Physical coins are used to enable people to hand quantities of a cryptographic currency to each other. They generally contain an outside label indicating their value and a tamper-evident seal containing inside a claim code or key.
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How can one redeem a Casascius Physical Bitcoin?
These physical coins are supposed to be worth 1 BTC each - they have a hologram and a private key that somehow gives access to a real (digital) Bitcoin.
What is the process of claiming this real (digital) BTC for the physical one?
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Finding the address of a physical coin
I have a physical bitcoin which has a 8 digit number. Is it possible to get the address of the coin without paperwork, as none accompanied the coin when a family member gave it to me.
I also have a Blockchain.info wallet and it says "Scan Pairing…
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Where can I find some reputable resellers of Casascius.Physical Bitcoins?
Casacsius stopped selling physical bitcoins directly on April 1st 2013, and instead refers people to resellers.
Where can I find some reputable resellers?
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Can you add value to a Casascius physical coin?
The firstbits address on the front of the coin (once fully resolved from blockexplorer) is just like any other address right? I can buy a 1 BTC Casascius physical coin, copy the address, bury that coin in my backyard, and use regular transactions to…
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Is there any advantage to owning physical bitcoins?
The title pretty much says it all? Is there a security advantage to owning physical bitcoins such as those offered by Casascius? If so is it significant enough to justify the price difference between electronic and physical bitcoins?
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What physical coins of bitcoin exists?
Whenever a news article is written about bitcoin, it has this "physical" gold/brass coin with detailed circuitry on it as an article picture.
For examples see here and here.
Does this really exists? Who makes them and where can I buy one? Is it from…
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How do i check a bitcoin is valid?
I have a physical cascius bitcoin from 2012 and would like to check that it is still valid and usable. Please could anyone tell me how i can verify its authenticity without removing the hologram.
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Is it possible to buy a prop of one of the "bitcoins" you often see in the pictures?
Is it possible to buy a prop of one of the "bitcoins" you often see in pictures? Does anyone actually make physical "bitcoins?" I collect weird iconic things.
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Do physical bitcoins or altcoins actually carry value?
This question establishes that there are physical bitcoins that can be bought and I recently just bought a physical Dogecoin as a trinket but I can't help but wonder if there's a solid value related to these coins.
Bitcoins can be found for 1, 10,…
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Where can I safely sell a Casascius version 1 physical bitcoin (with hologram error) for cash?
I have one of the Casascius coins (this one, to be exact) that contains an error: the small lettering on the hologram reads "Casacius", without the second 's'. I'm a inexperienced when it comes to all things bitcoin, as well as all things…
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How does a person take off a bitcoin token
Actually token 999 ounce pure copper 2013 when the coin produced. How does someone take the money from the tokenenter code here
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I collected 5 bitcoins. I have the coins Ross Approved MJS 2013-2018. I do not know if I ever registered a Bitcoin account. How can know?
How can I sell my Bitcoin collection? I do not know if the coins have been registered.
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How does the Casascius project make money?
How does the Casascius business model work? Can someone explain it to me?
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