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Finally Buying Land In Splinterlands Intro One aspect of Spliterlands that I have discussed in the past as something that I really wanted to get has been land. The larger portions of land are way too expensive for my budget, but I can finally afford to buy a plot on the Hive-Engine and I am HYPE for that. What Is Land? Land is an expansion that will eventually come to the Splinterlands game where users will be able to produce items that can be used in battles such as spells…
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Cointracker Crypto Tax Compiler - Why Tax Reporting Pisses Me Off Image Source https://www.forbes.com/advisor/taxes/6-changes-2021-tax-season/ I personally don't understand how we as a society (America specifically here though I think it is the same around the world) allow for such heavy taxes to be imposed upon us without a real say in how they are spent and why tax returns need to be filed at all. A few of my friends are accountants, so the other day I asked them as…
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10000 Hours To Master Something - How Long To Master A Hobby? I've been thinking a lot about what I want to pursue in my life. However, after giving that some thought, I have realized how futile it is to think that just theorizing what you want to do with your life will actually accomplish it; additionally that it won't happen instantly, but will likely take many years. For this reason, I decided that doing just a little bit of active work per day pursuing/seeking a passion…
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SPS Airdrop Has Me Storing Savings In NFT Form The Addiction I have developed quite the problem (well... maybe a problem, maybe genius) since getting involved with cryptocurrency: I cannot save money in fiat currency. I have seen some memes about how crypto addicts have to constantly be buying some kind of coin because "fiat is worthless", "the bank gives a terrible interest rate", "make your money work for you bro" image source…
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Smart Contract Coding - Every Answer Is Online image source https://www.livescience.com/42604-who-invented-the-internet.html Situation In the last few days, I have been checking out the feasibility of learning how to code smart contracts and specifically I've been checking out Solidity (the language that powers the Ethereum network). Now I don't really think that I'd want to build on Ethereum, but I think that learning how things are done allows you to have a solid…
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The Rental Housing Market Is Ridiculous image source http://www.bestrent.vn/5-popular-types-of-rental-properties/ The College Market When I was in college, I rented a house with my friends just off campus, but that seemed like a pretty straightforward process. I guess it was known that the people renting there would be students, so all that was really required of us was to sign a lease saying we wouldn't break anything, give a security deposit to prove that was the case and…
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How Many RUNE To Become A Millionaire Today, I was able to pick up another nice chunk of RUNE. Though the amounts I'm purchasing may not be huge money to everyone, I am pretty happy with the amount that I have been able to save up thus far and am excited to see where the price ends up in the coming months. I thought it would be interesting to look at how many RUNE it would take to become a millionaire at different price levels to help people figure out a plan for how many…
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Twitter Bots Are Ruining Something Good image source https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/how-malicious-twitter-bots-evolve-to-evade-detection-1.4036515 I'm about to talk about something that I don't believe I have an actual answer on, but have been thinking about this morning. Is it worth it to put effort into growing a following on Twitter for solely marketing purposes if half of the users within the subject niche could be bots? I came across this article from…
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The Wojak Youtube Rabbithole If you are at all familiar with cryptocurrency memes, you will have likely come across a few posts including a meme that includes a Wojak. I have found myself in the deepest of rabbitholes watching videos about Wojak and his friends/enemies on Youtube that is wildly difficult to explain to someone outside of the cryptocurrency space. Essentially this set of memes started on 4chan and has made it's way to Youtube as people use the characters to…
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What Percentage of My Paycheck Should Go Into Crypto? image source https://clark.com/personal-finance-credit/investing-retirement/investing-with-100-or-less/ I know that the answer that you all want to give is 100% and I would love to live in a world where that is the case, but for now I can't use my altcoins for much without converting them to cash and not a ton of stores accept Bitcoin yet. I've been formulating what I want to do with my paychecks when they start to come…
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Recurring Investment Fees - An Exchange Experiment Image Source https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2021/06/14/1083731_recurring-investment-strategies.html I have been writing a lot about how I plan on doing recurring investments with the start of my new job. Now looking at the situation practically, one thing that I am concerned about is how much I will have to end up paying in fees if I continually reinvest. Of course there are a ton of different options, but today I'm…
