Topic: Bitcoins at the British Museum - page 5. (Read 17569 times)

Yes, it would be really nice if next to the exhibit would stand:

Since this coin has been displayed here it received donations increasing it's worth 10 Times.

And a basic explanation how that works.

Maybe it's address could be added to the OP here: https://blockchain.info/address/1NyVMo79Vanhbu92MpPQgCbu9MDV5a4NhW

It would be nice to get it to 10 btc at least for starters & micro donations are cool so as to show them that's possible which none of their other exhibits can do.

Edit to add:

http://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/1NyVMo79Vanhbu92MpPQgCbu9MDV5a4NhW

I see a KLF-style opportunity here... Keep donating to the address on display until it becomes too hot to display

Congrats to Cacascius

Donating to that coin and pointing it out, will make them understand Bitcoin better.
Its an eye opener

Frickin awesome!  I now have a reason to go back to London (other than drinking awesome Cider & checking out Westminster Abby)...

Keep up the awesome!

EDIT: Has anyone written an article to explain this?  Perhaps this would make a great article for Bitcoin Magazine.  Something summarizing the exhibit with the awesome ending to the storyline!

This is what should be looping on a giant plasm TV next to the exhibit: http://i.imgur.com/Mf2sg.png

I share Casascius' concerns but still it would be ultra cool if they would put some monitor next to the coin, showing blockchain.info life transactions and balance Also it should be clear that the exhibition has an insurance to a certain value and with people putting in another 1000Ƀ and the price of 1Ƀ going up to $10000, they might simply not be aware of being under-insured

Casascius himself doesn't think at the moment that it's a good idea to send funds to the coins that they have (link) but personally I think it's a very good thing, it's how bitcoins work & they have plenty of silver & gold moneys in that exhibition that go up & down in value with the markets so why should it be a problem, the bitcoin value in fiat is going to change in any case, they also collect anonymous cash from visitors in all sorts of different fiat that ppl choose to drop in to their collection boxes - some quite high denomination notes/bills, I'd thought of dropping a Cas bitcoin in but this is much better. I imagine they will just let the coin increase in value unless some anon eccentric millionaire drops a few 100k coins on it in which case they'll probably cash it out &  replace it with one of their other ones and issue a news release to say thanks very much bitcoins ftw!

So in answer, no we haven't officially persuaded them to accept bitcoin donations, but their exhibit coin address & the others they have they themselves have made public & that allows anyone to send coins to it if they so choose - it's how bitcoin works & as such they should appreciate it's doing exactly what it's meant to & perhaps this will encourage them to actually turn it in to an official funding source. Re security - it's in an exhibition room with really high value PM exhibits & they know how to look after their artifacts so I doubt anyone with access would peel it or switch it for another.

I'd use the one that they have on display showing the FirstBits: 1NyVMo79 for 1NyVMo79Vanhbu92MpPQgCbu9MDV5a4NhW  

Good Job.

Otoh,

Just want to be clear. Have we really persuaded the British Museum to accept Bitcoin payments, without discussion or controversy?

Is it safe to donate? Or is it likely that donations can be appropriated by staff or others?

Lets donate!! We should email them once a year or so saying what the current value of their donation sum is and how they could take it.

Being a Londoner and therefore I might donote to the British museum anyway, I think this is amazing.

Actually, I think this is the most amazing aspect of Casacaus coins, with no computer in sight, you can give one to somebody, and tell them the bitcoin address, and suddenly they are in the business of receiving bitcoin payments. 

The British Museum is a huge organisation, and if it is really now accepting Bitcoin donations.... wow!

Which of the addresses Otoh gives should we use ?

/posting in awsome thread
So, who turned the 1Ƀ-coin into a 2.26691356Ƀ-coin? If we keep the micro-donations flowing, it might really be interesting to display this in-flow in the museum

So, now we can secretly and anonymously donate to the British Museum?

That's 0.001337 is what that is!

Rumor has it that the US, too, will have a currency museum, to be located in a building that currently sets umpty.

Museum heist... bit, gold, and silver coins stolen, all fiat left untouched. ;-)

The same thing could be said for USD, GBP, EUR, or any other form of cash. The difference with bitcoins is that with bitcoins you can make the transfers over long distances more easily.

Very cool but interesting they list USA on the card.  Sure it is because of who provided the coin.

Nice work Mike 

Just notice they have a detailed web page for each item:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=3451294&partid=1&searchText=g68%2F18*&numpages=10&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx¤tPage=5