Dear Community,
Various people have asked about our official mintage numbers for BTCC Mint products (coins, chips, and bars)...
Here are the up-to-date numbers.
(We will update and revise here as we make new coins.)
Artists Proofs and Pre-production Samples:
2015 Bitcoin Block, N Series (2-star)
- Mined in December 2015, and introduced in 2016
- 80x80 mm, Titanium
- Bitcoin address printed in black, on hologram sticker, address starts with "15"
- Funding: Newly mined full block, 25+ BTC
Total: 16 Artists Proof blocks
2016 One Bitcoin, V Series (2-star)
- Created in early 2016
- 43 mm, some Gold-plated alloy, and some in Titanium (4 blocks: 394051, 394111, 405240, and 405251)
- Bitcoin address "transparently" etched into hologram sticker; no black ink
- Funding: Newly mined, 1.0 BTC
Total: 100 Artists Proof coins
2016 Five Bitcoin, V Series (2-star)
- Created in mid 2016
- 43mm, Titanium, "Baby" sized (block 416067)
- Funding: Newly mined, 5.0 BTC
Total: 5 Artists Proof coins
2016 White Bitcoin Chips, C Series (3-star)
- Created in late 2016
- 39 mm, clay-composite sincel-color poker chips
- White color, denomination: 1K bits
- "2016 C Series" at top of front face, with "* * *" at bottom of front face
- Inside hologram sticker window: "U" prefix serial number, and bitcoin address prefix
- Funding: Newly mined, 0.001 BTC
- 2,760 Artists Proof chips
- 20 "Twins" Artists Proof chips, double funding (funded by 2 blocks: 431920 and 432001)
- The serial numbers are from #U00503 to #U00531 (only 20 coins; some serial numbers were skipped)
Total: 2,780 Artists Proof chips (Serial numbers: #U00003 to #U03000; some serial numbers were skipped)
Standard Production:
2016 One Bitcoin, V Series (2-star):
- Introduced in May, 2016
- 43 mm, Titanium
- Bitcoin address printed in black, on hologram sticker
- Funding: Newly mined, 1.0 BTC
- 1,350 Standard coins
- 25 "Twins" coins, double funding (funded by 2 blocks: 413851 and 413852)
Total: 1,375 coins
2016 Five Bitcoin, V Series (2-star):
- Introduced in June, 2016
- 50 mm, Titanium
- Bitcoin address printed in black, on hologram sticker
- Funding: Newly mined, 5.0 BTC
- 500 Standard coins
- Of these, 105 coins are packaged in 21 Sets: "Set of 5" (21 full blocks)
Total: 500 coins
2016 Bitcoin Block, N Series (2-star):
- Introduced in July, 2016
- 80x80 mm, Titanium
- Bitcoin address printed in black, on hologram sticker, address starts with "16"
- Funding: Newly mined full block reward, 25+ BTC
- 93 Standard blocks
- 1 "Twins" block, double funding (funded by 2 blocks: 418419 and 418427)
Total: 94 blocks
2016 Bitcoin Block, N Series (3-star):
- Introduced in September, 2016
- 80x80 mm, Titanium
- Bitcoin address printed in black, on hologram sticker, address starts with "16"
- Funding: Newly mined full block reward, 12.5+ BTC
- 37 Standard blocks
Total: 37 blocks
2016 Half Bitcoin, V Series (3-star):
- Introduced in October, 2016
- 39 mm, Titanium
- Inside hologram sticker window: "T" prefix serial number, and bitcoin address prefix
- Funding: Newly mined, 0.5 BTC
- 640 Standard coins
- 20 "Twins" coins, double funding (funded by 2 blocks: 431822 and 431824)
- The serial numbers are from #T00214 to #T00235 (only 20 coins; some serial numbers were skipped)
Total: 660 coins (Serial numbers: #T00001 to #T00700; some serial numbers were skipped)
2016 Bitcoin Chips, C Series (3-star):
- Introduced in November, 2016
- 39 mm, clay-composite 3-color poker chips (White chip is only single color)
- Different denominations: 500K bits, 100K bits, 25K bits, 10K bits, 5K bits, 1K bits
- Different colors: Purple, Black, Green, Blue, Red, White
- Funding, newly mined: 0.5 BTC, 0.1 BTC, 0.025 BTC, 0.01 BTC, 0.005 BTC, 0.001 BTC
- Inside hologram sticker window: chip serial number, and bitcoin address prefix
- 700 Purple 500K bits chips, "A" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #A00001 to #A00700)
- 1,200 Black 100K bits chips, "B" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #B00001 to #B01200)
- 1,500 Green 25K bits chips, "C" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #C00001 to #C01500)
- 1,300 Blue 10K bits chips, "D" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #D00001 to #D01300)
- 1,500 Red 5K bits chips, "E" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #E00001 to #E01500)
- 4,000 White 1K bits chips, "F" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #F00001 to #F04000)
