Chasing Casascius

[casascius]

I was just shown this... 

http://chasingcasascius.com

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[cyclops]

LOL

[defcon23]

LMAO mike !!! 

[icey]

haha how random

[Quickseller]

Wait what? Is this an actual advertisement for those islands or some kind of play on words talking about your coins?

[owlcatz]

Wait what? Is this an actual advertisement for those islands or some kind of play on words talking about your coins?

It looks like it's a book. Keep scrolling down. I missed it completely at first too!

[Quickseller]

Wait what? Is this an actual advertisement for those islands or some kind of play on words talking about your coins?

It looks like it's a book. Keep scrolling down. I missed it completely at first too!

Ahh, I see. It looks like someone is trying to sell a picture book about bitcoin/physical coins(?) (it really looks a lot cooler then I am describing).

@casascius - do you happen to know who is behind this website/venture? I am curious to know if the person behind the book is reputable enough to be sure this is legit.

[owlcatz]

Wait what? Is this an actual advertisement for those islands or some kind of play on words talking about your coins?

It looks like it's a book. Keep scrolling down. I missed it completely at first too!

Ahh, I see. It looks like someone is trying to sell a picture book about bitcoin/physical coins(?) (it really looks a lot cooler then I am describing).

@casascius - do you happen to know who is behind this website/venture? I am curious to know if the person behind the book is reputable enough to be sure this is legit.

The domain's whois is private. I sensed a certain bit of scamminess at first, myself, asking for bitcoins for ... what... right away??!!

[casascius]

@casascius - do you happen to know who is behind this website/venture? I am curious to know if the person behind the book is reputable enough to be sure this is legit.

Not personally - but I ordered the book and will let you know if I get what I was promised!

I have every reason to believe it's legit - who'd go to all the trouble of this photoshoot only to renege on the promise of delivering them in print?

[Sir_lagsalot]

@casascius - do you happen to know who is behind this website/venture? I am curious to know if the person behind the book is reputable enough to be sure this is legit.

Not personally - but I ordered the book and will let you know if I get what I was promised!

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

How much was it? I don't want to put in my street address just to find the price

[casascius]

@casascius - do you happen to know who is behind this website/venture? I am curious to know if the person behind the book is reputable enough to be sure this is legit.

Not personally - but I ordered the book and will let you know if I get what I was promised!

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

How much was it? I don't want to put in my street address just to find the price

IIRC pricey for a book - like $150 (?)

That said, I won't be shocked if he still sells the whole run!

[bitkilo]

I was just shown this... 

http://chasingcasascius.com

I will buy one of your best coins if you can do a package deal with her included.
What rating should we give her MS69 

[owlcatz]

LOL wut? MS70 for sure! 

[bitkilo]

LOL wut? MS70 for sure! 

Yeah but i just thought MS69 suited better, it's like saying she is Miss 69 

[owlcatz]

LOL wut? MS70 for sure! 

Yeah but i just thought MS69 suited better, it's like saying she is Miss 69 

Hahaha... makes sense now!

[gen. specific]

I was just shown this...  

http://chasingcasascius.com

I will buy one of your best coins if you can do a package deal with her included.
What rating should we give her MS69  

Looks like the book owners are put into a raffle for that Casascius gold bar after the halving, so that's close right?

In for 1

[iram5104]

Don't see this everyday, I'll bite

been a good week and barely .20 btc

[TookDk]

@casascius - do you happen to know who is behind this website/venture? I am curious to know if the person behind the book is reputable enough to be sure this is legit.

Not personally - but I ordered the book and will let you know if I get what I was promised!

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

How much was it? I don't want to put in my street address just to find the price

IIRC pricey for a book - like $150 (?)

That said, I won't be shocked if he still sells the whole run!

Ha ha, cool that you ordered the book
Not sure the seller realize how important that one single order is.

Forget about the silly girl, the bar can be yours:

[monkeynuts]

I would love this to be legit

[smoothie]

LOL!  

Epic.

[monkeynuts]

LOL! 

Dont laugh Smoothie, Chasing Lealana is the sequal 

[Lutpin]

Up next:

• Looking for Lealana
• Being BitcoinPenny
• Missing MicroSoul
• Searching Satori
• Keeping Kialara
• Running after Ravenbit
• and others

[smoothie]

LOL! 

Dont laugh Smoothie, Chasing Lealana is the sequal 

I wasn't laughing at it, I was laughing with it. 

[smoothie]

Up next:

• Looking for Lealana
• Being BitcoinPenny
• Missing MicroSoul
• Searching Satori
• Keeping Kialara
• Running after Ravenbit
• and others

I think you're on to something.

[stereotype]

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

Surreal, much. 

[TookDk]

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

Surreal, much. 

I hope Mike wins the bar

[stereotype]

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

Surreal, much. 

I hope Mike wins the bar

Poetry in motion, right there. 

[gen. specific]

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

Surreal, much. 

I hope Mike wins the bar

Poetry in motion, right there. 

That would be ironic

Maybe I'll put in multiple orders to increase my chances of getting the bar, damn how are you guys doing the group buy going to handle that!

[TookDk]

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

Surreal, much. 

I hope Mike wins the bar

Poetry in motion, right there. 

That would be ironic

Maybe I'll put in multiple orders to increase my chances of getting the bar, damn how are you guys doing the group buy going to handle that!

I don't see a problem with the draw and group buy?

If the books are serial numbered then will the draw speak for it self. If the draw is order based, then will the group buy organizer just make a local draw between the buyers. If you trust the group buyer with your bitcoins, then surely can you also trust him to make a fair draw. You can even have a trusted 3rd party to do the draw, but that would hardly be necessary with Mitchell or MJ as organizers.

[BitcoinPenny]

Up next:

Being BitcoinPenny

LOL That would be a boring book. Maybe just a collection of doodles.

Me

[gen. specific]

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

Surreal, much. 

I hope Mike wins the bar

Poetry in motion, right there. 

That would be ironic

Maybe I'll put in multiple orders to increase my chances of getting the bar, damn how are you guys doing the group buy going to handle that!

I don't see a problem with the draw and group buy?

If the books are serial numbered then will the draw speak for it self. If the draw is order based, then will the group buy organizer just make a local draw between the buyers. If you trust the group buyer with your bitcoins, then surely can you also trust him to make a fair draw. You can even have a trusted 3rd party to do the draw, but that would hardly be necessary with Mitchell or MJ as organizers.

I think it is by book number, maybe it didn't specify

Also something about a provably fair seed

but either way I think this will be pretty simple

[Lutpin]

Up next:
Being BitcoinPenny

That would be a boring book. Maybe just a collection of doodles.

Collection of doodles and boring don't go together in one sentence.
Speaking of it, what happened to the thread collecting all? Last time I've checked, it was locked.

[Hellot]

I can only imagine the types of things you must get in your inbox.

[dazedfool]

Chasing yourself now, Casascius?  

Surreal, much.  

I hope Mike wins the bar

Poetry in motion, right there.  

That would be ironic

Maybe I'll put in multiple orders to increase my chances of getting the bar, damn how are you guys doing the group buy going to handle that!

I don't see a problem with the draw and group buy?

If the books are serial numbered then will the draw speak for it self. If the draw is order based, then will the group buy organizer just make a local draw between the buyers. If you trust the group buyer with your bitcoins, then surely can you also trust him to make a fair draw. You can even have a trusted 3rd party to do the draw, but that would hardly be necessary with Mitchell or MJ as organizers.

I like this idea, raffle would be fair. I'm down for one of these via group buy. And if it turn out NOT being a hokey cash-grab, maybe we can convince Mike to sign a few (like Elianite's book)

[photonresearch]

  

Thanks, Mike! I hope you'll like it


Official announcement thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1515432.0

[elianite]

This is amazing.. Maybe our books should be sold as a package deal (hint hint)

[photonresearch]

This is amazing.. Maybe our books should be sold as a package deal (hint hint)

The bitcoin collector's starter pack

[siameze]

You're famous! Congrats man! Thats a serious achievement!

