One of my study topics is blockchains and cryptocurrency. In the past year or three, I learned a wealth about this new money that will inevitably become our default method of payment this decade.
Slightly off-topic: I am subscribed to the RSS feeds of almost 250 websites, mostly news ones, and around 50 websites dealing with blockchains and cryptocurrencies.
Obviously it is impossible to work through 5000+ news articles per day, but an RSS reader is very handy to spot trending and breaking news. It's great to check in on favorite websites without having to subscribe to their annoying email newsletters. If you want a great (and free!) RSS reader yourself, get either FeedBro or Bamboo's add-ons. I use both on two different browsers on my laptop and can recommend both RSS readers wholeheartedly. I also use InoReader, which works on the freemium model, on my cellphone. It was the best out of the 20 most popular ones I reviewed three years ago.
Back to the topic of the day.
I browsed a few feeds from crypto sites, then checked out articles I found interesting. So here is a summary, with a blurb of why I found each article noteworthy.
Games can be a waste of time, so get paid for that time.
Many people ask themselves, why not play games all day long and get paid for it in some form or another? This is an interesting topic, so here is an article about the top 9 metaverse games, and how one can earn money in various ways from them. Of course, playing games is a great way to learn about Web 3.0 without it feeling like learning. Apparently, man and animals learn best by playing.
Just 4 in 10 people know something about Web 3.0.
"Everyone knows what crypto is, and it's been around for like 15 years; there's nothing new to gain from it", some people will tell you. They are the ignorant ones, and you should not share your cookies with them. Others will say that we are at the beginning of something massive, a revolution, a boom that will change the world forever. They are the ones to take out for drinks.
According to this article, a whopping 60% of people still don't understand crypto and blockchain. Obviously then there's money to be made, because they will have to get involved sooner or later, whether they want to or not. The only challenge is to get them to become interested and then as passionate as the rest of us.
Airdrops: A little gem among the filth?
I do not do airdrops and cannot really recommend it either. I did test it out, sure, but it just wasted my time. I didn't even earn a dollar for a lot of work, so I ditched it.
Airdrops are almost always about promoting shitcoins as part of a pump and dump scheme, with participants having to participate in promoting the ball of hot air. But once in a blue moon, an airdrop is from something potentially big that wants you to go through extreme lengths or even sacrifice some privacy before you can get a fraction of the gold.
I do know there are digital bounty hunters, chasing after every airdrop, and building up a collection of hundreds of different coins. Most will be worthless in a few months, but a few will be worth gold over a few years.
As such, I subscribed to a few airdrop sites that notify one when a new airdrop is available. Basically, just to stay updated with what's new, and so I can kick myself over 5 years for not participating in one.
One such site is CoinAirDrops.com, and they have an interesting article about 'Remitano'. It sounded suspiciously like remittance, and so I thought I should check out the article. It's worth taking note of this one.
Remitano is a new blockchain. Or rather, it is a number of blockchains rolled into one. That's important because all such blockchains created on top of this new blockchain will have the same token, with each blockchain built on top offering different features.
Oh wait, are they taking on the mighty Ethereum?! Great! Ethereum's ridiculous fees have long been a thorn in my flesh. So welcome to the scene, Remitano.
What I do like about this airdrop, is that you only have to download their app on Google Play (or Apple's one), register a free account, and get some free coins. Worthless, at this point. But over 5 years? So install the app, get the free coins, save the keys safely offline, and uninstall the app.
CoinTelegraph remains tops
In the crypto space, one simply has to follow major crypto news sites like CoinTelegraph. There is a wealth of information there, that can be overwhelming and sometimes very technical or outright boring. Thanks to an RSS reader, one gets an overview of many articles fast.
What I did find there in several articles, the gist of it, is the prediction that the world is about to go belly-up. Not doom and gloom, but quite realistically discussed. For example, Deutsche Bank said the USA will enter a recession this year, which is bad news for everyone everywhere.
Traditional banks are increasingly spreading misinformation and scaremongering to frighten their clients away from crypto. The latter threatens the unethical high fees of banks and their unhealthy control over the common man.
Many news articles popped up about governments and their crooked politicians trying to curb and control the crypto world with some dirty laws.
As we all know, when a government loses control over your money, they lose control over your freedom.
Some countries are making the right laws, like Slovakia, adding to their constitution the right of citizens to pay hard cash for goods. Just in case the coming digital euro puts too much power in the hands of the NWO elite.
Some countries, however, like Australia, are falling behind in the laws they make. Archaic, much? And behind whom, you ask. Corrupt nests like Nigeria, of all places! Be ready for a lot of 419 scams in your inbox if Nigerians get to rule the crypto scene.
The UK government decided the Britons have been free long enough, their crypto needs to be regulated before they get to flee their misty island with it.
I assume the reader is picking up that I have no love lost for either traditional banks, or for any government trying to control what people do with their own money. What you have in your wallet, what you've bought with it, and how much you paid for your groceries should be known only to you and the seller. It has nothing to do with anyone else.
You'll have to back me up, and soon, dear reader, to tell the world that traditional banks are evil. Nobody knows that yet. LOL. Because Etherscan brought out a scanner that will scan the code of smart contracts... using artificial intelligence. Yes, the robots will now read those contracts, to help others get out of agreements with you. You can bet banks and lawyers will use that technology too.
How to get rich as an AI-pirate:
A bit better news, if you're a pirate anyway. Download some videos from Facebook and TikTok. Blow it through one of the software tools that CoinTelegraph has in this article. The mentioned robots—artificial intelligence—will adapt those videos and make them look all new. Because screw the original content creator, who had put in a ton of work to make the original video, right? Then upload the 'new' videos on those very same platforms again. Very little work, easy money, yes, crime pays. I don't recommend you do it, though.
Get yourself an email account on the blockchain.
Away from Google and other Big Tech monitoring and spying on you, with all communication securely only visible to you and a recipient, must be your email. Read that again, and become interested, okay.
We should all be fed-up with every spy agency and government snooping on what we the people do. What business is it of some unknown wanker at the NSA or some corrupt 'intelligence' agent at an underground facility just outside Pretoria?
I found this article about EtherMail on another crypto news site, and the email service is offering an airdrop too to get some more exposure. Your emails are secure, anonymous even, and private. Plus, you get paid in crypto for reading your emails. I checked out Ethermail a while ago, but just briefly, have some notes I made somewhere. I may do a review of this service in the future.
Bank failures were planned?!
Ah, what will the world be without conspiracies and fake news. My favorite conspiracy, slightly right-wing, Trumpster-like financial site is Equedia. I initially signed up for their newsletter to troll them. (I'm squarely in the middle of the political spectrum, BTW.)
I wasn't surprised that many of their emails landed in my Gmail spam box, because, well, Google doesn't like the stupid people. But to my surprise, I found that the weird predictions Equadia makes, often pan out. The facts they cite are accurate, believe me, I fact-checked. It's all about how they present it that makes it so entertaining.
Some people at that site must have been investigative journalists before. They have an uncanny ability to dig up corporate secrets and spit them out into the open. So, no, I cannot call the people on that website stupid, or even gullible. I feel robbed of a great trolling opportunity.
Like all conservative people, they are deadly scared of a 'new world order' (duh! The current one is clearly not working for 80% of people!), I thus cannot call them objective. In a month-old article, they claim that the banking failures and troubles that hit Switzerland, Germany, and the USA during April and May were planned.
While I take all such claims with some salt, we do know that banks are a crooked bunch. Equadia makes a compelling case, in all their entertaining articles.
Okay, that's it for today. I really have to start blogging more, and it is in the cards; I just need to shake up my calendar first.
