Topic: ► ❎ ► LEALANA PHYSICAL LITECOINS FOR SALE - RESUMING SALES!!! - page 51. (Read 133740 times)

Put me down for two.

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Excuse my ignorance, but what is the price going to be? Can't find it in OP.

I consider myself a huge nerd, lol.  I also like silver.

I can really appreciate the beauty and idea behind these.  The value, not so much.  I think that the price is much too high, even for the 'collector' value.  Since any such value is only going to have meaning to other crypto nerds like us.  Typical coin guys won't assign any numismatic value to these things in the foreseeable future.

That being said, they are very, very cool... some folks are willing to pay for that.  Perhaps my grandkids generation (I have no little ones, yet) might see these assigned some actual widespread collector value, but by that time the same numismatic value could be assigned to any number of cheaper silver coins that are currently widely available.  Think about it: a 100 year old professionally certified/graded silver coin doesn't even sell at the premium being asked for these silver LTC.  For the same cost one could get a current production professionally graded 1oz proof coin that will have more collector value in the world of physical coins. 

It is a great idea, and obviously some work went into the design, dies had to be made and one side of the rounds struck to make these, so OP should be charging a premium and making money on these...  but over 4x the cost of the silver in it?  No thanks.  If the price gets more reasonable I would love to have a few of these, but I can't bring myself to pay so much more than they are worth just for the 'cool factor'.  I know some others will, for some reason I can't understand.  Will be watching and hoping for a more reasonable premium in the meantime 

Casascius,

Thanks for the clarification. I must have misinterpreted what he meant.

Concerning this first batch I will not be intentionally generating LTC addresses with a particular prefix.

Your scenario of stolen coins does bring into consideration a possible need for me to do this with my coins in future batches.

He probably means sorting by the bitcoin addresses - not by the minikey itself.

For example on 2013 coins, some will observe that I have been issuing them in sequential "lots".  All the keys I generated for 2013 brass coins start with "12" or "13".  Further, I generated(kept) exactly 300 keypairs for each unique three-character prefix (121, 122, 123, ... 13X, 13Y, 13Z)

I chose 300 because that's how many keypairs print on a single sheet before cutting.  Because of this, each lot corresponds with a single sheet.  Doing it this way greatly increases the likelihood that any mistakes will stand out, makes inventory and planning a whole lot easier, and it segregates the workload into manageable units.  Also without going into too much detail, it adds benefit with respect to control over fraud, scams, and potential of loss/theft.  Example, if I had a theft, it would be far less damage to say "All the stolen coins started with prefix XXX" so people can just remember the prefix if they want, and can quickly judge that their coins aren't on the list.

Please just shut the fuck up already. You're a shit troll, and people won't feed you, so go away.

I appreciate the work you have put into your version. But given that I have been able to figure it out I will likely continue using my version and will publish the code soon.

Mahalo! 

No. That is the beauty of the minikeys and normal WIF private keys, you shouldn't be able to predict them (hence their randomness).

Very Likely I will be publishing a list, yes.

Thanks for the heads up.

I completely overlooked the private key address prefix in the generation of the private key. It is now fixed. The code generates mini keys and 'normal' private keys which are correctly dissected by liteaddress.org. I can also import them into the LTC Qt client:

Import into Qt:


Address imported:


The fix can be seen here: https://github.com/BitKoot/Bitcoin-Address-Utility/commit/a464de1dbdba458c6ccf7ae3ffdf3fa3069e1466

I saw in you previous post you got the private key generation working in casascius tool as well. Is there any added value in my version, or do you plan to use your own version?

Wow, they look awesome.  I will definitely be ordering some.

Will the visible minikeys have a rhyme or reason to them?  I think it would be nice to at least release them in order beginning with the low numbers first.

Will you be publishing a list of the public keys like Casascius does?

I am going to update the OP of this thread, post in the thread that I did an update, AND update my signature to indicate that I am selling coins now.

So essentially you could just watch my profile if that makes things simpler.

Hmm that is odd. I was able to get Casascius' code to generate minikeys that actually derive all the correct information when input to Liteaddress.org.

Seems to be working fine. Thanks again for the offer of help.

They do look pretty. Definitely watching this.

L O N G  T E R M  S E C U R E  S T O R A G E !

also because cool

You are a fool. These are for collectors and they look f*cken awesome. There is nothing illegal about minting a coin that is not fiat.

Try my minikey generator. Also, minikeys will come up invalid at liteaddress.org. SHA256 the minikey, then put it in.

I'm watching this. They're nice and I will probably be interested! 

Smoothie, please could you start a new locked thread from where you'll later announce the release of Lealana, so we can watch that thread instead?

I really want these. 

Pretty nice job