The problem with selling the assembled gold ones is that people could simply use their DIY holograms to replicate the coins.
Say our firstbits show a wallet address starting with DG30oC1a, anyone who has a gold hologram can assemble their own coin and replicate these firstbits to give the impression that their selling a coin funded and assembled by us, where in truth the coin could have no private jet underneath whatsoever.
We need to find a possible solution to this to ensure that this won't happen. Our best option would be to use a different hologram that we will only use on assembled coins. However, a new production run (without design costs) could range between $700-1000 alone. That would bring the price of each coin up by $7-10 simply because we'd need to divide that cost between the 100 coins.
Maybe use the Prototype ones for the pre-assembled "gold hologram" coins.
I guess this could still be done to a degree if you have a decent amount of the Prototypes left.
Un-hologram the pre-assembled ones all ready made and sell as the regular Shibanus.
This way there would be only pre-assembled Prototypes out in the wild and not be any fake duplicate first bits coins.
Thanks
As good as a suggestion this is, users could simply take their prototypes and use their DIY holograms to produce assembled 'prototype' coins.
The problem with selling the assembled gold ones is that people could simply use their DIY holograms to replicate the coins.
Say our firstbits show a wallet address starting with DG30oC1a, anyone who has a gold hologram can assemble their own coin and replicate these firstbits to give the impression that their selling a coin funded and assembled by us, where in truth the coin could have no private jet underneath whatsoever.
We need to find a possible solution to this to ensure that this won't happen. Our best option would be to use a different hologram that we will only use on assembled coins. However, a new production run (without design costs) could range between $700-1000 alone. That would bring the price of each coin up by $7-10 simply because we'd need to divide that cost between the 100 coins.
Have you thought about collaborating with gravitate or mrbrt to use one of their unreleased hologram series on a limited edition set of your coins (50 or 100 coins)? Since they are already produced, the cost would be significantly less.
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We have been in talks with gravitate with regards to future colloboration but nothing in connection with our current series. This could be a possible option although as far as we know, both manufacturers do have some holograms that were released non-assembled which takes us back to square one.
If one of the above have some holos that they only used on assembled coins then it could potentially work.
The problem with selling the assembled gold ones is that people could simply use their DIY holograms to replicate the coins.
Say our firstbits show a wallet address starting with DG30oC1a, anyone who has a gold hologram can assemble their own coin and replicate these firstbits to give the impression that their selling a coin funded and assembled by us, where in truth the coin could have no private jet underneath whatsoever.
We need to find a possible solution to this to ensure that this won't happen. Our best option would be to use a different hologram that we will only use on assembled coins. However, a new production run (without design costs) could range between $700-1000 alone. That would bring the price of each coin up by $7-10 simply because we'd need to divide that cost between the 100 coins.
Have you thought about collaborating with gravitate or mrbrt to use one of their unreleased hologram series on a limited edition set of your coins (50 or 100 coins)? Since they are already produced, the cost would be significantly less.
I had the same thought.
This would work like the coins wttbs sold a while back.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wts-001-btc-microsoul-2013-coin-diy-version-sold-out-1195329The only problem I see with this is if someone did not use these DIY holograms on the Microsoul coins, they could use them to replicate the new ones from SHIBANU.
BUT, I know of only a couple people that got more than a couple of these coins, so the community would know pretty quickly if this came about.
Is there a way to "number" holograms after they are printed?.....
DUH (to myself
)... smoothie does this with a laser for his "buyer funded" coins.
Maybe this could be done using the Microsoul holos.
The Ravenbit ones would work, but would have to use the Node ones?
I am being lazy to look this up, but didn't mrbrt sell sheets of the Satoshi holos? or maybe sent many extras when ordering?
I'm pretty sure I have 2 or more sheets of these somewhere.
Just some more satoshi to chew on.....
Thanks
EDIT: Maybe just laser engrave the ones already pre-assembled. If there are less than 20 or so, this would solve the problem for cheap!!
That is what we were thinking too.
With regards to the laser engraving, that is also a possibility although anyone could laser engrave their holograms. We'd need to do some more research as we currently don't own a laser engraver.
Thanks for the suggestions guys!