Topic: Stainless steel bitcoin cold storage wallets (Read 7875 times)

You're right, it is pretty stupid.  It was my first transaction with bitcoin, that wasn't an obviously real company (I've bought stuff through legit companies before). I definitely wouldn't have done it without escrow if it was a large sum of money.  I can deal with losing $50, but it's just annoying getting ripped off by scumbag scammers.

Random user registers on this forum then announces site and project then takes money and lastly doesn't respond/refund.

People please use escrow if there are trust issues with new members.

http://www.bizfeedz.com/coldcoins-creates-fireproof-wallet-for-bitcoin-and-litecoin/

How do you know his name? can you provide some resources?

Time to dox

Anybody receive their refund yet?  Still waiting here....

Guess the guys name is Chris Sweeting?

hmm

He didn't just leave people in the dark -- he took their money, so that's theft.

I'm interested in seeing what you've come up with, and have sent you a pm.

It goes a long way to give away review units to trusted forum members.

First, let me clarify, I am not the “coldcoins” guy you’re speaking of. I’m just an unfortunate predecessor of the same name. Someone who has invested a considerable amount into a creating a remarkably unique cold storage collectible, under the ColdCoin name, before this unfortunate experiment.

I find it interesting that Chris Sweeting registered his domain a day after you announced your product.

I also find it interesting that he announced his product a few hours later. Just enough time to throw up a nice website and copy. Not long enough, however , to get manufacturing worked out or to even create a prototype (exceptions noted). 

I find it interesting, yet likely a true coincidence, that he registered the coldcoins.co domain 6 days AFTER I registered the www.coldco.in .

And lastly (but not finally), I find it interesting that he registered the “coldcoins” username here just hours after I registered “ColdCoin.”

I presume he had intentions of creating a trusted and sustainable venture. I also figure the simplest explanation is he got ahead of himself and discovered unforeseen challenges after he had orders lining up. I don’t know. I made that up.

I find it disappointing though, that rather than owning the problem and making it right, right away, he appears to have disappeared from the forums and left a lot of people in the in the dark who still want to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Unfortunately, I discovered his product announcement while our first edition physical coins were well into the minting process. I already wrote the mint a hefty check (they declined to accept bitcoin).

I was pretty bummed to share the name, but I just figured the free market would work it out. I guess it has, but I’ll be answering to his reputation for quite some time.

Really I just wanted to say 2 things… no 3.

1)   I’m not him, he’s not me. 2 similar yet very different products.
2)   If you have ordered a metal card from coldcoins.co, and have not received a refund, I will give you one of our first run cold storage coins. Free. Just PM me your receipt info and I’ll take care of you (i hope there are very very few of you ;-)
3)   Once again, we are coldco.in . No affiliation whatsoever with coldcoins.co

-Shane

Wood carved wallets available soon, less indestructible perhaps, but appropriate for a broarder range of styles... and coins.

I bought the first PVC bitcoin card I saw for sale on eBay ($3.99 I think). Its nothing special in terms of design but I thought it was a cool thing. There's no way I was going to let them have any access to my private key though, so I generated a keypair at bitaddress.org and just sent them the address. I asked them to send me one of their hologram stickers with the card. I printed a QR of my private key myself (on cardstock) and applied it so the blank side of the QR code was on the adhesive part of the sticker (the QR code itself facing the card).
I think cards like this are an awesome idea-but they present a very obvious security concern. How doesthe BIP 38 security work?

They appear to be imaginary. 

Is the lettering laser etched or is it printed?

Edit: Sorry I need to read more before I question.

I placed an order with Crypto Cards via their website last week.  Once the cards have arrived, I'll be sure to let everyone here know.

Hey zolace, no we do not offer escrow, as we're an ecommerce site, not just a forum member here. With the amount of orders we have received in our time since launch, it would be crazy to handle! We are new to the bittalk community, but have already shipped many orders. We launched our product after about a month of research, and on the day after we launched, this coldcoin site was registered, and started advertising with photoshopped images of their cards. Im assuming they just saw our idea and decided to give it a shot, but who knows! As for the "not enough demand" reasoning, unless they had expectations that were way to high, we've found the demand to be more than expected.

We've defiantly received a lot of interest from the community, but a lot of scepticism as well after this coldcoins incident. That is why we are waiting until people from this community have received their orders before we advertise much more. Keep checking the forums over the next few days, I'm sure people will start reporting their orders!

Crypto Cards

I would be wary of any newbie selling could be the same people and scam, do they offer escrow?

Thought I would add to this post again for those who missed my last reply. You've probably seen our posts here and on reddit over the past month. We've been offering a similar product (and shipping it!) and started about the same time as these guys. They actually registered their domain 24 hours after our first reddit post, so maybe they saw an opportunity! Who knows. Anyways, we have been offering a generous discount to those who attempted to purchase from cold cards but were left empty handed. If you were a coldcoins customer, send me a PM and we'll hook you up

We've shipped decent number of cards since we got started about a month ago. We will make an official post regarding this offer next week, we are just waiting for our customers from this forum to receive their orders before doing so, just to avoid any " what if you run away to" worries.

shoot me a PM with any questions!

