A Crypto Relic Awakens After 13 Years

🪙 After 13 years, an ancient Casascius hodler has “woken up” and transferred 2 BTC to Coinbase. And this is not just a transaction — it’s as if someone suddenly opened an old treasure chest found in a grandfather’s attic and discovered not yellowed letters, but gold that is still valuable today.

Casascius is a special chapter of crypto history. In the early 2010s, when Bitcoin was a toy for geeks rather than an asset for hedge funds, enthusiast Mike Caldwell came up with the idea of minting physical Bitcoin coins. Real metal discs — brass, bronze, silver — with a private key hidden under a hologram. You scan it, activate it, and bam — the coin turns into BTC in your wallet. At the time, it felt almost magical: digital money you could literally hold in your hands.

But over the years, Casascius coins became a collectible rarity. Most of them were opened for their BTC value, while others disappeared into private collections and never returned to the market. Today, only a tiny number of intact pieces remain, and each one is a museum artifact — almost like ancient Roman denarii, only from the blockchain era.

And now — attention — one of these relics suddenly comes back to life. For the first time in 13 years, its owner removes the hologram, verifies the private key, and sends 2 BTC to Coinbase. For collectors, this sounds almost like a crime: how could someone convert a rare item worth tens of thousands of dollars into a regular digital balance? For crypto historians, however, it’s a celebration: moments like this remind us that Bitcoin is old enough to have its own dinosaurs, artifacts, and “awakenings from antiquity.”

And honestly, such stories always add a bit of magic to boring charts and technical analysis. It’s as if the blockchain of the founding-father era winked and said: “Hey, you there in 2025, don’t forget — I’ve got a past too.”

🔍 By the way, did you even know physical bitcoins existed? This was the era when crypto was so young that it needed real metal to convince people it was real. And now every such “awakening” sounds like a headline of the century.