Book Review - La Fine dell'era del Fuoco The power of marketing and marketing in power, smartphones that are anything but smart, the myth of immediate success and at all costs, the oblivion of dawn and the loss of the sense of time. Human beasts and human beasts, the disappearance of diversity, the flattening, not knowing how to lose and not knowing how to lose oneself, liquid sexuality. And again, the rediscovery of death, the fear of fear and the symptom. Fear of bodies…
@claudio83 in July 2021
Labyrinth: Between childhood memories and that starring role of David Bowie in the movie I'm sure you all know David Bowie, one of the most influential songwriters and musicians of the last century, but perhaps not everyone knows Davide Bowie as an actor in some very successful films, including Labirinth, a cult science fiction film from 1986 in which he plays the role of the evil Jareth, the Goblin King, who resides in the center of a labyrinth full of dangers. The film's…
Violence against women doubled during the Covid lockdown Covid has forced all of us to long periods of lockdown, closed at home for a few weeks, with the only possibility of leaving the house for the purchase of food, for work and for health reasons. Unfortunately, especially in the first wave of last year, there were very few open work activities and this forced many workers to stay at home, with the risk of losing their role. Living at home with your family for many days…
The future is cashless! The evolution of the financial system over the last few years has initiated a progressive and irreversible migration process that will eliminate the use of cash in the coming decades. The birth of a more reliable digital network and of the technologies that support it, have created increasingly smart tools such as Apps, Q Code or NFC to make payments ever simpler and faster. The pandemic has accelerated the process of digital transactions, in a period…
Magic nights following a goal A heart-pounding evening yesterday, made up of moments of joy, despair and finally exultation. I admit that it was since the 2006 World Cup that I had not seen this enthusiasm from the people, the great merit of the coach Mancini is having built a young and eager team, still full of many mistakes, but a group with a really big heart and you know that the heart wins over everything! Yesterday we were in the company of friends, enjoying a nice…
Be Your Bank For a few weeks there has been tension between the UK and the Binance exchange due to new certifications required by the government to protect its savers. On June 26, the UK's FCA or Financial Conduct Authority warned consumers that Binance Markets Limited (BML) will no longer be able to offer regulated financial services in the UK. Barclays has sent all its customers who have made deposits to Binance in recent months, a message in which it informs that all…
The train as a metaphor for life The metaphor of the train and life has always been told to me by my grandmother and I think it can really explain the meaning of our existence very well. The stop at each station represents the opportunities that happen to us, each station left is lost and the train will hardly go back. Life often places us obligatory stops, not decided by us, but they are necessary for our personal growth. At each stop we can choose the people who can get on…
CUB on the moon and beyond! The latest updates released by the team on the Cubfinance roadmap are extremely exciting and confirm what has been said and written so far, also by me, about the incredible potential of CUB in the medium and long term. Today's price is significantly underestimated, the result of inflation the unsustainable token with the old model of earning rewards, but this is a figure that is increasingly improving since Kingdoms, a more sustainable agriculture…
The number of mobile wallets is growing exponentially around the world According to a study by Boku, a company that deals with the promotion of digital payment methods, the number of users using mobile wallets is growing exponentially, especially in emerging countries where digital infrastructures are growing. In fact, Boku predicts that by 2025 the number of mobile wallets will grow from 2.8 billion to over 4 billion, reaching 60% of the population. The use of mobile…
Cryptocurrencies are the stimulus to move immovable capital Small savers who have built a certain capital, setting aside more or less significantly over the months and years, risk losing potential profits by leaving their money stationary on their current accounts or wallets. For example, in Italy the amount of capital held in banks is several billion euros, a figure that at present does not pay any interest to its owners. It is also true that over the past twenty years, the…
Cryptocurrencies are an opportunity and not a speculation My approach with cryptocurrencies took place at the beginning of the bullrun phase of 2017, when everyone was now talking about Bitcoin and how much its value had increased, sending the wrong message to users: Bitcoin is a gold mine! And then the absolute darkness. All those who entered in that period were hit by a big wall in the face and ran away. My approach was different: although hurt by the loss of my…
Bitcoin yes or no? Elon Musk's strategy Elon Musk is a very curious character. We know well what his attitude was towards Bitcoin: initially he exalted it as a payment currency, so much so as to allow the purchases of his Tesla cars in BTC, as well as having invested part of the assets of the automobile company. After a few days his attitude towards Bitcoin has totally changed to the point of revoking its use for the purchase of Tesla due to the excessive consumption of…
Splinterlands: between fun and financial operation When I joined the Splinterlands game a couple of years ago I always thought it was incredibly cool not to play it, then if it convinced a player like me who has never enjoyed similar games then it is definitely worth trying. When I bought my starter card kit, I didn't really understand the game mechanics but then everything became clearer and more fun and so I became a good player. Since then the game has made great strides,…
