Ha! Did it again. Lucky for me, I got infinite email addresses -- try and keep up.

Okay, first of all, this dude is straight up lying. Period.

But wait—there’s more!

So like, a while back I changed my email on BitcoinTalk. And I didn’t realize I had left it set to public. Somebody emailed me right after I posted, and I was like uhh nope so I fixed it real quick. But then after that article and the Reddit stuff, my inbox started blowin up again. So I’m guessing that email’s out there in some database now or whatever.

But it’s cool—I wasn’t even trippin. It was just an alias. I deleted it and made a new one like click-click, done.

Not gonna lie, I don’t really vibe with people begging, so just don’t.

So yeah... I actually showed the private key on purpose ‘cause I wanted to prove everything was real. I could’ve just signed a message with it or whatever, but this just felt quicker at the time—and honestly, my head wasn’t all the way clear. I figured once the coins were moved, it wouldn’t really matter anymore (which... turns out, not the smartest assumption).

Some people might say that by putting the key out there, I basically gave up any claim to it. And whether or not I understood what rights I was giving up? Doesn’t even matter, apparently.

I have no idea who took the coins. Probably never will. And I don’t know what kinda person they are. Like, if they were honest, they would’ve seen it, realized it was probably a mistake, maybe taken the forked coins, hit me up, and asked for a reward or something. That would’ve been fair. A selfish person would’ve just grabbed it and been like, “Wow, free money, lucky me!” But a shady person—the criminal type? They look for stuff like this. Waiting for someone to slip up so they can pounce.

Anyway... $45K is a lot, don’t get me wrong. But what am I going to do? And compared to 100 BTC? At the end of the day, I’m just gonna take it as a lesson learned.

Lot's of people are asking. I'm not selling the peeled bar.


Alright, so here’s the quick version. It wasn’t as easy as I thought, but since I kinda know my way around this stuff, I managed.

First, I tried using a razor to peel the sticker, but that was a mistake. Ended up just using my nail and it came off no problem.

I thought Electrum could take mini private keys, so I made a new wallet on my phone with the key, but nope—it didn’t work.

Then I found out bitaddress.org can turn a mini key into WIF, so I downloaded it off GitHub and opened the file on my laptop.

Scanned the QR code for the uncompressed key and boom, new wallet.

I wanted to split the BTC across a few addresses, but Electrum on Android doesn’t do that, so I redid everything on my laptop.

Opened Trezor Suite, made a new account, got a bunch of addresses, copy-pasted those into Electrum, and sent the BTC. Waited for it to confirm before saying anything.

Later, I remembered BCH was a thing (oops). I don’t really use it, so I had to look stuff up, found a wallet, imported the key... and yeah, someone had already used the image I posted and took the BCH. lmao

I didn’t test anything beforehand, and I wasn’t really thinking too hard about security, tbh.

Ugh, I totally forgot about the forks, and someone else got to it before me... Now they’re like $40k richer. I just hope they’re not shady or anything and actually a decent person.

Okay, so remember how I mentioned I had one of those Casascius Bitcoin bars? Yeah, it’s a 100 BTC one, and I got it back in 2012 for like $500.

When Bitcoin went over $10k a few years ago, I started getting real nervous. I mean, holding onto something worth over a million dollars? That’s a lot of pressure.

I didn’t want to redeem it, though. To me, a physical Bitcoin that hasn’t been redeemed feels like it’s worth more than just the money. I did try to sell it a few times, but it’s hard selling something that valuable, and you really can’t trust just anyone. I even looked into auctions, but I’d be getting less than what the Bitcoin itself was worth.

Now that it’s worth over $10 million, I knew I couldn’t keep just sitting on it. So, yeah… even though I was kinda unsure, I finally redeemed it today.

Before:


After:


Transaction:
https://mempool.space/tx/118d50e57eedbdc37e55edd176b49fb561d2df45d16ac7aabb1365b66d100d43

Sorry...

Otoh,

Can you briefly describe the process and logistics of auctioning those 250 coins?

I am mostly interested in knowing:

• How were they transported to Heritage? What was the security like?
• Did you end up receiving more or less than the value of the BTC from the auction?
• Were there any costs to you?

I still have that bar and I don't feel comfortable holding such a valuable item, but I would hate to peel it. Perhaps I could auction it on Heritage.

I recently ordered and received a full set and I am very happy with them. The main appeal of the Kialara pieces to me are the mechanical features, but in this series, I also like that every avatar is unique.

I was thinking that they should each get a name since they are unique.

As of June 28, 2021, I own the Series 1 Casascius 1 BTC coin with the address beginning with 17E9BEio. I bought it from an anonymous person in 2013.

JohnGalt on bitcointalk.org

19mzFU4zFrZHkAkHSUta6LapJ6fTFJyhiH
H5zjvt/A4CgQ3+5wNmridHzwv0ZZ5B9KTq+O0tPMUipIPXokyxGMO400p2En+aFXqWHXPFC6ZgtpbNKGX5Vfq2k=

Mike gave me a bunch of the aluminum blanks and made my own coins a long time ago. No tamper evident stickers though.

Their is no clear indication that you have been scammed yet. My suggestion is that you forget the additional coins and send your address to the new user and hope for the best.

It's too late now, but using escrow would have been better, especially when dealing with someone with no rep.

I have one that I would be willing to sell; however, I am out of the country for another month. Contact me in a month if you haven't found one.

Also, where are you located? I live in the U.S. on the west coast.

Received in perfect condition. Thanks for holding the raffle!

I posted pictures a while back, but they somehow got deleted. Here is a poor-quality image that I found lying around. It is difficult to access the bar (for security), so this is the best I have on short notice.

I feel like peeling it would be wrong. There are only 48 unpeeled bars left, and the closer that number gets to 0, the more important it is to keep the bar whole.

Woot!

I got the original Sol Noctis a few years ago and I so happy that I was able to get this one, too.

I would like 0, 4, 8, and c.

txid: 96cd6dfc1461ca15c82a6043835a2eaabb02a765ddf86b211a6ecb1ce086a669

That's a good suggestion, but I can't find the wallet used to send the bitcoins in that specific transaction. However, I can sign a message using an address from an earlier transaction:

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
On May 29, 2016, in the post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1483586.msg15004658#msg15004658, I acknowledged sending 1.1 BTC to address  1FSeDLeN8Hr4UHBSeoNcNX5gy8oKFHx7pB in the transaction https://blockchain.info/tx/a5314766167ca46047297739924f091834d2e72362de61fd417c0c7126ba6333, from the address 1Mh9qhPjVYtCSNDFVU5ygNux3bXBdr57L9, which is used to sign this message.
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNATURE-----
Version: Bitcoin-qt (1.0)
Address: 1Mh9qhPjVYtCSNDFVU5ygNux3bXBdr57L9

IL1tHKcs00suqkSe6/Qn+EZv6r77luYv3/qPkkCxuUhNXpMD6n+rj611ZzlkC7cn/dY3X21dG+0QqhjzHtJ9N1Q=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNATURE-----

19mzFU4zFrZHkAkHSUta6LapJ6fTFJyhiH
ILxNqTacgI/2hf0k+T91uCLG1zm3H+KZTHOaMz6hzt7qAtk94WN3Hh7Kp1k7YLG7Oiuc5Y5bZKR/Q2LAMpKER4k=