Someone should tell memory dealers to stop using .gif for photos of items
lol i was thinking the same thing 
Topic: CASASCIUS PHYSICAL BITCOIN - In Stock Now! (pic) - page 44. (Read 130386 times)
The 1000 BTC Bar looks nice! Is that a newer v1 laser etched hologram?
Someone should tell memory dealers to stop using .gif for photos of items 
Order update: I am completely caught up on orders as of this evening. Woohoo! (Was low on 1 BTC coins, we had a coin making party today and got a ton done.)
It is the same v1 hologram, but me using the laser to engrave a denomination into it.
Normally I use a special fluid for laser engraving metal. The hologram doesn't need this fluid - on low power, it literally just melts a little bit when hit with the laser, and turns nice and sparkly at the same time. I sort of discovered this by accident, but will be a part of every laser-denominated bar I do in the future.
Normally I use a special fluid for laser engraving metal. The hologram doesn't need this fluid - on low power, it literally just melts a little bit when hit with the laser, and turns nice and sparkly at the same time. I sort of discovered this by accident, but will be a part of every laser-denominated bar I do in the future.
The 1000 BTC Bar looks nice! Is that a newer v1 laser etched hologram?
Series 2 dropped to 1.65 BTC! ZOMG, buy buy buy!
It was: $9.69 (winning bid) + $4.53 (credits used to bid) + $5 (shipping). http://www.mokimarket.com/auction_details/248
So is there any way to see roughly how much the merchant got?
It was: $9.69 (winning bid) + $4.53 (credits used to bid) + $5 (shipping). http://www.mokimarket.com/auction_details/248
So is there any way to see roughly how much the merchant got?
That was one tough auction! Congratz to the pokerface 
I posted a 25BTC Casascius coin for bid on http://www.mokimarket.com/
The current Bid is $0.06
I think this auction site may be very popular once a few changes are made.
I posted the suggest changes here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.627005
Which one of you is PokerFace? Congrats to you on winning a 25BTC casascius coin for ~$20.The current Bid is $0.06
I think this auction site may be very popular once a few changes are made.
I posted the suggest changes here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.627005
Just curious, is that $20 as a final bid price, or $20 total cost with the bid and whatever per-bid fees there were?
BTW, to answer your question, gold has the nifty property of being able to be made very, very thin, so the value of the coin is going to be in its looks and the BTC, the coins are not a huge store of metal commodity value.
And about the gold content-- I know it's an extremely small amount, but I was just curious if it was 10c or $1 worth of gold, or some other amount.
I posted a 25BTC Casascius coin for bid on http://www.mokimarket.com/
The current Bid is $0.06
I think this auction site may be very popular once a few changes are made.
I posted the suggest changes here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.627005
Which one of you is PokerFace? Congrats to you on winning a 25BTC casascius coin for ~$20.The current Bid is $0.06
I think this auction site may be very popular once a few changes are made.
I posted the suggest changes here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.627005
Just curious, is that $20 as a final bid price, or $20 total cost with the bid and whatever per-bid fees there were?
BTW, to answer your question, gold has the nifty property of being able to be made very, very thin, so the value of the coin is going to be in its looks and the BTC, the coins are not a huge store of metal commodity value.
I posted a 25BTC Casascius coin for bid on http://www.mokimarket.com/
The current Bid is $0.06
I think this auction site may be very popular once a few changes are made.
I posted the suggest changes here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.627005
Which one of you is PokerFace? Congrats to you on winning a 25BTC casascius coin for ~$20. The current Bid is $0.06
I think this auction site may be very popular once a few changes are made.
I posted the suggest changes here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.627005
Out of curiosity, and since I know nothing about how gold-plating works, what is the approximate weight/value of the gold on the $25 BTC coin?
I posted a 25BTC Casascius coin for bid on http://www.mokimarket.com/
The current Bid is $0.06
I think this auction site may be very popular once a few changes are made.
I posted the suggest changes here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.627005
The current Bid is $0.06
I think this auction site may be very popular once a few changes are made.
I posted the suggest changes here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.627005
+1
Very cool.
Presenting: Uberbills.com Casascius Bitcoin Analyzer! 
Not 100% sure on this because I have not tried it yet but can't you just create a single transaction to move the BTC from the coin/bar into any public address of your choice using the on line transaction creator here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/strongcoincom-just-published-a-method-to-generate-off-line-transactions-51254
Is that what you are looking for?
Is that what you are looking for?
Hmm, that might actually work. Pretty cool, StrongCoin.
I downloaded the .zip and looked at the page. Currently you need to grab the transaction history of the address from block explorer and enter the privkey in base58. Both could be automatically done with only the minikey as input, right?
After that, one can enter destination address, amount and fee and generate the tx, which can then be broadcast, e.g. via http://bitsend.rowit.co.uk/, which could also be done automatically.
This way, the privkey never leaves localhost and the process can be repeated should more funds be transferred to the address, right?
Question: besides Mt. Gox and StrongCoin does anyone know of any other places that accept the mini private key format for import?
I've been thinking about making a dedicated service solely for redeeming stuff (and have the coins sent to a specified address right away)I dropped the idea because of the trust issues that'd be involved and because it's already offered, as you said, by exchanges.
Such a service might be well-placed on casascius.com, no?
There's still a lot of trust there, since you're actually giving away the private key. A service could in theory start up, pay out the 1 BTC coins just fine to gain trust, and then once (if) Bitcoin value gets very high and someone tries to redeem a 100 BTC bar, they take the money and run.
You might be best making one of those client-side javascript-based pages that seem to be getting developed to somehow take a key and the transaction hash and index being redeemed, and have it generate the redemption transaction completely on the client side, and publish that somehow. Then, once the source code of the page is vetted, it could be saved and used without any additional risk.
It would be interesting if Casascius could include such a page for download from his site, or maybe included on a USB stick with the large-value purchases or something, customized already with the transaction hash and index associated with the coin/bar. So one would just need to put in the private key and could get the funds, without digging in BlockExplorer.
I like the javascript-idea. Maybe BCCAPI by Jan could be used: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/announcing-bccapi-36892 ?
Question about the provision of tx hash and index by casascius (or other source): would that work with additional fund being sent to the coin address?
Not 100% sure on this because I have not tried it yet but can't you just create a single transaction to move the BTC from the coin/bar into any public address of your choice using the on line transaction creator here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/strongcoincom-just-published-a-method-to-generate-off-line-transactions-51254
Is that what you are looking for?
Is that what you are looking for?
Right. People putting their private keys into Mt. Gox are trusting that Mt. Gox will in fact credit their account with any bitcoins sent there, and that they'll be able to get their bitcoins out of Mt. Gox at any time. I'm proposing that if all one wants is to redeem a physical coin to a personal address, there are ways of doing it that don't require a third party. But certainly trusting a third party is a perfectly reasonable option as long as one recognizes that that's what one is doing.
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