It's more than just words!
It's no secret that words play a very important role in our daily life. We use them for various reasons: to make a conversation, to express ourselves, to convince someone with something, to write and read like you are just doing now ...You name it. If words weren't that necessary for us, they wouldn't be the first thing we learn as kids along with letters and numbers.
To make you understand how significant words are, just take it this way: Words are just like water. As you already know, water is vital for your body in order to survive, so are words to your precious mind. Let me explain what I mean: Your body needs water to function from the inside and to stay clean from the outside. Your mind needs words to stay interactive with others and to learn new topics related to life. Otherwise, it will just slowly die and lose its basic abilities.
The resemblance between words and water doesn't stop there, they are also similar when it comes to "quality". Think about it: What will happen if you drink contaminated water? You will obviously get sick and maybe even die! Same with words, If the only words you are getting are "poisonous", that will surely affect your mind. I'm still not sure that you get my point of view yet, so let's tackle this topic further with more details and explanations.
We can't discuss this topic without knowing what do authors think about words. After all, words are their entire world, so they clearly know how powerful a set of letters can be. When he was asked about that, the Canadian author Manly Palmer Hall said: "Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad." Yes, Palmer compared words with weapons, and when an author makes such a comparison, he surely means it, and it takes more than simple reading to find all the hidden means behind it.
For that purpose, take a deep breath and answer this question honestly: How many times you changed your mind because someone convinced you otherwise with a little speech? The answer is this happened more than you can count, right? And how about the times you did the same to others? Probably the same answer again! You definetely get the main idea now, things aren't as blurry as they were earlier. Words have a lot of power in themsevles. But why did M.P.Hall compare words with weapons in particular? And what are the exemples of the good and bad causes he mentioned in his quote?
To answer this, we will take a look at history, the wisest teacher humanity has ever had, and search for an example of words being used as weapons for a good cause. Everyone knows who was Mahatma Gandhi, a man who led a peaceful resistance and fought against the English colonisation without firing a single bullet. You guessed it already! His weapons were his words. Gandhi believed in the power of his own speeches to attract millions of supporters from the whole world, not just from India. The Mahatma was a man who changed a lot of things globaly with his words and thoughts! With that being said it's no surprise that he always insisted on the importance of keeping your words positive.
Turn the next page of history and read carefully the new chapter. In the same era as Gandhi, there was also a leader who used his words and speeches for the bad causes. Who else could it be other than the famous Adolf Hitler? The man who was a direct reason of a war that killed more than 60 Million people, just because of his thirst for power and glory. Any leader in the politics world needs supporters to be successful, and despite Adolf's extreme racist thoughts, he had numerous supporters from all around the globe.
How did he achieve that? Right again! With the help of his own speeches. Hitler was famous with his public speaking abilities. His speeches were very fluent and fascinating in a way that made Germans convinced that he is the right man, in the right position. Hitler was very aware of the power words have, and that's why he always spent hours practising his speeches before facing his proponents.
Let's put history aside and focus on our usual life. Social relationships can be a mirror that reflects how accurate is Palmer"s quote. Parents words to their kids can actually change their lifes. It's a fact that kids with motivating parents has a higher chance to succeed than the others. students with teachers who are careful with picking their words are most likely to surpass the others. The list of examples is endless, but the summary is, words can change someone"s life for the better or the worse.
I think everything is crystal clear now. M.P.Hall wasn't exaggerating when he described words with weapons which can be used for the good or bad causes. So next time you are talking with someone, choose your words wisely. They can destroy his life or give him a hope to follow in his darkest days. Words are powerful, but how to use them is only up to you, and you alone.
Events from history: Boston's "sweet" Tsunami (Part II)
( In the previous article, we went back 101 years in history to explore one of the strangest incidents America has ever witnessed, we also learned How destrcutive and deadly was the molasses disaster despite how funny imagining a Tsunami of molasses can be. In this second part, we will analyze in details the causes of the tragedy. So please, if you missed part I then click the following link before reading this part. https://read.cash/@hamedbkh/events-from-history-bostons-sweet-tsunami-056aa80a )
Now, there is an important question to ask: What made the tank burst in the first place? What were the fatal events that made Boston swim in a big swamp of molasses and ruins that day? So many questions in need of answers... For that sake, let's go back in time to 1915 and the World War I, you will know why in a second.
In 1915, Purity Distilling Company wasn't just storring molasses to sell it as syrup, they were also fermenting it to produce Ethanol which is used to make munitions (such as dynamite) and liquors. At that time, the WWI was at the peak and the demand for Ethanol was very high. As a result, the company needed more place to store their growing need of molasses, and for that, Arthur Jell was given the task of constructing a new tank.
You might be thinking now that Arthur Jell was a well known engineer back then. Wrong!! Actually, he had no knowledge in architecture with no engineering experience! The man was originally the treasurer, and he was assigned to oversee the tank construction because Purity company thought he is the "cheapest and fastest" option available. With that being said, You don't have to be wearing a detective hat to conclude how fatal and crucial this decision was.
Being the treasurer, Arthur Jell decided to reduce the cost of the whole project. The steel used was too thin to handle the fermentation process of the molasses stored inside. There were also many structural issues with the tank design which caused a lot of pressure on the rivet holes. Worse, Jell decided to neglect all safety tests and the tank was declared as ready to use.
Since the first days of use, the steel was making noises every time the tank was filled, and when workers reported that, the only answer they got was " Well it's standing still"! Not only that, obvious cracks started to appear and it was so bad that people used to bring cups and fill them with the leaking molasses. When the company was informed of the situation, they just painted the tank brown to cover the leakage!
After gathering all these infos, it doesn't need a high IQ level to realize how the tank was a time bomb since the very first day of its use, but that poses another important question: Why the tank bursted only in January 15, 1919, 4 years after its construction, and not before that?
To answer that, we have to look at what happened 2 days before the incident. In January, 13, 1919, The tank was filled to full capacity which only happened few times before. Obviously, the weight of molasses was way more than what can the 4 years old tank handle. Moreover, the internal pressure caused by the fermentation process of 2.3 million Gallon of molasses was crashing the already cracked steel walls.
The molasses bomb was fully set to explode and only needed one more factor: Weather. The 15th of january that year was unusually hot comparing to a normal winter day in Boston, that fact meant more pressure inside the tank because the relatively high tempreture was expediting the fermentation process. The tank couldn't bear that tension and ended up creating a deadly Tsunami that won't be forgotten in the US history.
