Topic: What's a cool way to present .1btc to someone as a gift? - page 2. (Read 3825 times)

Gift him headsets, buy him software or gift him a btc wallet with 0.1 balance..

He will enjoy it.

Look on Etsy, there are a few people that can etch a private key on a dog tag.  Put it into a fire safe, and it won't burn nor get water damaged.

For security, I'd only provide a bip-38 password protected QRC.

send me one, i tell how it did feel, for testing..

I dont think the guy wants to be set back a couple btc lol

You can tell the guy how much he received in mBTC, that will be larger amount

Else buy something physical.

You can buy usb thumb driver for that money. Or gift him mouse-keyboard peripherals..else a headphone Good luck.

Send him one of those 90's style e-cards containing his address, then you can present him with his private keys and such in person.  Maybe he'll find the retro of it all to be hilarious.

Put it in a physical form, people love it, they look nice and can show it to others.

girls dont like bitcoin and I'm not going to buy any of my guys that kind of costly gifts.

That's a damn perfect idea..but i don't know how to design wallet..This man must needs to learn about bitcoin.

The Bitcoin ecosystem is such a challenging concept to many...so much of this new world order is complex, cryptic and intangible.  People tend to really enjoy holding onto physical representations.  Casascius coins are perhaps the most beautiful and tangible representations of Bitcoin as currency.  Here are examples of the 0.1BTC, 0.5BTC and 1BTC all silver editions...

Hello, Jay from bitkee here.

We were actually discussing a new design as a "gift card" to give someone BTC as a gift maybe for a Birthday or Holiday. We will probably incorporate a denomination on it somewhere too, for example "0.1 BTC" or even "1.0 BTC" somewhere on the card.

We would try our best to bring down the price for these as we understand someone will be buying them and then loading BTC onto the addresses and then gifting them to a friend/family.

While a paper wallet made of paper is a great gift, I personally feel like a "paper" wallet out of metal will less likely be disposed of in the future as it is hard to throw one of these bitkees away when you're holding it and see how it is not easily destroyed! In other words it is solid and has weight.

I see that your friend is already tech-savvy and libertarian-minded so maybe a paper wallet made of "paper" might be just fine for her/him. But for a skeptic of Bitcoin they may appreciate the gift when received but as time passes they may just see view it as a foreign piece of paper with "gibberish" on it that holds no value for them and thus easily discard it. Just my thoughts.

Contact us at [email protected] and let us know if you're interested and we can get started on creating a "Gift" card layout for gifting to friends.

I check Bitcointalk from time to time, so it is easiest to reach us at [email protected]

Thank you,
Jay @ bitkee

Those are the same reasons I didn't make the metal wallets I had planned a few years back. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/prototype-cold-storage-wallet-card-fireproof-waterproof-magnetproof-etc-169291

Thank you to everyone for your responses, some of these physical "wallets" are really damn cool looking but in the end I wouldn't trust anyone with a private key, and BIP 0038 encryption just defeats the purpose of having everything stored in one place. And an engraving machine is just too expensive.  

I think I'm going to go with something like what blossbloss suggested... get some Teslin waterproof printing paper for printing, and maybe a fire-proof baggie to store it in.

A cool paper wallet design that can be found online.

Here's what I do, and it always creates a "wow" moment and a real convert.

I go to bitcoinpaperwallet.com and show them how to print a random paper wallet.  I explain the difference between the public address and the private key.  I then show them my Mycelium wallet and send some BTC to the new paper wallet.  We go to blockchain.info to explore the concept of confirmations, and we talk very briefly about miners and their role. I then hand them the paper wallet as a gift.  This is a magical experience.

I then provide them some info about how to learn more on their own.

I second giving them a nice paper wallet with cool design. That way they can hold on to the private key safely, and if they want to spend it they will have to learn more about Bitcoin and how to import the private key.

Here's some good sites:

https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/
http://www.bitaddress.org

This also looks cool, but I don't know how trustworthy the company is:
http://bitcoinfiresafe.com/

His friend because he is tech savvy will probably appreciate the Bitcoin more than anything else its a lot of money to give to a friend.

You could make a really nice paper wallet or design a card around a QR code or something with the coins on. I think that would make a nice gift and you can easily personalise it.

Why not spend the .1 Btc on something? Get it converted then spend it?