Saturday 22 June 2019

3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps / Plastic stamps / Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes / Stamps with Scratch Off Printing

Austria 2019 Crypto Stamp 




Issue date 11 June 2019

Austria Post has issued a special stamp reflecting the use of modern day technology for Crypto-Stamp based on the open source programmable block chain Ethereum with its own cryptocurrency called Ether (ETH).

For more information on the Ethereum see https://www.ethereum.org/beginners/

The stamp has been issued on a Plastic Card with a QR code and a tearaway part with scratch off printing. 

The stamp set comes in two parts. As pictured below, the left part, with a 3D Hologram unicorn logo associated with Ethereum, functions as a standard stamp that can be used to send mail. The right section, on the other hand, contains the credentials used to authenticate the crypto collectible via blockchain ( a special kind of decentralized data storage). This defines a digital Wallet/purse in which this stamp is stored as  “a virtual collector’s item”   which is exclusively owned by the wallet owner.

The brand block is in the form of a bank card. The right side of the block contains all credentials hidden under scratch layers. The holder of the Wallet-related access code as well as another attached code, the "Secret Word List", thus has the digital Crypto stamp. If the digital version of the stamp is sold or transferred from one wallet to another, the transaction is fully documented in the blockchain.





A limited 150,000 unit run of five different virtual/crypto stamps colors– black, red, blue, yellow, black – allows the owner to use a physical stamp, but then save its image in their wallet. The distribution is as follows: 1,500 red stamps; yellow, 10,000; blue, 20,000; green, 40,000; black, 78,500. The stamps retail for 6.90 Euro, meaning the entire project will bring in just over $1 million. The color represents the "Virtual image of the stamps" and not the physical image of the stamp


Virtual image of the stamps


Video of my FDC with a Virtual Red Stamp after QR code Scan




To view other stamps in this category click on the following link - 
3D - Holographic Stamps
Plastic stamps 
Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes
Stamps with Scratch Off Printing 

Disclaimer - Information about the stamp issues on this page has been taken from the net and are for informational purposes only. No copyright claim is made for the above mentioned information/pictures/video.  The pictures have been scanned from my collection. 

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