Secure initiation and transfer of a cryptographic database and/or a cryptographic unit

A method for minting physical proofs usable to seed one or more cryptographic hash chains, the method comprising:

• specifying a first predetermined number of physical proofs to be minted;
• gathering entropic outputs of an entropy source;
• inputting the entropic outputs of the entropy source into a hash function;
• generating a number of instances of proof datum, each proof datum an output of the hash function and usable as a seed of a cryptographic hash chain, the number of instances of the proof datum collectively referred to as proof data;
• storing the proof data in a re-writable memory;
• comparing each generated proof datum of the proof data stored in the re-writable memory to each other proof datum stored in the re-writable memory to determine that each proof datum is unique within the proof data;
• and
• embedding each proof datum as a proof on an indelible media that is computer-readable to create a proof set.

A system comprising:

• an electronic mint comprising:
• a processor of the electronic mint;
• a mint ID;
• an entropy gathering device providing an entropy source;
• an interface to receive an instruction specification of a first predetermined number of proofs to be minted,
• a first hash function to receive inputs from the entropy source and output a number of proof datum collectively forming a proof data;
• and
• a data writing drive usable to write each proof datum collectively forming the proof data to a computer-readable media as a number of proofs collectively forming a proof set.