[elianite]

Received my book today......
The overall quality of the book is nice but for what we getting, the asking price of $150 seems way off......
15 sentences and 42 pages of almost the same picture.
The glossary at the end was surprising!!
And why not mention the Kialara bar that is involved in the pictures as well?

Your idea was great, but for what you are asking and what we are getting, this is disappointing.
Just my 2 satsohi.....

Thanks

It is important to remember that low quantity book printing is not cheap. That said, I'm asking $89 shipped for my book, which is 270 pages of color with 550+ pictures.
I would venture a guess that the model & photography was not cheap either!

[defcon23]

It is important to remember that low quantity book printing is not cheap. That said, I'm asking $89 shipped for my book, which is 270 pages of color with 550+ pictures.
I would venture a guess that the model & photography was not cheap either!

 sorry Elianite , but as a customer , i dont have to take this in consideration ! : that's not my problem if he produce only  a low number .. i dont care about it ..
That's not justify the requested amount in finality ( for what we are supposed to get in hand after buying..

Received my book today......
The overall quality of the book is nice but for what we getting, the asking price of $150 seems way off......
15 sentences and 42 pages of almost the same picture.
The glossary at the end was surprising!!
And why not mention the Kialara bar that is involved in the pictures as well?

Your idea was great, but for what you are asking and what we are getting, this is disappointing.
Just my 2 satsohi.....

Thanks

i totaly agree with you minerjones .. for what i have saw of  this book ,  an amount of 150 $ is absolutely unjustified. i understand theres' a work under it , model is not cheap ( or free ) ( and she need to eat .. ) , etc etc .. but asking an amount of 150$ for this book  is not fair ...  sorry ..  
That's my own opinion , and it's  engage only myself... feel free to disagree with this point of view.


defcon23

[BitcoinAccepted]

If people want to donate me some physical coins I'm happy to slap a few pictures of my cock next to them and sell them back to you for $150.

Have I missed the point here or what?

What is the purpose / content of the book?

[elianite]

It is important to remember that low quantity book printing is not cheap. That said, I'm asking $89 shipped for my book, which is 270 pages of color with 550+ pictures.
I would venture a guess that the model & photography was not cheap either!

 sorry Elianite , but as a customer , i dont have to take this in consideration ! : that's not my problem if he produce only  a low number .. i dont care about it ..

You may have missed my main point, which was essentially that if I can make a profit by charging much less for a book with 50 times the content (still having color photos), $150 does seem like a little too much in comparison. I would not buy at that price..

[naypalm]

Neat! How does each book have a unique identifier or did I read that wrong?

[photonresearch]

Neat! How does each book have a unique identifier or did I read that wrong?

Each book owner is entitled to an associated Counterparty token

everyone gets a counterparty token sent to an address they control and if they sell the book on the after market, make sure the new buyers gets the token too

[fluffypony]

Did anyone else order the book?
Are Mike and I the only ones who get to oogle the gold bar!!!


thanks

Mine arrived today: https://twitter.com/fluffyponyza/status/754978006255472640

In terms of price, I view this as a coffee table book. Here are some other hard-cover coffee table books to provide a price comparison:

$290: https://www.amazon.com/South-Africa-Hoberman-Collection-1999-05-04/dp/B01FIZW5AE
$675: https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Ford-Years-Graydon-Carter/dp/0500511977
$300: https://www.amazon.com/Beach-Richard-Misrach/dp/1597110485
$620: https://www.amazon.com/Tea-Tea-Table-Eighteenth-Century-England-Ben/dp/1848930259

Of course you also get coffee table books that are $15, but I don't think the $150 price for this was overly harsh given the small run. In deference to what defcon23 stated above, I feel that paying a premium for a limited edition is completely justifiable. Even if this book goes on to produce a second print, the first edition will still have been a limited run, and would remain collectible.