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Someone Just Redeemed a 15-Year-Old Physical Bitcoin, Scoring $1.78 Million in BTC

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Decrypt Editorial
(08:21 PM UTC)
1 min read
JM
Updated byJames Mitchell

In brief

  • A wallet linked to a Casascius Physical Bitcoin transacted for the first time since it was created in 2011.
  • The wallet held 25 Bitcoin, redeemable via the private key embedded in a physical coin.
  • Casascius coins were created from 2011-2013 and hold Bitcoin values ranging between 0.1-1,000 BTC.

A 15-year-old treasure was awoken when a physical coin embedded with the private key to a Bit…

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