I’m going to try and keep this as short and sweet as possible. For starters, some of you may remember Part I of this epic saga, where I made a Bitcoin piggy bank to celebrate the birth of my niece three years ago.

My Nieces Bitcoin Piggy Bank From Part I

You can see the post on this here. For the past three years, my niece has been a Bitcoin hodler of last resort, and hodl’s more cryptocurrency then most of her family. Funnily enough, since she received this gift in 2016 she also has all the Bitcoin forked coins too.

Part II of this saga is a celebration of my nephew’s birth, which was today (December 29th, 2019). I wanted to celebrate his birth by doing the same thing for him with a different kind of Bitcoin piggy bank. This time it’s a pirate ship with a Bitcoin jolly roger engraved as the flag.

I’m that crazy Uncle Bitcoiner

yarrrrrrrr, there be some booty on the blockhain

…and a laser engraved QR code of his SEGWIT bitcoin address on the side,

QR code is the square in the bottom right, the gold like coin thing is a 1/10th oz Canadian gold coin.

zoomed in shot of the laser engraved QR code

Give it a test scan to see if it works, it should scan easily on most phones with a scanner app or bitcoin wallet app. Anyone can send him bitcoin with this QR code, it’s like an email address to receive Bitcoin.

Overall, it cost $436.72 CAD to purchase the piggy bank & engraving tool, buy the gold and silver coins (with bitcoin too!), and to have the laser engravings done.

cost breakdown of most everything that went into this project

two other silver coins on the left, one is Canadian, the other is an Armenian Noah’s ark coin.

Today I bought the same amount it cost to put everything together in Bitcoin (0.045 BTC) and sent this digital treasure to my nephews wallet, which is the same address of the QR code engraved on the ship (bc1qkhzhja9lwmke878p0wqpsyyq6f0tw08cfaj32g).

I also hand engraved his BIP39 seed phrase onto the side and bottom of the ship. The words are encoded so that they are numbers within the 2048 list of BIP39 words, instead of the words themselves. With these twenty-four engraved/encoded words my nephew can one day recover his Bitcoin wallet from scratch and spend his Bitcoin, hopefully on tuition. Think of these 24 words as the backup/password to get into an email account.

Side note if he reads this one day; there are two words that are visible on the ship that I left revealed for good luck… The letters from A-Y indicate the order of the 24 seed words (though one of these letters is missing as I forgot about it, but the order should still be clear).

No sad sailing songs on this ship!

This was a fun way to celebrate my nephew’s birth, and maybe give him a chance at the citadel life if Bitcoin becomes as relevant as many of us feel it will be in the future.

So far this lottery ticket approach to a birthday gift has worked out well for my niece, as her initial gift of Bitcoin was only around $272 Canadian dollars at the time. Today, three years latter, those same Bitcoin (0.34346 BTC) and forked coins are now worth over $3333 Canadian, about a 1200% fiat value increase…

Not bad.

Hopefully by the time my niece and nephew figure out how their seed words/Bitcoin wallets work, these piggy banks will help to pay for some of their college tuition. They will always have their silver and gold coins to fall back on if this experiment doesn’t work out.

Hopefully this inspires some of you uncles and aunts out there to jump onboard the Bitcoin-gifting-to-the-next-generation-train. The next generation may be the ones to benefit the most from this new digital monetary order.

some twitter commentary of the next generation of bitcoiners, cypherpunks, cryptographers etc.

For Making This Possible — Much Thanks Goes Out To:

· Ledger.com for generating the seed words with the Ledger Nano X.

· Silvergoldbull.com for the silver and gold coins — bought with Bitcoin.

· Purse.io for the piggy bank and engraving tool — 33% discount with Bitcoin.

· Ndax.io for supporting segwit address withdrawals and for the Bitcoin gifted to my nephew.

· The Bitcoin and Crypto community at large for your donations to my niece.

· Satoshi Nakamoto, for everything.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year Ya’ll.

PS: Here’s a list of my nephew’s other cryptocurrency addresses in case anyone is feeling generous with your altcoins.

An Unknown Amount of Monero: 429WURCR4qZVRnKAz7mC6dEKy2fDiBaHfbrCpLr55sMjeZHNuFxVDhiWwEFQhhpeGg5dbazejsRMvLaLhQcxJF1PliPJvcu

Decred: Dsp1SBLRn83oWvyRDx9RgcEFjVAK5RRapBv

eth: 0x6A1045fF899eb6F56139f0fbbD94771fE60D5009

ltc: MJbrbvhMGRxpmjgm9WW7waHvMck9FTAaTz

doge: DJb6BYuUYDR5rkQicQaKQr5GXUiy22cFqK

dash: XkLij5QxUnkkbuNzFi4rwqHDStYCw1Boqr

bch: 1GeRNxgtsdcVMxpp5riYhfg4AfqZsejFmC

xrp: rnM5ycqA6XSrokyA4qz7oF98zVsCSw4TSr

etc: 0xBb6391c188f4EC6fA5ddCaC7EA1cfBb363B5F71A

zcash: t1PY9RAeUhuZNpKr8rFo94pTGUcVJQsjp6W

qtum: MU8iyTAfawdZNaXgDVMz2G2BwVKoLESZLj

btg: ANAA69X3ePiYA1ifEDehBnTs4uyojy7Bb7

dgb: SSa2YFmNdLH36zczapaXHxr77AXcspHWD2

kmo: RH4exEjRwRmRnapenmUJjrFbCerda6GXFT

strat: SW5HcVi7Eo5eMhdpGTG3ews9p2EYNANEZz

zen: znT8p6eyFfqG6mNWBCUSPo5mEVLbMT6ggq3

pivx: DU4yghKpmDQ7GYJvC9ZRJNWc484WvU4XQ8

vtc: 39QZkzAm3iWcLLSj1u1vLu1DdDavKF6Xwc

ppc: PEx2V1KznEU9bW8riZ4hzEssocjZ8sqnFk

via: EQsJc2mUp6RFYPKfqCCXZfX5sVWjTihqhN

xsn: 7YXFWL5racD5y8q3QP7wkfvHkRGsumZgeZ

xst: S5np31ypUKjpt2pYqJY2W7BBviHS28gMam