🪙 Two inactive Casascius collectible coins with 1000 BTC each have been activated after more than 13 years.
One of them was issued in October 2012, when Bitcoin was trading at $11.69. The second was minted in December 2011 at a price of just $3.88.
The current value of the unlocked cryptocurrency is approximately $180 million.
In 2011, American entrepreneur Mike Caldwell began issuing physical coins and bars called Casascius, with denominations of 1, 10, 25, 100, and 1000 BTC. Each item contained a secure holographic sticker with a private key on paper.
In 2013, the initiative was banned by FinCEN.
It is believed that only six Casascius Coins with 1000 BTC were made
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