A microscopic view of Casacius physical bitcoins - page 2.

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Quote from: Stephen Gornick on August 26, 2012, 12:33:37 PM

Quote from: etotheipi on August 26, 2012, 10:30:39 AM

I recently purchases this microscope from amazon, and started looking at everything I can get my hands on at 40-150x.

I wonder how long until someone tries an xray microscope (or whatever they are called) to see the private key underneath.

I'm a radiology resident and back when BitBills came out, I took a low kV radiograph of it to see if I could bring out any detail...I was hoping the ink was made from the oxide of some metal...no luck. The BitBill was glorified laminated paper, which would be much more susceptible to xray hacking than a metal coin. I strongly doubt anyone will find success with a Casascius coin.

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awesome shot, etotheipi, thanks for sharing.

"I always wanted to know how this bitcoin thing works in detail" Wink

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Quote from: naypalm on August 27, 2012, 08:34:09 PM

Cool, now someone needs to buy an electron microscope and do this Cool

http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2011/03/diy-scanning-electron-microscope.html

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Right, maybe if MNW wins his 10K BTC bet...

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Cool, now someone needs to buy an electron microscope and do this Cool

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Quote from: casascius on August 26, 2012, 04:12:52 PM

Quote from: Stephen Gornick on August 26, 2012, 12:33:37 PM

Quote from: etotheipi on August 26, 2012, 10:30:39 AM

I recently purchases this microscope from amazon, and started looking at everything I can get my hands on at 40-150x.

I wonder how long until someone tries an xray microscope (or whatever they are called) to see the private key underneath.

Looking forward to it.

You mean they can't?

nice pics @etotheipi

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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)

Quote from: Stephen Gornick on August 26, 2012, 12:33:37 PM

Quote from: etotheipi on August 26, 2012, 10:30:39 AM

I recently purchases this microscope from amazon, and started looking at everything I can get my hands on at 40-150x.

I wonder how long until someone tries an xray microscope (or whatever they are called) to see the private key underneath.

Looking forward to it.

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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)

If only I could have not had the first one come out "CASACIUS" (misspelled) in the largest fine print (partly visible in one of the photos above - first photo, 11 o'clock position).

We actually did two designs and I picked through design number 1 with a fine tooth comb for detail, then went with design number 2 without having done the same. I noticed it instantly once I took some light to the then-newly finished holograms. Series 2 fixes that.

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wow i really like the microscopic details

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Quote from: etotheipi on August 26, 2012, 10:30:39 AM

I recently purchases this microscope from amazon, and started looking at everything I can get my hands on at 40-150x.

I wonder how long until someone tries an xray microscope (or whatever they are called) to see the private key underneath.

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

That looks like a dot-matrix process. I was wondering about that.

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Really does look awesome.

I might actually order one after all.

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I recently purchases this microscope from amazon, and started looking at everything I can get my hands on at 40-150x. One such thing was the hologram on the back of a casascius physical Bitcoin.

I believe this is actually only 10x and 40x, but 40x was enough to see what I didn't know was even there: four rings of "CASASCIUS" just inside where it says "ORIGINAL" on the coin. Looking at it by eye, I can barely identify the bigger outer ring, and definitely can't identify the smaller three inner rings. This is impressive: casascius really put a lot of quality into these holographic films!

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