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Cynic, doubter, but Blockchain believer. All round fun guy...
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Tips to spot a Scam project PART 1 This will be the first of four lessons where I will be talking about how to spot a scam project. With the craziness in the Crypto market right now, I think every noob needs this lesson. In the past couple of months we saw prices skyrocket to new highs and we saw an influx of noobs and those hoping to make a quick buck from crypto. Right now the euphoria has eased and a lot of scams and meme coins have folded up and rugged on their…
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The Future of Mutual Funds is Decentralised With the growth and widespread adoption of Crypto it was always a given that the future of Defi was going to be a decentralized one. But watching everything grow decentralized and watching the spread of Decentralized Finance has been a joy to watch. Watching things like Insurance, Exchanges, Savings, Asset Management, Mutual Funds etc move to Defi further reassures my belief that Crypto and Blockchain are indeed the future. One…
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The Future of Private Messaging The Future of the Private Messaging in my opinion is one where there is freedom to express your views as you see it without fear of censorship and your voice been muted or shut. The Future of the Private Messaging in my opinion is one where there is a level of anonymity for users to protect their data and also openness for people to be able to interact with each other as they deem fit. The Future of Private Messaging in my opinion is one where…
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Uncensorship in a censored world. Freedom of speech is a part of the fundamental human right, but a cursory glance and many countries and how life is run there shows that far from it, freedom of speech is not a norm as it should be. The apps which also should guarantee freedom of speech also help to spread censorship. Make no mistake, there is a thin line between what should and should not be said online, and I believe the apps should have a bit of control what is said on…
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Privacy as it should be. The recent data leak of over 533 million Facebook users has brought to light again the need for privacy. The leak information included the personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries; it contained over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and - in some cases - email…
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Privacy with Status. Much of what Blockchain and Cryptocurrency is based on are the principles of Decentralization and privacy. While decentralization is one of the biggest buzzwords in the industry, I personally think a lot of people were also attracted into crypto by the privacy feature. There’s a reason a lot of Crypto twitter users are anonymous and hide behind anime and pepe avis, there’s a reason why Satoshi Nakamoto till this day is still anonymous, there’s a reason…
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The Future of Private Messaging The word “Private Messaging” to me has for long been an irony. The irony of it all is that most of those who claim to offer this much sought after feature are anything but private. The recent WhatsApp privacy policy scandal has shown us one thing for sure and it is that there’s always something to be gained by the big corporations. If it isn’t money from the users then it’s their data harvested from the so called ‘privacy apps’. There are a…
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Decentralised social media In my 3 years in Crypto I have used a plethora of Decentralized and Blockchain based social media platforms, each with their strengths and shortcomings. Like many who got in during that period I started on Steemit, then there was the Justin Sun takeover, the witnesses debacle, the hard fork and Hive was born. Steemit basically became abandoned after that and I moved to Hive alongside writing on Scorum, a Blockchain based sports blogging platform.…
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The Fight for Privacy There existed a time in the history of man when gold was King and whoever had it was reverenced. Then the world developed and we moved on to Fiat or paper money. Like we all know, change is the only constant variable and soon power changed hands and we had the scuffle for oil which is referred to as Black gold. But we all know that in this 21st century we currently are, Data is the new gold, he who possesses the data can sell it for whatever price he…
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Status looking Solid. As I write this we are so close to a new Ethereum All Time High that it is both exhilarating and scary for what the future has to hold. Prices are close to the $1,400 mark, and if Bitcoin is anything to judge by, once price hits a New All Time High on Binance which stands at $1,440 there is going to be a big price boom for a lot of altcoins which are heavily coupled to Ethereum the second largest Cryptocurrency by Market capitalization. If there is…
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The Power of words.... "In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand." -- Kenneth Branagh I gave a speech on the power of words a couple of years back and that is to this day one of my best speeches ever. I still remember some of the lines in that speech, I absolutely loved it same as the audience too by the way. The point though is that words indeed are so powerful that when used rightly they can be molded to inspire some of the…
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Our Superhuman strength...... "Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." -- Albert Camus In the face of life's many crazy obstacles it sometimes takes almost supernatural strength and courage to continue to put in the work required. It most definitely is not easy and that's why we see so many give up and fall by the way side. So many times I really don't hold it against them those that decide to call it quits and throw in the towel. It really…
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Pre-New Year Musings..... I like to tell myself I'm quite different from others. I like to feel like I do things different and when others are going one way I tend to go the other. Might not be true, but at least it helps me sleep well at night. But on days like today, you just can't help but do what the rest of the world is doing and reflect on the past year. As the whole world gets ready to move to another phase, you can't help but like the rest of the billions around the…
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Patience is key..... "I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it." -- Kenny G In the end, nothing comes all at once, nothing just comes to one in a bundle or heap, it comes bit by bit. All we get and all we are able to acquire are a result of the small work and constant practice we put in. I will try as much as possible to refrain from using the…
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We keep Marching... "Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet" -- Dr. Dre As we slowly draw the curtains on 2020, we take some time to look back at the year so far and it has truly been a most crazy year to be honest. None still here kicking is more deserving of a place here on Earth than any who has departed, but one lesson I think the whole of humanity learnt this year is the resilience of man. Even when it looked grim, even when the prospects looked almost…
