The crypto debate between the future of money and a Ponzi scheme
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/the-crypto-debate-between-the-future-of-money-and-a-ponzi-scheme
We've all witnessed that cryptocurrencies have been a hot topic of discussion among investors and traders alike in recent years, with some people touting them as the future of money, while others argue that they are nothing but a Ponzi scheme. The term "Ponzi scheme" has been thrown around quite a bit when it comes to crypto, and it's important to understand what that means before delving deeper into the debate.
Splinterlands - Soulbound cards are amazing and I just strike Legendary and Epic Gold NFTs
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/splinterlands-soulbound-cards-are-amazing-and-i-just-strike-legendary-and-epic-gold-nfts
When Splinterlands announced that the new Reward cards were soulbound I was not a happy camper as I thought that will tap into the secondary market, where the action is for the players and investors. But as the rewards proved to be given in good numbers and you can receive multiple cards at once, it started to grow on me. Next, if you are lucky enough and start getting Legendary and Epic NFTs, it makes it so much sweeter. The last season end brought me some good smiles on my face when after competing in the Diamond League I revealed the given chests and was amazed at the rewards that I have drawn.
Leo Finance #LPUD - LEO stake, curate, earn, and repeat, it's that easy!
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/leo-finance-lpud-leo-stake-curate-earn-and-repeat-it-s-that-easy
I've been on the road all day long hunting a piece of land in the mountains that I succeeded to acquire. In the same time, I had a draft saved for this Leo Finance #LPUD event, but it seems that somehow I've lost it and I need to create a new post. I am quite tired from driving so this will be a short post, even if I waited for it for 1 Month in order to gather all my force and stake, curate, earn and repeat, it's that easy!
Can Hive blockchain through HIVE and HBD cryptocurrencies become a payment instrument globally?
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/can-hive-blockchain-through-hive-and-hbd-cryptocurrencies-become-a-payment-instrument-globally
As you may know, the Hive blockchain is a decentralized platform that was created as a fork of the Steem blockchain, and it operates using the HIVE and HBD cryptocurrencies. The platform has seen significant growth and development since its creation and change of direction by embracing true decentralization and has the potential to become a global payment instrument.
A comparison between the Hive and WAX blockchains
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/a-comparison-between-the-hive-and-wax-blockchains
HIVE and WAX are both decentralized blockchain platforms that are designed to support decentralized applications and decentralized autonomous communities, organizations, and apps. Even if there are several key differences between the two platforms that set them apart, as I use them both I find great features that could be migrated in one form or another from one platform to the other. But let's see how are these blockchains distinguishing one from the other and what are bring the best to the table.
Are the crypto and stock markets fighting the Fed?
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/are-the-crypto-and-stock-markets-fighting-the-fed
The easy monetary policies that boosted markets in 2020 and 2021 went away in 2022, with the Federal Reserve shifting from quantitative easing (QE) to quantitative tightening (QT) alongside aggressive rate hikes. Crypto and stock markets seemed to be highly responsive to Fed actions, with assets rallying during the easy money years and declining for most of 2022 as financial conditions tightened. The “don’t fight the Fed” mantra served as a straightforward explanation for both market actions.
Splinterlands - Not a collective mind as we wanted to believe?
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/splinterlands-not-a-collective-mind-as-we-wanted-to-believe
The Splinterlands team is a moving collective mind and the last decision showed that it changes the rules of the game as it pleases, even if that seems to be against players' and investors' interests. While in the Chaos Legion release bull run the team flooded the market with 14 Million packs showing greed in my opinion, once the remaining packs were supposed to be burned it seemed that they'd turned to better decisions. But their latest move to grab 500k packs from the burning path and put them on the market in one form or another, which was not even put through a DAO Proposal process (even if it didn't have to as it was not part of the DAO Treasury), shows that they do not always care about the players or investors interests. Why am I saying this? Well because when 1 Chaos Legion pack is standing on the second market at 5.5 Hive, which is equivalent to $2.42 as opposed to a $4 pack in the store, how can the CL pack price at least reach the market price in order for the investors to see any profit? Until this bear market things had equilibrium and while Splinterlands earned hefty along the way, they'd always leave something on the table for the players and investors, but lately, they seem to work against that and only consider their wealth. And taking this path can lead to this great game's downfall in time...
