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The Blockchain.Poker Chronicles #3 ***Monday, June 2, 2020*** Still alive! Actually, my foray into poker is going better than expected, which is surprising since I consider myself a not so great poker player. I can tell you right now that of the countless times I've deposited money to play online poker, I've never withdrawn. Partly because cashing out is such a hassle using those legacy websites, but also because I always lost sooner or later. Who knows, maybe I'm just on a…
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My Strangest Encounter and the End of the World ***Friday, June 6, 2020*** I haven't been sleeping much these days. I don't know if it's because of everything that's going on in the world, but I can't seem to stay asleep for more than a few hours at a time. And when I find myself waking up at three or four or five in the morning, I can't help but grab my phone to check if everything has completely burned to the ground yet or not. I'm sure part of it has to do with the fact…
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Communities: my initial thoughts At first I didn't really get it. But I just scrolled through the front page checking out headlines and the blue communities indicators just pop off the page. I can see myself in the future gravitating towards certain communities that cater to my interests so long as the moderators do a good job of maintaining their community and filtering out low quality posts. I can see how this could be exactly what **read.cash** needed. I am seriously…
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The Blockchain.Poker Chronicles #4 ***Sunday, June 9, 2020*** Double digits! Another winning week in the books, and I'm as surprised as anyone. If you'd said when I started this column that I'd be up ~10 BCH ($2500) in less than a month, I wouldn't have believed you. Truthfully, I'm just waiting for my luck to run out, but until then, I'll keep posting these with the hope of bringing more attention to blockchain.poker, the best online poker site around in my humble opinion.…
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Bitcoin Fixes This "Bitcoin fixes this." You hear that a lot in this space. In fact you hear it so often it's become a running joke. Bitcoin fixes ... racism, poverty, pandemics, global warming, whatever, you get the idea. So this got me wondering, "What *does* Bitcoin fix?" The first answer that popped into my mind, the easy answer, was that it fixes money. But I don't think that tells the whole story. For me, I think the better answer is that Bitcoin helps us fix the…
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I've changed my mind about read.cash ***Tuesday, June 9, 2020*** I previously wrote an article called "read.cash needs to be a MeRiToCrAcY". https://read.cash/@Cain/readcash-needs-to-be-a-meritocracy-a5247ae8 And despite that article having far less views than many of my other posts, it garnered the most upvotes I've ever gotten, which tells me people tended to agree with what I wrote. Well, since then the **read.cash** team has brought it to my attention that the #1 goal of…
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Photoshop contest Thanks to a comment by @Grido on Telegram, I realized something about the difference between the BCH and BTC logos. Obviously it all comes down to the tilt of the ₿, but what I never saw was that the BCH tilt makes it seem like it's leaning back and chillin', while the BTC forward tilt could be seen as if it's an old man hunched forward like it's on its last legs. It inspired me to have some fun in photoshop and create this: Anyway, I thought it would be…
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Photoshop Contest Winner! First of all, thank you to everyone who entered. I hope you had as much fun as I did seeing all the different entries. I tried to tip everyone fifty cents if you met the criteria of what I was looking for, but if I missed you, apologies. At some point I started seeing people entering and deleting entries only to reenter just to get another fifty cent tip out of me. No matter where you look, there's always some bad apples trying to ruin things for…
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The blockchain.poker chronicles #5 ***Sunday, June 14, 2020*** The win streak is over, my luck finally ran out, and it's time to put this column on hiatus for a while. Probably for the best so I can spend my time on more productive endeavors. I hope everyone who followed along enjoyed watching my progress for the last month, and that my articles brought a little more awareness to blockchain.poker. I still believe it's the best place on the internet to play online poker, and…
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Getting to 100k users on read.cash ***Monday, June 15, 2020*** When I first discovered Bitcoin Cash, I didn't really understand what it was all about until I actually had some and put it to use. That's why I think **read.cash** is so important to the growth of BCH adoption. It not only acts as a way for people to earn their first coins, but also helps educate new users on how to make a transaction, which is what peer-to-peer electronic cash is all about. This is why I was so…
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My New Communities ***Wednesday, June 17, 2020*** It's no secret that read.cash has had issues dealing with people gaming the system in order to earn points through less than ideal methods. It's resulted in the front page being cluttered with spam or low grade articles most people would have no interest in reading. In an effort to combat this, they announced that going forward only posts accepted to "featured" communities will be eligible to earn points. I don't know if this…
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That WFH life ***Wednesday, June 17, 2020*** It's been three months since I started working from home. At first it was great. I could roll out of bed at like 8:55 am and turn on the computer and be like, okay, I'm here and working. I guess I should consider myself lucky to have a job that can be done remotely, but I admit it's getting old. I miss seeing people at work, even the strangers I didn't know, crossing paths with them as we walked in and out of the lobby on our way…
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Terrace House ***Thursday, June 18, 2020*** Terrace House is a Japanese reality show on Netflix. It was easily my favorite show on that platform, and the one I looked forward to watching the most when new episodes were released. The basic premise of the show is they put 6 young people together in a beautiful house. It's always 3 boys and 3 girls, usually between the ages of 20 and 30. You watch them live their lives as they go to work, or to school, and pursue their dreams.…
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Netflix Review: My Mister ***Monday, June 22, 2020*** I recently watched a Korean drama on Netflix called My Mister. It's 16 episodes long, and each episode is a little over an hour. If you're not familiar with the Korean drama genre, they are typically superficial and melodramatic. But I think this one doesn't quite fit into that mold. There is depth to these characters, and the situation they find themselves in, and for the first time in a long time, I found myself wishing…
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Need a little help with moderation. When I see a post with the EXC tag, I know that means it's exclusive but does that mean it's simply not in any other communities? Is the non-OC tag no longer being used? Basically, how do I know if large parts of an article were mostly copied from the internet? I got a submission that didn't have the EXC tag but wasn't sure if that was just because they had submitted to multiple read.cash communities, but when I did a quick search, I saw…
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TV and Film (99ac) ***Thursday, June 25th, 2020*** So many of my memories are around the movies I've watched throughout the years. Just sitting here trying to write this article it's like I'm being bombarded by them. Like the time me and my friends watched Boyz n the Hood down at the South Bay Galleria mall. We were in the eighth grade, three little Korean boys watching Ice Cube, and Cuba Gooding Jr., and Morris Chestnut doing their thing. I know the movie was good because…
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Blame It on the Incentives ***Friday, June 26th, 2020*** The **read.cash** team recently announced the end of featured communities and the handing out of points to moderators of those communities. Another way of putting it is that the incentive structure of the site has changed yet again. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. In fact I find it refreshing that this team has been willing to try new things until they get this right.…
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I'm starting to wonder why I don't just post here like I do on twitter. At least I can earn points. The question is, are random thoughts of any value? I guess we'll find out.
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July read.cash challenge ***Sunday, June 28th, 2020*** For the first time yesterday, I earned over 1000 daily points on **read.cash**. I don't know what the final tally was, but I got a payment of $4.47 out of it: Now that the site has changed their reward system, it's hard to know what actions earned me those points, but I don't really care. I enjoy writing and promoting this site, and as long as I'm making something for my efforts, and what I make is proportional to the…