In the end, we can only feel sorry for the victims (many of them were kids and workers eating lunch in their break) and hope that someday, companies will consider public safety as their first priority instead of making as much money as possible even when that means destroying half of the city due to them neglecting basic safety tests.
Events from history: Boston's "sweet" Tsunami
When the Japanese term "Tsunami" is mentioned, most of us will think about an undersea earthquake, creating enormous destructive waves which will take everything in their way: Humans, animals, cars and even buildings! Nothing can really survive a battle against those furious watery giants, and the tragedy occured after the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, when almost 230,000 people lost their lives, is the best proof of that.
However, 101 years ago, humanity witnessed the strangest Tsunami in the whole history. It was also deadly and caused a lot of damages. But it wasn't water that time. Instead, it was...molasses! Can you believe that?! How can that sugary-sweet syrup make a disaster like that?!
First of all, I promise you, It is not a joke nor a creepy science fiction story. That's a real story which took place in the US more than a century ago. You are still laughing aren't you? Well in that case, let's dive in history to find out why and how did this weird catastrophe resulted in the death of 21 and sending another 150 to hospital!
The incident took place in Boston, Massachusetts, precisely in the Commertial street of the North End neighborhood. That street was also the location of a big tank owned by Purity Distilling Company which was using it to store molasses. Life was going pretty normal for the inhabitants of the city, until the midday of January, 15, 1919, when their lives were about to change upside down.
A loud sound of metallic roar coming from the tank was heard and without a warning, huge waves of black molasses were destroying everything in their way. Everyone who was unlucky enough to be caught inside was taken and covered by a very thick and sticky layer of molasses, making it impossible for them to resist or even breath.
Do you still think that a Tsunami of molasses is funny? If so then I think you don't really get it. To help you imagine the damage caused, it's enough to tell that the bursting tank was 50 ft tall (**≈**15.3 m), 90 ft in diameter (**≈**27.5 m) and completely filled with 2.3 million Gallon (**≈**8.7 million litre) of molasses!! Another scary detail is how the molasses wave was 25 ft (**≈**7.6 m) high and moving at 35 mph (**≈**56,4 km/h)! No wonder why nothing resisted that, not even boston's elevated railway.
A news reporter described the mess in the city saying: "Here and there struggled a form—whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell". And about how people struggled inside molasses to survive he said :"Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was".
The searching for survivors, injured and bodies was very difficult and took the efforts of police, the Red Cross, firefighters and even sailors from the Navy ship USS Nantucket working for 4 days, day and night, to rescue the victims. Most of bodies found were covered in molasses that it was very hard to recognize who they were. Keep in mind also that it took a lot of time to find all the 21 dead because few bodies were swept into the harbor and they were found months after the tragedy.
The reconstruction of the city took several months, clean up itself took weeks and hundreds of people. The Boston harbor never got back its normal colour again until 6 months after the Tsunami. The locals swore that they could smell molasses for years after that disaster in every place in the city.
That's how destructive the molasses Tsunami was. In the following article, we will have an extensive look in details, to find out what were the series of events that led to this disaster.
To be continued...
Part II: https://read.cash/@hamedbkh/events-from-history-bostons-sweet-tsunami-part-ii-d41ec6e8
In the land of despair
In the land of despair, where all you can hear is muffled screams, and all you can see is the remains of broken dreams. Where you plant the seeds of future, to harvest thorns with your bleeding hands. In such a land, where the wings of angels were torn apart, the only way left to salvation is to look up and rise your head. You will never find your destination looking at the ground. What can be found on the ground of this land anyway, besides dirt and ashes of unfulfilled hopes floating on the swamp of sufferance made by countless of rotten minds? What a shame, they choose despair as a leader...
Rise your head if you want to survive the toxic awful smell of those stinking mentalities around you. Leave them alone with their chosen leader and look at the horizon thinking of a way out. You can always learn from that old man there. Do you see him? Do you see his shadow over there?. No, it's not a delusion, anyone can see him, but it takes more than your bare eyes for that. He is the man who faces the hits instead of being a coward, fearlessly screaming his war cry. Searching for the hardest challenges to test his abilities.
But do you know who that man once was? Oh of course not. He also lived in the land of despair before and had to suffer a lot just like you do now. The inhabitants of that land had no mercy on him: They enjoyed torturing that man turning his bright dream into a dark nightmare, they tried to corrupt his soul with their poisonous lectures, never missed a chance without convincing him that he is one of them, born in that land and there he will stay. But that wasn't what he wanted, he always hated that disgusting place, for him it was just a huge trash can where only insects and cockroaches can have a happy life, not him.
For that exact thought, those inhabitants decided to punish him. They dug him an abyss, set it on fire, then threw him inside. They never cared about his screams and cries, nor the tears he shed begging for help, they left him to face what they thought he deserved. Day after day, the eternal whips of isolation, fear and loneliness ate his bleeding flesh with their never ending lashes, making him realise that only he can be his own saviour.
Of course, he knew that wouldn't be easy. He started a rebellion against his tormentors, and had to make his way up to the surface again, crawling on a ground of flames, burning what's left of his skin. Yet he never cared, he didn't handle all of that to just surrender now and raise the white flag. He couldn't do it. How is he going to live knowing that he betrayed his own beliefs? How will he be able to look at his scars without feeling ashamed for not continuing his path? After all, everything has a price, and those marks on his body were the price to be named "the man who came back crawling from the bottom of hell ".
He survived and left the despair land forever. He found his destination and claimed himself a winner in the hard battle of life. That man knows very well that experience was necessary to make tougher, to make him realise that getting out of that land isn't easy but it's worth it. You will never taste victory if you don't taste pain and sufferance for its sake...
So tell me now: what are you waiting for? You have a heart and a will to achieve what's in your mind. You have steps to follow and a destination to reach. Your battle has just started and it's not going to end soon. You want freedom? Pay for it! Nothing will ever come to you. It's you who have to go and get it. In a long journey of sweat, tears and blood, you have to find your way, out of the despair land.
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Moments from history: When pictures tell stories (Part I: 1945-1954)
*Disclaimer**: This article contains some gruesome pictures which may not be suitable for sensitive people. Please be careful if you are willing to keep reading!**
****PS: After a long search, I wasn't able to identify many of the photographers who took the pictures shown below, but they were mostly taken by journalists.****
Photography, one of the most enjoyable activities for people to do nowadays. It might be as simple as an entertaining hobby for some, and it can also be a profitable business for others. But regardless of being an amateur or a professional, both of them have the same target: To be in the right place, at the right moment, to capture "the perfect" photos.
