About Time, Freedom and Money - Day 63 Long time ago, when I was still a teenager, I was reading about Warren Buffet, and it was a story, when a well known TV celebrity asked him what it means to be rich. When asked, Warren opened his notebook, and showed to the guy his next week schedule, with all pages being blank, except to one single day, when it was a birthday party. And in exchange, he asked the interviewer to show his next week schedule to him. As you expected, the…
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The journey is always more important than the goal - Day 64 Last summer I had a 'little accident' jumping rope, as I could hear something happenning to my knee. It is healing slowly, and I estimate it is still matter of months until I will be fully recovered. Few day ago I had some mild pain on my thight, and now, after few days, I can feel it getting worst everytime I need to walk. I still need to go to work one more day before my annual leave week, so I need to embrace the…
Past time with a Past Christmas Zombie - Animated Corpse (A Splinterlands battle challenge)- Day 66 Chaos Legion cards pre-sale is done, and somehow I have managed to buy 700 packs, a solid number, much higher than the 500 I expected to get. The second sale will start soon, with double the drop rate for the vouchers. You still need to use them to buy more packs, until beginning of January, when we can finally buy packs with 4$, using just Credits. Even then, if you want to…
To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often (Latest crypto updates) What a week! Whales trying to flush out the little man, with a concentrate effort on all the main exchanges, focused on Bitcoin and Ethereum mainly. US government having interesting views on the stablecoin and bitcoin. Wrong, but interesting. Solana is all the hype lately. Tron network creating a gaming metaverse, yeah, right, and they start with a Mafia game. Somebody call the year 1999…
Achieving Mastery and Survival in crypto-world - Day 68 I am reading a book about Ultralearning. Basically is a method, or rather a bunch of methods on how to learn everything really really fast. It is easy to explain, but hard to follow. You know that story, when you need to make a detailed 10 years plan on what are your objectives, and then ask yourself what do you need to do to make it happen in one year. Now, the methods you use to make that happen are called…
The consequences of the Chaos Legion pack release and the end of an era - Day 69 I was curious, and I could finally use all my potions. It was an interesting day. I opened 400 Packs from Chaos Legion. Mixed results. 71 summoners, out of which 3 Gold and 2 Legendary Dragon. Legendary cards: 14 out of which 2 Gold. Total gold cards: 56. At $12.44 being the price for one pack, my 400 opened packs are worth today $4976. So, I will obviously want to calculate if I break it even…
About being poor or rich, and some random pair of old boots - Day 70 Today I will talk about being poor and being rich. Many of my friends think that it is matter of luck. But I will not agree. It is not about luck. It is a matter of education. Financial education. I can hear so many remarks about for example Splinterlands, lately. ''OMG, you spend ten thousand dollars buying Chaos Legion packs. You are so lucky. '' Well, in this context, I hate the word LUCK. Lacking…
HIVE portfolio weekly updates and December targets - Day 71 I am the proud owner of more than 10K CUB, and now I will focus on reaching 10K LEO. Still loading my passive income token bags, with more Archon Miner, Dhedge, Utopis and Brofund bought past week. All my Hive targets for november are already reached. Splinterlands Chaos Legion sale is entering in the second phase, with double the voucher rewards, and 400 the packs were opened with a net profit of $2.7K after taking…
Adshares and the ideal journey as a DAO ( A Metaverse bedtime story) - Day 72 Adshares Network is a 100% decentralized peer-to-peer market for programmatic advertising. So, let’s explain that. What is centralized and what is decentralized? Centralized networks are built using a single, centralized server or master node, handling all major data processing and stores data and user information that other users can access. Centralization will increase the downtime, had a limited…
ETH is shifting, BTC is dropping, and Santa is coming with a bag of tokens (weekly crypto updates) Another week is gone, and the year is almost passed, in a blink of an eye. Time has no patience, and we are dying a bit with every second, hour and day. But until then, it is the time to celebrate life. What happen in crypto? Well, read it bellow: Bitcoin: El Salvador bought another 150 BTC during the dip, reaching 1270 BTC, at $48.67K. The dip continued all the way to $42K.…
