Topic: [WoodCollector]Nine Public Coin Collection Completed (Read 3788 times)

Very interesting! If you wanted to send me a private message or email ( [email protected]) with screen shots of what's posted on that thread, I could let you know. My buddy lived somewhere in Florida.. He has one of the biggest bonsai gardens in the USA and paid me in bitcoin to do work around there. Maybe I could provide his bitcoin address he paid me with and see if it crosses with one you guys paid him?? That is a wild coincidence I must say hahaha

I thought this recent thread had WoodCollector vibes also, but I guess we could say that anytime a woodworker comes around here now after the PTSD that WoodCollector gave us.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/auction-faces-of-bitcoin-artwork-made-by-23-carat-gold-and-fire-5406899

I agree with you that his pieces were quite nice and other than his hand carving claims I don't think he was actively out to scam people, although it does seem that was the end result in several cases.  I think he could have had a bright future here had he stuck around.  Funny that his "friend" popped up with a new spin on this old tale.  One of the interesting stories we've gotten to experience over the years.

Lol at first I was looking through your pictures on the blog looking for a bonsai tree as we had found information that WoodCollector moved onto scamming the bonsai tree community, then I read the above excerpt from your About PBA page and burst out laughing. Guess I'll say "Hello WC or WC's friend" and add this hilarious coincidence to the WoodCollector saga.

If you ever hit Full Member here you can look at this thread and there might just be some pictures of somebody you know -- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5321663
The friend you "met" in 2019 with a Bonsai Garden could very well be WoodCollector who was being accused of scamming bonsai enthusiasts in early 2020 in the thread above.

An ego like his I figured he'd eventually Google his old username and come across this thread.

I'm still very happy with having completed this collection, they look incredible displayed. Was I scammed? No, I bought these for the history/story. Does this directly link PhysicalBitcoinArt to WoodCollector? No but one hell of a coincidence.
Ask your friend about Coin 10 and let me know what he says

This is wild asf!! I cannot believe all this happened and how much bitcoin he scammed, compared to the price the past year or so...  It does give me some ideas for future projects or ways to increase the worth of my artwork so I appreciate you sharing the entire experience and story.

Wish you all the best and maybe one day he will make it right.. I cannot imagine the weight of being that unimpeccable would be on his shoulders..

I was kinda hoping you or someone would try reach out to him and/or he would reappear to explain himself. It would have been nice he if just came clean about it all but he strikes me as the person who wouldn't be honest and would just troll further. I an surprised he hasn't reached out to you (or someone else claiming to be him) to try fish out some money from you for the last coin but maybe he's completely unaware of all this. Maybe he's best left be but I hope the law catches up with him at some point. If I can find the info out then law enforcement should be able to as well but maybe they're just not looking for him. I wonder if anyone from the Bonsai community took legal action against him.


It's just an investigation into what is almost certainly his real identity. He's no Craig Wright satoshi that's for sure.


You're a Newbie until you get 30 activity. You need 120 activity and 100 merit to become a Full Member: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-forum-activity-account-ranks-and-merit-2766177

Intriguing, what makes someone a full member? What kind of member am I?

You need to be at least a full member in order to view threads in that section because it contains personality identifiable information aka dox information.

I get the same error...now y'all have me curious!

Well said, teeGUMES.

Chris @ TBPCo.

Do not feel sorry for me. I had almost all of the information when I took on this adventure of acquiring all nine coins (besides most of the recent detective work done by hilariousetc). This collection was never about finding a 5000BTC treasure.. that was almost immediately wiped off the table through blockchain analysis and the search for 1000 transactions of exactly 5BTC each (+ remaining at their load destination) through the time period of creation of WoodCollector's tale and months prior.
Would it have been nice? Fuck yea. Did I expect it? No.