Those photos aren't always reflecting the bright side of life; they can also illustrate misery, sufferance, or even shocking events. And that's why I think every picture is a silent book, narrating stories without saying a single word... Actually, if we pay enough attention, what looks like random old photographs for the vast majority can be screaming, trying to tell us the story hidden behind.
In this series of articles, you will be travelling in time to discover some of the most incredible captured moments from 1945 to our recent year of 2020. In this journey, you will encounter the biggest mix of emotions you can ever imagine... Let's start.
1945: Severly burned victim of Hiroshima's atomic bomb waits for treatment (Photographer: Masami Onuka).
Humanity will never forget the 6th of August 1945, when the gates of hell opened on Hiroshima. At 8:15 AM, an atomic bomb was dropped on the unwarned city and detonated at an attitude of 2000 feet (≈600 meters), making a blinding flash which was described by some survivors as "brighter than the sun", followed by an enormous fireball (≈ Diameter: 1200 ft/370 m) with a surface temperature of 6000°C/11000°F ! Heat waves and deadly radiations burst out in every direction, killing and burning severly more than 146.000 people, the overwhelming majority of them were civilians, women, and children. In the blink of an eye, the +400 year-old city turned into flames and dust. Three days later, the same tragedy repeated itself in Nagazaki...
1946: Ion Antonescu after his execution (by: Serviciul Roman De Informatii).
Marshall Ion Antonescu, the former dictator of Romania who was in office for 4 years from the 6th of September 1940 until the 23th of August 1944, was found guilty of war crimes, crimes against the peace and also treason because of his cooperation with the Nazis. Ion was one of the biggest supporters of Hitler and shared the same thoughts as him. In 1941, the romanian dictator gave his orders to start two massacres against civilian jews: The Iași pogrom (around 13.000 victims) and the Odessa massacre (about 30.000 victims) as well as deporting thousands of jewish families from Romania. Antonescu was executed with 3 of his comrades on June 1, 1946 at the Fort Jilava prison, by a military firing squad. Some sources mentioned that he reufsed the blindfold and raised his hat in salute once the order of execution was given.
1947: The corpse of The black dahlia as it was found.
The murder of Elizabeth Short, aka “the Black Dahlia”, is a terrifying unsolved tale of madness and aberrant desires. On January 15, 1947, a housewife and her young kid were walking down South Norton avenue in Los Angeles to came across the gruesome sight of a young woman cut in half and "posed" on the grass. The victim was completely naked, severed in half at the waist with cuts all over the body, missing one breast which was cut off and given a Glasgow smile by slashing the corners of her mouth to the ears. according to the detectives, the 23 years-old brunette Elizabeth Short was not just dumped there but posed on purpose: her hands placed over her head, elbows bent at right angles, and her legs spread apart. Also her intestines were tucked neatly beneath her buttocks and the body was drained of blood and even washed in the original crime scene which was never found.
Elizabeth came to L.A in an attempt to be famous dreaming about acting in Hollywood, sadly she never realised that she will be famous in another horrifying way. The case isn't solved to this day.
1948: The last picture taken of Gandhi in public during his visit to check the damages in the dargah of Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki in Delhi.
This is the last public known activity of Mahatma Gandhi. On January 27th, 1948, three days before he was shot and murdered, the 78 year-old man went to Mehrauli in Delhi to reassure muslims there after the communal violence commited against them and their holy places by the hindu extremists which made many of them leave the area for safer places. Gandhi supported muslims during the crisis and defended their right to live peacefully in India.
This move made the hindu nationalist movements consider the Mahatma as a "betrayer" who supportes muslims and minorities rather than"his nation and country". On January 30th, 1948, Nathuram Godse, who is linked with extremists, fired 3 bullets into Gandhi's chest, choosing violence to end the life of the nonviolent resistance leader...
1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of People's republic of china.
Just after the end of the second Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945) because of the surrendering of Japan in the World War II, the second part of the chinese civil war (or the chinese communist revolution as it's more known) was resumed again between the Nationalists and the communists. After taking the lives of about 1.800.000 chinese from both sides, the communists led by Mao Zedong won the war and forced nationalists to retreat to Taiwan. On October 1, 1949, Mao proclaimed the founding of The People's Republic of China from the gate of heavenly peace in Beijing, announcing the start of a new era mixed of development, dictatorship and even famine in China.
1950: South korean suspects of being communists and communism sympathizers in their way to summary execution on July 29, 1950.
Despite being a very bloody war with millions of victims from both sides, the korean war (1950-1953) has always been like the most forgotten war in history. And the same thing can be said about the biggest massacre during that war: The Bodo League massacre. The Bodo league was actually a"re-education"movement formed by the south korean president Syngman Rhee to enroll more than 300.000 south korean "suspected communists and their sympathizers" using the excuse of protecting them. But after the north korean people's army attacked south korea on June 25, 1950, Rhee gave his orders to execute anyone related to that league making the summer of 1950 the worst bloodbath in the korean history with a number of victims between 100.000 and 200.000.
Needless to say that the vast majority of them were civilians who had no connection with communism or communists...
1951: Train No. 733 after its derailment in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
On February 6, 1951, the United States witnessed one of the deadliest and most tragic train accidents in its history. Due to a strike on the other close railroad, the train No. 733 became super crowded with more than 1000 passenger when it left Exchange Place in Jersey City in route to Bayhead. To make things worse, the rail lines were undergoing construction, so many temporary trestles and tracks were constructed to allow trains to keep running without disrupting work which meant automatically that trains traveling in that area can't pass the speed limit of 25 mph.
According to the authorities, around 5 p.m, the train was traveling at 60 mph when it arrived to Woodbridge and because of the excessive speed, the train failed to make a relatively sharp turn at the temporary trestle causing the derailment of 8 of the train's 11 cars, sending 85 people to their deaths and more than 500 to the hospital with different injuries.
1952: Kenyan Chief **Waruhiu** Wa Kung'u dead in his car after being shot.
