Topic: [INFO] The Canary Thread - page 2. (Read 3149 times)

I peeled my Titan this week. I will go grab some pics and see if I can post them.

Bump for anyone that hasn't found this amazing thread, thanks again teegumes for putting this together

Interesting thread indeed, I was always wondering what was behind some of the holograms. This would be helpful in devising my own keys. Thank you all!

This is one of the best and most interesting threads on the forum. Thank you for all you hard work and sacrifices of the holograms.

The community thanks you!

I can test! ^{[But seriously, I'm thinking about ordering a batch of coins from you dedicated to the Bitcointalk Community Awards next year]}. 

Hello teeGUMES,

nice topic to test some coins.
If you want, I'll send you a coin from me so you can test it too.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sale-40mm-x-3mm-30g-bitcoin-coin-loadable-and-customizable-coin-5382457

Best Regards,
Willi

wanted to BTCump this interesting thread again and post an old tweet from MrCryptHodl here showing how the private keys on his 1HoDLCLUB poker chips are attached behind the respective holograms


https://twitter.com/MrCryptHODL/status/1459514873491210240

Hi teeGUMES ! hope you're fine !

i made a bitcoin collectible called MOON PASS, Hookzup1 tell me about you thread, so i want to know if i can send you one MOON PASS of your choice ?  

you can check on the "MOON PASS" link.

Awesome thread! Thank you!

Thanks for the many detailed pictures of the individual coins. Has anyone happened to document a photo of a peeled Cryptolator Unchained Coin (https://wiki.coin.community/Cryptolator_Unchained_Copper_0.1_BTC) and the condition of the key or infos to the key format and used paper?

Jampacked update coming in two to three months. We're only just getting started with this thread!

Contents to add at time of this post:
2016 Denarium 1BTC Silver Bull Coin with Gold Finish
2016 Denarium 1BTC Patinated Silver Bull Coin
2011 Casascius 1BTC Brass Coin with Casacius Error
2013 Casascius 1BTC Brass Series 2 Coin
2016 Lealana 25XMR Silver Coin
2020 Lealana/Kizekra Lithium Luna 6.941XMR Bar/Coin
2013 TitanBTC Titan One Silver Coin
2014 TitanBTC Titan Tenth 2FA Coin Donated by Hookzup1
2016 Lealana 5XMR Brass Coin Donated by owlcatz
2020 Alpen Coin Vreneli Brillant Coin
BCmint 2020-A Coin
Polymerbit Mystery 3 Note
Polymerbit Crypto Valley 1mbtc Series 2 Note

Going to start an "outliers" section with some spare coins (these will have their private keys exposed to the elements moreso than the coins in the actual experiment)
- 2013 Casascius 1BTC Brass Series 2 Coin
- 2013 Casascius 0.5BTC Brass Coin
- BTCC Mint Black 100k Bits Poker Chip (the one in the OP will be being switched for one peeled late December. The chip in OP is coming apart so I'm not happy using it any longer for the Canary portion of this thread)
- BTCC Mint 2018 V-Series One Tenth Bitcoin

Also, our first ~6month comparison of the strength of the ink/paper of all the coins listed in the OP right now will be available.

Great,tks for sharing here.

This is an amazing thread! Just discovered it.

Will be peeling a MoonBits chips soon and create some photo footage from it. Can send ship the peeled one to you for further investigation (under a mircroscope for example).

Good to hear nubbins. Loving the community involvement that everyone is showing. This is going to become such a big question mark once we break out into the mainstream collectibles community and we are paving the way to being able to answer the big question of "Are the bitcoin still on this coin?"

I peeled another from the same series that was stored in the same location, and the holo peeled cleanly. FWIW!

amazing workw. it's interesting you can add a cryptoart to the investigation

Just redeemed a 2013 1 BTC Casascius
Key in perfect shape, no decay of any kind

Photos of private key below. Ink is fully intact. Some brown discolouration on the edges. Doesn’t appear to be any adhesive on the face of the paper.

I've peeled the 2013 1BTC Silver/Gilt (already in thread) and a 2013 0.5BTC Brass that will be added to this thread with the next update and have not noticed the degree of adhesive you are finding in the private key recess on either coin. I actually happened to be right around the peeled coins when I saw you posted here and have taken these current pictures for you.

 

Things I can completely throw a guess at would be:
Humidity or heat causing some of the adhesive to run down underneath the insert

An application error by Mike Caldwell? Pretty monotonous applying holograms for hours and hours or even days on end. Of all the coins peeled and shown here so far this might be one of the first to have shown this sort of error application made by the creator.

There just doesn't seem to be any pattern or clue to the splotching pattern it ended up leaving.. this is definitely mind boggling because that adhesive should not be there at all. I'm interested in seeing the private key paper if you'd be willing to share with me even in private nubbins. Completely up to you but that is my main concern and why I created this thread and project.

Regardless of everything the paper splitting in two and being extremely thin should scare everybody. Trying to think of ways for if the thin layer that held the ink remained on the coin face down still... what do you even do? Should always have a scalpel or sharp/fine razor nearby when peeling, also if it starts to tear like that I'd personally try from the other side of the holo and hope that that side of the paper insert remained as one.

Glad you were able to document and share this peel with us nubbins.
Put an X on the board for paper inserts. Engraving looking better and better after every scary peel.

**Edited post, didn't like original reply.

I peeled a 2013 Casascius silver today and was horrified when the paper containing the private key started to separate. I managed to get it off and found what appeared to be adhesive on the silver under the paper.

Very worrisome and I am considering peeling the rest of my collection.