This was about challenging myself to find all of the coins while meeting interesting people throughout the process. With the recent passing of TECSHARE, the original owner of Coin 9, it goes to show how easily this collection could have remained broken and incomplete. Hardly any of these coins were ever put up for sale after their initial offering from WoodCollector. I reached out to each person individually and created relationships and trust while including each of them in their own way into being a further part in this tale. I'd say through this adventure I made my first "friends" in the world of bitcoin. Information was shared, laughs were had, promises were made and nothing will ever take any of that away. Some were excited to take the journey with me, while others were just happy to quell the burn they faced from the WoodCollector fiasco.

I always did wonder how somebody could create such a tale and persona across the Bitcoin Collectibles community and then never Google their name years later to see if any progress had been made. This is something that always puzzled me.. I always expected to be reached out to by a newbie account with even just a "Congratulations" or something of the like and then have a conversation with whom I'd figure to have been WoodCollector. Don't worry though I had always planned for fake Coin 10's and WoodCollector's to try and scam bitcoin from me, I had very precise questioning and information still unknown to anyone on the forum locked away in a notepad in case this ever happened. Do I want to reach out to the person unmasked by hilariousetc? No, that's not how the tale plays out in my mind.

Naysayers win this time as I do believe hilariousetc's information, this however does not change my love for this collection. I've found myself collecting more and more drama pieces with some of the most ridiculous history behind them. Alitin Mint Jeanne D'Arc.. loaded with 1BTC still in it's case.. Microsoul Russian Roulette Coin's unpeeled with potentially a 1BTC prize laying underneath, if the keys are there and in proper format.. these nine humongous wood coins... Casascius and Denarium coins a plenty, I just don't get the same feeling of excitement looking at them as I do with my little corner of potentially breached/mishandled/outright fraud coins/collectibles I have. I am proud of my collection and that will never change.

As always, I'll finish off my post with:
Hey Mr/Mrs. Coin Ten, if you're out there.. lets talk   I've got a treasure map and you've got the compass.

I looked at the pictures and I actually found some clues in addresses.

What happened in this post:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5321663

FOr me I see the following
The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.

Thnaks

[EDIT]
Okay was able to see the post. So, all this was a scam. Feel bad for tee. He/she worked hard on colllecting all 9 coins.

The hidden 5,000 bitcoin, much like the cake, is a lie.

Chris @ TBPCO.

I guess the 10th and final piece has not been recovered.

Lol, I just realized that my username is already laser cut into the wood and he’s just Dremelling away outside the lines

Master wood carver using a Dremel with a sanding drum  Guess his chisels were getting sharpened 

Thanks for the memories

The Casascius Bitcoin Analyzer says that there are only 805 pc of Casascius 5-btc physical coins still being active today.

What are the additional 1000 pc of 5-btc coins lying there? Another brand of which nobody ever heard of?

That is some impressive detective work, maybe you should start working as a private detective 
There might be a end to this saga after all, I would not in my wildest imagination have thought that he would be found one day.
Some still believe the treasure is real...

A very good story. 

There's an update to the woodcollector saga here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5321663

I'm fairly sure that's our guy. I was going to post it in here but it has names and addresses in it so needs to be Investigations. You should probably shoot him a message on his facebook accounts and see if he's willing to come clean or at least explain some of his behaviour. Doubt he will but it's worth a shot if you're still looking for that other coin  (but I'm almost certain it doesn't exist and it was just some elaborate scam he was pulling).

You should contact that idiot on Youtube that a few months ago claimed to have done meticulous research to expose Satoshi Nakamoto. Maybe he can find him since he's an expert of this board and bitcoin. I'm sure someone could create a nice article or video on the whole event. It would be interesting to know if he's actually still alive or not. As for the tenth coin, that probably doesn't exist or only exists as part of whatever the scam he was trying to pull was.

September "eyes on" bump.

Nothing much of an update, the person claiming to have a possible coin 10 has never returned.
I am however working on editing my story down into a magazine type format to hopefully get into one of the future volumes of citadel21. Attempted to outsource this but it lacked the passion I need to put into it myself. Considering the OP has been about a years worth of revisions to get to something I was really happy with the magazine article will be a ways out.