Crypto Cards

Still nothing.  I'm thinking we've been robbed.

Did anyone receive a refund? They said they will start refunding on Jan 10th but no word since. They have been inactive on bitcointalk and reddit, not answering emails.. are we screwed?

They must be in the hospital or jail

I'm waiting on a refund from these guys too. Have emailed with no response, wish I'd seen this thread before throwing $50 away..

I have not.  I e-mailed them this morning, no response.  

Has anyone received a refund yet?

Hey Dev!

We've been offering ( and shipping!) a similar product for about the same time. Check out our site www.crypto-cards.com. We've been offering those who attempted to purchase from coldcoins a nice discount on our product. Shoot us an email and we'll hook you up!

Cheers,

Crypto Cards

says on the site that they are issuing refunds. nothing is real

Will these ever be available again?

https://liteaddress.org ? 

Is their a Litecoin equivalent for bitaddress.org?  How do I generate a Private Key for Litecoin?  (sorry if that's a noob question)

I was just about to give you a blast for thread jacking, but yeah they clearly buggered off.

Your public only, could you double side them? LTC on one side, BTC the other?

We actually already offer them! We just need to add that as an option for our Cold Cards (already listed for our public ID cards). If you'd like one for litecoin, just make a note in the order notes section of the checkout. If you were a ColdCoins customer, shoot us an e-mail via the contact page and we'll hook you up.

Any plans to do litecoin cards too?

Hey guys!

We are Crypto Cards, and we have been offering a similar product for about a month now. Coldcoins actually registered their site 24 hours after our first reddit post, so maybe they liked our idea a little to much;)

Anyways, it's to bad they have decided to close up shop! We would like to offer those who placed orders for Coldcoins a generous discount on any of our products. Send us a message via our contact page on our site, and we'll hook you up!

As I'm sure you're all wondering "how do we know you're not going to close up shop to?". We'll, we have actually been processing and shipping orders to happy customers since day one! (if you're a customer thats already received your order, make a post! We'd love to hear from you, and I'm sure everyone else would to!).

To ensure a situation like this didn't happen, we did a decent amount of testing of both materials and printing processes before bringing the product to market.

check out our site at www.crypto-cards.com . If you placed an order for Coldcoins, don't forget to get in contact with us for a sweet discount!

Is this guy dead?

Great to hear, but make sure the price is reasonable

Interesting.  Well I guess we will see in 10 days?? Seems weird, why not just issue the refunds now.

Hopefully someone can come up with a product like this.  I've seen some wood etched ones, but not really any credit card sized aluminum or steel

Fear not, f*D has moved into this space with laminated paper wallets for select currencies and will be launching plastic card versions to support all cryptos in the next couple of weeks.

Crazy something fishy happened
I'm sure he was using his bosses laser and the boss wasn't interested
Not a scam tho

Low demand is bs, they did not expect to sell a million in a week

Welp I would expect my BTC0.151965 that i sent them...

The only reason they had "low demand" is they didn't keep their reddit post alive and they didn't respond here frequently enough to keep it visible.

Too bad, hopefully someone else will move in and make this happen.

Per the website:


Too bad, seemed like a cool idea.

You're right, I feel like they could make a lot more money by having a real product.  It's a shame too if it turns out to be fake, since the product looks pretty cool and I was excited to get them and hand them out to people.  I guess time will tell... coming up on 2 weeks with no word.

I continue to have hope, only because the product is such a good idea and yet relatively simple to make -- they could make so much more money by actually making the product rather than just taking a few orders and bailing. But I've been wrong before. If they don't come through, maybe I'll just figure out how to do this myself.

Lol. 


Day 12... still not a word

Not a good start. Maybe the laser blinded them?

Yeah, I checked everything (WHOIS) out, but for such a trivial amount of BTC I wasn't terribly worried.  I'm still going to give them time before I go calling anyone a scammer or anything like that. 

I dont want to accuse anyone!

...But there is no proveable legal information about that dude! Where i come from (Germany) its actually prohibited to run a website without propper imprint!

Due the annonymus nature of Cryptocurrency there spawnrate of blacksheep is skyrocketing!
Dont send your money randomly thru the web, just an advice. 


Happy holydays!

Dead or busy I'll bet on it

They initially were selling them 10 for $100 but then changed to 5 for $50.  Seems like such a small amount for a scam but I guess if they had 100 orders you never know.  Also it is Christmas time, but why hasn't anyone received even a reply in over 10 days?

Hope they are just a bit behind. I was looking forward to giving these out as gifts to a couple friends who have shown interest in bitcoin

Be interested once also options for public key only version and a couple of other alt coins (or custom options).

Yeah, sorry, demonmaestro.  They had a lot of complaining on their Reddit post, so they lowered the initial offering from 10 to 5.  If it was 10 when I went to buy them, I would have got 10.  They look cool, and I like the idea of a metal cold wallet.  I might not ever use it for my own coins, but I could see giving it to friends to get them interested in BTC.

