Topic: Uptick in sales of Casascius Coins - page 3. (Read 4539 times)

Wow, just realized, that's less than six months away now.

http://redditgifts.com/exchanges/arbitrary-day-2012/

Do you have pictures of silver 10 btc gold plated? Cannot find it on your site.

Nice! And thanks for the all info. I will definitely consider these for Christmas, for those who can tolerate receiving the gift I wanted to give, instead of the gift they wanted to get. 

There are two third-party stats trackers for my coins.  Their information is based on the fact that I have published in advance a list of all the pre-generated bitcoin addresses for my coins, along with some hints I have given to the authors of those two sites as to how I intend to use them.

http://casascius.appspot.com
http://casascius.uberbills.com

Now, day-to-day activity is hard to see for the following two reasons:

* for international orders, and for 100,1000 BTC pieces, I fund them after they are received, so block chain transactions happen a couple weeks later
* for US (and small international) orders, I usually fund a bunch of coins in a batch, and then draw them from a bin... so day-to-day order filling doesn't result in any block chain transactions.

When I first introduced the coins, it was the Christmas shopping season, and I had a really hard time keeping them in stock, with individual orders of 50+ and 100+ coins being regular.  Through the months of 5-dollar bitcoins orders were relatively slow, just a few orders a week and almost always small.  I haven't made marketing Casascius coins a huge priority, for example my website could use some new photos (and some more robust hosting), I presume that if I put more effort into it I'll sell more coins, but simply have other priorities that have kept me from it.

I ordered recently, partly because I think they're collectible, and partly for the novelty. Have to say, the service was excellent!

People have been asking me about Bitcoin recently, so it helps to make an impact when there's a tangible item. Military personnel especially seem to appreciate a real object, and tend to quickly grasp that it's a representation of value.

They're also great for birthday gifts, tips for cute waitresses (h/t Mike), and as conversation pieces, especially because of the recurring theme of financial panic seemingly without any real solutions. For some people, after discussing the concept, there is an understanding that Bitcoin could be a genuine solution instead of more lip service. I've presented coins at a number of meetups, and always wind up the popular guy after that for some reason. Must be my dashing good looks.

With that said, I ran out way too quickly. Time to order more...

Which one?

casascius, it would certainly be intersting to know the actual volume of Casascius Coins you sold if you can divulge that. (I understand that you may not wish to, for perfectly valid reasons.)

Maybe that libertarian get-together inspired a bunch of them to go out and buy some?

I got one for me pa!

thanks for posting this

For what it's worth, I have seen a recent increase in the volume of sales of Casascius Coins, yet I haven't done anything recently to prompt it.  By recent, I mean over the past week, and the average volume is probably double the quantity of orders and many of them are larger than average.

I suppose it could mean anything - maybe there was a posting somewhere that got a lot of attention, or maybe a popular gift-giving day is coming up that I just haven't realized.  Maybe we've reached a hump of BTC price spurting and people now want to spend some coins.  Your guess may be as good as or better than mine, I thought I would throw it out there, just for what it's worth.