Dragons battle challenge on Splinterlands - Dracharys! My choice of Dragon card was one of my favourite summoners, the Epic Daria Dragonscale, providing +1 Melee Damage boost. Being an epic card, you only need 46 of them to upgrade this one to max level, but this will likely cost you $1300-1350 for a level 6 summoner today. Nevertheless, this is a perfect card for some rulesets, such as Up, close and personal (Melee only), Equal opportunity (all cards have opportunity, or…
Self-help, survivor's guilt and imposter's syndrome - Day 76 Motto: What is the rewards you get for good work? More work. (Porky Pig) Today I am thinking to talk about helping others, survivor's guilt and imposter's syndrome. What? Wait, why are all those things together? This is an interesting story, and every one of us had the mentioned experience in one way or another. So, let's begin! You are really good at something (see some of my previous posts about learning and…
Time and time again, on the new blockchain - Day 77 Motto: “The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” Seneca Yes, this is right. By thinking too much about the future, you forget to live in the present. My Jedi Master used to tell me: ''If you live too much in the past, you can be depressed. If you live too much in the future, you can be anxious. But here and now, this is…
Grow your future in the yard - Introduction to Bityard What is Bityard, you may ask? Well, to say it simply, in just a few words, Bityard is an one-stop trading platform for investors from all around the globe. I can already hear your questions in my mind. Are they safe? Are they good? What they can offer different that other direct competitors? Well, this will be an interesting journey. Let's tackle our questions one by one. Bityard was founded in 2019, learning from the…
Senators, pirates, Red Alert 2 ressurection and some other weasels (weekly crypto updates) This week was funny, with the prices still dropping and the high APY harder and harder to find. Bitcoin mined until now reached 90% and ETH is working hard to stay relevant. The blockchain gaming hype seems to slow down, even if you can still make a living wage out of it in some parts of the world. But nothing is free, in the end, even if it seems to be. You always need to pay…
Half horse, half man, and I'm not Kylo Ren (A Splinterlands battle challenge) - Day 81 The Centaur is a Common Neutral Unit with 3 Ranged Attack, 6 Speed and 6 Health at max level, with a Snipe ability at level 1 (attacking Ranged, Magic or no attack monsters that are not of the first position) with only 4 Mana cost. Even at level 1, it is an useful card, ideal to use with other Ranged damage boosting summoners like for example Yodin Zaku. Even without the boost, using 2-3…
End of the year and my early Christmas gift on Hive portfolio - Day 84 I am the proud owner of more than 10K CUB, and now I will focus on reaching 10K LEO with 9.3K at the moment. I may even make it by the end of the year. Still loading my passive income token bags, with more Archon Miner, Dhedge, Utopis and Brofund bought past week,considering BXT and Index too. All my Hive targets for December are hard to reach, but we need to challenge ourselves, right? Splinterlands…
Parachains, Ethereum failures and the numbers that shocked the world in 2021 (weekly crypto updates) What an up and down it was in this past week! Everyone rushing full or not so full of holiday's cheer, Bitcoin et company are predictablly swinging between 40-50K, with a last moment effort on Christmas to go over 51K, and the optimists already think they will see $60K before the year ends. Will we? Other than that, check the latest news bellow: Bitcoin: Grayscale Bitcoin…
Why perseverence always pays off - Just another success story on Hive Blockchain - Day 87 What a difference 10 months will make. Yes, 10 months ago I decided to start to publish on hive.blog regularly, and I decided to monitor my Hive portfolio weekly. I am comparing now the value of my tokens in February, when I started, with the actual value now. Portfolio in February 2021 Hive: 1131 - $366 Leo: 228 - $174 LBI: 150 - $120 SPT: 58K - $28 CTP: 222 - $21 (Dropped quite a bit,…
The flames can burn, but my Giant Roc rocks the stage, better than a mage (Splinterlands challenge) The Giant Roc is a Common Fire unit, from Alpha/Beta, with 3 Melee Damage, 5 Speed and 6 Health at max level (10) with 5 Mana cost. At level 1 it has Flight (Chance to dodge Melee and Ranged attacks) and Reach (to attack from the second position), and at level 6 it got Trample, and keep attacking if it kills the first card on the team. https://youtu.be/AY1KN8k0x8E So, for the…
A glorious purpose for a challenging year - Hive portfolio updates &co - Day 90 I wrote consecutively for 90 days in the past 3 months, one of my greatest achievements. Next year I will try to start again, and see how it will go. As for the portfolio, here are some interesting numbers. Hive: 3935 - $6114 (+61) SPT: 1070K - $4946 (+2K) Leo: 11101 - $2447 (+1767) POB: 2878 - $235(+30) Passive income tokens LENM: 30 - $247 (zero) LBI: 200 - $40 (zero) BROFUND: 52 - $280 (zero)…