5+ Potential Christmas Gifts for Crypto Lovers Worldwide

It’s Christmas time! And that means carols, unhealthy amounts of food, ugly sweaters, blinking lights, and yes, gifts. All your loved ones, your friends, relatives, and even yourself are waiting for those precious gifts to appear underneath the tree. If you are a cryptocurrency lover or are looking for a perfect gift for one, then you’re in the right place now.

The perfect thing to give away could be fun, useful, customized, interesting, or include all those features. From classic crypto merch to specialized devices, let’s check some of the most popular crypto-themed options you can pick this Christmas or New Year.

Crypto Merch

This one is a classic. Online shops like Crypto Wardrobe, Crypto Goodies, or Etsy offer a wide variety of crypto-themed objects, including T-shirts, hoodies, hats, socks, blankets, pillows, stickers, physical coins, laptop sleeves, phone cases, and even shower curtains. Seriously. Apparently, you can take the crypto world to the shower too.

These websites often ship internationally, and, of course, most of them accept cryptocurrencies as payment. On the other hand, if you want to avoid extra fees and the waiting time that involves buying from abroad, you can find a shop for custom items near to you. They can help you to print your favorite designs and coins into T-shirts, mugs, and more.

Crypto Paintings

Did you know that there’s physical crypto art too? Not only Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), by the way. A crypto lover would appreciate a physical piece of the crypto world inside his house, over the wall of their living room, their office, or any other familiar space. And there are very talented artists inside crypto, making beautiful paintings around this topic.

Sites like CryptoArt, Art For Crypto (Vesa), and Crypto Artwork by Lynxar Collection have numerous paintings to offer, built with different materials and representing different coins and ideas. Some of them are linked to their NFTs in the digital realm, and some others include a secret crypto wallet in the form of a QR code. This could be a perfect gift for a crypto lover. As they say in Vesa: “At best, artworks are portals to deep knowledge and awareness.”

Crypto + Libertarian Books

Books are always great gifts for readers, and most crypto lovers are likely avid readers too. In the fiction realm, there are several novels with this central topic. We can mention, for instance, Consensusland by Mark Helfman, where a businessman is invited to a tiny island to live with cryptocurrencies only. Shitcoin by Haydn Wilks is another novel, and this one narrates the story of some college students that become millionaires from an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Catcoin by Frank J Edler is a funnier one, telling the origins of the fictional cryptocurrency “Catcoin” from the cat’s perspective.

On the other hand, you can also find non-fictional books about Libertarianism, the independence of the digital space, and cryptocurrencies as a tool for freedom. An example of this kind is Social Crypto Libertarianism: Not Capital by Victor Lvovich Porton. In this book, Porton tries to explore how to apply crypto ideologies to modern societies. Another good example is The Network State: How To Start a New Country, by Balaji S. Srinivasan. He describes how digital communities could build their own free country.

Crypto courses

You never stop learning inside the crypto world, and a real crypto lover knows this very well. That’s why a crypto-related online course could be a great gift too. Currently, there are courses for everything crypto, from Bitcoin fundamentals to the intricacies of professional trading and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) advanced features. Altcoins, NFTs, Metaverses, and investments are also included in the list of different educational platforms.

In Udemy, for instance, we can find 1,627 results for the search “cryptocurrency.” They include courses for beginners, investments, trading, technical analysis, the Binance app, and more advanced options for developers, like how to build a blockchain with different programming languages. Coursera, Class Central, and Platzi (in Spanish) are other options to explore numerous crypto courses.

Textcoin + Cryptosteel

Safeguarding your private keys is of the utmost importance. They’re the only way to access your funds, so having them on easily-destroyable paper isn’t the most ideal option. Keeping them digital is also a no-no, given the rise of talented and malicious hackers around. What’s the alternative, then? Probably something made of steel.

Brands like CryptoSteel offer a way to properly back up your private keys in the physical world. Their products include a small iron capsule to “write” your private keys (by selecting the letters) and a “Cassette” with steel character tiles to store your password or seed phrase. Let’s remember that private keys (or seed phrases) are usually formed by 12-24 secret words.

In this case, you could also give away some GBYTEs or any other Obyte-based asset in the form of a textcoin. As we’ve mentioned in other articles, textcoins are, basically, seed phrases themselves. Anyone can receive them, even if they don’t have a crypto wallet yet. It could be the perfect gift for your non-crypto friends too, and it’s very easy to do.

The sender only needs to enter the section “Send” in their Obyte wallet, choose the asset to send, set the amount, and enter the recipient’s email address or pick “Share via message”. After creation, you can also keep the textcoin for yourself, as a form of a safe paper wallet outside the Internet. To claim a textcoin, the only required thing is the main Obyte wallet (Receive tab) and/or a received link via mail or chat, including the secret words.

A Bullish Time

The best time of the year is here! And, luckily for us, it’s bullish too. Last Halloween, we explored a bullish theory from October to May, and now that seems likely. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is in green (greed), while the total market capitalization has increased by over 9.7% in December alone [CMC]. That’s great news for all crypto lovers worldwide.

Therefore, this Christmas, let your gifts resonate with the spirit of crypto, adding a touch of excitement and exploration to the festive cheer. Don’t forget your good wishes and maybe say aloud what you really want under the tree. Happy Holidays!