Wow... when I saw the first hints of the Austrian Post office releasing the world's first ever crypto stamp (with a NFT crypto stamp on the Ethereum blockchain)... I quickly jumped to the website (https://crypto.post.at/) to try and grab myself one. Sadly, I was just a little bit too slow as I got delayed for a few hours whilst dealing with parenting stuff... This was a very limited run with five collectible colours (1500 Red, 10000 Yellow, 20000 Blue, 40000 Green and 78500 Black), and so I jumped quickly over to eBay and Marktplaats to try and grab some re-sold ones. Already there were people asking for nearly 1000 euros for a complete set of the five colours... but there were some slow bidding lots due to lesser known sellers or just a flood of resellers...

Evidently, most of the resellers had little idea of how crypto worked... just that it was a limited supply run and that there would be demand for it worldwide. This was pretty apparent in the way that they kept obscuring the public QR key which made it impossible to see what the collectible colour actually was!

Anyway, I managed to pick up one nicely priced one from eBay and two more from the local Dutch Marktplaats. All of which I was just expecting to be the lowest tier blacks... however, one of the Marktplaats ones was the middle tier BLUE, which are already getting an asking price of around 100 euros! However, I'm not selling them... these are little things that I want to hold on to for the novelty value. I do feel a little bad for the seller, as they probably had no idea what they were selling... but I'm gotten unlucky on the action/second-hand websites before as a buyer... so I guess it is my turn to be lucky? (How is that for justification?).

They have thought about this pretty well, also including a little bit of ETH with the address to allow the moving of the NFT. However, I guess that would severely impact the value of the stamp.

It is pretty cool that the Austrian post office has done this, but it appears that they have a history of doing some pretty innovative stuff with stamps... including the embroidered stamp above! However, in the past they have had stamps with crystals, glass stamps and even porcelain stamps! On their website, you can even MAKE your own stamps!

Anyway, I managed to win another low priced action for another 3 stamps (and I also visited the Austrian Post Office to pick up some more embroidered stamps and glass ones as well!), hopefully, if I'm lucky the seller won't realise that the colour is on the NFT and not the physical stamp itself!

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