Hello Bitcointalk!
We are CryoBit and today we are introducing ourselves to the Bitcointalk community after having a successful soft launch last week. If you didn’t see us on Reddit or Twitter last week, our story is basically this - we saw a need for ultra durable cold storage products that also took trust out of the equation. Some, or maybe all, of the bitcoins you take offline may be for a long period of time and ultimately you can’t trust paper wallets, or electronics for that matter, to survive the perils of the real world. A small flood ruined one of our paper wallets and lost some of our coins. Fortunately, that event was the catalyst that started us on the path to the products we will be showing you guys today.
After paper, plastic and aluminum cold storage products can get the job done for some people. However, we wanted something that could withstand almost anything we could think of; fire, flood, abrasion, acid, chemicals, physical and digital theft, etc. There are many new and exotic materials that can accomplish this task, but we kept coming back to something that our co-founder has worked with nearly every day in the field of Aerospace engineering; Stainless Steel.
https://i.imgur.com/enP4jbnl.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/MP15o2Al.jpgOur debut product is called Cryo Card. It is credit card sized (3.125x2.25in) and constructed of .029 inch thick AMS 5524 Stainless Steel with a high-contrast ceramic-glass etch. This gives Cryo Card a temperature resistance of up to 2500°F (1370°C), effectively making it house fire proof. We shot a quick video that shows what happened when we blasted an early Cryo Card prototype with a propane torch until it was white hot (the maximum temperature that a propane torch can reach in air is 3623°F or 1995°C):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8P5Oh36zV0Post-torch pic (after cleaning up torch residue with a little Naval Jelly):
https://i.imgur.com/mVlYSYpl.jpgWe plan on doing many more demonstrations like this in the future including scratch and long term saltwater immersion tests, so keep an eye on our Twitter feed (
@CryoBit) or our site (
https://www.cryobit.co) for all the latest news. We will also be sure to update everyone on Bitcointalk here in this thread!
One more thing, Cryo Card was engineered to withstand the ultimate enemy of Bitcoin cold storage – trust. Utilizing offline AES-256 (BIP 0038) encryption, your newly generated or existing Private Key can never be known to us or any other entity that does not know your personally chosen passphrase. The encryption process is performed in your own browser through bitaddress.org – not on our servers – so your passphrase is never seen by us. You can even disconnect your device from the Internet while generating and encrypting a new encrypted Private Key (or encrypting an existing one) and re-connect to complete your order. This can help to ensure that your Private Key and chosen passphrase are not potentially compromised. We also accept previously encrypted Private Keys for new orders. We will not accept unencrypted Keys for any Cryo Card order as we want to maintain a barrier between us and the customer and eliminate the need for trust.
As BTC marches toward its next bubble, what better time to insure your investment completely against fire, flood, theft, trust and the unknown? We know there have been some failures and scams in this area of products before. But rest assured, we are a registered business in the state of Florida in the United States and are based there as well. Our co-founders' bios are also listed on the About Us page of our site. We would also be happy to send one of our Cryo Cards to a mod, but for those that are interested now please check it out at:
https://www.cryobit.co/cold-storage-products/cryo-card/If you're not interested in any of our products at the moment but want to keep up to date with where the ride goes with us then please follow us
@CryoBit or on Facebook at
/cryobitWe offer free shipping to the United States via First Class mail, but also ship worldwide at the standard rates USPS charges.
Please feel free to ask any questions and we are always open to suggestions!
