Blockchain Mint (McKinney, TX)

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Blockchain Mint Overview

Blockchain Mint, based in McKinney, TX, is the current retail-facing brand identity for precious-metals products issued by Robert J. “Bobby” Gray — the same figure behind the American Open Currency Standard (AOCS), Free Lakota Bank, and Mulligan Mint. Rather than functioning as a physical striking facility in Texas, Blockchain Mint operates as the wholesale/dealer-facing arm of a Singapore-based manufacturing partner, Rearden Metals Pte Ltd, confirmed as Blockchain Mint’s corporate parent both by Rearden Metals’ own site (which names blockchainmint.com as its “partner shop,” see reardenmetals.sg) and by Blockchain Mint’s own archived copyright footer (“© 2019 Rearden Metals Pte Ltd”) and current company registration (UEN 201736961Z, GST Registered, 25B Loyang Crescent #03-15, Singapore 506817).

Blockchain Mint is presently listed as an active property within Gray’s “Honest Money” ecosystem hub (honest.money), alongside Heads or Tales Coins (hotco.co), Booteen Coins, and Rearden Metals. Two earlier Frisco, TX-based ventures — PatriotCoins.com (a d’Anconia Copper LLC company) and SilverStatues.com (a HotCoco USA LLC company) — were active roughly 2021–2023, sharing the same operational contact number and Telegram handle (@ReardenMetals) as Blockchain Mint and hotco.co, but neither appears in the current honest.money lineup; PatriotCoins.com’s site is no longer live. These read as a discontinued intermediate phase of Gray’s business rather than currently active sibling brands.

Blockchain Mint’s Place in the Gray Timeline

  • 2008: Founded AOCS; partnered with Free Lakota Bank. Per Gray’s own published company history, the Lakota Crazy Horse currency specifically launched November 24, 2008.
  • 2012–2013: Co-founded and served as President of Mulligan Mint (Dallas, TX), the principal manufacturing partner for late-era AOCS Mint output
  • 2013: Mulligan Mint filed Chapter 11 following a Wall Street Journal investigation into missing client silver; Gray relocates the family to Southeast Asia by year-end
  • 2014: Thailand-based statue/collectibles business begins
  • 2018: Rearden Metals mint equipment acquired at the NWT Mint auction; Singapore operation online by year-end
  • 2021: Gray family returns to the United States
  • 2021–2023: Frisco, TX ventures PatriotCoins.com and SilverStatues.com operate, since discontinued
  • Current: Blockchain Mint, McKinney, TX, operates as a wholesale/dealer-facing brand with manufacturing attributed to Rearden Metals (Singapore); active within Gray’s current honest.money ecosystem

Blockchain Mint Site & Business Model Timeline

Archived captures of blockchainmint.com document a shift from direct-to-consumer sales to a wholesale-only, dealer-referral model:

DateSite State
Mar 28, 2018Domain parked, listed for sale — no operating business
Dec 7, 2019Fully operational; direct product sales via Shopify storefront
Aug 9, 2020Full catalog confirms Lakota 1oz Silver Bullion listed for direct sale in wholesale quantities (box of 100, case of 500, tube of 20)
Apr 3, 2021Site redesigned to wholesale-only format; direct sales removed in favor of dealer referral

This transition explains why the Lakota round and Legalized Collection are found today on third-party dealer sites (Provident Metals, JM Bullion, Silver.com, Indigo Precious Metals) rather than on blockchainmint.com itself.

Blockchain Mint Manufacturing Partners

PeriodManufacturing PartnerStatusNotes
CurrentRearden Metals Pte Ltd (Singapore)ConfirmedRearden Metals’ own website identifies itself as the manufacturing operation and names blockchainmint.com as its US-facing partner shop. Blockchain Mint’s archived site footer and current registration block both confirm Rearden Metals Pte Ltd as the operating company.
2021Patriot Coins (Frisco, TX)DocumentedContemporaneous Instagram posts (April 2021) document a Texas production buildout — presses and dies arriving, plus lost-wax casting activity for statue/round lines. A September 2021 post cross-tags #patriotcoins and #blockchainmint on the same release. Patriot Coins is confirmed as owned and operated by Rob Gray (agroundworld.com, attributed), which describes it as absorbing the prior Blockchain Mint/Rearden production effort in 2021. Patriot Coins’ own packaging credits both Rearden Metals (Singapore) and a “Made in USA” seal; a working theory holds Rearden supplied blanks to the Texas facility rather than performing final striking, though this is attributed, not confirmed.

Blockchain Mint Known Output

  • Legalized Collection (2019–) — an 11-state-plus-DC series of 1 oz silver rounds, plus 5 oz national releases for Canada and Uruguay, commemorating cannabis-legalization milestones. Cannabis-leaf obverse paired with a state seal modified to include cannabis elements on the reverse. Proof and Antique (matte) finishes, mintage limited to 500 per finish per state design (1,000 total), 250 per finish for national designs. Attributed to Blockchain Mint across Provident Metals, Silver.com, and JM Bullion — note these three sites are commonly owned (all operated by JM Bullion, Inc.), so this represents one corroborating source, not three independent ones.
  • Free & Independent Lakota (undated, matte-finish variant) — a 1 oz silver round tracing to Gray’s original November 24, 2008 Free Lakota Bank/AOCS currency launch. Confirmed present in Blockchain Mint’s own direct-sale catalog by August 9, 2020 (archived). Attributed production date: 2020 or earlier, based on this catalog appearance; no struck date or primary documentation establishes an exact year. Manufacturer attribution corroborated by two independent dealer sources (the JM Bullion corporate family, and Indigo Precious Metals) plus Blockchain Mint’s own archived catalog listing.

Blockchain Mint Notes

  • The Free & Independent Lakota tie is corroborated by Blockchain Mint’s own archived catalog (Aug 2020), in addition to dealer-side attribution — a stronger evidentiary basis than dealer documentation alone.
  • A CannabisCoins.com-branded 2009 half-ounce “LEGALIZE IT” silver round predates the 2019 Legalized Collection by roughly a decade. Whether it’s a Gray-affiliated predecessor brand or an unrelated concept later adopted by Blockchain Mint is unestablished and a separate open research thread.
  • Separately, hotco.co distributes hand-engraved hobo nickel pieces from independent artists — including Dwayne Wolosiewicz and Roman Booteen — as individually crafted, one-off items. This is a distributor relationship only; hotco.co does not manufacture these pieces. No Texas connection has been established for this category.
  • No struck mark on the Lakota piece itself identifies Blockchain Mint, Rearden Metals, or any other manufacturer — the manufacturer attribution rests on dealer and archived-catalog documentation, not on physical evidence from the coin.
  • Patriot Coins (Frisco, TX) and Blockchain Mint (McKinney, TX) were actively cross-promoted on Patriot Coins’ own Instagram in 2021, and per agroundworld.com’s account, Patriot Coins represents Rob Gray’s 2021 US-based continuation of the Blockchain Mint/Rearden Metals production effort rather than a fully independent operation — though the exact division of labor between the Texas and Singapore facilities during this period remains an open question.

Blockchain Mint References

Coins from Blockchain Mint (McKinney, TX) (3)