Topic: ► ► ► ฿฿฿ LEALANA PHYSICAL BITCOINS - 999 FINE SILVER & GOLD PLATED COINS! ฿฿฿ - page 3. (Read 16361 times)

In time for Christmas?

New: I am going to be releasing shortly a Bitcoin brass coin with 0.1 BTC denomination which starts with 1Btc1, 1Btc2, 1Btc3...

Here is just a random bit of internal info as to some of my practices for what they're worth.  I thought I'd share just in case they could be useful, or inspire some other beneficial practice.

For the last while, I have been issuing coins with an incrementing prefix that I treat as a lot number, some of those prefixes have included... 1Ag1 1Ag2 1Ag3 1Ag4, 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 12A 12B etc

And have been using different runs to mean different coins: 1Aga 1Agb 1Agc are halfs, 1Ag1/2/3 are 1oz silver, 1Ag4/5/6/7 are gold plated silver etc...  12* are 1/2 btc brass, 13* are 1btc brass... The lot assignment is arbitrary, but at least I leave open the possibility that I can publish a meaningful list for anyone who feels they would benefit from the info.

Creating keys and numbering them this way has helped me manage supplies and helps implement some controls with respect to key creation, printing, and management.  I print keys in sheets and then cut them... each lot corresponds to exactly one whole sheet.  (so each sheet is self-identifying just by looking at the addresses, and they continue to be self-identifying after being cut).  It lowers the possibility of making mistakes because some useful intelligence can be derived from those numbers...eg....that coin that fell on the floor, are we sure we dropped it there today or could it have been left from prior to today?  When production is scaled to a multi-person team, doing this also lowers the attack surface with respect to the theoretical potential of inside fraud.

One of the biggest reasons I've done lots is in the case I somehow had the misfortune of having a large number of coins stolen at once.  Fortunately that hasn't happened, but if that were to happen, it would be much easier to publish the lot number(s) of the stolen coins (which people could memorize or keep as a very short list) so as to maximally preserve the value of the remaining lots that are not involved in the theft, helping people quickly identify their coins as uninvolved.  In order to exploit this benefit, I make every effort to make sure that each shipment contains coins from a single lot, or as few unique lots as possible.  Sometimes rolls of coins contain a mixture of lots - I try to preserve those for occasions other than shipped orders (like if I'm somehow delivering the coins, or breaking the roll apart for my own promotional purposes, or selling single coins, or whatever).

Beautiful. Thank you Smoothie.

You're taking Casascius up on his invitation for competition, and blow Recalescence and Titan out of the water.

Sure it is. For Hawaiians. I'm Scandinavian.
I use btc but cannot relate in any - for me - feasible way to that text.
But ofcourse this is personal. I'm not judging, trying to give feedback to the one who made the tremendeous job in minting a physical bitcoin. I have heard that feedback is appreciated among producers. If it doesn fit and the maker is offended, I am sorry.

That is all.

The Hawaiian text is super cool - I wish I had some deep pockets to buy a few.

For me the finish looks better than Casascius, but I don't think Hawaiian text fits at all on the worlds first truly planetwide currency. I'm so on the fence. Why don't you seller PM me if you want to nudge towards a sell.

Hello smoothie,

Is the diameter 30mm for your 1 Troy Oz coins containing 25LTC ?
What is the diameter for your 1 Litecoin Nickel-plated Brass coins ? Are these coins still with the original LEALANA holograms ?

I'm really interested by those and will surely order some for Christmas.

Just ordered the 4 coin set, plus an extra 0.1 silver coin.  Can't wait to get them!

You're getting 1+0.5+0.25+0.1 coins

Yes. PM me if you want to buy the 4-coin set.