Genesis League Sports - Rising to the challenge by hitting a new milestone
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/genesis-league-sports-rising-to-the-challenge-by-hitting-a-new-milestone
Genesis League Sports platform is under development and the first sports game from this ecosystem will be Genesis League Goals. The team just published that as an added layer of communication and transparency, at the beginning or end of each sprint from the game development, a list of some of the bigger items being worked on will be sent to the community. The current sprint ends on Feb 15th so there will be a few items for the following sprint noted sometime late next week. As well, Phase 2 of Presale will be kicking off on Wednesday, Feb 8th!
Splinterlands - Increase gameplay usability by extending cards filtering
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/splinterlands-increase-gameplay-usability-by-extending-cards-filtering
Splinterlands play2earn game on the Hive blockchain is evolving continuously and with each release and a new layer added it becomes more complex. In order to be able to keep up with the tokenomics and also ensure good management of the NFT cards that we use to battle, I believe that the game needs to extend its card filtering in order to offer a better view to the players.
A comparison between the Hive blockchain and Blogspot
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/a-comparison-between-the-hive-blockchain-and-blogspot
Since I joined the Hive blockchain back in 2017, I have always thought of it as a decentralized Blogspot. But going with my thought further, things are standing a little bit more different even if both platforms' main objective (at least initially) is/was for publishing content online. But let's see what might be the important differences that set them apart.
Fungus Flinger evolutions - Splinterlands Art Contest Week 227
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/fungus-flinger-evolutions-splinterlands-art-contest-week-227
The Splinterlands Art Contest kicked in with another edition on Week 227 and for it, I am proposing some Fungus Flinger evolutions. This Common Earth Unit is full of mysticism and dangers and it was the right candidate for the new Splinterlands Souldbound Rewards Edition cards. While I am not by any means a digital artist, I've used my imagination by describing the character as best as I could from the Lore and giving it as input to the BlueWillow AI, a yet free AI image generator, but with a twist because it runs on Discord.
What happens if a witness publishes a wrong price feed on the Hive blockchain?
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/what-happens-if-a-witness-publishes-a-wrong-price-feed-on-the-hive-blockchain
A witness on the Hive blockchain is responsible for publishing price feeds, which provide the current market price of the Hive token (HIVE) in other cryptocurrencies. This information is used to determine the value of HIVE for certain transactions, such as the conversion of HIVE to Hive Power (HP). As it happens to be and while I was browsing my list of voted witnesses, I observed that some of them (not from my last) have old price feeds and are not in line with what happens on the market right now. As I saw significant differences, one question popped into my head: What happens if a witness publishes a wrong price feed on the Hive blockchain? Can someone make use of that and manipulate in somehow the transactions to gain something from them?
My friend is hiking through abundant snow while I'm working bored
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/qztcxxwv
There needs to be an equilibrium between life and work and sometimes we cross the line and simply forget to enjoy living. Working in IT makes it so that I am living a high amount of my time in the digital space, but being outdoors can be much more fulfilling. And while I was working in my DYI office at home, one of my friends sent me a movie while he was hiking through the mountains through abundant snow.
Splinterlands - One more reason to be a SPS holder if not enough already
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/splinterlands-one-more-reason-to-be-a-sps-holder-if-not-enough-already
Just days ago I was praising Splinterlands upon their take on the HIVE rewards for the official posts as to burn them - Did you know that all posts from Splinterlands are burned?. And today I have observed that Splinterlands changed the strategy on that (maybe because I brought that to the light...or not :)), and they've switched to pouring the Hive rewards for the official game posts into @sps.dao. And who controls how the SPS DAO funds are used? You're right, the SPS holders are the ones that decide upon the SPS DAO funds.
Call me crazy, but I don't want the crypto to enter the bull season
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/call-me-crazy-but-i-don-t-want-the-crypto-to-enter-the-bull-season
As a cryptocurrency enthusiast, it's natural to hope for the best and expect a bull market to occur, with prices rising and crypto assets appreciating in value. However, for me, as I am looking to accumulate more cryptocurrencies (and here I am referring to Hive in special, which I think is so much underrated), the bear markets can be a blessing in disguise.
