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A Fantastic Beginning Guide to Hive Whatever you are doing right now, STOP doing it, and read this article: read.cash/@GhostonChronic/hive-a-quickstart-guide-b7178903 . Seriously. READ IT NOW!! What is this article all about, you ask? It is an introduction to Hive written so that a confused old man, (such as me), could understand it. The author is @GhostonChronic, so you know that it is well researched, and nicely written. It is a pleasure to read, and you will learn…
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This Is Unacceptable! I just logged in, and had a grand total of 6 cents, ( $0.06 ), in tips to give out for the day. If this site is supposed to work by users tipping each other, yet we don’t get any free tips, then this site will start to lose users. Is there something I am missing? Is there another way to reward content other than tips, or is there some “secret handshake” I don’t know about that gives us more tips?
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My Big Crypto Investment(s) Yesterday, (06/Jan/2022 on my side of the planet), I invested $1,600.00 USD into several different cryptocurrencies. (Those of you who wanted the crypto market to make a deep plunge downwards soon may thank me. Tips are always appreciated!) Three of these cryptos were stable coins; the other 11 were cryptos either I think have a future, or I just like, and want to support. I put $100 each into the following cryptos: ADA, ALGO, ATOM, BCH, BTC,…
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Revisiting Those Killer Coconut Trees I have written several times about the "killer" coconut trees that are inexplicably planted all around our house, from my initial dismay at their placement, ( https://noise.cash/post/132jkp8x ), to coconut tree trivia, ( https://noise.cash/post/l4q285g6 ), to an alleged actual Coconut Tree assault, ( https://noise.cash/post/l57n476v ), to a final acceptance of the fact that maybe they aren't all that dangerous, (…
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Regarding SmartBCH, @stewbits Says ........... Noise.cash is really getting odd. (Or maybe it's me, and this was another "user error"? Who knows?) @stewbits put up a really good reply to one of my posts, but when I tried to renoise it, Noise.cash fussed at me. So here, protectively wrapped in quotation marks, is Mr. @stewbits reply, which is something we should all read and heed: "A diversified porfolio indeed. There are many other tokens/coins on smartBCH as well, the…
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How To Get Started Using SmartBCH In one of my posts, (in between long rants about whatever was bothering me at the moment, such as another stupid head cold, malicious coconut trees, rapidly vanishing Free Tips, or the evil intent of "proof of vaccine" certifications, most likely), I mentioned that here on Noise.cash, (and Read.cash), there have been several well written explanations of how to get started on SmartBCH. Folks then began asking me about these explanations,…
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Fixing Lola's House - Part of a Continuing Series on How To Go Broke In The Philippines for Westerners. I am continually dismayed by how much money we are spending here in the Philippines. Our latest expenses deal with repairing the house to keep out rats. As I have written about before, ( https://noise.cash/post/l69j6v6v ), we have rats in our attic, because despite assurances to the contrary the house wasn't complete when we moved here. We are lacking what I believe is…
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People That Are STILL in Denial About Bitcoin! Oh no! What's this? Yet another link to a YouTube video? Yes indeed, and like all the other videos I link to, I believe you should take the 8 minutes or so out of your day necessary to watch it, and watch it. So ..... WATCH IT! ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4VPBeBElYs . The video itself is a spoof of anti-crypto folks created by the comedian "JP". Yes, it is BTC centric, but that's okay. There is room in the crypto world…
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I Think I’m Gonna Get The Covid Jab - Part One TLDR: Frustrated with his body’s near constant respiratory infections, the old guy decides to get the jab, despite knowing that it is more likely to cause him harm than good. Part one. The TLDR above sums up more than what y’all really want or need to know about this. The rest of this post is just me whining about how “unfair” my life has been, so read it at your own hazard. I have decided to go ahead and get the stupid Covid…
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I Think I’m Gonna Get The Covid Jab - Part Two (This is a continuation of a long rant I started here: https://noise.cash/post/ljp5z5ww .) This saga ended right as we were discussing the long term effects of the stupid "vaccine", which, if anyone tells you they know what they are, then they are LYING. The powers-that-be have chosen to play this out in real life, and we will know what, if any, long term effects the vaccines have as people develop them. It seems like a pretty…
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Choosing The Least Harmful Option Today my wife, her mama, and I all got a Covid jab. Fortunately for us, (at least I believe so), it was the CoronaVac (Sinovac) vaccine, which is NOT an mRNA vaccine, but rather a vaccine based on inactivated viruses, a technology which has been around a while. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoronaVac ) While I am NOT happy about taking a vaccine developed in China to combat a virus released in China, (my displeasure is with the odious…
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Blah TLDR: May your resolve to HODL never waver during this craziness, may that "special" crypto you sunk lots of money into quadruple or more in value, may the world come to its senses and stop shitting on BCH, may your encounters with the latest variant of Covid be as quick and painless as possible, may anyone anywhere in the world who gave an order to mandate a Covid jab be dragged into the street and beaten, (or at least receive a stern verbal beatdown), may the fortunes…
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Rebuilding Cousin's House - Part of a Continuing Series on How To Go Broke In The Philippines for Westerners. In addition to spending a lot of money fixing Lola's house, (details of that sad story here: https://noise.cash/post/1rgzq0qz ), the decision was made to build a new house for our cousin, who lives with his wife and kids right across the muddy "driveway" from Lola's house. The first pic is of his current house. I don't think it looks too bad, and is more-or-less…
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Doubling Down On My Crypto Investment(s) About two weeks ago, (06/Jan/2022 to be precise), I invested $100 each into the following cryptos: ADA, ALGO, ATOM, BCH, BTC, DASH, DOT, LTC, SOL, XLM, and XTZ. As predicted, the market tanked soon after I put money into it, with ALGO leading the parade of stinkiness. Rather than sob in my oatmeal about my losses, I decided the "sensible" thing to do now was to double down, and invest an additional $100 into each of these coins, while…
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DON'T PANIC!! OMG! Across the board every major cryptocurrency is down in price, not just in the last 24 hours, but in the last 7 days as well! What should we do? Sell everything now, before we lose all our money? Unless you're a heavily leveraged day trader, (in which case you brought this on yourself!), all selling right now will do is ensure that you lose money, both the actual amount you'll lose now, and the potential gains you would have received once crypto inevitably…
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I Gave Up And Bought Some ETH As y'all may remember, I recently invested money into 11 different cryptocurrencies, ADA, ALGO, ATOM, BCH, BTC, DASH, DOT, LTC, SOL, XLM, and XTZ. (If you need a reminder, that post is here: https://noise.cash/post/l4x37q8j .) Conspicuously missing from that list is ETH because, well ..... because I think it sucks! Gas fees for using ETH are so ridiculous that I lose money every time I touch it. Yuck! However, if you spend any time cruising the…
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Hacking A Hardware Wallet I recently came across this YouTube video where a "professional hacker" was hired to break into a Trezor hardware wallet whose owner had forgotten its pin number. It's an interesting watch, at least if you're kinda geeky like me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT9y-KQbqi4 I probably only understood about 25% of what was going on here, but it's fascinating none-the-less to see how hackers work, and how any electronic system is ultimately vulnerable…