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I’m Putting Beer Money Into $Doge to See What Happens

BEERCAN I gave up dope years ago and haven’t looked back, but over the past month or two I’ve found myself drinking a few beers every night and it’s a bad habit...

The Story of Pride Punks, the First Derivative of CryptoPunks

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that statement is true then CryptoPunks has spawned an entire industry of imitators and derivatives and...

Bitmap and the Hidden Cyberpunk City-Exploring the Bitcoin metaverse

created in Leonardo.ai by the author. >“A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he’d taken and...

JP Janssen–The Most Important NFT Person in Crypto You’ve Never Heard of.

>“I found OLGA.” Say what? Has Old School Crypto lost his mind? What kind of geek speak tech bro gibberish is this? Hang on, I can explain, and I urge you to st...

Stop Standing on the Edge of the Pool: How building a writing habit is like swimming.

Photo by Tilly Jensen on Unsplash “Why the hell was I doing this to myself?”, I thought as I trudged alone through the snow towards the brutalist structure ahea...

Dancing on the Edge to Feel Alive: How a spontaneous trip to Vietnam brought me back to life this summer.

>"Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions." ~ Paul Gauguin Photo by Quang Ngu...

It's Gonna Be Yuge: Trump on the Blockchain

screenshot of TRUMPEPE Trump. You either love him or hate him, but one thing that can’t be denied is that he was and is a polarizing figure when it comes to pol...

Onboarding People To Crypto Starts With Us

Photo by Thirdman: Pexels What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when somebody mentions cryptocurrency? Scam. Ponzi. Unrealistic. Too much tech for me....

Welcome To New Orleans: One Summer In Hell

Photo by Marlana Broadway: https://www.pexels.com/photo/cars-on-a-wet-road-during-night-time-12295615/ "Welcome to New Orleans man." It was one of those dark so...

Insomnias Dark Side: A True Story of Love and the Demonic

--- photo by the author "So that's why you work the night shift," I said. Her beautiful black pearls of eyes bore into me with an intensity and a seriousness I ...

Be Careful What You Wish For: The Perils of Mainstream Adoption.

IPhoto by Ashutosh Sonwani: Pexels “Did you see that BlackRock applied for an ETF?” I got this frantic text from a friend who is tangentially interested in cryp...

Here's What Being Homeless Taught Me.

Photo by MART PRODUCTION: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-green-jacket-lying-on-floor-8078366/ I heard the door handle click behind me with a clank and it t...

Dystopia Dawns: Bank Freezes, CBDCS and the Perils of Programmable Money

Photo by Naomi McKinney on Unsplash: Image and text added by the author in Figma I can remember the Canadian Trucker rally like it was yesterday, and how the St...

Collect What You Love: Crypto is About More Than Just Making Money

During my month hiatus from all things crypto one phrase kept coming back to me: “Collect what you love” It is something I’ve been holding in my mind like a man...

What's Up Hive, Check-My-Bumpz Introduction

What's up Hive? I'm no stranger to crypto and have been a Hive member since 2021 and following crypto news since 2014, but I never did a proper introduction pos...

5 Steps To Surviving Crypto.

Face it, everybody wants to get rich in crypto. Most of us come to this space after reading about or hearing stories through the grapevine of people that leave ...

Patience

>Days and nights fly past, fly past, what am I becoming right now? -The Buddha > >What when I do it, will lead to my longterm welfare and happiness? -The Buddha...

Vihara Dhamma

In Pali Vihara Dhamma means something like home for the mind. It's that place of refuge you build inside through the practice of meditation. Slowly through disc...

My First Post

Hello everyone. I'm new to Hive but not new to crypto. Many years ago when Blogger was still a big deal I wrote quite a lot but life got in the way and I quit. ...