The chief Waruhiu Wa Kung'u was one of the biggest supporters of the Colonial British presence in Kenya and was very loyal to them. In October, 1952, few days after he condemned Mau Mau rebels (who were fighting against the white european colonist-settlers), Waruhiu was shot dead in his car. There are different stories of how he was murdered: Some claims that it was after a car chase between him and the killers. Others claims that it was an ambush...But what's known is that two men were arrested and executed in this case. However, most people think that both of them have nothing to do with the murder and they were forced to confess.
1953: Man next to the ruins of his house after the Ionian earthquake in Greece.
From time to time, nature decide to remind us how powerful and deadly it can be, making people helpless facing that destructive anger. That was exactly the case in Greece on August 12, 1953. That day, at 11:23 a.m in the local time, the Ionian islands Kefalonia and Zakynthos were struck by the worst earthquake in modern Greek history (which is also known as the Great Kefalonia earthquake). The earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, caused more than 800 victims (1000 according to The New York Times), a total destruction in both islands and was strong enough to raise the whole island of Kefalonia by 60 cm (24 in) and incline its centre to the west!
1954: Woman saved after Hurricane Hazel striked Toronto, Canada.
Fatal, destructive and merciless...These are the only words to use if you want to describe a hurricane as powerful as Hazel. In October 1954, Hurricane Hazel striked not one, not two, but three countries. The first country was Haiti and that's where most of the damage occured with around 469 people killed plus the heavy losses which will also count for the next several years due to the destruction of 40% of the coffee trees and 50% of the cacao crop in th country. Next, Hazel moved to the US where it added another 95 people to the victims list and $281 million in damages (equal to 2,6$ billion now). The last destination of the furious giant was canada. Things weren't much better there with another 81 deaths and more than C$135 million in damages (worth about C$1.3 billion nowadays).
North America will never forget this hurricane which killed 645 people in total and costed hundreds of million dollar spent on reconstruction.
To be continued...
A question to Read.Cash
I'm writing this to ask @Read.Cash and people who are dealing with the same problem as me now. Before the last update on the writer home page, I had an article saved as a draft there. But when I wanted now to keep working on it, I was surprised because the draft is gone! I can't find it anywhere: not in "your articles" menu and neither on "saved articles" menu! @Read.Cash can you help me with that please? I'm very sure that the draft was there yesterday! And sadly I don't have a copy saved in another place! Is there anything you can do? and why it was gone at the first place?
Update: Problem is fixed now. Thanks @Read.Cash
Facts about the recent Read.Cash update
Few weeks ago, Read.cash launched what I considered (and still do) a huge step forward for this platform to the future: The points system, which will be the second way possible here to earn some BCH alongside with tips. That system made me and many other original content makers happy because it's not that easy here to earn some tips, so being able to collect points through writing original articles and honest comments made most of the users here happy.
We all know that the system is still in test. But lately, there were many problems floating on the surface because of people trying to use the rules for their advantage: Many meaningless articles with no goal except for earning the 20 points, an incredible amount of copy-pasting for the same reason, a lot and I mean A LOT of spamming comments for the sake of getting the 4 points (I saw someone commenting the same comment with the same typos and mistakes on every article). As a result, there were many complaints from original content makers about spending hours writing and reviewing their content only to earn the same amount of points as any of those spammers and of course I agree with that complelty.
Many well known content makers on the platform expressed their anger toward this situation, and some even choosed to leave Read.cash denying any chance to return here in the future. Obviously, it became essential for the team of the platform to take actions trying to stop this continuing wave of spamming from spreading even more.
Basically, Read.cash team took 2 decision for that reason. The first one is to check regularly the articles and comments either using specific programs or even manually to ban and delete most of the spams like the spammer's case mentioned above who got banned. Not only that, they added the option of blocking the spammer in the comment without having to go to his profile page.
The second decision, which is as important as the first one, is to make some changes to the points system in a way that guarantees the right of the original content makers. In short, good high-quality original authors will receive better pay than others using criteria like the number of views, proper english, upvotes, a program called CopyScape, manually checking and alot more. (see the screenshot below for more details)
Personally,I find those decisions more than necessary to take, and it should be only the beginning to fight the spammers. Obviously, that means many people here will got banned and will not be able to use this platform and that's go a little against the goal of Read.Cash which is encouraging as many people as possible to use BCH, but we also have to keep in mind that this project is still relatively new with limited financial and even human resources, and keep giving those spammers what looks like free money to them, no matter how small the amount is, will just consume the fund without anything good in return. So that's just a financial burden. Worse, it will encourage more spammers to join the community and original content makers to leave since it won't be fair to them, making the website a huge pile of spam and copy paste articles with zero quality which will be the wrong turn for this platform because none will want to join or sponsor a website where there is only a huge amount of garbage articles.
In short, this update is very important and will help Read.cash become even better with less spammers, but we have to make sure that the spammers won't be able to trick the algorithm this time.
That was my openion about the last update, thank you for reading!
Link to the update details: https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/personalized-payouts-from-the-fund-f5d2f9c0
The silent zone: Secrets burried in the dead silence
If you are a fan of movies, then you surely watched or at least heard about "Cast Away". The masterpiece with Chuck Noland as the main character, who survived a plane crash only to find himself stuck on an isolated island in a die or survive thriller. For most of us, the movie was very enjoyable itself. But let me ask you: Have you ever imagined yourself in a similar situation? If not, then we will play a harmless little game. Close your eyes and think about being in the place of Chuck Noland, but of course, we will change some of the circumstances to make things more fun. Looks interesting right? well bear with me a little.
Now imagine this: You got lost (due to whatever reason you want) in a desert, but not any normal one. A desert where any communication technology, regardless of how advanced it is, become worthless and unable to do anything even for the american army! In other words, you are stuck in the middle of an isolated hell where none is able to locate your position to rescue you. But that's not all of it, because if that doesn't sound bad enough already then I have to tell you that this place has witnessed a lot of unexplained paranormal activities to this day... In short, this will be your worst nightmare. This nightmare, my friend, is actually more real than you think, precisely in Mexico, and it's called: "La zona del silencio".
The silent zone of of Mapimi is a desert located in the north of mexico, and it wasn't given that name randomly. It deserved that name due to the abnormal events happening there, which made many compare it with the triangle of the devil. Well then, let's break the silence and dive into the details. The area wasn't recognized to the world before July 1970, when an american test rocket went off-course and fell in Mapimi desert region for unknown reasons. Later, when a group of the american air force went there to invstigate the case, they couldn't believe what they will discover later : That area is completly isolated and it's impossible to communicate using radios or any other device, even satellites couldn't help there! But how is that even possible?
