You might remember last week I was talking about how the smoke from the wildfires in Canada has been working its way down in the US and wrecking havoc with our air quality. Days have been like a blurred haze lately, and it's not saying much, but even I have been having a little trouble breathing when outdoors. It's not like you can't breathe, but you do find yourself getting winded a little quicker than normal.
The one good side effect of the smoke is that sunrises on the way to work have been pretty magnificent. The other morning we had to go to work a different way than we usually do and it took us down a back road that gave us the opportunity to stop and take some proper pictures of the sunrise. 
I need to remember to throw my better camera from work in my truck so that I can have it when we see good shots like this in the morning or wherever. I'm not going to try and talk about the markets too much this morning. I still plan on covering some finance stuff, but I don't even know where to begin predicting the price of BTC. Over the past day I found myself thinking back to that Spring day several years ago when BTC hit the $3000 mark in 2018 or 2019 I think it was. I picked up some SATS then, but like a noob I sold it a short time later when the price went back up.
Oh how I wish I had the hold game back then that I have now...
It is time again for another Finance Friday/Friday Finance. This is a series I started where I talk about random bits of financial stuff that I have seen, gathered, or experienced during the week. I hope as a reader you find it informational, entertaining, or both. I also hope it can generate some good discussion and edify the community.
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Splinterlands
It would appear that my packs aren't selling as quickly as I had hoped they would. I jumped over to the marketplace on 
I still plan on keeping them on the market, hopefully someone will eventually snatch them up. I still haven't decided yet if I am going to take the DEC I earn from the pack sales and sell it to power up my HIVE account some more or if I will try to pick up some more lands. It's a tough call.
Now that 
I might have to start tracking it a bit closer so I can tell for sure. I'd hate to give up on the node, but if it isn't profitable, there isn't much point right? If you haven't voted for my node yet, please head over to PeakMonsters or Monstermarket and give it a vote would you?
Nuscale
I got a text from my brother in law the other day that simply said "SMR is up 18% today". If you haven't been following me, SMR is the ticker symbol for Nuscale Power a small modular nuclear reactor company I have been following since before they went public a year or so ago. I've actually got about three or four people who purchased this stock at my suggestion and I don't think any of them are sad they did right now.
After the IPO price of $10 per share, it dipped a bit for a while, but as of Thursday morning, the price was sitting at a new all time high of $41.60 per share. That's a very nice 4x on my investment so far. The crazy thing is, they have yet to generate a profit. Can you imagine what the stock is going to look like when that finally happens? I'm super pumped about this one. I know I have talked about it a million times already and I will probably continue to do so. Especially if it keeps performing like this.
Right now Nuscale actually has me feeling like I know what I am doing! It's a crazy feeling!
Precious Metal Auctions
I was looking at my local bullion dealers site this morning and I notice that they had some auctions available. I've been wanting to participate in one of these for quite some time now, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. I was browsing through what they had available and I came up on this gem:
I'm not sure how accurate their pricing is, but this Utah Goldback has a estimated price of $500 to $600 USD and with nine bids on record the current price is $180. Yes, there are still about 8 hours left in the auction at my time of writing this and I don't know if they have a reserve price set, but that could be a really decent return on investment assuming the price doesn't move too much.
I think the one thing this place has going for it is Kzoo Bullion is still a pretty small player, so they might not be getting a ton of traffic to their site and that might give people like me more of a chance to snag some auction stuff.
I'm probably not going to bid on this, but I still thought it was cool looking and I need to remember to check their auctions more often.
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