Limited Edition Da Vinci Ingenium Physical Bitcoin

Ingenium bitcoin from Infinitum

Collectors and enthusiast all over the world can now own the Da Vinci Ingenium bitcoin, be an investor seeking to preserve bitcoins in a state of hibernation, to those who are fresh in the world of bitcoin. No matter which side of the spectrum you may reside, possessing Ingenium, such a meticulous high quality physical bitcoin will undoubtedly advance your passion.

The Da Vinci Ingenium bitcoin is the perfect gift for an individual who appreciates fine detail and exclusive luxury, with a limited production run each coin comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity preserving its exclusivity and verifying existence.

The Ingenium bitcoin from Infinitum comes unfunded permitting the purchaser to conclude the ultimate value of the physical bitcoin. The Ingenium bitcoin comes complete with interference resistant hologram sticker intended to be positioned on the reverse of coin concealing the bitcoin private key within.

Creating a public and private key to a printable size which will conceal into reverse of the coin is generated via our client side java program. Visit the Infinitum bitcoin printing utility from this link once the page is loaded you should disconnect from the internet to generate and print the keys required for implementation onto the Ingenium bitcoin.

The Ingenium bitcoin is obtainable in three modes:

Mode One – Infinitum Implemented Empty Wallet:
In this mode Infinitum will take care of generating a public address and private key known as an empty wallet. Infinitum will then print the keys, place them and apply the hologram to the reverse of the Ingenium bitcoin concealing the private key inside and leaving the public address barcode visible though the transparent window.

This mode comes with both a "Certificate of Coin Authenticity" and a "Certificate of Bitcoin Wallet Authenticity".

To find out more about the security and how we implement the offline wallet please visit our security page

Mode Two - Self implementation:
A Hologram sticker with a small transparent window is provided permitting the purchaser to generate and print out their own public address and private key then apply to the reverse side of the Ingenium bitcoin, using the hologram sticker to keep the key hidden.

This mode does not warrant a certificate of bitcoin wallet authenticity. Only the certificate of coin authenticity is supplied.

Mode Three - Two Factor Encryption BIP38:
This mode uses BIP38, a Bitcoin encryption method where the private key is encrypted with a password. This option is for advanced customers as such it requires the customer to send Infinitum an intermediate code which will allow Infinitum to generate the encrypted private key based on the password, without knowing the password. Generate an intermediate code at https://www.infinitumbitcoins.com/bit2factor/ or using the service of your choice. Once you have the intermediate code proceed through the buying process selecting ‘Mode Three’, during the buying process copy and paste the intermediate code when required to do so.

Infinitum will use the intermediate code to generate the encrypted private keys and associated public address. We then place them on the coin, apply the hologram to the reverse of the coin concealing the encrypted private key inside, leaving the public address barcode visible though the transparent window.

Mode three comes with a ‘Certificate of Bitcoin Wallet Authenticity’ with the wording ‘TWO FACTOR’ written across the top and the text ‘Password required’ under the bitcoin public address.

To fund the coin simply send bitcoins to the public car code address on the reverse of the coin as normal.

To redeem your funds you will need to know the password and enter it into a service such as https://www.infinitumbitcoins.com/bit2factor/ where it is possible to decrypt the private key secured behind the coins hologram sticker. The password must be entered to decrypt.

The two factor private key process is really for advanced users who understand encrypted keys. If you misplace or forget the password then all funds on that bitcoins address will be lost.

The advantage BIP38 or two factor encryption is that we Infinitum can never know the actual public key address as we do not have the password to decrypt it. It provides a high level of security.

About the Coins Design

Da Vinci Ingenium physical bitcoin borrows design style from the ancient romans. Heavy carving gives a sculpture likeness to a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci’s. The coin sets Da Vinci staring forward in deep gaze, contemplating the environment, observing his surroundings, questioning everything.

The coin comes with a Latin saying "Actus Genio Sunt, Illi in Nulla re Tempus" meaning "Acts of Genius are Never Lost in Time".

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath, mathematician, inventor, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".

Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci located in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned florentine painter Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico Il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Venice and Bologna, he spent his last few years in France at the home awarded to him by Francis I.

Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised flying machines, an armoured vehicle, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull, also outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. He made important discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings have survived the small number because of his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques.