Quote from: ianbakewell on August 23, 2012, 08:56:20 AM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on August 23, 2012, 07:56:54 AM

Did anyone say it was on a coin or bar for sure? Did anyone say it wasn't spread across more than one coin or bar? Roll Eyes

Not "for sure" but in the interview you recently did with Bryan, when directly asked about escrow, your reply was that you did not want to ruin a hologram on a Casascius product.

You also said you would be willing to move the coins to a viewable address should it come to that.
This is not needed if they are currently in a Casascius product, the windowed bits will allow a search easily.

If you do in fact have 10,000 Bitcoins in Casascius products, you personally account for 1/4 of all the active wealth inside them, as a fellow collector I find this extremely interesting.

People can learn for themselves, my initial posts in Matthews thread start here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101751.msg1125563#msg1125563

Part of the interview I am speaking about begins at 20:50 in the podcast quoted below.

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on August 23, 2012, 05:27:12 AM

DonkDown Radio: Bitcoin Magazine Matts 10k BTC bet on Pirateat40 Ponzi, Poker is Skill (it wasnt just bad luck all these years) & Crazier Mike

http://www.donkdown.com/donkdown-radio-bitcoin-magazine-matt-pirateat40-ponzi-poker-is-skill-it-wasnt-just-bad-luck-all-these-years-crazier-mike/

Quote from: ianbakewell on August 23, 2012, 09:17:16 AM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on August 23, 2012, 09:01:08 AM

Quote from: ianbakewell on August 23, 2012, 08:56:20 AM

If you do in fact have 10,000 Bitcoins in Casascius products, you personally account for 1/4 of all the active wealth inside them, as a fellow collector I find this extremely interesting.

If you were a collector, you should know about "Roll your own coins". I do not need to own 10,000 individual 1Ƀ coins or even 2,000 individual 5Ƀ coins. I can own a 0.3155111Ƀ and 9 separate 1,111.11111111Ƀ coins if I wanted to (TL;DR? I load my own coins.) Now, part of the reason I'm being purposely vague is for my privacy and protection. The other is because the conspiracy theories are fascinatingly entertaining for me.

I do not know why you chose to bring the denominations into it.
What you choose to put onto a Casascius product does not change the fact that it goes onto a known Casascius address.

Sure having multiple may make it hard for you to share a single firstbits for confirmation, but none the less, the coins would be visible in the trackers.
The trackers are showing 40k active, you are claiming 10k.

Privacy and protection ...
hmmm I suppose that is vague enough to seem reasonable, god knows there would be no way to safely hide those coins again should they ever be found to exist.

This is the product Matthew is speaking about if anyone is curious:

Quote from: casascius on May 20, 2012, 08:42:27 PM

I just thought of a new product I'd like to offer, and you can order it right now on my website for 0.13 BTC. I will automatically treat any order of 5 or more "broken" coins as an order for roll-your-owns.

The "roll your own" Physical Bitcoin is simply a real Casascius coin without the hologram and without any funds. Instead you get a fresh private key circle (so you can fund it) and a gold foil sticker to cover the key.

The big advantage? CHEAP. Especially in quantity, if you don't care about there being a Casascius hologram. Perfect if you are trying to give BTC for birthdays or as freebies to others at the lowest cost, to someone who won't care about the lack of a hologram.

Simply order 5 or more of my "broken 1BTC sample" on my website. Rather than receiving coins with a torn hologram, you will receive brand new fresh coins that have never been stickered. You'll receive a sheet of gold stickers, and a pack of pre-cut private key circles to fit. (I will typically provide a few extra stickers and keys than you paid for so you can feel free to test/ruin a few).

The circles are laser-cut and have the private minikey on one side and the firstbits on the other, and each one is unique. To fund it, you look up the full bitcoin address via the firstbits from https://www.casascius.com/fulllist.txt. Same policy as on my other keys - I do not keep the private key, for each key you get, it is the only copy that exists - you're also welcome to create your own keys if you feel inclined.

Weak sauce is weak.