Threatening Message! I guess it was inevitable. I got a warning, "Don't spam (any attempt to avoid this filter will result in immediate account deletion without a warning)", when attempting to add my latest post. What was this latest post that was so offensive? Well, it started like this: "Get Your GOB, (Grumpy Old Bastard), Token Now! I just created the GOB token on the BCH SLP, (Simple Ledger Protocol), blockchain. Woo hoo!!" Controversial stuff, huh? I guess the problem…
Get Your GOB, (Grumpy Old Bastard), Token Now! (Edited to Appease the Fine Sensibilities of Our Auto-Mod Overlord! Just remove the *'s.) I just created the GOB token on the BCH SLP, (Simple Ledger Protocol), blockchain. Woo hoo!! Leave a r*e*p*l*y with the a*d*d*r*e*s*s of a SLP compatible w*a*l*l*e*t, and I'll s*e*n*d you one. Double woo hoo!! How did I do this? 1. Go to mint.bitcoin.com, and create a wallet. BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN THE LIST OF WORDS THAT COMPRISE THE SEED…
I'm So Confused! One thing about BCH that is confusing the heck out of me is the format of the address. As y'all may have noticed, BCH addresses, (public keys), start with the following: "bitcoincash:". Well, at least they usually do ...... Yesterday I created the grand-and-glorious GOB token, (see https://noise.cash/post/l735nnwj ), on the BCH blockchain using SLP. It was easy to do, once I was able to fund my mint.bitcoin wallet. I gave out a few GOBs, (by the way, GOBs…
Why the Conflict Between BCH and BTC? Today I just listened to the "debate" between Kim Dotcom and a bunch of BTC advocates, ( on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXkZdEUA8c ), and I was appalled by how rude the BTC backers were, even as Kim tried to remain rational and even conciliatory. WHY do we still have bad blood between BCH and BTC? Yeah, I agree that BCH should have been called something else other than "bitcoin", and that irritated me for a long time,…
The World's Greatest Love Poem Love, by A Nonny Mouse, (aka, Anonymous) There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid And the love of a staunch true man, And the love of a baby that's unafraid: All have existed since time began. But the most wonderful love, the LOVE of all loves, Even greater than the love of a Mother, Is the infinite, tender, most passionate love Of one dead drunk for another. Let's all go have a drink for world peace!! :-) #Poetry
Why the SPAM Hate? Why are there so many posts bemoaning SPAM, and those who promote it? I love SPAM, whether it be served for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Like it says on the official SPAM website, https://www.spam.com/ , "Don't knock it 'til you've fried it." Sliced and fried, like in the picture, SPAM is yummy. "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM," indeed! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcY3W5WgNU ) It sure beats the hell out of stinky fish cooked in vinegar! Did you know that,…
Subscribe to https://noise.cash/u/cmoneyspinner . Seriously ..... stop whatever you are doing right now, (I don't care whatever it is; it is NOT as important), and subscribe to this user: https://noise.cash/u/cmoneyspinner . In addition to cool articles of his/her own, (I don't know if cmoneyspinner is male or female, and I'm old enough to believe that the difference still matters), cmoneyspinner reposts some of the coolest articles here on noise.cash. You will NOT be…
Camote Tops and Ramen Noodles Yesterday for breakfast our cook/maid/helper/neighbor/friend Ms. Em cooked up some spicy camote tops, which, when paired with ramen noodles, made a most excellent meal. In the first pic you can see the ramen noodles in my plate being stirred into the camote tops. Yummy! (Lemi, or sarap, if you prefer. Not that I speak either Bisaya or Tagalog!) The second pic is Ms. Em herself, sitting in our kitchen, embarrassed that I just took her pic! Now…
The Water is Shut Off Again I woke up grumpy again this morning, (normal occurrence for me). My older son and I froze most of the night because my wife insists on cranking the A/C down to 20 degrees, (yes, it costs a small fortune in electricity to do that!), I am running out of the blood pressure medicine I need to keep my old, fat body alive and none of the pharmacies around here have the drug I need, and I wanted to wash up a bit and make my stinky body a little less…
I Like Puppies! I like puppies, soft, sweet, cuddly puppies. And I like CHIPs. I love to feed CHIPs to puppies. When bad thoughts show up, (questions about the safety of rushed-to-market vaccines, doubts about the fairness of elections in the USA and questions about democracy in general, wondering about the future of liberty as advanced technology concentrates power in fewer and fewer hands, wondering if Covid19 was designed to mutate into more dangerous forms, wondering if…
