[INFO} Rare and hard to find hardware collectables!

[krogothmanhattan]

  Well as the title says, I will be dedicating this thread to all collectable hardware wallets....hardware bitcoin devices what either generated keys or printed them...examples mycelium ...piper wallets etc etc.

   Been collecting wallets for years and also would like to create a time line of the earliest ones made and work from there.

   So please do share what you know and own with the rest of us collectors as I am sure there are many I am not aware of and for sure do not own. I will have to dig into my own collection and pull some rarities that probably were just prototypes that never made it to the market!

[krogothmanhattan]

Reserved

[ChiBitCTy]

Two most rare wallets in my collection. Pretty sure I showed Charlie the CryptoGuard wallet and he’d had never seen it. These were in my earlier collecting days. Krogo we’ve chatted about these b4..and that bitcoinWalletCards hardware wallet must have come a few years after the cards were no longer available as they are very early collectibles (so early BitBills tried to sue them too).  

I store all my coins on these (better than Coinbase if I had to choose )

[MoparMiningLLC]

I think the hw.1 is the oldest hw wallet I have - early version (maybe their first version?) of the ledger usb wallet.

I then have the following - (can add pics and defined list later)

- 9 other versions of ledger wallets
- 4 versions of trezor
- prokey
- 6 or 7 versions of the opendimes
- 4 versions of the coldcard
- 2 versions of safepal wallets
- keystone 3
- Jade
- foundation (2 versions)
- bitbox (2 versions)
- keepkey
- bitkey
- keevo
- seed signer

now if you count the various card wallets that work via nfc or use the smart card or various other methods

- cool wallet
- tangem - at least 40 versions
- satochip - at least 20 versions
- boltcard - 13 versions

then I have about 60 to 70 other various wallets that are in the card style that work via an embedded chip of one type or another.

then wallets that work with an app like ballet - I have over 120 variations of the ballet wallets. but I would not call ballet a hw wallet. more like a card that is 100% offline but is needed to work with an app.

[Sharktank12]

MT GOX YUBIKEY

[minerjones]

Secure Wallet from Ecomi.com

This was the only way to store Ecomi when it was released.

[MoparMiningLLC]

Secure Wallet from Ecomi.com

This was the only way to store Ecomi when it was released.

send for testing.

[hybridsole]

Thanks for making this post Krogo, I was just going through and sorting some stuff so I figured I would take a few pics and post.  Here are a few of my favorites pieces of bitcoin "hardware" that I've collected over the years:

Mt. Gox Yubikey - Technically not a wallet or device that generates keys but it is "hardware".  It's also very old and pre-dates any other HW wallet. I'm guessing they made these around 2011-2012.  I bought it second-hand a few years ago.




Mycelium Entropy - Purchased from asicminer-shop.de in early 2015.  I have read there were only 250 units produced.  Might be my favorite bitcoin hardware of all time because I could use it to demonstrate instantly how private keys are created. You did not even need a PC, just a printer with a USB port.  It also generated 2-of-3 Shamir's secret key pairs by tapping the button the back.




Ledger Nano - As Mopar said, the Nano was not Ledger's first product, it was the HW.1.  From what I can tell, the HW.1 came first and was the budget version of the first Nano(?) The Nano was then marketed to compete more with Trezor which was just taking off.   I bought this Nano v1 at the Bitcoin Center in Manhattan (early 2015) for $20.  It came with a card signed by the CEO.  The Nano S came later and they have discontinued support for both the HW.1 and Nano v1's.



At some point they reduced the packaging size of the Nano before discontinuing it altogether. Here is a side by side. The one pictured above is on the left:




KeyWallet - I'm not really sure where or when I got this.  Anyone have more info about it?




JuBiter Blade - This was a promo HW wallet given out at a conference in (2018?).  I never opened it and don't know much about it.




Coinkite Coldcard Mk1 - They are currently selling the Mk4 version of this (you can see the Mark 1 - Rev E on the back of this version). Coinkite also makes the Opendime, Block Clock, etc.




I also have the Piper Wallet printer which is one of my favorites, but is not where I can take a picture at the moment.

Speaking of Coinkite, I am curious if anyone collects Opendimes and whether there are rare or specific versions of those worth collecting?  

[DaveF]

JuBiter Blade - This was a promo HW wallet given out at a conference in (2018?).  I never opened it and don't know much about it.

It is / was a clone / custom skin of the imkey wallet.

https://imkey.im/


There is the BitHD watch




https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247313


And the piper wallet
I with the aid of a programmer tried to duplicate it, but we could never get it to work. After 100s of man hours we just walked away from it.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5191398

-Dave

[ChiBitCTy]

The Mt Gox Yubikeys are hard to beat. Really hard if you’ve also got a 1 time password generator card to pair w the Yubikey. These are rare as fck. Article from 2013 announcing the sale of them, 39 USD..pretty sure I could have spared that amount for one of these. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2013/11/28/bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox-adds-extra-security-with-one-time-password-card/amp/

Anyone have one they can show off? just curious if any of these exist outside the whales of yesteryears like GP and Blazed. Spent years hunting for one. No luck.

JuBiter Blade - This was a promo HW wallet given out at a conference in (2018?).  I never opened it and don't know much about it.

It is / was a clone / custom skin of the imkey wallet.

https://imkey.im/


There is the BitHD watch

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247313


And the piper wallet
I with the aid of a programmer tried to duplicate it, but we could never get it to work. After 100s of man hours we just walked away from it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5191398

-Dave

If I understand correctly, Piper is still a legitimately made/secure paper wallet generator (if working) to this day, no?

[DaveF]

If I understand correctly, Piper is still a legitimately made/secure paper wallet generator (if working) to this day, no?