Well, there are mainly 2 theories trying to explain that; the first one suggest that the fallen rocket was carrying some radioactive elements, and after the crash, the soil absorbed the elements and became contamined, causing changes in the radiology of the area which led to those weird things happening. The second theory is even more interesting as it links the silent zone with the Bermuda triangle, based on 2 factors: First, both of them are located on the same latitude. Second, the scientific name of the desert is: The sea of Thetys"! Yes that's right, a sea! Scientists found some fossils which proves that the place was submerged in water thousands of years ago.
So now i can almost hear you asking: Did the silent zone got this reputation from that alone? definitely not! The few people who lives there allegedly reported many abnormal events going around: Weird lights in the sky, mass deceasing of animals without an obvious reason, birds losing their sense of directions flying there, suspicious flyign plates and even eyewitnesses talking about aliens visiting them! The family claims that 3 alien looking creatures, 2 males and a female with very long blond hair, knocked on their door and asked for some water using fluent spanish, and when they were questioned about the place they came from, they pointed up and said: " from above"!
The problem is none can confirm or deny those claims yet, but sure thing is the silent zone will keep its mysteries holded for some more time, and just like the island of the dolls, we might not be able to see the real story unfolded... https://read.cash/@hamedbkh/the-island-of-dolls-an-island-like-no-other-003dcd23
Thank you for reading!
A letter written with the ink of rebellion
I'm sick, sick of you lecturing me about my life choices, infecting my soul with all of your endless speeches to make me a copy of you, to follow your steps to what you think where salvation locates. You are catching my hands, dragging me to take the same path as you, not caring about my knees getting skinned on the asphalt refusing to move with you...I don't care where you are taking me or what is the end of your chosen road, because the destination is well known to me: A huge abyss where i can't even see the bottom, where i can only hear the shattered screams of my mind asking for freedom. Years after years of free falling, and there is still no sign of an end to this misery.... Your choice was to never let me choose for myself, you decided and planned everything in my life without even asking for permission, maybe you didn't know or probably didn't care. You took my place and played my cards instead of me. And when you lost, you just put the blame on me, laughed sarcastically in my face and left to watch me drowning in your deep swamp of disappointment.
You made me lose everything but one thing. You couldn't, and will never, take my true self from me; and now, i'm playing the only card i still have, the only card you forgot to burn: The rebel card. From now on, your frightening looks threatening me during your "preaching" won't matter anymore, you can do what you like with your life, and i will just be free. I will rise from that abyss you pushed me into, rise from the ashes of my burned dreams, like the legendary Phoenix who will change the darkness to a bright light with his blazing wings..
This is me, the real me, i will never pretend to be someone else, i don't want to be someone else! And as you can tell now, i can't change myself to be suitable to you. I simply don't care about it because definitely i wasn't born to do that... I accepted you and everyone else the way you are, but i won't imitate anyone. This is my belief in this life. I'm not perfect, i know that, but i am trying to improve and be the best possible version of me, not the version you want to see. I'm learning lessons from life, lessons which looks more like a teacher, forging my skills. This is my way to live, walking on my road with my own will. It's not easy to be independent, but i rather go alone toward my goal than spending the years i have achieving another person's goal. That's my purpose in life, i have faith in myself and a heart of a lion inside to let me get what i want and fight for it.
That's me, and i can only be grateful for what i am...
The island of dolls: an island like no other!
Whenever i ask someone about his dreams and what does he want to achieve in life, i got this answer with a sigh most of the times: "I want to travel the world, see the interesting places and have an unforgettable adventure to tell everyone about". I'm very sure your answer won't be much different either. Actually, that's a very fabulous dream to have, but what do you mean with "adventure" and "interesting places"? How about a creepy isolated island populated with cursed dolls as an interesting place to visit? and do you think hanging around with the ghost of a little girl who died under mysterious circumstances is an unforgettable adventure? If your answer is yes, then welcome to " La isla de las muñecas" in Mexico.
The direction is the channels of Xochimilio, few miles to the south of the mexican capital Mexico City. Our destination is called the island of the dolls. Judging the nature and the views around it, you will probably expect to see a beatiful island, plenty of trees, green plants, and the crystal water surfaces. Well,you won't be so sure about that after feeling the negative vibes of that place. Maybe it was once the way you described, but that's not the case anymore, and that region is now considered to be one of scariest places on earth! At the moment, you probably are wondering: What makes this island that scary? Good question. Try to imagine dolls being on almost every single tree there, staring at you, but not normal cute dolls which kids play with, instead, they are disfigured, dismembered, dirty and even burned! Worse, all of those puppets are hanged either from the neck or upside down in a sight that will give you chills. But what brought all of those dolls there and why?
Surely, like any other "haunted" place, people won't let this opportunity pass them without using their imagination to create legends and frightening stories about it. There are mainly four theories linked to " La isla de la muñecas", the first one claims that a man collected tons of dolls as an exorcism to kick out the evil spirits from the island after founding the body of a little girl who drowned there. The second story is quite the same as the first one, the only differance is that the man hanged the toys as a way to express his sadness after the death of the young girl and honor her soul after he found her doll floating on the water where she drowned. The next tale suggests that the dead girl is the daughter of a mexican man who collected dolls and put them everywhere on the island as a memorial to his late beloved kid for years until he died of sadness. want to guess how the dad died? That's right, he drowned in the same spot as his daughter! Just a miserable fortune or a suicide? nobody will ever know that.. The fourth and last urban legend, which most people consider it as the original version of the events, takes us back to 1950, and a man called Don Julian Santana Barrera, who left his wife and kids in the city and decided to live on the abanded island. Like that alone isn't strange enough, Julian said that while he was standing on the shore of a lake the first time he arrived there, his eyes were glued to the pale shadow of a girl underneath water who was wearing a white dress. This is exactly when the interesting events begins. According to Don Barrera, at the first sight, he thought the girl was dead, but seconds later, her face got close to the surface enough for the man to judge she might be still alive. Immediately, he jumped in the water trying to save her . Do you know what happened next? sorry but no... He couldn't save her, because she was neither dead nor alive! In fact, after very exhausting attempts to save the kid, he only came out with a plastic doll in his hands! Julian couldn't believe that and didn't understand how did the doll got stuck there, and most important: why it looked like a human girl? He didn't stop asking people around the island until he discovered that a girl drowned there years ago. And that's how Barrera developped an obsession with collecting dolls... Since that day, he didn't only hang the puppet he "saved" on a tree, yet he devoted his life to collect dolls and put them around the island. but the question here is: Why?? The answer, according to the same man, is to make the ghost of the girl happy and satisfied . Otherwise, she won't stop haunting him and cursing his life! Julian also talked about hearing her screams at night and feeling her footsteps close to him..
