Even though I do most of my playing online these days, I do hold the occasional poker night with some fellow geeks. Most of them have an interest in bitcoin so I was wondering if it would be a fun/good idea for us to to each buy some of the BTCC commemorative chips that they are selling to use as poker chips during a game. The new chips come in 6 denominations, starting at 1,000 bits (roughly 70 cents) and go up as high as 500,000 bits (almost $400). They look pretty cool....
I guess they would be fun to play with but you could never be sure if they've already been swiped or not. At then end of your poker night, you might end up with just a pocket full of near worthless chips.
If the price of bitcoin doesn't rise too much, I would feel comfortable playing with 100kb coins. If the price goes up 10x though, I would need to swipe the codes into a wallet.
If I was Dan Bilzerian and lived off my Dad's trust fund then I'd love to play with those chips. But sadly I don't have that kind of money so I'd have to strip search all my friends at the end of a poker night to make sure they haven't stolen any tokens.
The value of these poker chips has skyrocketed this year along with the price of bitcoin so people should probably take better care of them. Personally I think they might be collectors items and are better stored in a safe.