Splinterlands - The SPS DAO Treasury should motivate any SPS investors to hold on
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/splinterlands-the-sps-dao-treasury-should-motivate-any-sps-investors-to-hold-on
Splinterlands published the assets that are part of the SPS DAO Treasury and I am impressed by the multitude of the assets that it holds considering that I was expecting it to be filled up just with SPS. The other assets that are part of the Treasury are USDC/T, BUSD, ETH, BNB, and HIVE and basically, all the pairs with which SPS was added to the Liquidity Pools. And having such a diversity of assets consisting of both stablecoins and high-value cryptos like Ethereum and BNB, simply brings more motivation, trust, and long-term vision for any SPS investors like myself.
Hive HPUD - Powering up like the tortoise and not like the rabbit as I am for the long run
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/hive-hpud-powering-up-like-the-tortoise-and-not-like-the-rabbit-as-i-am-for-the-long-run
It is Hive PowerUp Day once again for the second time this year (1 February 2023) and I continue to participate in it with the intention to keep on going for the entire year. While this power-up looks like the tortoise in the race against the rabbit, I am sure I will end up on the winning side in the long run. The secret is that the race is not always swift and the one that perseveres and shows on the Hive blockchain day after day and puts in the work and time will thrive in the end. That's the mentality that I've gained being surrounded by open-minded people from this ecosystem and I've been showing consistently even in this bear market while others have disappeared.
Can you keep up with the news and management of your crypto assets?
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/can-you-keep-up-with-the-news-and-management-of-your-crypto-assets
As my hands were doing a thousand things at the same time, jumping from one crypto activity to the other, a question incepted into my mind. Can you keep up with the news and management of your crypto assets? I must confess that I can barely keep up with everything that happens around me and with the assets that I hold in my portfolio and I feel that I am losing so many opportunities as I don't optimize, nor put all my assets to work. I've already talked in the past about downsizing my current portfolio, but probably until the next bull run, I will not sell them for a considerable loss.
Do you set moonshot goals for yourself in crypto?
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/do-you-set-moonshot-goals-for-yourself-in-crypto
We all have dreams, we all have goals and we all have targets that are a driving force in our path in life. And sometimes we might want too much and set some moonshot goals for ourselves even if we are not skillful enough or do have the resources to accomplish them right now and end up setting an audacious milestone knowing that. Thus, we end up committing to it anyway and then try to reverse engineer the steps necessary to get there. We try this way to jump multiple spaces at a time and by doing that we might fall into difficulties and problems that we have simply not anticipated. Sometimes we might be lucky enough to avoid the mining field that we try to go over, but most of the time we will end up failing.
Be part of our community - A Hive Business Card Design Contest
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/be-part-of-our-community-a-hive-business-card-design-contest
While I am not a professional designer by any means, I love to explore my creativity and have mingled with different design forms since my university days. And even if my career went in a different direction and in a more technical field (QA-Testing Engineer), I still find it relaxing to challenge myself and see where my creativity is at. So the Hive Business Card Design Contest and challenge by @acidyo is an opportunity for me and others to showcase some of our ideas.
Speak Network - I almost missed this month's claimdrop, don't do the same!
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/speak-network-i-almost-missed-this-month-s-claimdrop-don-t-do-the-same
Speak Network is growing at a steady pace and probably this year we'll see more tokenomics and infrastructure being developed. But while that happens all we can do is claim the airdrop and stake the Larynx Miners in order to start earning SPK governance tokens. And with all that's happening in the crypto and a lot of management on my assets, but also active participation in some of my other projects, I have almost forgotten to claim my airdrop this month. But good that I woke up even if late in the month and I still had a few days for doing that. Hope you are not doing the same and you'd better hurry up and claim your tokens and put them to work!
How to publish content on Medium in a matter of seconds
https://medium.com/@thebehiver/how-to-publish-content-on-medium-in-a-matter-of-seconds-e97d926b09bd
Medium is a great social media for content creators and since I joined today I have found it pretty simple and straightforward to use, some would probably say too easy. And there is a secret to how you can publish in a matter of seconds content on Medium by simply importing already published content on the Internet.
I've just published my first article on Medium and I am quite excited to start a new journey on another social media. Not only that I can create and publish content there and maybe at some point fulfill the criteria to monetize them, but also it is another channel to distribute my content and grow my presence.
https://medium.com/@thebehiver/track-your-crypto-portfolio-in-excel-using-vba-scripting-and-coingecko-price-feed-e3597553f56e
If you can show some love by reading my first post on Medium (imported from a previous article created today on the Hive blockchain), I will be grateful for that. Thank you!