I Knew This Was Gonna Happen ....... :-( There are four adult women living in this house, and on any given day another 1 or 2 wind up spending most of the day here. I knew that conflict was inevitable. After several days of escalating emotions, today my wife's sister and her mama got into a screaming match with each other, ending with the sister running out of the house crying, and mama locking herself into her room, where she is currently crying. My wife is very upset. She…
Sold Some of My Doge Last Night So last night I got fed up with the hype, and sold some of my crazy Dogecoin. I had about 180 of them sitting on Kraken, and I parted with 50. I got about 67¢ a piece for them, which is outrageous! (When I got the silly things, they were around 0.2¢ to 0.3¢ each.) Today they are worth about 65¢, so of course I am a genius! (Ha, ha!!) Kraken isn't the easiest exchange to work with, at least for me, so I fumbled around a bit, (actually, a lot!),…
I Need Some Help Noise.cash folks, I need your help. I need you to lookup user Lyka27, ( https://noise.cash/u/Lyka27 ), like some of her posts, send her some CHIPs, and show her that not all users on noise.cash are clods like me. Here is what happened: Lyka27 added a post about balot, (balut?). Being an ornery old jerk, certain filipino foods like balot set me off, so I wrote her a reply about how disgusting balot is, and that it belongs in the garbage. I also added some…
What About Titcoin? With the recent parabolic rise in the value of Dogecoin, and all the attention that particular cryptocurrency is getting, I wonder if now would be a good time for Titcoin to enhance in value as well? While Titcoin doesn't have a cute icon like Doge possesses, it does have something going for it, namely, the wonderful ticker symbol TIT. And at the moment Titcoin is cheap, being a bit over 1¢, according to Coingecko,…
Dodong Says He Did 202 Basketball Shots! My younger son tells me that he has done 202 basketball shots today, and that I need to WRITE THIS DOWN and tell people. So that is what I am doing. Consider yourselves duly informed with this important information, and feel free to pass it along to others: Old Bastard's younger son made 202 basketball shots today! I have read this message to him, and he approves it for dispersal. Thank you for your time.
How I Intend to Use Noise.Cash, Now That All the CHIPs Are Eaten If you haven't noticed yet, CHIPs are vanishing from noise.cash. (See: https://noise.cash/post/1628kp63 and https://noise.cash/post/1628v755 ) As such, we won't be able to give free CHIPs to posts or replies we like anymore. My favorite trait of this site is the ability to interact with other people, to chat back and forth about things. CHIPs helped facilitate this dialog, but now that they are gone we will…
Enough of This Crap - I Sold My DOGE Enough of this crazy nonsense with the doggy poop coin! I finally got fed up with checking coingecko.com and worrying about when it will FINALLY crash, and sold most of the rest of my DOGE. I got about 53¢ per coin, which is a great rate of return from the original purchase price, (which was around 0.002¢ to 0.003¢). I now have only about 6 Doges left. I purchased ADA (Cardano) with the profit, (not a whole lot of money, about $70.00…
Andrew Henderson Interviews Roger Ver Interesting video posted today on Nomad Capitalist YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rivft-mkA8 . Andrew Henderson (Nomad Capitalist) interviews Roger Ver (one of our heroes). They discuss how crypto has the potential to help the island of Antigua. Roger also makes the case for BCH instead of BTC.
Earn $5,000 / Month Staking Crypto Just came across this recent video on YouTube: How I Earn $5000 Per Month Staking Crypto (Stake Crypto to Earn Passive Income 2021) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPSdoKXEPzM I like this video because she starts off talking about security. Unfortunately crypto is a tempting target for the jerks of the world, so we need to be very, very careful not to allow someone to steal our coins. Her investments are spread around many different…
Rexy's Birthday Today we went to Rexy's house to celebrate her birthday. We walked "all the way" there, (about half a mile), in the sun, so now I am pretty well exhausted. Rexy is the woman sitting roughly in the center of the first picture. She cooked some very yummy chicken adobo, which IMHO was the best adobo I've ever had. Lots of Philippine cuisine seems to be enamored of the "sour" taste of things like vinegar, (which reaches its apogee of awfulness in that horrid…
Do Magnets Stick to Your Vaccination Site? *** UPDATE: The responses I've gotten from vaccinated folks are that magnets do NOT stick to the place where they received the vaccine. *** As we all know, the amount of misinformation being spread over Covid19 is unprecedented. I DO NOT WANT TO ADD TO THIS MESS!! Which is why I want y'all to be skeptical about the "information" I am about to pass on to you. According to this video compilation, (…