Barrera died in 2001, taking with him a lot of secrets to the grave. In fact, even the circumstances of his death are mysterious. Some people says that he suffered a deadly heart attack, yet others says the ghost drowned him in the same spot as the the girl.. Now, do you think that scary parts are over with barrera's death? definitely not! Actually, many of the visitors swore they saw the dolls moving at night and whispering to one another! Add to that many other stories like a fisherman talking about how the dolls tried to push his boat in the direction of the island as soon as he got close to it...
Nobody knows for sure what is the right exact story of that island . But the sure thing is the place gained a lot of popularity due to those legends and became a famous destination for people who likes to try some horror. So if you have the chance, will you ever try a vacation there?
Thank you for reading!
source of the pictures: https://bit.ly/35XLdgM
The dancing city: Dance until you die
Throughout history, humanity has been facing countless viruses which caused plenty of lethal epidemics such as Plagues, Cholera and recently the Coronavirus. But have you ever thought that dancing, a simple way to celebrate and express enjoyment, can also turn to a deadly pandemic? Well, about 502 years ago, that was just the case in Strasbourg, Alsace (currently in france).
In july 1518, the locals of Strasbourg were about to face one of the weirdest plagues humanity has ever witnessed: The dancing plague, a hysterical mass dancing mania made people dance for continuous days nonstop until many of them collapsed dead! It all started when a woman named "Frau Troffea" went to the street and started dancing without a break. After few days, a group of 30 person joined her at this crazy fatal "party", but the worse is yet to come. In August of the same year, the pandemic spread even more, making 400 people dancing day and night, some of whom died because of heart attacks, Apoplexy and of course exhaustion.
There are many theories trying to explain what really happened back then. The first one claims that it was a mass psychosis due to the high stress caused by the poverty, starvation and diseases the region was dealing with. A second theory suggests that the victims were food poisoned because of ergot fungi, but it's hard to imagine someone poisoned and able to dance for days. Another theory made by a saint says that god was mad at them and decided to curse the city...
For some reason, doctors at that time thought the only cure was to let the dancers just dance to get rid of " the negative energy" they have, even encouraged them to keep dancing by paying some musicians to play music, making the situation even worse than it already was. The following days nothing really changed until September 1518, when the pandemic vanished mysteriously just the same way it started.
Clearly, we have alot of missing parts here, as any other incident in the midieval era, but the sure thing is it wasn't just a fairy tale since this case was mentioned in the historical records of that year, besides, there is also some records about similar events in Germany, Switzerland and Holland.
That was the story of the dancing plague, a vague event from history. And what makes history exciting are those kind of mysteries.
Do you have another theory? if so go ahead and share it in the comments. Thanks for reading!
*image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hondius_brugje.jpg
A warrior in the land of desperation
when the skies starts raining embers on a man who used to live peacefully,deciding to torture him with all kinds of sufferance,making him running like a fool around searching for a way out,offering his body as a tribute to the claws of hunger, throwing him into the deep bottom of the swamp of misery,putting every obstacle you can and you can't imagine in his path....It's nothing but a living hell on earth; or so he thought...
In this bloody war they call life; everything has a hidden meaning in need to be found...What he called hell was meant to stimulate his mind,develop his skills,to increase his strength and creativity until he is able to make an exit from this situation without waiting for a hand,which will probably never come, to get him out of the mud he is sinking in..
Friend...warriors can't be born nor created,warriors are people who decided to build themselves using experience, their own and others mistakes,pain,misery and the ability to stand in front of the mirror to face their failure and say...This is not the end of it yet... Not every storm is destined to destroy your life,storms can strike you so bad sometimes,leaving you shaking,afraid of what is going to happen next,but when you go on,you will find out that those storms cleaned the way ahead of you; that's what we call the wind of fate. In the sea of life, let this wind push the sails of your ship and guide you toward your goal: to the land of warriors...
You took the tough decision and choosed to be one of the warriors then,you have my respect. But have you thought about what kind of warriors are you going to be in your adventure? A victorious warrior enters the battle last, ready for anything he might face and wins it first, the defeated one goes first to the batllefield carrying only the excitement he has, but he walks away defeated that's if he was able to stay alive at the first place...The real warrior will be responsible for his own acts,an ordinary man will make you responsible for his mistakes. The free warrior is independent because that's his free will, not because he was born that way, he knows how to use opportunities yet never let anyone use him. he can make a fire from ashes, turn the darkest times into a light of hope and strength. That kind of warriors,my friend,deserves to be crowned and named a king.
I can feel your hesitation now, you can't go back now after all the progress you have just made, the biggest weakness,my friend,is giving up. Power doesn't come from your physical strength,it only comes from an invincible will, a flame. No, a fire inside your chest that will leave no place for giving up. There is only one guarenteed way to succeed: try and try again,try and don't stop trying until you are there. Doubt can only see obstacles, but faith can only see the way of your goal.
The warrior's first weapon is his mind, make it sharp and use it to change your destiny. Follow the whispers of the destiny of the brave warriors and let those whispers take control,make them turn to a violent scream in the face of everyone who says:"you can't handle the upcoming hurricane."... Let that proud warrior inside shout :" i am the hurricane".
Illusions of salvation : notes for the shattered souls
Don't tell me using countless words...that life is just an empty worthless dream..that your soul is slowly dying inside..
Take it this way: Things aren't really how it seems... life is real and yours is also real! Life is closer than death and being in a grave...a grave that should be your last ambition...If you are really a human.
You were created of soil, and there you will get back once you die, but between that, your goal is your destiny, achieving it is your fate, even if that means taking down a hungry lion and tear away his fangs and claws....you still have to do it!
This behaviour is what will make every tomorrow showing you the step ahead you took... to the future.
Your creativity is limitless, time is fading away and despite all of that courage and braveness you got in yourself...you looks like a ghost, with numb emotions and a heart that feels like a military funeral heading to the tomb. The sounds of muffled screams arround, and you are just there, arms crossed, watching everything drowning in a giant swamp of sadness...
