A guy on 9gag recently lost his parents in France.
He posted about it and strangers on the internet tracked down his parents, who were fine.
Now here we have crypto, which is fantastic, but do we have that kind of community? Do we want or deserve that? Who's responsible for building that?
Some organised thieves have snatched my 2018 Steem silver rounds en route to my house, and sent me a letter about it.
Happily the coins'll clear customs soon enough, and I can't wait to unbox them.
I thought this would make me the last of the recipients, until I saw that @welshstacker; the guy who designed the 2018 rounds, had his delivery stolen, possibly by one of the slightly less organised thieves working for the Post Office.
From Welshy's post they took:
2 X 2018 #steemsilverround for @huw28582. They included his #97 that matched the 2017 round which he bought from @raybrockman.
4 X #steemsilverround which were for me. This included the #93 that @raybrockman was so generous last year to give me his 2017 round.
2 X #steemsilverround a 2017 & 2018 off @sevinwilson as prize for winning the design competition.
2 X 2018 #steemsilverround which I won in the #monsterraffle courtesy of @goldmatters
1 X number 4 solid platinum (4grams) by MENE which I bought for Mrs @welshstacker as a present from 1/2pint. (Pictured above)
The SSG community has started pulling together to make him whole, and I take my hat off to everyone involved; he couldn't ask for a better bunch of mates.
Here's the thing, though. This won't be fixed by pooling resources, that just spreads the impact of the theft amongst the wider community.
Now maybe his stuff is melted down and gone forever, but maybe not.
Perhaps the thief is an inexperienced opportunist and is planning to wait a while then sell his shiny new trinkets online.
If he's scampered off into the night there's not much we can do, but if he comes into our house and manages to sell our stuff under our noses, then we're just a loose collection of bloggers, less effective than 9gag.
I'm posting a bounty.
If @welshstacker tells me that your information helped him retrieve ALL of his missing metal I'll send you 100 STEEM.
The numbers we're looking for: 93, 97, 192, 193, 194, 195, 251, 409, 410
This won't expire and is open to anyone. If you see an ebay post five years from now, send him the link, and it leads him to recovering his lost silver and platinum, you get 100 STEEM.
Now I don't want him drowning in red herrings, so if you send him links to coins which aren't his missing numbers he'll mute you and you won't have any chance to find his lost loot and claim the bounty.
No box at all. Driver keeps changing his story and the missing parcel case has been escalated to management. Waiting for phone call from them Monday to hear decisions. But I'm not holding out any hope at all any more.
Thankyou, @welshstacker.
For your fantastic design and your efforts in the community.
Please leave any additional information you think might be useful to internet researchers in the comments and I'll edit them in to this post.
Matt Clarke.