I got involved with the Ergo cryptocurrency back in 2021. There was a lot to learn. Initially, I used Reddit. A few months in, I had a question that I needed to use Telegram to resolve. In cryptocurrencies, most of the discussion happens in Telegram and/or Discord. I became active on Telegram. I spent a … Continue reading Brief Note Regarding cafebedouin.org in 2024
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Coin of My Realm: Meaning
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1577353047667154944 I've been thinking on this tweet a bit lately. How do we determine what is the coin of our realm? What is important to us? I wanted to expand on this tweet. Isn't really "what others offer" is a question of what we value in ourselves, and in other people? Lets leave aside the … Continue reading Coin of My Realm: Meaning
PoE: Proof of Effort
https://twitter.com/NautilusWallet/status/1555606379599052801 I really liked this idea of Proof of Effort, a riff off Proof of Work and Proof of Stake consensus mechanism in cryptocurrencies. Strikes me as a variation of RTFM. People are more inclined to help once you have shown you have tried to solve your own problems.
What a Bear Market Looks Like
But for those of us who were investing in tech and tech startups back in 1999-2002, that time will forever be etched in our minds. It was a brutal period during which our belief in the Internet and its potential was sorely tested. Many friends and colleagues left the sector and never returned.So while crypto … Continue reading What a Bear Market Looks Like
How I Hacked a Hardware Crypto Wallet and Recovered $2 Million
Energy Production, Cryptocurrencies & Hidden Agendas
How many times have you read something like this, “Bitcoin uses as much electricity as Malaysia or Sweden or Denmark or Chile….”. What a bore. Have you ever wondered, however, why the comparison is to countries? Why don’t they ever tell you what would seem to be a more natural comparison which is how much … Continue reading Energy Production, Cryptocurrencies & Hidden Agendas
Why Ergo?
Ergo is different from other blockchains. It is focused on providing a decentralized, open, permissionless, and secure platform for contractual money that is usable by ordinary people to pursue their common good over the long term. It is designed to be resilient in the face of different economic environments and competing interests, allows individuals to … Continue reading Why Ergo?
Mining the Ergo Cryptocurrency in the ergo.getblok.io Pool
Mining Ergo as part of the ergo.getblok.io mining pool is easy, particularly on Windows. If you already have a Ergo wallet, it can be set-up on a computer with a GPU video card compatible with mining Ergo in less than 5 minutes. For Ergo, you need a card with a minimum of 4GB of RAM, … Continue reading Mining the Ergo Cryptocurrency in the ergo.getblok.io Pool
Conceal Network
"Conceal Network is a secure peer-to-peer privacy framework empowering individuals and organizations to anonymously communicate and interact financially in a decentralized and censorship resistant environment."-https://conceal.network/
A Crash Course on Crypto Economics in 1 Hour by Natasha Che
https://twitter.com/RealNatashaChe/status/1448419168986882050 A newer one with a focus on stablecoins and fiat. https://twitter.com/RealNatashaChe/status/1459974459935264770 The whole series is worth a read if you have any interest in cryptocurrencies. Tascha also has a newsletter.
How NFTs Create Value
"[Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs)] enable new markets by allowing people to create and build upon new forms of ownership. These projects succeed by leveraging a core dynamic of crypto: A token’s worth comes from users’ shared agreement — and this means that the community one builds around NFTs quite literally creates those NFTs’ underlying value. And … Continue reading How NFTs Create Value
Is/Ought Fallacy: Exhibit A
"Crypto is gambling, and you should never gamble more than you can afford to lose, right? So the only people who held onto their bitcoin when it was worth $100,000 dollars were:* People who could afford to lose $100,000 * People who couldn’t afford to lose it and were therefore making a very, very stupid … Continue reading Is/Ought Fallacy: Exhibit A
bash: Cryptocurrency Prices From the Linux Terminal
#!/bin/bash printf -v coin '%s' -1 # crypto.sh bitcoin price() { # A function that pulls cryptocurrency price data from coingecko curl -X 'GET' 'https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids='"$1"'&vs_currencies=usd' \ -H 'accept: application/json' 2> /dev/null | # sends download data to /dev/null sed 's/.*usd"://' | # Removes everything before the price sed 's/..$//' | # Removes back two }} … Continue reading bash: Cryptocurrency Prices From the Linux Terminal
Cryptocurrency Platform Cardano & Ada Coin
Disclosure: I own Ada. This is a condensed summary of what convinced me to start buying cryptocurrency, specifically Ada. I'm happy to share what I learned, but this is not investment advice. I don't know you. I don't know your situation. Cryptocurrencies are a speculative investment, and you could lose all your money. If that's … Continue reading Cryptocurrency Platform Cardano & Ada Coin