In the battlefield of life, don't be the guided sheep , following the shephard blindly to the slaughterhouse. Instead, be the hero of this battle; forget about easy roads because it will get you nowhere; and let the dying past alone, bury the deads it killed
Do it, make it all happen in this same living moment with your still beating heart and the will of god in the skies.
Look at all the great ancients, and let their lives guide you, remind you that you can be bigger than them and it's possible to be as high as a mountain in place of getting lost in the mud. it's also a reminder to leave your footsteps there, on the sand of time, to let the next generations know who you were ; and maybe; just maybe another lost broken soul can find those steps you made and accepts to let you guide him to the way he can lit that flame again in his chest...The flame of hope.
The time has come...get up and rise, flick the dust of depression off your shoulders, go forward , don't look back and be ready for any tough times you might and surely will face. Learn how to fight,how to win and the most important : How to achieve.
This is all i was sent to tell you, as i'm fading away, my time here is over now...but your journey in this war called life to succeed.. has only begin, right here, and right now!
1 day testing the new read.cash points system : pros and cons
If you are a frequent user of Read.cash, you have probably noticed the new points system they added on the 27th of april which means, in short, that you will be getting points for achieving different goals ( see here for more info). And today my points were changed to BCH for the first time . So it's time to do some analysis and discuss the pros and cons of this new feature . https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/the-point-system-6c2c20e2
****pros:****
This new system will make it more fun and even more profitable than just getting BCH for only logging in everyday.
It will prevent people from creating multiple accounts to have the daily cents from just logging in.
This step will improve the platform and encourage the new and old users to be active and creative because they will get paid for their efforts.
Getting points for making meaningful comments will encourage users to be more interactive with the posted articles and the writers in general.
****cons:****
The payments aren't that much (yet). for exemple my payment was arround 9 cents. But i know that it depends on the fund they have and also the platform is still in the very beginning of launching this feature and it's very early to judge the payment for now.
All the points you earn will be changed in the end of the day to BCH automatically. i guess it woul be better if read.cash gives the user the option to decide when he wants to transform his points so he can accumulate points and transform it whenever he wants.
In the end of this article, i can conclude that read.cash is doing a great job so far with making this platform a better place for both amateur and professional writers.
Thanks for reading and if you have something to add please let me know in the comments below.
Adam and the broken rules: how to identify a crypto scammer?
****(Note: I was very hesitating to share my friend's story as i didn't want to violate his privacy , but after talking with him he agreed because he thought he can be a reason to prevent this from happening again to another person.)****
A couple of months ago, i got a call from my friend ( we will call him Adam), he was choking on his words so i had a very tough time to try and understand what happened, and knowing adam, he wasnt that kind of people who we call a " cry baby" so i was sure something bad happened. And oh god i was very damn right: Adam was a victim to a scam and he just lost 3000 $ in cryptocurrencies!
Needless to say that he isn't that super rich guy so 3000$ is a decent amount to him. I spend hours trying to console him ,it made my heart ache to watch my closest friend act like a kid who just lost his candy. However, there was some obvious questions in my mind : how were you scammed ? but most importantly ****WHY**** was he scammed at the first place which is the reason why i decided to write this article.
After hearing the whole story, the reason why Adam was scammed became very obvious to me; simply he broke the first rule of what i call" the three golden rules to not being scammed"
****Rule N°1 : If it's too good to be true, then it is****
What did Adam do was to "invest" half of his cryptocurrencies assets in a website which offers a 20% yield per month. obviously that "offer" seduced him and led him to invest a nice money in that website. Adam was paid for the first month, but much to his surprise few days later and he couldn't login to his "investing" account because his account was blocked! my friend was so sure he didn't break their rules so he sent an email to their so called client support but of course no answer! and only at that moment Adam realised that he is just another victim to this kind of scams which called ****ponzi.****
In short, a ponzi scheme is an investing scam which allegedly promising high returns with only a little risk. It is very similar to a pyramid scheme which is based on using new investors' funds to pay the earlier backers and that's how most of cryptos scams works. It is a very known way to scam people yet it always work. In fact, scammers made a profit of $4.3 **BILLION** in 2019!!! so to scammers, it's just like the proverb says "old but gold".
That was rule n°1 then, let's talk about the second rule.
****Rule N°2: Do your own researches before investing in any project****
and when i say do your researches, i don't just mean to search if that website, company or whatever is paying or not like what adam did. Instead, i mean to research **EVERYTHING** about whatever project you want to invest your precious money in.
you have to make sure you are dealing with is a real live person ( or company) with a verified online identity because many scammers doesn't have any real identifiable informations (for exemple if you are dealing with a company you have to search their location in real life and don't forget the legal authorization ). The second thing to do is to learn how does that project work and how it makes profits to avoid Ponzis. Next, you have to contact the support and ask about anything unclear about their project, and even if it's all clear you have to contact them to know if they do have a costumers support at the first place or they are just using a fake phone number and a fake email address. Oh, and don't even think about investing a cent before you got an answer back (from a human of course not a bot).
Now, you might be wondering why do i make this look so complicated? well.. here is a little hint.. adding to the fact that being scammed isn't a nice feeling at all , we are talking about your money being at a very huge risk, So that's deserve the effort you will put in searching .
To prove how researching facts is important before investing, simply take a look at the biggest scam on the history of crypto's : Onecoin, the cryptocurrency which is going to be the king of cryptos and even beat Bitcoin as the "founder" Ruja Ignatova tried to convince the world. She made a huge effort trying to promote her project in a very successful way. Ruja was very famous and she was even invited to big cities like London to introduce her new project, so basically everything was looking good. to be a part of this project, you have to "invest" amounts that goes from 100 euros to as much as 118 000 euros! and like any project nowadays it had an affiliate program which will supposedly bring you more incomes. People (especially poor) didn't think twice about it and of course did no research about it and just trusted the pretty face who was promising them richess and the happy life they dreamt about and kept "investing" every cent they had . But one day all of those pink dreams became a living hell. can you guess it? correct! On octobre 2017, Ruja disappeared after making profits of about $4 billion and scamming almost 3 million victim!! it turns out all their documents are not real. and that crypto wasn't even on blockchain!!
At this point, Adam said: " alright, but what if i made my researches and found nothing suspecious?" well the answer to that is easy: check back rule number one and then don't forget about the third rule which is...
