Well, after seeing many posts about Steem Basic Income - I admit I was intrigued with the idea. While I wanted to jump on aboard, I am usually pretty light on Steem/SBD. I know several that I follow are buying shares each week, and rolling the income into more shares.
On the silver side, all my posts finally broke , and caused his stackitus that was in remission to flare up and we started talked a trade... Silver for SBD/Steem. Negations were slow until we floated the idea of shipping a ounce of silver for shares of SBI, since you need to nominate someone as part of the process it gave us that elusive, win/win/win scenario.
The Deal
One ounce - shipped for 6 shares of SBI. Pretty good for all involved. Here is whats going out in the mail.
Revenge of Stackitus
This is where things started to go sideways, and fast. I mean I haven't even shipped this thing yet, and as soon as I get to work, I am nearly having a panic attack with my silver stack shrinking. This is not something I deal with very well, I might need therapy to part with silver.
I made it to lunch - somehow. I ran to my car, and raced to the LCS hoping he had stock. Luckily he had the goods, it was just down to budget/price/and quality. He a slew of 10oz bars, an older A-Mark, JM and some generics but I still have a few silver at spot deals so I left them sit. Then I noticed 5, perfect, 1984 & 1985 prospectors, look brand new. I must have been too giddy, and he quoted them with a $4 premium. Had to let them sit at that price. I did manage to score a Sunshine Bar and a Silver Trade Unit round much much better premiums.
Why I love Sunshine Mint products.
Besides clean simple designs, I hate counterfeits, and Sunshine Minting is one of the best of making it hard to copy their bars. The include a MintMark SI security feature in their products that make it very hard to copy. All you need is a Sunshine Minting Decoder Lens, its like being a little kid all over again.
You just spin the bar until you see the word valid appear in the mark.
Spin another 90 degrees and you get the sun.
The Stackitus at bay it was time to go back to work and get this ounce shipped off!
Keep stacking!