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Book Review 3: Angels and Demons This undoubtedly ranks among the top 3 fiction books I've read in my short life time. Read it a couple of years ago and I immediately grew an insatiable need to read as many Dan Brown books as possible, and I've grown to love them all by the way. A truly truly enthralling one. If you are looking for a story with so many plot twists, intrigue and suspense to keep you occupied this holiday period then I would definitely recommend this. A tale…
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What type of man are you? "There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." -- Will Rogers I hope by God or whatever it is you serve that you're one of the first two. By now you should understand who they are and their attributes, but just for further clarification let's delve into them my friends. The reader learns from the experiences of others. He humbles…
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Own your jouney "I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really." -- Rebel Wilson At some point in my life I used to feel insecure about my body, but thankfully I got over it and though not as cocky and positively arrogant like the quote but I am getting there lol. Unlike the quote above, I wasn't fat, quite the opposite I was in fact rather thin and I got taunted a…
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What new ATH means for Alts.. If you haven't been caught up in the euphoria of Bitcoin meeting and smashing it's $20k All Time High, then you're definitely practising crypto wrong. From CT, to Telegram to Discord, it's been absolute bedlam. It almost felt like doomsday for me, as two of my most used apps Telegram and Binance crashed as Bitcoin surpassed 20k. It went on to hit $20,800 as I'm writing this and it has been a thing of beauty to watch. More than Bitcoin though, it…
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Book Review 2: The Richest Man in Babylon I started this last week and this is the second in this series, I hope I can do it 2 times a week as I plan to, and hopefully as time goes by we'll see more people join in and we all learn from each other's learning and reading. Right, with that out of the way straight into the review. I am proud of myself to have read as many books as I have in my short life time, but not many will stick to my memory and subconscious the way this…
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Open your mind...... "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." -- Frank Zappa A mind well used is perhaps man's greatest weapon, it's a weapon so great that the greatest if revolutions ,the greatest of weapons, the greatest of forward moves, the greatest of discoveries in human history have all come from the mind of men. But there however is one catch, your mind must be open and you must believe you can really achieve those things. It sounds so cliche…
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Set Priorities...... "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent." -- Barbara Bush That truly is one of the biggest lessons I've learnt as I keep putting in the work to achieve my dreams and get all I want. I have learnt truly that though money is important, it should only be seen as a tool and a means.…
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Music Meets NFT'S After the explosion of Decentralized Finance this year, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) or Digital Collectibles like some people prefer to call them is another revelation of the year 2020. They have been the rave in the Blockchain Art and gaming world, so many who saw them as just another passing fad are beginning to have a rethink are see their enormous potential. I for one hadn’t at first been enamored by the though, by like many others I have slowly warmed up…
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Trustless Messaging... Technology we all know has revolutionised the way we do everything, even a phenomenon like talking to each other has transitioned to Messaging one another and it has taken a different dimension than what we were used to. It all used to face-to-face, but with the introduction of technology, it brought about a bridge to connect us all. Irrespective of where one was and what time zone we could all be interacting at the same time. The introduction of…
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Book review 1: Rich Dad, Poor Dad. So I saw a friend of mine @cryptotexty start this and I decided to toe along these lines myself. I can call myself a reader, as I love to read a lot from all genres. From business, to fiction, to sci-fi, to mystery and so on. So thought it would be a good idea to share what I've read. So straight to the review, the first book has to be Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. A lot of people should have read this book, it's an especially…
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Understand more... "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -- Marie Curie I will not claim to be an expert on this topic as I still have a couple of things I fear. We're all mere mortals in the end and there will always be a sense of fear for the unknown. But doing the many things I do and building the many things I build have taught me a sense of confidence I can say not many possess. To…
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Status: Redefining Privacy I always let out a short laugh when I come across a lot of messaging apps that tag themselves to be ‘Private Messaging apps’. The reason is rather simple and not far-fetched, they claim to be Private Messaging apps, but they know next to nothing about Privacy. They don’t practice what they preach, and they still harvest users’ data and sell it to the highest bidder, they still have backend access to your messages and they can do with that as they…
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Music and NFT'S The relationship between Music and Art has always been an intrinsic one; the growth of one has most times led to a growth and wider use and acceptance of the other. They complement each other in a way, and to fully appreciate one you need to have at least a basic understanding and appreciate the other. The Crypto world which in my opinion is an improved version of the real world seems to be upholding this rule of a correlation between Music and Art. With the…
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Day to day..... "Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day." -- Ray Lewis. I like to tell myself that I'm disciplined and ready to put in the work. It's might not always be true but it does give me the moral booster I need to keep pushing. It truly is about a lot of little moves in the right direction. I've watched so many people wait for that money of lightening strike. That moment where…
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A simple post It all gets crazy once in a while, in our constant pursuit of the good things in life we forget one of the need for gratitude. With the hustle and bustle we forget that we have already been blessed beyond what we had bargained for. We begin to become ungrateful for the many things we prayed for but we now attain relatively easily. We forget that a grateful heart paves the way for more blessings. In my daily life I see many things I'm grateful for honestly my…
