ChiBitCTy]

This was a great read. Thank you for doing this.  We definitely need a updated version of the encyclopedia. Thats for sure..

I have been saying this for a while, though I'd like actual collectors to do it this time around.  If I could get MinerJones and Tweetious to help me I'd be down for doing so. 



Thank you everyone else for your posts and interest in this thread.  I've had requests to add quite a few more things to this timeline and plan to eventually get around to doing so I just either haven't had the time or forgot about doing an update.  I will here in the next couple weeks.  Just happy people are interested in the thread, wasn't sure anyone would be when I was putting it together. 

[OgNasty]

Why skip over NastyFans Minted Seats?  These were such a massive innovation on physical crypto collectibles at the time that hasn't been matched nearly a decade later...  There are still only a handful of coins with engravings and vanity addresses, and no coins ever produced tied to an organization that generates revenue for the coins (as far as I'm aware)...  Given that hundreds have been sold here, you'd think that would be a tough one to miss as an oversight...  There are even still some available for sale at https://nastyfans.org/mint for anyone who wants a piece of the longest publicly traded Bitcoin organization in existence, a title that can never be taken so long as trading continues unabashed.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=352515.0

I agree. One of the early coins still obtainable; although a few Finite Design are still for sale too on their site.

Steeley

Very odd to leave out one of the most innovative offerings in the space attached to such a long running community organization here.  Luckily, flying under the radar is what would allow someone to still be able to purchase these historical pieces before they completely sell out and are subject to secondary market price increases.    For those wondering about these coins receiving Bitcoin distributions on a weekly basis, here are some links that you might find useful or might be valuable to add to such a historical timeline with information about these products.

https://nastyfans.org/mint.json - This gives you a list of all Minted Seats, their addresses, and the amounts held under the payout threshold for each.

https://nastyfans.org/distribution.summary.csv - This is a list of weekly distributions made by NastyFans dating back to 2012 (earlier payouts when NastyMining was traded on the GLBSE can be viewed here: https://pastebin.com/XR7zjXNA)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86854.0 - Forum discussion thread.