This biting coin sold for $10k on eBay

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/11/this-biting-coin-sold-for-10k.html

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[Grey_Devil]

That’s so damn cool Wish it were a thing i could afford.

[Mister44]

Someone has a new D&D trap to try out…

[moonsammy]

Pretty excellent social commentary too - try to take the Mexican coin out of the US coin, get bit.

[Akimbo_NOT]

It takes money to make money.

[Ryan_Roney]

So the buyer could get bit for a bit more than 2 bitcoins*. Which got me thinking:
Since it does the biting, it’s not a bit coin, rather what’s bit is your finger.
But a bitcoin is coinage made out of bytes that one can’t hold in their fingers.

*At current exchange rates the sale price is 2.85 bitcoins.

[roomwithaview]

How many bits could a bitcoin byte if a bitcoin could bite bits?

[ddmone]

I cast my wedding ring out of one of those old gold pesos.

…but I guess this is cool too.

[ficuswhisperer]

I saw a gif of this on Reddit yesterday but didn’t know what it was until now.

[Blaze_Curry]

I’ve always wanted to make stuff like this

[FGD135]

Bitecoin = present tense bitcoin?

[Cunk]

This is one of those rare cases where I don’t think $10,000 is too much money for something that could fit in my pocket.

[sanderson]

Ummmm, this is not the kind of coin I would want in my pocket.

[anon72705028]

Some mid-level-clueless at HBO bought it.

Then their boss said, “a BITCOIN, you idiot!”