Did You See That? I grabbed this at-first-glance offensive pic off this website: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/7-unintentionally-sexual-optical-illusions_n_1674433 . Some of the pics there are kinda dumb, (or, more likely, I'm kinda dumb and I just don't understand them), but this one really "stuck out" to me. I would guess that this has been photoshopped, or, like the website suggests, planned. What is the likelihood of snapping these two guys in that exact position? It…
I Just Joined https://*bitcoincash*.site/1m/ - EDITED TO APPEASE THE SHITTY AUTO-MOD I finally stopped procrastinating, and joined https://*bitcoincash*.site/1m/ . (The actual signup site is here: https://*bitcoincash*.site/onboard/ .) This is another one of those simple "if I can do it, you can do it" things, so here, in excruciating detail, is how I did this: 1. Downloaded the bitcoin.com App onto my iPhone. Yep, I finally succumbed to peer pressure and put a crypto wallet…
Anyone Ever Got Any BCHA? Have y'all ever heard of Bitcoin Cash ABC? According to CoinGecko, ( https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin-cash-abc ), "Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHA) is a coin resulted from a hard fork from Bitcoin Cash on November 15th 2020. " If you're a long time BCH holder, you may have some BCHA and not know it! "If you held Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in a wallet with private key you control, you will also have equivalent amount of BCHA in your wallet on the snapshot…
Harvesting Copra Copra, (dried coconut - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copra ), is an important product on our farm. In the right foreground of the first pic, you can see the super-duper sharp blade that is used to cut open the coconut husk. To the left are the kernels that will be split in half, then "cooked" in the structure behind them. The empty husks, as seen in the background on the right, are the fuel used to "cook" the kernels. Behind the super-duper sharp blade…
A Giant Moth About a week ago we were visited by a giant moth. It seemed ominously lethargic; it was probably near the end of its life, and just stopped by to say "Goodbye." I've never, ever seen a moth anywhere near the size of this one. Before this critter, the largest moth I had ever seen was a luna moth ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_moth ), back in the USA. This giant moth was about twice the size of a luna moth. Does anybody have a clue what it was? We are in…
Expanding Our Chicken Coops Besides pigs and copra, the other main cash crop from our farm is eggs, specifically chicken eggs. A few months ago we purchased 900 more female chicks. Now they are are all grown up, and ready to become egg laying hens. They need a coop of their own! The first pic shows construction on the outside of the coop, making a cement floor so the chicken poop will be easier to clean up. (Ever smell chicken poop? UGH!!) The hens will live on the inside,…
I Hate My Cellphone Good Lord how I hate my cellphone! I wish I could smash it, but we are here in the Philippines, and replacing it, (it is an iPhone with a USA cell number), would be a major pain. And I need the stupid thing to get text message confirmations when I try to log into my USA bank accounts. I hate it, but I need it! If we were in the USA I probably would have smashed it today. I don't care if I have a BCH wallet on it. I don't care if all my contacts are on it.…
Motivational Saying of the Day When I was young, I was very poor. But now, after toiling year after year at hard, honest, backbreaking work, I can confidently state that I am no longer young.
Why Do We Have a Vaccine For Covid19, But Not AIDS? This is an interesting article written by someone who claims to know what he is talking about: https://news.yahoo.com/hiv-aids-vaccine-why-dont-192203679.html . Apparently AIDS/HIV is a particularly nasty virus, with enhanced stealth and mutating capabilities. Which is bad enough, but I have read unsubstantiated, (let me emphasize that - UNSUBSTANTIATED), reports that Covid19 has incorporated proteins from AIDS into its…
My thoughts are confusion and a bit of irritation over these new channels. Granted, I am an old guy, and I don't like change much, but I think they are adding unnecessary complexity to this site. Hopefully most of y'all disagree with me.
Hi Crypto Girl! Being an old dude set in his ways, I am NOT a fan of these new channels, but I will do my best to adapt to them. Is the bleeding over? Is the bull run in crypto about to resume? I would say "Yes", except for the fact that Doge is still ridiculously over priced, and rising again as I write this. If Doge were to collapse and the other "non-joke" coins start to rise, then I would feel good about the crypto market again.
