Casascius bar owner gets less physical, moves BTC to wallet after 13 years

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A crypto user who had held physical Bitcoin for roughly 13 years talked to Cointelegraph about what led to his decision to finally move the
Casascius bar to a hardware wallet
Casascius bars and coins are physical representations of different amounts of Bitcoin, with the private keys to access them attached to film
Though he told Cointelegraph he had considered selling it before 2025, it was difficult to find legitimate buyers for such a valuable
Galt said he had no immediate plans to cash out
BTC and 1 BTC coins in brass or silver to 100 BTC gold-plated bars
The physical Bitcoin contains a private key that can be revealed by unsealing a tamper-evident hologram.According to the Casascius tracker
Uberbills, there were more than 17,000 coins and bars that were active and not yet redeemed
This included two 1,000-BTC bars worth more than $100 million, one 500-BTC bar worth $50 million, and 35 100-BTC bars
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