You know one of my favourite sayings? 'Fake it til you make it', and I think that isn't too bad a principle to consider when it comes to accumulating wealth on our blockchain.
I have to confess, compared to most of the posters here, I'm still the newbie. My first post feels like a long time ago, but it was only back in January. Since then, I have priotised growing my HIVE balance, and now it's over 3000 hive strong! To get there, I have consistently powered up my hive earnings, and this has included collecting tribe tokens and trading them for hive to further power up.
I recently decided I'd stop this practice for some of my tokens and start staking them. In doing so, I have ended up with nearly 40,000 SPT tokens - which, I'm pretty happy about. When I checked my wallet today, I found that I had 20 LEO. So I guess I had a choice. To cash it in for a couple of Hive - or to say, 'Today is the day to start my LEO stack'. It is largely inspired by a post I seen recently about LPUD. I have participated in a couple of Hive Power Up Days - but I really wanted to get involved with the Leo Power Up. The truth is, this month, I won't be able to have the stack to participate, as you need 200 LEO to do so. However - my goal will be to aim at August 15th - to have my stack ready to go, and another stack ready to power up!
Until then, I'll fake it until I make it! And as such, what an opportunity to give you a look at one of my favourite coins! I have a small physical silver stack - and this coin looks silver, but it ain't. It's a 1936 Florin and it looks like a 1936 Florin. But it was actually made in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
If you picked up a REAL 1936 Florin, it would weigh about 11 grams and have a silver content of 92.5%. It's a great coin to stack and you can buy it for about its silver content - it's 'nothing special' from a numismatics point of view.
However, this counterfeit florin is delightful! It weighs only 8 grams and is made of both aluminum and lead. The counterfeiters would have made a mould and just poured their own coins. Voila! Rich! (Well, you'd need to mint like 15 of these to have made an average weekly income back then, but hey - it was a creative way to make a buck!
The moulds were obviously pretty good, as these coins were put into circulation. A quick google today shows that they even reside in museums now, so there you go. I have a museum quality piece! But the quality of the coin isn't great. A proper florin is sharp and has definite lines, whereas this florin is quite flat and the lines don't have a lot of definition. This is particularly clear on the STAR pattern. The words on a real florin would also be quite raised, whereas the words on the fake are quite flat and squat looking.
What do you think 