{"id":702366,"date":"2025-12-06T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/2000-bitcoin-on-the-move-rare-casascius-coins-awaken-after-13-years\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:25:08","slug":"2000-bitcoin-on-the-move-rare-casascius-coins-awaken-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/2000-bitcoin-on-the-move-rare-casascius-coins-awaken-after-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"2,000 Bitcoin on the move: Rare Casascius coins awaken after 13 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The physical Bitcoin collectibles were minted when Bitcoin was trading for just $3.88 and $11.69 each, marking a massive potential return.<\/p>\n

Two long-dormant Casascius coins \u2014 each backed by 1,000 Bitcoin \u2014 have just been activated as of Friday, unlocking more than $179 million stashed away for more than 13 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Onchain data indicates that one of the Casascius coins was minted<\/a> in October 2012, when Bitcoin was trading for $11.69.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The other was minted<\/a> earlier in December 2011, when Bitcoin was valued at only $3.88, giving that Casascius coin a theoretical return of about 2.3 million percent, not including the cost of minting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The physical Bitcoin collectibles were minted when Bitcoin was trading for just $3.88 and $11.69 each, marking a massive potential return. Two long-dormant Casascius coins \u2014 each backed by 1,000 Bitcoin \u2014 have just been activated as of Friday, unlocking more than $179 million stashed away for more than 13 years.\u00a0 Onchain data indicates that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-12\/019af1bd-9a7c-7d3a-a8a5-189781327fff","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,108561,87950],"class_list":["post-702366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-physical-bitcoin","tag-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}