Topic: AUCTION - RARE set of BitBills (20BTC, 10BTC, 5BTC, and 1BTC) (Read 3804 times)

Selling the rest of my coins here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/selling-casascius-coins-and-bitbills-199785

Nightowlace won. I will PM you shortly.

5 hours left!

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After seeing how my first auction is going, I believe the 1 hour bid extension is too long. This could cause the auction to last a very long time. I'm changing the auction rule such that the bid extension is only 5 minutes. If you would like to retract your bid due to this change, please post here.
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I see in your sig now you used to work for them. Are they still around?

yeah.

idk things kinda disintegrated with mybitcoin on top of the 2011 btc bubble. we might continue eventually

I don't know. I contacted them once about ordering and they said something like they were waiting for the plastic cards or something. Maybe they never got more :/

Actually, the really curious thing is what happened to bitbills? They had a good product. They had demand. They weren't crooks. And the website is still up. What gives?

I wanted to ask too but did not want to derail the auction:)

Did you spend them all?

What happened to them?

Man I had the biggest stack of bitbills a while ago (http://i54.tinypic.com/27y78cm.jpg)

41

40

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I am auctioning off a full set of BitBills: 20BTC, 10BTC, 5BTC, and 1BTC.
These are very rare collector's items. I believe they were the first physical bitcoins ever made. They even came before casascius coins.
The bitbills are intact and have been kept in my safe since I got them almost 2 years ago.
I make no guarantee that if you cut the private keys out, you will be able to redeem the bitcoins.
As far as I know, no one has had any trouble redeeming bitbills.
But if you are bidding on this auction, you likely want to keep these intact as collector's items.

The public addressed for these 4 bitbills are:
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1h6tSi7H1wgCP3ogBKPxESwejaxjBG7Tq
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MQjzqi4NXnXZZRzADNX7cijKqKekaVSff
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1Lmm1yiDu2VnNQZmZKSvMXCBXez3ZqKkZ7
http://blockexplorer.com/address/14bEcpGrqhr8XbJ1LDaFFT8KADPUrqNb8z

Pictures:
https://i.imgur.com/HtEJUzNh.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/s6UpxcUh.jpg

The starting price of the auction will be 40 BTC. Please bid in increments of at least 1 BTC.

The auction will end in a week on May 7th 9:00 PM GMT. Each valid bid will delay the end time by another hour.

When the auction is over, I will PM (GPG signed) the winner an address (or post here publicly if that's what the winner prefers) and I expect payment promptly (2 days).
I will offer to the next highest bidder in case of non-payment. The bitbills will be shipped and insured to the winner within 3 business days.
If you want to do the transaction in person (at Bitcoin2013 or something), I just ask for a 10% deposit until we meet and complete the transaction.

My bitcoin-otc rating: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=coblee
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