Possibly. From the work we did years ago:

The original piper install had a switch on top that would allow you to save a copy of every wallet printed. At least with the new setup I am doing it does not work. No matter what it saves a copy. THIS IS NOT GOOD. There is a setting in the GUI that should shut it off but it does not I faked the switch with a jumper and it still saves them. I am not sure if this is a bug in the code or something in the different hardware or what. But I did spend too much time dealing with it till I moved on. I revisit it later.

And this from Ted (programmer)

Bit of a delayed update:

1) Programmer is re-doing most of the back end work on making the button work and some other changes. As he put it "I'm sure there is a worse way of doing what they did in the way that they did it, I'm just not sure how" No real ETA on it as it's being done during his free time which is why this update was so long in coming.
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So if you are the only one who has access to it then it's probably secure.

We never could track down one of the original units, so the saving the keys may have been a bug due to different hardware.

The spaghetti code is another issue, probably nothing catastrophic there either if you are the only one who has access to the hardware.

-Dave 

[minerjones]

If I understand correctly, Piper is still a legitimately made/secure paper wallet generator (if working) to this day, no?

Possibly. From the work we did years ago:

The original piper install had a switch on top that would allow you to save a copy of every wallet printed. At least with the new setup I am doing it does not work. No matter what it saves a copy. THIS IS NOT GOOD. There is a setting in the GUI that should shut it off but it does not I faked the switch with a jumper and it still saves them. I am not sure if this is a bug in the code or something in the different hardware or what. But I did spend too much time dealing with it till I moved on. I revisit it later.

And this from Ted (programmer)

Bit of a delayed update:

1) Programmer is re-doing most of the back end work on making the button work and some other changes. As he put it "I'm sure there is a worse way of doing what they did in the way that they did it, I'm just not sure how" No real ETA on it as it's being done during his free time which is why this update was so long in coming.
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So if you are the only one who has access to it then it's probably secure.

We never could track down one of the original units, so the saving the keys may have been a bug due to different hardware.

The spaghetti code is another issue, probably nothing catastrophic there either if you are the only one who has access to the hardware.

-Dave  

I have an extra non-working unit you can use for testing if wanted.
It's not broken.. just needs the wires plugged back into the right place.
And I can confirm that these units did indeed save all previous wallets
Was a bit of a surprise when you plug them into a GUI.. interesting stuff for sure.

If I understand correctly, Piper is still a legitimately made/secure paper wallet generator (if working) to this day, no?

I have a few Piper paper wallets.. 1 from another source and they are still secure.
The other one came from Bix Weir (RoadToRoota) / silver guy
Came with a 1oz silver round and a Piper paper wallet, loaded with 0.05 btc
Bought on Ebay for $25 many moons ago.... lol

[MoparMiningLLC]

interested in the Piper if DaveF isnt.

[krogothmanhattan]

JuBiter Blade - This was a promo HW wallet given out at a conference in (2018?).  I never opened it and don't know much about it.

It is / was a clone / custom skin of the imkey wallet.

https://imkey.im/


There is the BitHD watch



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247313


And the piper wallet

-Dave

   Thanks all for posting such goodies...this is exactly what we need !

   If I am not mistaken Dave, I bought that wallet watch from you awhile back  LOL.

   I also own two of those piper wallets...Love em!

   And Chi.... I wrote an article on the MTGOX cards here awhile back..

    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3557001.msg36379680#msg36379680

     Made copies of my goodies and pasted them on a frame as follows years ago  

     https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3557001.msg45962794#msg45962794

     Someday I will do it professionally and mount the real deals as well...along with new items I have since accumulated.

   I own the card as well of course....very if not impossible to find cause who knows how many were sodl? And yes along with those I have a few MTGOX yubi keys as well.   One of the cards the battery still worked!  The only thing that worried me about those cards is if the battery started to corrode and damage the cards, so I stored in a seperate box just in case.

   Hyb...thanks for posting the mycellium as well...another lovely part of my collection.

    I need to find the time to dig out what it is I have as I really lost track of items I accunulated thru the years

[DaveF]

I have an extra non-working unit you can use for testing if wanted.
It's not broken.. just needs the wires plugged back into the right place.
And I can confirm that these units did indeed save all previous wallets
Was a bit of a surprise when you plug them into a GUI.. interesting stuff for sure.

interested in the Piper if DaveF isnt.

MM can have it. I am still in the process of cleaning out stuff, not taking in more.

   Thanks all for posting such goodies...this is exactly what we need !

   If I am not mistaken Dave, I bought that wallet watch from you awhile back  LOL.
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Hyb...thanks for posting the mycellium as well...another lovely part of my collection.

    I need to find the time to dig out what it is I have as I really lost track of items I accunulated thru the years

I think I sold you the mycellium  too.

There were also a few interesting BTC price tickers that came around though the years:

Like the afkdata.com one


And the PaperLedger


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5113453.0


-Dave

[krogothmanhattan]

I think I sold you the mycellium  too.

-Dave

  Yes I think you did!  We should also include ASIC Bitcoin Miner USB Block Erupters...Been collecting those for years and also other mining stuff as well.

[raghavsood]

I have a Security Arts Quantum - never see another one in the wild, and I believe they gave up on selling them ages ago

I think I got mine ~2021 directly from them, but never ended up using it as it was just a bunch of red flags.




The website is still available at security-arts[.]com, and is a nice read if you want to see some nice examples of bad claims about security.

[Hox]

Node icebox is a pretty obscure key storage device: https://wiki.coin.community/NODE_-_Icebox

Ledger strap is another weird one that a lot of people probably don't know about: https://wiki.coin.community/Ledger_-_Nano_-_Strap_Edition

[Michail1]

Like the afkdata.com one

That was my first ticker.  Was happy to see he provided source code.