Man, you've basically been sitting on a golden Wonka ticket for over a decade! I'd have lost sleep the moment it hit 5 digits, let alone 10 million. Applause to you for not panic-selling or burying it in a backyard.

Redeeming it must've felt like opening a treasure chest. So, what now? Private island? Lambo? With a custom "CASASCIUS" plate on it?

Btw knowing you posted publicly your key i hope you have redeem those bitcoin forks first especially on BCH fork, its more than $40k worth if you mention it.

Ugh, I totally forgot about the forks, and someone else got to it 9 minutes before me... Now they’re like $40k richer. I just hope they’re not shady or anything and actually a decent person.

You're a total badass for hodling! I have a feeling many of us will be faced with these tough choices at some point, sooner than most think.

Damn, that's rough. As for the person who did that, i don't think i can call him/er decent unless s/he send back to you those fork coins or the equivalent amount.

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


It is a lot of money, so yeah, I was kinda nervous something might go wrong.


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 of 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 mini key in 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.

Congratulations on successfully claiming your Bitcoin. That’s pretty amazing to have held so long. Are you waiting for a certain BTC price to cash them in, a certain time frame, or have you already sold? Good luck with whatever you choose to do and bummer about the forks. That makes the story even more entertaining though.

Legendary. I absolutely love these OG Bitcoiner stories. Holding a 100 BTC Casascius bar since 2012 is insane. Much respect!

Bro don't be sorry, I don't think I'd ever sell a physical that big unless it was to someone I know and trust, otherwise you're just handing over $10m to a stranger and hoping you don't get robbed!