Track your crypto portfolio in Excel using VBA Scripting and CoinGecko price feed
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/track-your-crypto-portfolio-in-excel-using-vba-scripting-and-coingecko-price-feed
Lately, I've been playing with ways that I can track the yield of my crypto assets and I've tried to use different portfolio trackers. But one thing that I've observed is that if I want to have the information that I want I would need to subscribe to a paid service. Thus I've searched how I could grab data myself and track my portfolio in Excel using the CoinGecko API price feed. Even if it is a little bit more technical, at least I can get all the data that I want and track different dimensions in which I am interested.
Splinterlands - Brawls enhancements provide useful additional information
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/splinterlands-brawls-enhancements-provide-useful-additional-information
Splinterlands brawls are a way for warriors to group together, follow the same goals, and battle until the last drop of blood on the battlefield. These days it is mandatory to be part of a Guild and take place in Brawls for more fame and rewards by conquering the leaderboard by winning in the battles. And while I usually do my battles, and pay my dues, I don't pay too much attention to the Guilds' information. But that stopped today when I started to explore the provided information and discovered new things.
ThorChain is voting on the Community Incentives Burn Proposal
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/thorchain-is-voting-on-the-community-incentives-burn-proposal
ThorChain is getting ready for the Community Incentives Burn Proposal which proposes a major change to the protocol by introducing a mechanism for token burning. Here is the entire text detailing the voting for such a proposal and the mechanics that will be implemented if that happens. The proposal was published on the Thorwap Finance Forum and I am listing it as presented there.
Splinterlands - SPS Governance Proposals on PeakMonsters are getting hotter and hotter
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/splinterlands-sps-governance-proposals-on-peakmonsters-are-getting-hotter-and-hotter
It is amazing how Splinterlands space is extending through different integrations and platforms that are offering alternative or even main features for some functionalities from the Hive blockchain game. The latest development and integration in this regard is the Proposals system added to PeakMonster through which any Hive user can submit a proposal for SPS Governance funds usage. Pay a fee, submit a proposal with details describing it as a post on the Hive blockchain and let users upvote it, while the system counts behind the stage the voting power for each user based on his/her staked SPS and summarizes the results. And if this passes it is moved to the Splinterlands official SPS Proposals and let anyone spawn his or her final vote.
Interacting with the HIVE blockchain API using Postman
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/interacting-with-the-hive-blockchain-api-using-postman
These days I've been playing around with the API of the Hive blockchain in order to retrieve different data available and maybe find some new use cases. As I am a QA-Testing Software Engineer I've tried to interact with the API by using the tools that I am most accustomed to and one of them is Postman. I've looked up in the documentation related to the JSON RPC API from the Hive Developer Portal and found some samples about the available endpoints and how to send data to them. For example, get_account_reputations can be invoked using curl with the following command: curl -s --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"condenser_api.get_accounts", "params":[["hiveio"]], "id":1}' https://api.hive.blog.
Leo Finance - Adding more community pages like Bitcoin is imperative
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/leo-finance-adding-more-community-pages-like-bitcoin-is-imperative
Browsing through the posts of my regular content creators, I've learned new things about different crypto projects. By doing so I can easily say what a specific creator is invested in and what is happening with a specific crypto asset and blockchain technology. One thing I also like doing is browsing through Community pages, but while doing this I've discovered that it lacks huge names starting with Bitcoin. Not sure how this was overlooked, but Bitcoin is the primordial crypto asset known widely by most people, it should be in front of the others.
Crypto moves in the same way as I did on the bobsleigh
https://leofinance.io/@behiver/zzgjjokl
I had a long weekend from Friday until Sunday and spent it mostly outdoors in the mountains. While I didn't see much snow this winter and couldn't enjoy skiing, at least I've tried something new and went and had some fun on the bobsleigh. With almost 2 kilometers of curves and G forces and a speed of up to 45 kilometers per hour, it indeed gave me some thrills. The same way that the crypto seems to move these days, up and down, left and right, never know what will be on the next corner. Always hoping for something good! :)
Hope you enjoyed the weekend as well and we will have a positive new week. Best wishes!
@BehiverOnNoiseApp
