Someone Just Won $100K in Bitcoin From a $50 Pack of Trading Cards

A trading card collector found a Bitcoin redemption card valued at more than $100,000 in a $50 pack of cards last month.

Purchased online directly from trading card brand Cardsmiths, the Bitcoin card—redeemable for a single BTC, valued as high as $108,786 at one point in January—came from its 2024 Holiday Currency Set, which features festive and crypto related trading cards. 

Included alongside cards of the Gingerbread Man and Charles Dickens are also crypto redemption cards, which can be found in approximately 1 out of every 96 packs. This one in particular was worth a full Bitcoin.

“This most recent discovery from our Currency Holiday 2024 Trading Card series just shows that any pack pull has the potential to become a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said Cardsmiths owner Steve Loney in a statement. 

In addition to the Bitcoin redemption card, the set includes redemption cards for other prominent crypto assets like Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Dogecoin (DOGE).  

This isn’t the first Bitcoin redemption card discovered from a Cardsmiths series pack, but it’s among the largest-ever redemptions in the company’s history. 

Last year, a collector found another full Bitcoin redemption card in a $33 Cardsmiths pack sold at GameStop. Similarly, a GameStop in Texas sold a pack to a collector who found a full Bitcoin redemption card in March 2024.

Cardsmith’s parent company Tonyk originally indicated that five Bitcoin redemption cards were produced with the first series. It’s unclear whether that tally includes future sets, but at least three full Bitcoin cards have been found and publicly disclosed to date across its multiple sets.

All Currency Series packs with crypto redemption cards are sold out on the Cardsmiths website at this time, but the manufacturer will release Currency Series 5 and SPACE: Galactic Edition later this year. Each series will have crypto redemption cards randomly inserted within.

Edited by Andrew Hayward