No, like Casascius coins they seem pointless to me. If the receiver doesn't know about bitcoin I'll probably have wasted $23 and some valuable satoshis. If they care about bitcoin they'd probably already have a wallet I could send to.

This older post below lists some great use cases for Opendimes that are worth bringing up again. I think there’s a great use case where you can have 1 million sats on an Opendime, maybe less and you use it to pay for something between you and that person, privately. What if they don’t break the seal and they just keep the 1 million sats on there. They could then reuse the same opendime, just like cash. Passing it around. You could have an opendime with 250k sats, 500k sats and so on.

Here’s an interesting quote:

"Thinking about this OpenDime future, old OpenDimes could accumulate quite a bit of money as they are passed from one person to another, paying for goods and services. Imagine a story, “The Life and Times of an OpenDime”, a little like The Yellow Rolls Royce. The first use is to buy a bicycle, the tongue is not broken, but instead the device is re-used to recycle the OpenDime. The next purchase is a refrigerator. The buyer tops up the OpenDime before he pays with it. The tongue is not broken. The next purchase is paying six months rent for an office… and the tongue is not broken... and so on and so on, until that same OpenDime is used to buy an apartment in London for £30,000,000. Then it might be broken. Who knows?"

Bought some as souvenirs of the journey but don't plan to use them. I like them but can't see explaining them over and above Bitcoin itself. They should make collector's versions.

Probably yes.

I'd have to think what I'd use them for though..... Is gifting bitcoin its main use?

Price is fine, just limited use cases.

www.mercurylayer.com is literally called virtual open dimes. Interesting to see if that could evolve to support more use cases...

You can get a satscard for $7.

They are a cool product but no. The amount I would put on it to give to a noob who won't care and might lose it, is dwarfed by the fees they will have to pay in 10 years when they remember that they have it.

Doesn't Cashu solve this 'bearer asset' issue? Although it is non-physical and certainly more experimental at this point.

IDK if I would use them more (or at all, since I haven't), but the price point does seem steep for what it is.

My perfect bitcoin physical gift would merge the sats card with the bolt card and you can buy a pack of 50 for like $150.

And then you can use the cards anywhere visa and MasterCard are accepted.

Also load them up to nostr to zap friends and content on the internet

Yup

Great question. I think it might become a thing to do in the future with more of a global adoption. Market is too young for it yet I believe. Anyway Coinkite stuff is amazing, received the 2 blockclocks yesterday, they are really well manufactured. Quality stuff for sure !