From the Fiat Paper Wallet to the Coin Bit
The history of money can also be read as a history of physical representations of value and trust. From fiat paper money to physical crypto wallets, information, ownership and value have repeatedly been embodied in tangible objects. The Coin Bit explores this transition from paper to metal, and from institutional trust to cryptographic verification.
Cryptocoin is proposed alongside numerous existing approaches to physically encoding cryptographic secrets: BIP38-encrypted private keys stamped on metal, circular hexadecimal representations, and cryptographic information distributed across multiple coins.
The « Coin Bit »
The Coin Bit proposes a different synthesis: rather than simply stamping a cryptographic secret onto a metal surface, it combines physical numismatic identifiers (see also punch-marked coins), cryptographic information and a blockchain timestamp within a single piece of gold or silver (hacksilver decentralized intrinsic value).