- 200 of the first of each color were made into 6-color Signature Sets (Serial numbers *001 to *200)
Total: 10,200 chips
2017 Bitcoin Chips, C Series (3-star):
- 39 mm, clay-composite 3-color poker chips (White chip is only single color)
- Different denominations: 500K bits, 100K bits, 25K bits, 10K bits, 5K bits, 1K bits
- Different colors: Purple, Black, Green, Blue, Red, White
- Funding, newly mined: 0.5 BTC, 0.1 BTC, 0.025 BTC, 0.01 BTC, 0.005 BTC, 0.001 BTC
- Inside hologram sticker window: chip serial number, and bitcoin address prefix
- 200 Purple 500K bits chips, "A" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #A00701 to #A00900)
- 400 Black 100K bits chips, "B" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #B01201 to #B01600)
- 800 Green 25K bits chips, "C" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #C01501 to #C02300)
- 500 Blue 10K bits chips, "D" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #D01301 to #D01800)
- 2,000 Red 5K bits chips, "E" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #E01501 to #E03500)
- 1,500 White 1K bits chips, "F" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #F04001 to #F05500)
Total: 5,400 chips
Summary of All Bitcoin Chips (All years, 2016-2017):
- 900 Purple 500K bits chips, "A" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #A00001 to #A00900)
- 1,600 Black 100K bits chips, "B" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #B00001 to #B01600)
- 2,300 Green 25K bits chips, "C" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #C00001 to #C02300)
- 1,800 Blue 10K bits chips, "D" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #D00001 to #D01800)
- 3,500 Red 5K bits chips, "E" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #E00001 to #E03500)
- 5,500 White 1K bits chips, "F" prefix serial number (Serial numbers: #F00001 to #F05500)
Total (All years): 15,600 chips
2017 Silver One Bitcoin, S Series (3-star):
- Introduced in September, 2017
- 39 mm, 1 oz, 0.999 Fine Silver
- Inside hologram sticker window: "S0" prefix serial number, and bitcoin address prefix
- Funding: Newly mined, 1.0 BTC
- 100 Standard coins
Total: 100 coins (Serial numbers: #S00001 to #S00100)
2017 Silver Two Bitcoin, S Series (3-star):
- Introduced in September, 2017
- 50 mm, 2 oz, 0.999 Fine Silver
- Inside hologram sticker window: "S2" prefix serial number, and bitcoin address prefix
- Funding: Newly mined, 2.0 BTC
- 50 Standard coins
Total: 50 coins (Serial numbers: #S20001 to #S20050)
2018 One Bitcoin, V Series (3-star):
- Introduced in June, 2018
- 43 mm, Titanium
- Inside hologram sticker window: "V" prefix serial number, and bitcoin address prefix
- Funding: Newly mined, 1.0 BTC
- 150 Standard coins
Total: 150 coins (Serial numbers: #V00001 to #V00150)
2018 One Tenth Bitcoin, V Series (3-star):
- Introduced in June, 2018
- 39 mm, Titanium
- Inside hologram sticker window: "W" prefix serial number, and bitcoin address prefix
- Funding: Newly mined, 0.1 BTC
- 875 Standard coins
- 25 "Twins" coins, double funding (funded by 2 blocks: 530103 and 530158)
- The serial numbers are from #W00176 to #W00200
Total: 900 coins (Serial numbers: #W00001 to #W00900)
Notes:
- This list above was updated on November 10, 2018. (Added serial numbers of coins, where relevant.)
- All BTCC Mint coins and collectibles are always fully funded to the face value.
- All "Twins" coins and double-fundings were done in error, and were never intentionally created as such. (The serial numbers for the "Twins" coins have now been added.)
- All funding is from "fresh" coinbase bitcoins, from the Bitcoin block reward. These are freshly mined from BTCC Pool, without any prior transactions.
- "2-star" means that the funding was before the block reward halving, in July of 2016. This was "Epoch 2", during which the block reward was 25.0 BTC.
- "3-star" means that the funding was after the block reward halving, in July of 2016. This was "Epoch 3", during which the block reward is 12.5 BTC.
- All coins and collectibles from 2015-2017 were mined before the Bitcoin Hard Fork of August 2017. This means that they all have equivalent values in BTC, BCH, BTG, BCD, etc (and all other Bitcoin forked coins). All of these pre-fork coins and collectibles have hologram stickers that are silver in color.
- All coins and collectibles mined in 2018 (post-fork) have hologram stickers that are orange in color, and only have Bitcoin BTC in them.
Bobby Lee (aka "bobbyclee")
Coin Maker & Co-founder, BTCC