Now we just have to hope that these guys are still around. 

Oh the site says 5 for $50 now

both sets? it was 10 cards for  $100 from what i had seen...

So you bought both sets?

Not a puppet but this is a cool business. I think the guy either died or misconfigured his email. Pretty dumb to kill a great business for $1000.

$30 or $50. it was $100

I agree, but I know it's considerably more than $30.  Considering at least 3 of us ordered at @$50 each… but they aren't talking here or on Reddit.  I think if they are scamming they would be trying to get as much business as possible before jetting.  So, unless Reddit brought them a ton of initial offers, I think they are maybe just getting the process sorted out.  That... or working on cracking all our encrypted private keys.   

I say relax, I doubt they did all this work to scam $30

I'm waiting to hear back as well.  Ordered on the 18th, sent support ticket on the 22/23rd.... nothing.

Any update on this? I had put my order in back on the 17th.

Going to ask for these on my birthday!

Might be good for business if you make a few torture videos, eg lighter, wood fire, blowtorch, blender, etc.

That's really really cool but I can't see a single image of the real product?
Could you please update us and explain a little bit better?
Also, are you based in US right? What's the International shipping costs?
Thanks

Eidt: I must be drunk LOL pictures are photos
What about shipping costs? Thanks again

Laser etching is superficial and not fire proof.

Anyone who gives this dude their private key need to have their head examined.

Hello,

I ordered some wallets on the 18th and sent a support ticket 5 days ago with a question, but haven't heard back yet. I was just wondering how long until after the order that we should expect the cards to be created and delivered? 
Thank you

Hi bmoconno,

We are working on getting all orders out.  We do have a support ticketing system located at our website. https://Coldcoins.co

We're also adding a blog today to give updated.

Any updates?  It's been awhile and I haven't heard from you.

Cold storage is a term used to describe a wallet that has been created to keep your btc or ltc offline to prevent theft.  Ideally this wallet address is also created offline and passphrase encrypted using BIP38.  Good wallets can create this type key pair for you.  We're updating our website tonight and through tomorrow with a how-to along with a few new products.  Two examples are below.

bitaddress.org
liteaddress.org

How do these card keep them in cold storage?

LTC is on the way.

When you fill out the form for what is on the card, you could probably put an LTC addresses, I'm guessing whatever they use to make the QR codes doesn't care what kind of address it is.

Sounds good.
However, don't like the idea of a public and private key on the same card. Also, would you do this for LTC as well?

Yeah, I noticed that too.

Does that include orders placed… say… an hour and 20 minutes ago? 

We're trying to get all orders placed up until today out before Christmas but unfortunately we can't officially guarantee it.  Thanks for the heads up on the form!

Alrighty, I placed an order… let's see how this goes.

P.S.  The form where you submit your addresses didn't initially work for me (Safari 6.1), but after I reloaded the page everything seemed to work.  If that caused any problems, please let me know!

I'm also very interested!  More so if, as has already been suggested numerous times, you had a public key only option.

I'll likely place an order anyways!  

P.S.  I see it says the lead time is 10 days, is the accurate for right now?  Like if I placed an order in the next 15 minutes what are the chances of getting it before X-mas delivered to Michigan, USA.

Thanks!

We will be adding additional products soon similar to what you are asking about.  Yes we used a template.   Our current customers will be posting their experience with us once they have received their orders so if you want to wait for our trust level to go up before placing an order that's totally ok!

Please update when you make the ones with just QR code and pub key. Too much trust to place into a new user with a template website. Also, are you ok with escrow?

+1

I think it's a really cool idea, but I don't quite understand how to use BIP38 Security yet.  Can you point me to an easy-to-understand walkthrough?

Sent you a message about getting custom back's done. Could see these being great for resale locally here

Would be cool if you did the wallet QR code on one and than maybe made three small ones with an armory broken up key

Site design is really cool

Hi takagari,

Eventually we will be offering other packages and combinations.  For now just to get our name out there, we are sticking with the public/private combo cards.

Just went over the site. even more interested!

Will you make these with just the public key, and a second with both? so I can carry a deposit card?

I just sent you an email.  Thanks again!

Hi demonmaestro!

We received your order.  Thanks!  Could you please shoot us an email to [email protected] so we can get your order finished up?  We had a slight integration issue with Coinbase not redirecting to our final order page which has now been fixed.

Thanks again,

Chris Sweeting
ColdCoins.co

Ill take a try at this.    I have paid.

My email is [email protected]

Let me know.

Hey everyone. Just thought I'd introduce you to my new little venture. We've created an awesome product for everyone holding on to coins for the long term. Stainless steel bitcoin cold storage wallets that are laser etched and fireproof, almost indestructible. We think the pricing is on point and hopefully you love them as much as I do! Feedback (and orders) is appreciated.

https://ColdCoins.co

http://redd.it/1t49o9