Wheelgun Wednesday: The Bitcoin by Korth

What makes a revolver a bitcoin revolver? Does it shoot bitcoins? Does it mine bitcoin? What even is a bitcoin? As it happens, The Bitcoin by Korth is more so merely inspired by bitcoin. Just as only 21 million bitcoins will ever be mined, only 210 copies of this revolver will ever be produced. Afterwards, Korth vows to destroy all the tooling and software used to create it, making it a rare collector’s item. Also, good luck with replacement parts, should you ever need them.

The cryptex itself is quite a feat of mechanical engineering, made from 185 pounds of raw aluminum, precision machined into 84 custom components.

Of course, you won’t want to pull this revolver out every time some plebian lookie-loo wants a peek, so Korth is also including a case with a glass pyramid that projects a 3D hologram of your pistol, down to the exact serial number … the same serial number you use to unlock the cryptex. Well, at least you don’t have to worry about forgetting the combination.

Where would you even buy such a thing? Ah, the fact that you even have to ask means you’re not in the target market. Your international gun dealer should have slipped a tastefully thick card to your armorer months ago with a one-line description and a phone number if interested. Then your valet would escort your armorer to a meeting in Prague by private plane, where they would have arranged the sale in a private meeting in an art museum, payment being made in an aluminum attache case containing exactly one thumb drive with a single Bitcoin.

But since you must ask, there is a listing on Guns International by a certain JD Outfitters, asking a mere $84,000 (not even a single Bitcoin!), with a $25,000 down payment. Unfortunately, the shipping is $399, which is a bit of a deal-killer.