IS that it? Really?
Fair criticism is fair. This gives me an opportunity to explain the coin.
Basically, I found that there are plenty of coins with a traditional hologram out there, and this piece is meant to be more conceptual than useful. It's not really made to fit into the mold of the existing & established market, but rather to challenge and parody it by taking the very basic elements (B, year/mint/very generic circuit board/private key) and combining them into something unique. Naturally, not everyone will like that.
Casascius coins were created to make blockchain/cryptocurrency
feel like normal money.
This coin was created to make 'normal money'
feel like blockchain/cryptocurrency.
The INFINITY hologram symbolizes how blockchain goes on
forever, is
interconnected, and is
mindboggling ,
difficult to comprehend, and virtually
impossible to falsify.
It is then this interconnected jumble of never-ending, hard-to-understand connections that both 'protect' and 'conceal' value, with both the silver (physical) and private key (digital) representing that concept of value. This value is then encased between 2 sets of this 'protective layer'.
I understand if doubling up the hologram is controversial; many have come to associate high quality with some sort of symbolic image.
Instead of an image, this coin attempts to convey a concept. Most people who display a coin consider the hologram 'secondary' and display only the main 'image'. This is impossible with this coin since the hologram IS the image; the focus is the concept of the blockchain/tech, not the concept of coins/money.
Regarding security, my general view which I've mentioned here before is that new creators, unless they are institutions, will likely never get the trust that the likes of Casascius and Lealana had. Also due to legal concerns, I'm not releasing funded coins. These are meant to be art pieces as opposed to useful and secure cold-storage coins, but I do invite anyone to put 'token' amounts of BTC into them. Again, the point here is not to actually defend against 'attacks' (though those features are certainly present) but to convey the idea and concept of doing so both at the level of the individual coin and the blockchain as a whole.
Casascius coins were primarily coins; the hologram was added as a 'necessary' security feature to the coin.
This 'coin' is built around the hologram; the coin was added as a 'necessary' platform to host and affix it.
With all that said, the beauty and meaning are in the eye of the beholder, and this is one of those things that is going to mesmerize some and disappoint others. To those who are disappointed, I hope you will appreciate that everyone has different tastes. I'm sure there are and will be other coins that you love.
