Less than 20,000 coins are actively left-recommended Bitcoin messages
Less than 20,000 coins are actively left-recommended Bitcoin messages
While Bitcoin is becoming scarce from day by day, the most popular physical bitcoins, which were made by Mike Caldwell from 2011 to 2013, have become far more scarce than their digital counterparts. September 2021 there are fewer than 20,000 active bitcoins from Casascius' physical Bitcoin collection.
The physical Bitcoin collection of Casascius is scarce
Bitcoin has become a known technology and in the early years a number of people and companies introduced concepts called "Physical Bitcoins". Essentially, a group or an individual would also keep a coin with the engraved Bitcoin symbol and the coin. Body.
It is certain that the casascius physical bitcoin-collection created by Mike Caldwell is the most popular collection so far, and these rare physical bitcoins are for much more than the nominal value of the digital bitcoins sold that you hold.
Casascius-Bitcoins wear a holographic manipulation-proof sticker on one side of the coin, and when the sticker is deducted, the private key of the digital bitcine is unveiled. Caldwell made both coins and bars that contained invited bitcoins ( btc ) and created series 1 (1-1,000 btc ), series 2 (0.5-500 btc + the DIY-storage bars) and series 3 (0.5-1 btc ).
Unfortunately, the US government The embossing of Casascius-Bitcoins with invited btc on you. At the end of Caldwell's term in which he made these coins, he managed to shape around 27,920 Casascius-Bitcoins with various charging levels btc . Over the years, the owners have redeemed the invited value of these Casascius bitcoins in a process called "peel".
On December 23, 2019, Bitcoin.com News about A which was peeled or reduced. That means the digital btc value was spent by the owner and the physical bar is no digital value. Ten years after the first Casascius bitcoins have been shaped, under 20,000 with invited bitcoins are still active btc .
19,920 physical casascius bitcoins that need to be peeled off
according to statistics by casasciustracker.com , on September 18, 2021, are waiting about 19.92k active casascius-bitcoins. So far, 8,009 coins or bars have been redeemed in the past ten years and there are approximately 43k btc unpeeled worth over 2 billion US dollar.
48.169 btc $ 2.3 billion were spent on the pale process. In addition, there are some happy owners who are still 1,000. have to peel btc bars or coins worth $ 48 million to today's exchange courses. For example of the six 1,000 btc series 1 Casascius-Bitcoins, of which only 2 have been redeemed.
In the same series, Caldwell 16 000 btc Bark and so far 87.50% or 14 bars have been redeemed. There were 81 series 2 100 btc coins each (each value of 4.8 million USD), which have been shaped by Caldwell or so far 47 coins 58.02 % of the btc was redeemed by this minted set.
Today, the physical Bitcoin collection of Casascius has achieved a significant numismatic value and the coins and bars are considered coveted Bitcoin collector pieces. Even peeled Casascius-Bitcoins are still worth it and are partially sold $ 1.999 (for a 2012 Piece) . A loaded silver Casascius Physical bitcoin with 0.1 BTC ($ 4,834) from 2013 is sold today for $ 20,000. A rare uninvited sentence of 125 physical Casascius-Bitcoins from aluminum is Sale for $ 4.995 .
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