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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI’ve decided to take up a hobby that my Dad used to do, and that is stamp collecting. I have a few of his stamp collection books, which have UK stamps, however I thought I’d start with NZ stamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like the early stamps, the really early ones – mostly had a queens head on them, but the ones that interested me, where the first ‘pictorial’ stamps, which were released in 1898, so I thought I’d start with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Check out the collection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to physical stamps, I also want to collect digital stamps or NFT’s. I’ve settled on the platform Veve <\/a>as the NFT marketplace, which is a little different from most like Opensea, as it’s a closed environment (for now). They started selling USPS digital stamps, and they have some large brands such as Disney and Marvel, even Star Trek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They are a NZ company founded by a chap called David Yu<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What is an NFT?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are cryptographic assets on a blockchain<\/a> with unique identification codes and metadata that distinguish them from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike cryptocurrencies<\/a>, they cannot be traded or exchanged at equivalency. This differs from fungible tokens like cryptocurrencies, which are identical to each other and, therefore, can serve as a medium for commercial transactions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I may collect the physical version of the digital stamps as well…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check out the collection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I love books, old and new. So I’ve been collecting them for a while as well… I especially like the fiction ‘classic’s’ books and also enjoy more contemporary books, mostly non-fiction. I also have a collection of astronomy (as I’m an amateur astronomer<\/a>) and science related books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check out the collection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I collect stuff, see below Physical Stamps I’ve decided to take up a hobby that my Dad used to do, and that is stamp collecting. I have a few of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2057","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2057\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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