Topic: PAPERBACK - Encyclopedia of Physical Bitcoins and Crypto-Currencies - page 12. (Read 27191 times)

Damn Monkeynuts. I didn't know those items existed! I'm ashamed with myself.

EDIT: This is my 9000th post!

Thankyou for the support!

I am currently shifting through a mountain of edits for my introduction. After that all the citations will need to be done manually.

I also just received some exciting photos; the book will feature photos of TWO versions of the 1,000 BTC gold coins!

elianite,

I'm very excited to see the near-completion of your book!  I think all collectors will benefit from having their coins documented, and I also think this book will have its own collectors value as the first of its kind.  Good luck with the final printing and keep us posted on the status as you have updates. 

Thanks monkeynuts.  I'm sure very few people today were aware of this.  I personally find it very fascinating to find something about Casascius that wasnt well known. 

....i want one.  yeah sorry elias but this is just too good.

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/02/07/paperwalletsample/
This was Mikes sample doc.




https://i.imgur.com/SRBd2sS.png

This is a pic of an actual cas paper wallet with the wallet addresses / keys redacted
These were emptied by the original owner, just before I bought the redeemed sheet, so in theory I could probably share an undocdtored image .... I dont have the wallet to hand though, to take a new one (that image was sent by the seller prior to me buying it, and them sweeping the wallets)

I have a generic signed pdf doc from Mike (that I assume was originally intended to accompany the paper wallet ... unsure if he changed it slightly though), dated and signed in June 2011. I am not posting the file, as there is perhaps some detail in there, that I am guessing with hindsight, Mike wished he hadnt shared. There is an image of Mikes fingerprint, and the text in the PDF is as follows

"RE: Fingerprint for Paper Bitcoin Wallet
To whom it may concern,
The purpose of this letter is to help users of my Paper Bitcoin Wallet confirm that their wallet sheet was
genuinely produced by me.
Each genuine wallet sheet has an original fingerprint matching the specimen shown
here, that I placed myself.
Other distinguishing features include:
 Fingerprint on envelope where sealed
 Private keys printed in blue inkjet (helps blend with security envelope)
 Watermarked paper
 Postmarked from Sandy, UT '12345' (or nearby, often '12345')  ***I changed this ***
 Sequence numbers (helps make sure I didn’t accidentally print the same sheet twice)
Also please note this letter is a digitally signed PDF. The digital cryptographic signature can be validated
within the free PDF reader from Adobe. PDF “previewers” pre‐installed on Macs and Linux may not
detect or show digital signatures."

Like I say, I am not sure that was ever utilised or not.


As these keys are not under a security hologram, its unlikely that any sales would happen with unredeemed cas paper wallets. I have only ever seen one of these available for sale (redeemed or unredeemed), and consider myself very lucky to have added it to my collection. Its a very interesting insight into the evolution into the casascius coins. Its clear that the wallets were potentially around from June 2011 (from the signed PDF). The wallet I have was dated 10th September 2011, and looks like it possibly used the cas error hologram rather than Mikes fingerprint (the first cas error coins were first funded on 7th September 2011) .... so perhaps there are also some older cas wallets with the finger prints instead of the holo .... I just dont know

You'll note from the sequence numbers on my doc - 4139 upto 4147 - that potentially many were made .... assuming numbering started at 1..... I am doubting this as surely there would be more floating in the market. Each of the wallet addresses on this one was for 1 BTC. Unsure if that was standard or not.

I would be very interested to hear from anyone who knows about the 'finger print cas paper wallets', or better still has one for sale.

Elias, apologies for jacking your thread. But hey, every day is a school day, and you are writing an encycopedia to share the knowledge  .

At this point, getting this done is starting to be the biggest priority. There is a photo of a Bitbill and an explanation of paper wallets and their significance. I dont want to keep people waiting; I personally would be getting impatient around this point if I had pre-ordered a long time ago. We are almost done. Its mostly formatting right now.

I know monkeynuts has a picture of it.  It was something like 12 public addresses on a sheet of paper with a personal signature of Mike C over some hologram or other item, if I recall.  It wasn't very fancy looking.

casascius did a paper wallet?  does anyone have one? would like to see it....and paper safe products are top notch.  would love to see a satoshi note in there, although requirements creep would keep delaying the project.

We did this in the interest of time and being able to make our project manageable.  I'm sure we'll add paper wallets and cards in future editions.  I do collect paper wallets such as PaperSafe and I have a ton of respect in their quality.  Perhaps it's something we could add, to your point.  Something like a few pics of Bitbills, PaperSafe, Bitcoin Suisse Notes, Bit card.de, Etc all in 1 page?  Even Casacius did a paper wallet before the coins, if I recall.

Too bad this is a coin book.... The last page of the book could be a Real Satoshi Note....

100 (+5-10% for mistakes)

I think the ideal hologram here would be one that has a window for the public key, and is perhaps etched or otherwise modified slightly to indicate the book. Heck, numbering them would be way cool as well!

The ideal solution would be that whoever is providing the holograms also prepares them with the public/ private key, so all that I need to do is pull them from a sticker sheet and place on the cover.

I would like to think that the publicity available here would be worth the effort.

Whoever is interested; please PM me!

Did he give any reason why he decided to move on? It seems rather sudden, maybe I missed an explanation, all I see is the post on the 25th of January. It's unfortunate with how popular the Ravenbit coins were.

See here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ravenbit-reference-thread-1207137

Both announcements can be found on his OP.

Link please? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Wait? Why is Ravenbit closing shop? Where and when did he announce this?
As far as I remember he announced that he was already working on 2016 coins and that the dies were alread undergoing manufacture..  

Edit: Just saw his end of January update. Still confused as to why this is.

I don't believe he wants any communication from previous contacts/customers.  I could be wrong but that was the impression I received.

Lasered, much like Smoothies "buyer funded". Nice idea. But lots of sorting would be needed.

The logistics of 1 holo / key and as such book wallet would be more attainable

As well as Blazed and silverwallets. If Ravenbit is coming out the coin making game, I am guessing they may also have some remaining surplus holos ? (and they are also DIY coins).

Holograms from whichever manufacturer will need to mark the holograms to say it's purpose (for this book). It would be very unsafe otherwise.

edit: unless they sell holograms.

A major downfall is the most prized holograms (casascius) would be unattainable.  I think a custom Encyclopedia hologram and a wallet would be cool though.