Space travel becomes reality Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, has launched the New Shepard spacecraft into orbit for a short space travel, with 4 passengers inside: Jeff Bezos himself, his brother Mark, the 82-year-old ex pilot Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, who have become respectively the oldest and youngest person in space. The spacecraft took passengers to a height of 100 km, reaching the line between the earth's…
Battle Weekly Challenge: ELECTRIC EELS Hello Splinterlands friends, here we are at the new Battle Weekly Challenge, today the theme is **ELECTRIC EELS**, a rare card of the element of water, a character that I rarely use, especially when an encounter is required without the possibility of deploying cards with magical attacks. At the moment I have the card at level 3 and it guarantees me a close attack +2, a good speed of 4 points and a health of 5 life points, unfortunately…
New AIDS treatments improve life projection AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, is a disease caused by HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus), a particular virus which, if left untreated, leads to death within a few years. The virus lowers the immune defenses of our body and favors the onset of lethal inflammations and tumors. The disease is quite unknown until the 80's when the number of cases of infections and deaths grows exponentially around the world. The virus is…
Defi on Bitcoin could soon become a reality DeFi is certainly one of the driving forces of the bullrun that has literally seen the maximum ATH of many projects and especially Bitcoin break, although not directly connected at the moment with the centralized finance system, with the exception of using BTC in farms. But that could all change and Bitcoin could have its own DeFi too as Square co-founder and CEO **Jack Dorsey** announced via his Twitter account. This statement…
HEAT There are many ways to photograph the heat in its forms, I took this image while I was in front of the furnace, in preparation for the fire that would soon start our barbecue. The ignition phase is also the most spectacular one because it is necessary to feed the flame with the wind generated by a fan or, if you want to avoid arm pain, by a hairdryer. The constant air of the hairdryer accelerates the ignition of the neighboring coals and in a few minutes the brazier is…
Have fun and earn, on Hive you can! The more time passes, the more Hive becomes an incubator of projects and stimuli but also of fun. It is undeniable that today an investor has really many possibilities and also different levels of risk on the basis of which he can choose where and how to invest his capital. Any investment has a risk factor, more or less great, but this is valid for any investment, such as for the purchase of a car or a thing or land. The risk is lower but…
End of the first holidays Today we return to work after a first week of vacation, I was not really very lucky because the beginning of my vacation coincided with a few days of storm and rain, a certainly pleasant temperature and also our stay in a structure for a few days is it was certainly a bit conditioned by the weather. So today my wife and I are resuming our work shift and the weather has decided to give us days of African heat with temperatures ranging between 38 and…
Shadows and reflections The rainy days are the ones I prefer, especially in summer when the heat will asserrail us inside the houses or shopping centers, breathing air conditioning. But have you ever tried to leave the house and walk away immediately after a shower? Everything looks different, the drops that hang from the branches of trees and pools of water that give fantastic occasions of wonderful photos. Nature offers us the most beautiful subject: herself. I love the…
My experience with Matera cuisine One of the best trattorias I have ever eaten in is located in Matera and is called ***Dalla Padella alla Brace***. It is located in the upper part of the city, a stone's throw from the Sassi and is a highly sought after place, therefore it is necessary to book in advance. The restaurant is very welcoming and well-ordered, it is not very large and for this reason it cannot accommodate many people. It is a unique and airy room and the scents…
Splinterlands (SPS) is alive: To the Moooooon! he Splinterlands (SPS) airdrop started yesterday and was a complete success! The data for a few days already described a substantial increase in transactions in the game, such as to cause brief slowdowns in the game due to the overloaded server, so the team intervened to remedy the enormous request of the players. By some graphs shared by the team, the number of daily transactions has steadily settled over one million, yesterday…
SPS drives the market, Hive Pump, Onboarding more and more pressing A significant increase in new accounts in the last few days has made the onboarding data significantly soar, as can be seen from the graph shared by @penguinpablo, to whom I thank for the great work of data collection that he shares daily on Hive. Part of the new entries is related to @splinterlands which in the last few days, following the airdrop of the SPS governance token, is recording incredible results…
Is POSH token underestimated? The promotion of posts on social media is an important process for the spread of our community outside, with a potential pool of users of a few billion people. Although it takes a few seconds of our time, a reward system has been created for all users who share their links on Twitter, the social media that concentrates the most admirers and enthusiasts of cryptocurrencies. POSH, Proof Of Share, was initially created as an initiative that…