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@RenaissanceMan · 10 months ago

SISU Network Testnet Airdrop Opportunity

Sometimes I see opportunities to earn from airdrops by taking part in testnet activities for new dApps or chains, but on the few occasions I’ve investigated these the tasks required have either been t...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Titano Seeks Utility

Since I wrote my last article about the need for utility in DeFi projects, I’ve been monitoring developments at several of these, as they seem to have woken up to the crucial role that utility plays i...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

DeFi, No Utility = No Future

Have you ever made a bundle in crypto and then asked yourself what to do next? Perhaps you could spend some of that profit on a nice little treat. What about splashing out on a new phone or taking th...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Polkadot/Kusama Common Good Parachains

If you’ve read some of my earlier posts, you will know by now that I am a fan of the combined Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem (otherwise known as Dotsama), just as I am also a fan of the Cosmos ecosyste...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Composable Finance – Taking DeFi Somewhere New?

Last year, I spent a few of my hard-earned pounds backing projects taking part in the Kusama crowdfunding auctions. However, I was careful to hold back some of my funds in order to buy DOT to support...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

DAOs in Action – Are They a Hopeless Case?

A few weeks back I posted an article (Return of the Levellers) sharing some of my thoughts on the possibilities that DAOs bring to the table for new ways of doing things. In particular, I drew attenti...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Motivation for Crypto Education

I’m fortunate enough to be the father of two sons, both of them teenagers. You might think that as the old bloke in the house it would be me that’s in need of a blockchain and crypto education but it...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

DAOs – the Levellers Reborn?

The English Civil Wars of the seventeenth century saw a great flourishing of new ideas about how society should be structured and the world governed. Even aside from the small matter of King Charles...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Comdex – bringing greater democracy to the world of finance?

Is this something new we see striding into the world of DeFi? I’m not sure right now, so let’s take a little look at today’s project from the world of blockchain, Comdex. Comdex is part of the Cosmos...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

The Electronic Frontier Foundation - the future of digital privacy, free speech, and the open web

A really short post today, one that encourages you to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its on-going effort to help us all secure a future of digital privacy, free speech, and the open web...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Incredible Returns on Time Wonderland – But For How Long?

I’ve recently been exploring the opportunities available with the emergence of platforms such as Olympus DAO and its growing army of clones, all of which offer some quite remarkable returns. Or, at le...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Benqi DeFi dApp on Avalanche

I mentioned Benqi in a previous post, where I referred to earning its QI token through the Binance Launchpool, and promised to come back with a fuller update on this DeFi dApp, which is precisely wha...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Building a Crypto Portfolio for Free

Because the world of the blockchain is so staggeringly dynamic (and aren’t we fortunate to be able to experience this all first-hand) it means there are an extraordinarily large number of opportuniti...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 30th 2021

November’s End. How Did it Go? Well, here we are, it’s the last day of the month. The bad news is, that doesn’t leave many days for me to work out what I am going to buy my wife for Christmas, but I...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 29th 2021

Darwinia Network As I’ve mentioned in several of my previous posts this month, I am enthusiastically supporting the Polkadot crowdloan auctions, with a raft of great projects bidding for a parachain...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 28th 2021

LikeCoin I mentioned LikeCoin briefly a few days ago and promised to come back with a fuller update after I’d had time to do some more digging. Well, the digging has been done, so here’s my run throu...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 27th 2021

Everybody’s Gotta Have Some Fun There is, sad to say, little for me to report on today because I’ve been busy doing other things. Every once in a while I get together with some old school friends of...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 26th 2021

Binance Launchpool Binance is one of the biggest centralised crypto exchanges out there and it offers an impressively wide range of features for its users. One of these is its Launchpool, something I...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 25th 2021

I have been ploughing through the old Twitter feed today, keen to keep an eye on a couple of airdrops I am lined up for and anything else of interest, of which there always seems to be much. One proj...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 24th 2021

Thorstarter Yesterday I took a run through Moonstarter and today I’m taking a look at a second new launchpad, Thorstarter. I very much liked what I saw over at Moonstarter, so how is this alternativ...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 23rd 2021

Launchpads A wonderful tale to be told today. I’m such a happy chappy. I mentioned briefly in an earlier post how frustrating it has been to find one IDO launchpad after another living and operatin...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 22nd 2021

Phala and the Zero Sum Staking Game Plans don’t always come to fruition, I suppose it goes without saying, but it’s good to remind oneself of this from time-to-time because I find it helps stay cool...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 21st 2021

The Great Mystery of Time A quiet day in the land of the blockchain for me. You’d think weekends would allow me more time for exploring new projects and getting up-to-date on ones I’m already invest...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 20th 2021

Polkadot Parachain Auctions I was going to include this update in yesterday’s post but got carried away with writing about Streamr, but it’s big news and still worth including here. The winner of th...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 19th 2021

Streamr Today it is time to cast an eye over another potential investment, Streamr. Streamr was set up in the belief that the existing traditional and centralised infrastructure for managing data f...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 18th 2021

Running on Empty and THETA It’s been tough going today. I’ve felt all day as though I got barely any sleep last night (though I’m sure I did pretty well) and that has left me without the mental ener...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 17th 2021

Non-Fungible Tokens It seems to me it was inevitable that at some point during the course of my daily postings this month I would write something about NFTs. After all, how could I not when they’re...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 16th 2021

Tracking my Portfolio I bought my first crypto coins about three years ago. I’d originally looked into this new thing people were referring to as crypto currency about four or maybe five years back,...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 15th 2021

Polkadot Crowdloan Auctions Blimey, I hadn’t checked the state of play with the Polkadot auctions for a few days. Seeing how there is the best part of a month still to go before they end, I had deci...

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@RenaissanceMan · 1 year ago

Diary of a Blockchain Fan – November 14th 2021

Nodle – Where’s the Money? So, I’ve been running the Nodle app on my spare mobile for a little over three weeks now and I have earned the grand sum of… diddly squat. Yep, that’s a big fat zero that...

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