There can be only 1637.

Created as an asset on the Waves DEX platform.

Easy as pie.

It started as a tongue in cheek kind of joke, the Tulip Bulb Mania coin. After all the fuzz caused by some banker, calling Bitcoin and cryptos a bubble again. And refering to a 17th century run on Tulip Bulbs, causing the price to go up to about 1134.45 euro, or 2500 Gulden {NLG}, back then known as Florijn {FL}. Yes it is a bit messed up, need I bring up the common mistake that Nederish is like German, Deutsch -> Dutch again...? Never mind, focus back on the Tulips, very well known, coming from Amsterdam.

The Nederlanders, or Nederish if you like, were good at trading and in between 1636 and 1637 the Tulip Bulb market went over the top. Only for a few months, mind you. So it is a kind of rubbish to compare flowers with cryptos. As I wrote before, cryptos do not grow flowers, they can buy them, when the market blooms, quite a lot of them. Just like Tulip Bulbs can not be seen as cryptos to hold value, as they decay. Turned out the banker was just manipulating the cryptocurreny market, so an investment group of his bank could buy some BTC cheap.

Now, before anybody starts to FUD {Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt} about cryptos using the overmilked Tulip rubbish again, I decided to create a real TULIP token. It is very rare, that is part of the wink, wink, nudge, nudge, only 1637 will ever be issued. Unless of course somebody clones the idea, like the people behind bcash did. But never mind that, TULIP, the asset was here first, remember that. It's going to be huge. Let's make TULIPs great again! Amsterdam started to excell in other products and services anyway.

A Steem hand out.

The way it will be released is not by ITO, ICO nor Cloning. At first I wanted to issue the TULIP token on Bitshares, but I still have to graduate on how to create an User Issued Asset on Bithares. And Open-Ledger made it a real pain, to get some Open.Steem out off there, not helping, 15 hourse waiting and counting. So, I decided to give the Waves DEX platform a go. Already had installed the Light client in my browser. Never looked at it again. Until recently and saw how easy it was to create an Asset, quite cheap too, only one Wave. That could go up in price, so I bought a few to speculate with and to create the TULIP asset. That was very straight forward, give it a name, describe it, set the amount to be released, how many decimals and if it can be re-issued. All done within minutes

Now it will be handed out using the Steem Platform. And there is of course some action needed to be able to get some of those TULIP tokens. First one needs to be a Steem member, having a Steem account. Secondly, that account needs to follow my account, having at least a reputation of 30. Thirdly, the account that wants to get in on the TULIP token, needs to have posted at least 50 times. When the hand out post starts one needs a working Waves account. (Do not use an centralized exchange one, that might not work out the way it should, and the TULIPs are lost.)

All it takes is some effort.

Note please that this is an announcement post, not the actual hand out post. This is to be unknown when it will be posted, just stay alert on the Steem feed. So make sure you are on Steem! When the TULIP hand out post is done, only those who vote at a 100% can be part of the hand out. And there is also a reply needed with a valid Waves account, of course. The amount of SP owned is unimportant, but only a 100% vote counts as a valid entry. The time to claim TULIP tokens is as long as the Steem post vote duration. The amount of TULIP tokens that I will make available and hand out, depends on the amount of valid entries. (There can possibly be other hand outs after the initial one.)

Proof Of Effort {POE}, that is basicly it. And those who took the effort will get a part of the 1637 TULIP tokens to be released. And I do not go into a discussion afterwards. That is because I will be busy sending the TULIPs to those who met on these terms: Steem member, following my account, with a reputation of 30 or higher, posted at least 50 times or more, giving a 100% upvote for the TULIP hand out post (still to come). And giving a reply with a valid Wave (DEX) platform account in it. Be aware though that to be able to use the TULIP token on the Waves DEX platform, additional Wave coins will be needed.

And remember, to only invest in cryptos what you are willing and able to lose. And your speculation might be as bad or as good as mine.

Have a great one.

PS For the Waves DEX market the TULIP Identifier is: DhNdGSkyttDmn72yMNN68dD6Xq6yLW2pph2yEFqVeSD4
The initial price has been set at 1134.451 EURO, 1327.31 USD, 259.747 Waves or 0.32770254 BTC. These are all set by sell offers of 0.001 TULIP.

The TULIP token asset issued at Waves.

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