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SPS Bouncing Back! As a great prophet once said: "Last night took an L but tonight I'll bounce back" - Big Sean... SPS has made a real comeback push in terms of price and the momentum seems to be fueled by the many market catalysts including the Waka Flocka summoner needing to be bought in SPS and vouchers. I still believe that we won't see massive price spikes (i.e. a push for 50 cents or 1 dollar) until the end of the airdrop period simply from a supply and demand…
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How Likely Is It To Run Into A Hive User? When I am out doing something like lifting at the gym or sitting at a cafe, I will often take a look at my phone and check to see what is going on on @leofinance and what notifications I have for my account. When I do this, I often wonder exactly how many people are on Hive and whether anyone passing by around me would recognize the site that I was on. https://peakd.com/@leofinance Spoiler alert, it's unlikely. It hasn't happened…
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What Is Fantom Protocol? Yesterday on Publish0x, the tips for FARM were replaced by Statera. According to their website, Statera "is a smart contract powered Indexed Deflationary Ecosystem, which synergizes with a trustless and community-driven portfolio of class-leading cryptocurrencies." In other words, this token creates deflation within liquidity pools to provide more arbitrage opportunities and thus increases volume as those gaps are filled by traders and bots. It is…
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What's Happening In Canada Is Not Ok. Whether or not you agree with the movement that the trucker's convoy in Ottawa is fighting for, we have to look at the situation from a wider view and realize all the dangerous things that are happening. Living in 2022, hypocrisy and tyranny look a lot different than they used to. Being a "free" and "democratic" nation seems to basically just be an excuse for why it's ok to do terrible things to their citizens in the name of maintaining…
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Chainlink Flying Under Many Radars image source https://cryptosrus.com/chainlink-is-soaring-finally-up-40-percent-in-a-week/chainlink-logo/ One cryptocurrency that I feel like is never talked about enough despite the fact that it has a ton of use cases is Chainlink. It is one that I think will be around for many years to come and has a ton of potential to be involved with some of the biggest businesses in the world. What Is Chainlink? Here is an excerpt from their site:…
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Taking Formality Out Of Blogging = Genius of Web 3.0 image source https://learntalk.org/en/blog/a-quick-introduction-to-formal-and-informal-english One misconception that I always had about blogs was that they were supposed to follow some kind of professional or almost formal structure. Of course you can find all kind of blogs out there that use informal language or bounce off topics we'd deem conversational, but there was always an aura that a successful blog was one that…
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Make Blogging A Routine Image Source: Nike There have been a ton of things in my life that I have tried to do consistently and then eventually lost interest. I used to try to run every day... That didn't turn out well. I used to try doing a few hours of JavaScript practice each day and then that fell off. I've tried to meditate each day, but some days go by and then it's midnight and if I meditate I might as well sleep. One thing that I've never had a problem with getting…
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Could Society Cure The Plague of Bureaucracy? image source https://www.cafepress.com/+no_bureaucracy_wall_clock,167993379 Bureaucracy Is Slowing Everything Down Of course the day after I write about making sure you write your articles at a certain time every day, I end up writing my stuff two hours later than I usually do... I had to do so much paperwork for my upcoming job and it just makes me hope that one day we live in a world where the bureaucracy and paperwork stop…
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A War Of Disinformation Image Source: NATO For one reason or another, I was unable to blog on my birthday or the day after... But I missed Web 3.0 and it felt weird not putting anything out for the last 48 hours, glad to be back here! Well the world is in complete chaos financially and diplomatically. One thing that has been happening for a while, but is something that shocks me is the amount of confusion that can be created by impersonating or hacking a social…
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The Dangerous Mix of Cryptocurrency and Politics Image Source https://morningconsult.com/2021/12/08/cryptocurrency-regulation-polling/ It has been an awesome thing to see how cryptocurrency has played a positive role in supporting the nation of Ukraine as they have been invaded by Russia. The ability to crowdfund from regular citizens has proven to be a viable initiative and though it isn't the billions that governments are sending, it has a more personal feeling of unity…
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Self Custody Is Improving My Cryptocurrency Experience image source https://ssi-ambassador.medium.com/mapping-the-self-custody-wallet-ecosystem-for-digital-assets-non-custodial-6992229316d1 Everyone is always talking about "not your keys, not your crypto", and rightfully so. As I've brought up quite often, exchanges are now becoming one of the biggest marks on the radars of governments in terms of things to control. Exchanges are mostly powerless to government demands as…