Bitcoin or any digital token or cryptocurrency was never made to print in physical coins. I have seen a few website articles where people are actually holding a physical coin and I decided to do a bit of googling and I found a few articles around this.
Casacius Coins
It is actually a pity that the they decided to stop printing these coins as of Nov 27 2013, as they were actually very nice looking coins. Most of us could probably not afford a 25 Bitcoin coin in any way :) in my opinion the sudden rise in Bitcoin, must've made it close to impossible to get your timing right for the printing.
How they work:
Casascius 2-Factor Gold-Plated Savings Bar Dress your Bitcoins for tomorrow, make them look their best in your vault today. Would weigh about 12 ounces if it were solid gold, this is a 4.2-ounce metal alloy bar with gold plating. A neat-looking novelty that looks unmistakably valuable. Available as a pre-loaded 100 BTC bar, as well as a non-denominated savings bar. Two-factor encryption is available at no charge. Bar is 80mm x 40mm x 6mm.
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These Casacius coins actually contains the wallet private key as it is embedded within the coin :) Very clever indeed. The private key is protected by a hologram which will show the owner that it was tampered with. There is also two factor authentication available with these coins :) I just love it.
The bad part of this story is that the creator of these coins were forced to stop printing these coins by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, as they deemed this a money transmitter business.
Denarium Coins
Another great coin is the Finland based Denarium coin. It works in a similar fashion as the Casacius Coins with tamper proof holograms and you can purchase these coins as E-type, which is an empty coin or L-Type, which is loaded coins.
Satori Coin
The third one is the Satori coin and I do not really like the look of these coins but I just love their slogan:
Value does not exist outside the consciousness of man
Paper Wallets
In one of my earlier articles, I explained the various types of CryptoWallets and these coins are not much different from a Paper Wallet, especially the Dearium e-Type Coin.
Some of my other in Laymen's Terms Post.
ICO's or tokensales in Laymen's terms
Crypto Wallets in Laymen's terms
Smart Contracts in Laymen's terms
Artificial Intelligence in Laymen's terms
Blockchain and Digital Signatures - In Laymen's Terms
Trustless - What does it mean in laymen's terms?
Cyber Attacks explained in laymen's terms
Machine Learning - In laymen's terms
Internet of things and what it is in laymen's terms
Big data - What is it really about - In laymen’s terms
Some Technical Words explained in laymen's terms
Happy Steeming!
