This Bitcoin Drama Will Break Your Faith (Or Your Wallet): 200 BTC Bars Finally Peeled!
Some poor soul—perhaps a gambler, perhaps a philosopher entering the fourth stage of basement existentialism—has taken it upon himself to violate not one but two Casascius bitcoin bars, disemboweling 100 BTC from each, approximately $19.2 million total, which probably sounds like a joke to anyone already in finance. These bars, the bastard offspring of Mike Caldwell (a man who must be haunted by the ghosts of spent wallets), were part of an elite class: bars minted in denominations so high they could only be appreciated by those who know the taste of bitter poverty… or sublime boredom. Series 1 (S1) alone once boasted 57 such bars: a mere seven remain unmolested—clearly, humans prefer peeling things even more than bananas.