Don't Stand Under a Coconut Tree? Something I don't understand about the Philippines, (and I assume this is done all over the world wherever coconut trees grow), is WHY they plant coconut trees next to their houses? I have been scolded at times for standing under a coconut tree, yet if that is so dangerous, then why plant the silly things right outside your front door? As seen in the pic attached to this old post, https://noise.cash/post/1zj24qw3 , we have coconut trees…
More About Coconuts My last post about coconut trees was getting way too long, (yeah, I tend to prattle on and on and on ..... ), and I had more I wanted to say about them, so here is Part 2: more than you really wanted to know about coconuts! Wikipedia has a good entry on coconuts, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut ), and it is probably a better use of your time to stop reading this, and hop over there. But while I still have your attention, let me point out some…
A Troubled Bridge Over Shallow Water A few days ago I posted about how we are expanding our "egg production facility", (i.e., sheds where our hens lay eggs). Curious minds can check here, https://noise.cash/post/1w33nmqq , for pics and more info. This "facility" is on the side of a hill, at the bottom of which is a small stream. To avoid wading through the cold water of the stream, and whatever icky crud is floating/lurking in this water, you would need to cross over a…
A Busy Night! We had an exciting night last night. Our first excitement occurred when we got home from shopping. While we had been gone, LBC had delivered seventeen, (17!), extra large balikbayan boxes to our house! There were boxes everywhere, and even some on the porch, as there wasn't enough room inside to fit all seventeen of them. The pic shows six of these boxes. Imagine trying to find room for eleven more! Of course my wife, her sister, and their mama couldn't wait…
Piglets! If you read my last post, you know that after an "interesting" evening one of our mama pigs gave birth last night. Thirteen little piglets made their way about planet Earth for the first time, and I believe that as I write this all thirteen are still healthy and doing fine. The first pic is of mama and her babies. The second and third pics are of cutting the piglets' teeth, and snipping their tails, respectively. The two people doing this are our niece and…
Anyone Else Having Trouble With Mint.Bitcoin.Com ? I have a token, the world famous GOB, (Grumpy Old Bastard), that I created in https://mint.bitcoin.com , and that until recently I was able to send to any folks, (victims?), who wanted one. Starting yesterday, all my attempts to send out a GOB have failed. A cryptic error message flashes on my screen, saying something about no response from "rest.bitcoin.com". So I went to https://rest.bitcoin.com/ , and I see what is in the…
What's Really Going On In India? I came across this interesting interview with someone who spent the last 16 months doing charity work in poor neighborhoods in India: https://www.bitchute.com/video/JE8VVwiejDU5/ . Yes, it's on Bitchute, one of those "alternate media" sources. Yes, it's on a "channel" that is highly critical of the official narrative regarding Covid19 and the anti-Covi19 vaccine. Yes, me writing a post about it is sure to stir up strong emotions, and get many…
Open Letter to WHO This is an excerpt from: https://37b32f5a-6ed9-4d6d-b3e1-5ec648ad9ed9.filesusr.com/ugd/28d8fe_266039aeb27a4465988c37adec9cd1dc.pdf . More on Dr. Bossche can be found here: https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/ . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geert Vanden Bossche, DMV, PhD, independent virologist and vaccine expert, formerly employed at GAVI and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundaton.…
Should I Only Make Posts on Subjects I Understand? I've put a few posts out about Covid19 vaccines, suggesting that the vaccines themselves may be harmful to get. It would appear that I was incorrect about this, and that while virologists don't believe the vaccines themselves are unnecessarily harmful to those who receive them, they are in fact concerned about how the vaccines affect the population as a whole. Specifically, they are concerned that the current type of Covid19…
Is Dash Obsolete? Do any of y'all remember when Dash was one of the top cryptocurrencies in terms of market cap? According to Wikipedia, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_(cryptocurrency) ), "As of April 2018, Dash's market capitalization was around $4.3 billion and it was one of the top 12 cryptocurrencies." Now it appears its market cap is closer to $1.9 billion, which gives it a ranking below the top 50. (I seem to remember Dash being in the top ten at one point, but…
Back From Church! Wow! That was a long hour and a half! What got in the preacher today that he was "inspired" to talk so long? Since we, (my wife, actually), are a Seventh Day Adventist family, we attend religious services on Saturday. We go to a small church near the closest small town. It's an open air church, so it is hot. The benches are hard and stiff. I have yet to find a sitting position I can relax comfortably in. And most of the service, and especially the sermon,…
Indexing My Noise.Cash Posts As we all know, Noise.Cash is a neato keen site where we can post our rants and other works of fine literature, and get paid for it! And this pay is NOT in cruddy old fiat, but in new sexy BCH! Unfortunately, nothing is perfect. One thing Noise.Cash lacks is a quick index to our old posts. (Or, more accurately, I do not know of an index to our old posts on Noise.Cash.) So, I made my own index! This is simple to do. Just create a blogger.com blog,…
How To LIE With Statistics I must confess that I have always been poor at mathematics. This is despite both my parents being math majors in college, and my brother being an engineer. I am just not that good at quantitative reasoning. Because I am not good at math, less-than-honest folks have been able to use numbers to sometimes convince me that something which is false, is in fact true, or vice-versa. Recognizing my susceptibility to this type of bull droppings, a coworker…
Mint.Bitcoin.com Sucks!! **** UPDATE: CryptoSorted says that leaving the mint.bitcoin.com wallet alone for a week, and then logging in, "solved" the problem. Yuck - what a crappy wallet!! **** I hate to have to make this post, but I need to let y'all know that IMHO mint.bitcoin.com is a shitty wallet, and you should avoid using it at all costs. The first thing I dislike about it is how inconvenient it is. Instead of being able to use a password, you have to enter all the…
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