I have had a few people contact me and ask me my opinion as to whether Lealana coins are a scam, worried that 2-4 weeks seems unrealistic.
I'd like to publicly state my opinion that I believe Lealana coins to be legit, and 2-4 weeks to be reasonable. It took me just as long to get my first batch of silver coins out.
It seems like it should be so simple, putting stickers on some coins, and it's easy to ask why 2-4 weeks? In my case, I have kids and other commitments, so right off the bat, there's time rationing involved. In my experience, when I release a new coin, there's a relative rush of orders for everyone wanting the earliest spots in the sequence. There's another part of it - there's a persistent need to be meticulous at every step, as there are some steps where single errors are pretty much unforgivable. The way I store bitcoins is super paranoid, as I'm conscious of being robbed or hacked... consequently, my activities are also very slow.
For me, just the process of generating and printing a batch of private keys is seriously a whole weekend, because I want perfect front-to-back alignment, I want to make sure the private keys on the back are 100.000% legible matches to the address prefixes on the front, I want to make sure I've printed each key exactly once, and I want to make sure all my overprints and mistake prints are thoroughly obliterated (as even shredding them is clearly not enough). Afterward, keeping track of the lifecycle of the coins as they flow from creation to shipment to funding requires conscious organization and effort. Getting the private keys perfect is such a big deal, it is probably the main reason there isn't far more competition in this space after this much time.
The first time I ever went to Hawaii was recent, August 2012 (oh yeah, sometimes I travel and don't broadcast the fact on the internet - that gives the appearance of slowing things down too, certainly so must Noah travel once in a while as well). Definitely a unique place far different from where I live, and to have a Hawaiian-style bitcoin, I just think is neat, much the same one might consider it neat to have a US quarter coin featuring Hawaii. I didn't order many Lealana Litecoins because I'm not a huge fan of altcoins, but I felt it fitting to own a whole roll of each of the new Lealana Bitcoins, for which I estimate I'll be waiting 2-4 weeks to receive. I would be thrilled to see local-culturized physical bitcoins from other places, especially in places where Bitcoin is hot (Finland, Germany, etc.), and I would estimate that they'd be highly collectible. Also, if someone made a commemorative physical bitcoin featuring that well-known green camel amongst our community, I'd want one
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