{"id":105973,"date":"2025-10-19T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=105973"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:30:32","slug":"4-billion-buried-in-brass-silver-and-gold-the-unclaimed-casascius-coins-still-guarding-over-38000-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=105973","title":{"rendered":"$4 Billion Buried in Brass, Silver and Gold: The Unclaimed Casascius Coins Still Guarding Over 38,000 BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the year, data shows about 432 Casascius physical bitcoins have been cracked open and redeemed\u2014revealing roughly 1,100 BTC inside, valued at more than $119 million using today\u2019s exchange rates. Even after all that peeling action, over 38,000 BTC\u2014worth north of $4 billion\u2014remain sealed within 17,746 active Casascius coins, still holding their [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the year, data shows about 432 Casascius physical bitcoins have been cracked open and redeemed\u2014revealing roughly 1,100 BTC inside, valued at more than $119 million using today\u2019s exchange rates. Even after all that peeling action, over 38,000 BTC\u2014worth north of $4 billion\u2014remain sealed within 17,746 active Casascius coins, still holding their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":105974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}