****Rule N°3: Always take your online security seriously because it can affect your cryptos****
This is the most dangerous scam, because it's simply about some malwares which can harm your computer and have your accounts passwords and your personal data if you store them on your device so avoid at any cost storing cryptos wallets password or your private keys on a device , write it down and put it in a safe place
. Also there is another kind of milwares which switches addresses used to transfer cryptocoins with ones the malware controls, so in other words when you will send someone some cryptos, this malware will change the adress to another one!
Finally there is a simple trick yet alot of people especially beginners got scammed because of it: when a site or a person or anything similar asks for your private key , seed phrase or anything which makes them able to access your wallet; don't even think about answering that and just forget it for your own safety.
In the end, i hope you will find those rules helpful and i really hope that it can make even a very small difference. If you find this article helpful then please consider giving it a like and maybe a small tip :) .
Thank you for reading and sorry for the long post.
**stay safe all!**
Bitcoin halving: what will happen to the BTC price?
In less than a month from now, and as most of you know already, another BTC halving will take place. This event which happens once every 4 years means that the pace of creating new bitcoins will halve from an average of 12.5 bitcoins issued every 10 minutes to just 6.25 BTC.
So naturally this situation makes anyone pose an obvious question: How will this halving affect the price of Bitcoin?
Many people believes that the halving will be a direct reason of BTC's price increasing because the halving will slow the supply of new bitcoins which sounds logic due to the relation between supply and demand.
However, there are many other people who thinks that the price will just drop because miners are going to find bitcoin mining less and less profitable and as a result they will simply stop BTC mining and try other promising cryptos.
Now, let's go back a little in time and remember what happened in the previous halvings.
So far, only 2 halvings happened : in 2012 and 2016. Both halvings didn't show any recorded major price changing at the halving date itself. but after months, the price was increased significantly. Yet there are no proven evidents to link that increasing to the halvings for certain..
The cryptos industrie is still relatively new so its not very predictable and its not that stable as well. so my advice is if you are going to invest in the btc's halving then be very careful and ****NEVER**** invest money you can't afford losing.
Even scammers are struggling because of the COVID-19 outbreak!
As i was reading some articles about how the coronavirus impacted the global economy and the crypto's world, an intresting news cought my attention and i thought it would be intresting to share it with you: because of this epidemic, Crypto Scammers’ Revenue was dropped by 33%!!
Apparently everyone was impacted financially by the coronavirus, and cryptos scammers are not an exception. A recently made research by Chainalysis** shows that the profit made by cyptos' scammers has decreased considerably since the start of the year. Their revenue has dropped from $800,000 in the middle of january to less than $300,000 at the beginning of April.
Now you might normally think that the coronavirus might make people less susceptible to scams. Well guess what? wrong! The researchers found that the number of scam victims during the epeidemic is even higher than normal!! Actually the number of payments sent to scammers actually hit a year-to-date high at the start of April. Shocking right? Chainalysis says that they believe scammers are still receiving the same payments from roughly the same number of victims per month. The thing is the payments are just worth less now due to cryptocurrency price drops.
So in the end, this drop of profit is just temporary since its only caused by cryptos' prices dropping. Bitcoin and most of the other cryptocurrencies are already starting to recover . and when things gets back to normal again, im expecting scammers to use the coronavirus as an inspiration to create even more scams.
**source of the study: https://bit.ly/2RI5bX3
Explaining BCH halving: what was it ? and how will it effect the bitcoin cash price?
Everyone lately was (and still) talking about BCH "halving" and how it's going to be a huge boost to the BCH price which occurred yesterday the 7th of april (roughly a month before the 2020 bitcoin halving), yet only few people knows what does "halving" really means in the cryptos world. so im going to give you a brief and simple explanation of the Bitcoin Cash halving.
what is BCH halving??
Most of us know that this BCH halving is the first halving for this crypto as an independent cryptocurrency after it was created in 2017 after a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain, so it shares alot of properties with BTC. as a result, BCH is a crypto with a predictable supply schedule , meaning is we can make an approximate estimation of how much BCH will be created in a given hour, day, month or year with a lot of accuracy. and just as BTC, there is a limit on how many BCH can be ever created (the limit is 21 million BCH) and the mining rate of BCH slows down by half each time 210,000 blocks are added to the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. This process takes about 4 years. Before yesterday's halving Bitcoin Cash miners get 12.5 BCH for each block that's added to the Bitcoin Cash blockchain (the same as with Bitcoin). After the halving, this reward is reduced to 6.25 BCH.
Now, we have to ask the most important question: how is this halving going to effect the bitcoin cash price?
How will this effect the price of BCH?
Usually, everyone who is investing in cryptos pays a very close attention to the halvings as they increase a cryptocurrency's scarcity. so from that we can think obviously halvings will make the price higher. However, keep in mind that the cryptos market is still relatively young and there isn't a lot of history to help us make an educated guess ,especially in Bitcoin Cash's case, as it has never had a halving before.
samsung will change the game's rules
Samsung is the second largest maker of mobile phones in the world after Apple: It sold 300 million cellphones last year — which is good enough for a 19% market share.
And the company just decided to enter the cryptos world now by putting a cryptocurrency icon on the default page of its newest phones, samsung S20.
The 5G enabled smartphone S20 will be released on March 8 with a pre- installed cryptocurrency wallet, called *****BLOCKCHAIN KEYSTONE.*****
Not only will you be able to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with a few finger taps, you will be able to securely store the private keys to crypto wallets on your mobile phone.
Samsung wrote an announcement for their new phones, saying:
**"*****We created a secure processor dedicated to protecting your PIN, password, pattern and Blockchain Private Key. Combined with the Knox platform, security is infused into every part of your phone, from hardware to software. So private data stays private."***
Initially, users will be able to buy/sell 33 different cryptocurrencies, including **Bitcoin** and **Ethereum.**
Personally, i don't think this new crypto feature will materially impact samsung's market share... ****BUT ,**** I do think it will dramatically impact the price of cryptocurrencies!!
Well think about it before making the mistake of underestimating the impact of pre-loaded crypto wallets, because this will probably jump start the fortunes of cryptocurrencies, very much like the fortune of Google when Apple added its search bar to iPhones.
The whole point is that the new Samsung S20 series is going to make it so easy, I expect crypto participation rates to skyrocket. And more investors means higher crypto prices.
so in the end, i can just ask myself this: if Apple decides to make a similar move.. then can you imagine what fortunes will crypto holders make ?? only time and patience can answer that.
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