Hello everyone
First of all, I'd like to address my best wishes to everybody for this new year 2020 that is just starting !
May this decade that is just opening bring you all prosperity, lots of happy times and keep you healthy.
2019 was an amazing year for Coldkey. Thank you everyone for making this journey possible !
Let's recap what happened, and also share more about us with you all.
What happened in 2019 :
In 2019, we have launched four different Coldkey series :
- Genesis Edition Coldkeys (Unloaded, Limited to 250)
- 2019 Loaded Coldkeys (Loaded with 0.001
BTC, 0.005
BTC or 0.01
BTC, unlimited mintage but unavailable as of now)
- History Coldkeys (Loaded with
BTC worth 50€ on the first day of the month of the release, monthly release, limited to 32 in oct/nov/dec 2019)
- 10th year of Bitcointalk Commemorative Coldkey (Sold unloaded, not limited in quantity but unavailable as of now)
In the end, we have produced hundreds of Coldkeys in 2019 and processed over 100 different orders !
(I will give more precise figures about the Coldkeys out there once the threads have been updated)
For 2020, we will experiment with some other different crypto-currencies.
I am also working on a few internal developments to bring to life some Coldkeys with features that do not exist yet in the realm of physical Bitcoins.
We will keep doing the History serie with some adjustments, and new
BTC Loaded Coldkeys with a different layout & design will be available soon.
The Genesis Edition will remain available until it is sold out.
Our story :
In late 2017,
Xprim777 (Hugo) and myself (Patrick) had an idea : we wanted to make a commemorative item for the 10th year of Bitcoin. (Our friendship goes back to times when neither he or me was involved with crypto)
As we saw it, this item contained a fixed amount of crypto that equates a round sum in fiat at the date of the anniversary.
The idea was to "pinpoint" a moment in time to an item.
We tried to figure it out : how to make it, how to do it ?
We had the idea of what we wanted to do, but we didn't know how to make it happen.
My friends from Collectibles who are regularly following the ongoing action here can certainly fill the gaps ;
we have approached Polymerbit with the idea and after a successful collaboration, we have release the
10th year of Bitcoin polymerbit note together.
It was a great experience that allowed us to create stronger bonds with Polymerbit.
We are very grateful to them for all their help and are looking to work again with Polymerbit in the future.
The idea to create physical devices to bear private keys in a secure way never really left Hugo and me afterwards,
and while reviewing the different options that were open to us we figured out cards are a good way to do it.
This is how the idea of Coldkey was brought to life.
I started to code the cards, the different tools, and put everything together in order to deliver Coldkey to you.
With Hugo, we have incorporated a company to operate.
Lots of work was required to get to that point.
Lawyers, accountants, it's all very messy because there are no clear guidelines about crypto.
Let's do it ! Let's make these walls move.
We will continue the effort and as a guideline, slowly, carefully, step towards distributing Coldkeys directly to other markets.
Our company :
Our company, AALTWORLD SAS, is owned by Hugo and me.
We are self-funded and today we are very proud to operate successfully.
Coldkey is only our first project, our mission is to spread crypto and help with it's adoption on a much more massive scale.
We are already planning our next project with other parties.
Due to the sensitive nature of what we're involved with, I will not share much details at this stage.
All I can say is that, it has nothing to do with physical
BTC.
We are still in the very beginning of what we envision, and are still experimenting in this limited ecosystem which is Bitcointalk.
Some things turn out well, others not so good, but in the end we always assume our responsibilities.
For example, selling "unlimited" quantities of Coldkeys and fulfilling orders on a first-come first-served basis works well on a limited scale.
We witnessed the limits of that with the 10th year of Bitcointalk anniversary release.
(There are still a few remaining orders to ship out, I plan to drop them this Friday at the post)
We have again made some adjustments and expect to significantly increase the orders processing time for 2020. (Shipping within 24-48hr)
Who does what in the company ? Hugo takes care of our Twitter (
https://twitter.com/ColdkeyCards) and also helps the company by doing some accounting and processing invoices.
I am the CEO.
I do the coding, the maintenance of our systems, generating private keys and producing the Coldkeys.
I also do the packing and shipping. (BTW, sorry for the terrible handwriting !)
Also, I take care of the administrative life of our company and of most of the communications outside of Twitter.
I do provide customer service and reply to all the messages.
We will slowly starting to prepare for start-up contests and try to win some prizes that will make it easier for us to meet requirements and achieve our objectives.
In the end, I do process most of the company workload. Hugo can hardly help me more since he's is studying.
It is a hefty workload, but this is all worth it as I see a very bright future for crypto !
It hurts me but I had to take some retreat from the community to focus on our operation ;
I am not as active as I was, and this is mostly because I don't have as much time to sit in front of my computer as I did at some point.
It is not because I don't like hanging around, rather much because I want to keep providing you with high quality cold storage wallets.
I will always do my best to reply to everyone.
Coinfest 2020 I am very excited to announce to you that will be attending Coinfest UK 2020 in Manchester this year.
Just a few updates for CoinFestUK 2020!
- We are proud to announce ColdkeyCards will be an exhibitor at our CoinFestUK2020 event! Checkout their work at:
https://coldkey.euIf you are in the area of Manchester UK, come visit us on the Saturday 4th April.
And if you cannot make it, stay tuned for all the content that is going to be shared on their social medias !
I lack words to express what I would like, but this sums it up :
Thank you very much for reading and for all your support !
We are very grateful to you all ! Every order is helping us a lot to make Coldkey a great success.
We hope that 2020 will let us to take Coldkey to even other spheres.
Thank you all for all your trust, and for giving us all that legitimacy to make happen what we plan.
Hugo joins me to wish to you all, a happy new year of 2020 !