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Diverse Content On LeoFinance - Introducing Krunk's "Fiat Museum" Series

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The Krunk is a happy camper ATM!

Yesterday, 31st of October, I successfully recovered my other account, @barge, in a James Bond style operation involving Pythons and Wings of Death. I succeeded in this incredible sounding undertaking - which you will have to read to get - and I am currently in a phase of consolidation: shuffling the two accounts and their stake around and deciding what content to post where. In short, Krunkypuram will be my main account for posting LeoFinance content and Barge will be my main account for letting my hair down and posting short stories, photography, esoteric subjectivity etc.

Moving on to the point of this post

Khal recently made The Case for Diversified Content on LeoFinance, in which he states:

The issue though, is that diversified content means that we need to have posts about LeoFinance/Hive AND other topics surrounding crypto and finance.

This got me thinking about a series of posts that I have been intending to author for some time. In this series I propose to document - with photographs, information and accounts of personal experience - the fairly extensive coin and note collection from around the world that I have been gathering since the early 1990s.

My father used to collect coins and the silver rupees you see in the cover image are his legacy. After arriving in Europe in early 1990 I spent a lot of time travelling around the continent and parts of the Middle East - backpacking and hitching around and taking my time doing it. This was before the Euro came into force and each country had their own national currency. In every country I entered I would gather all the low denomination currency notes that I could afford and at least one each of all the coins currently in circulation. Over time, and with later travel to other parts of the world, my collection grew. I'd also occasionally buy vintage coins or notes at flea markets or be given them by friends and family.

Of late I've come to think of my collection as a Fiat Museum. After all, a lot of this collection represents fiat currency that is no longer in circulation. Additionally, with the advent of cryptocurrency (both the decentralized, real-deal stuff that we engage with on this blockchain, as well as centralized fool's gold CBDCs), old style in-your-hand fiat currency seems to be on the way out. This process has been further accelerated by the coronadrama p(l)andemic and the move towards a centralised 'cashless society'.

Old-fashioned fiat currency seems set to become a museum piece!

How Will The 'Fiat Museum' Be Presented?

I haven't worked that bit out yet but the series will combine my interest in photography with my desire to document the contents of the Krunk Fiat Museum on the blockchain in an orderly and interlinking manner. The collection is likely to provide me with puh-lenty of content if I'm able to nail the answer to this question. Content will include:

  • Old Coins: from ~18C and before, many of which I have not yet identified fully and some of which may be fakes :|
  • Historical (not so old) Coins: of the 19C and 20C from, perhaps, 50+ different countries
  • Current Coins: which are still in circulation, or were so until recently
  • Banknotes: mainly no longer in circulation; some from turbulent and historically interesting times - for example the 100 Krona bill from 1940 Czechoslovakia pictured above, which I bought at a street market in Prague in 1991; banknotes from 30+ different countries

I welcome thoughts and feedback on this idea.

I'm still bouncing from having got my other account back and I am in a celebratory mood. A month or so ago I wrote a LeoPoem but this was when I was just starting to post regularly to LF and it wasn't really seen. Given where the community currently is, it seems appropriate to revive it here:

The Lion is roaring in the valley below Even though Sound travels so slow Fore-running echoes grow In tensity & volume, sayin' "Hello" Taking DeFi's stage, no more incognito Buzzing the Hive - that good token's still low As numerous trickles turn finally towards full flow The roaring, of course, comes from brave friend Leo Exciting the already hyperpumped world of crypto Who chant on their feet and lift up on tiptoe Arms outstretched, fists going "yo yo yo" "Time's ripe", they say, "We all know aGoodThingWhenWeSeeIt Go Go Go Leo Go!"
Thanks for reading 🙏 Barge (@krunkypuram) <<< All images & artwork barge/krunkypuram >>> Stock art/images for the LeoFinance community to use in posts if they wish: 2 outreach posters targeting Metamask / ETH users A selection of 21 LeoFinance-themed page-dividers

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