What makes you a CrytpoPrepper?
Well, 'living' or interacting within a virtual community which makes use of cryptocrurrency in some way makes you a CryptoPrepper knowingly or unknowingly.
The simple acts of interacting with community content and their members such as reading, comprehending and reacting to content or posts in which you are interested, means you share with the poster and other viewers of the post that same interest.
Going one step further, the simple expression of the post viewer/reader exercising their right as a sovereign being, to vote the post up or down and leave them a tip, is a form of democracy found in a modern day republic like the USA now manifesting itself as a network of Virtual Republics, first written by Mackenzie Wark in Australia backed in 1997 describing culture boundaries and how they intersect and interact, not always in the nicest of ways (circa 1980s Oz style).
You, as a CryptoPrepper, are actually a node in this layered and intersected "Network of Virtual Republics", via the links you maintain into other networks, as a "logical/emotional, conscious living node" if you like, responsible for these "smart links", embedded in the posts or content you create in one or more of the social networks in which you participate, facilitating the exchange of ideas, thoughts, etc., via content, memes, words.
Heavy Stuff? Not really. We do it(linking) every day, often not thinking about this Network of Virtual Republics we live in online, all the time.
But I digress,
All of us in fact on Publish0x, are in reality, CryptoPreppers, whether we know it or not.
We all would like this world to be prosperous and safer for all, the big questions is "How do we get there?"
The original prepper motto is "prepare for the worst and hope for the best."
Well the worst is coming (we are only in the financial market govt. stimulated bounce).
COVID-19 imo is simply the "Wizards of Finance" opportune moment to crash the world economy (march over the hill) and, reset the global world of finance with a new, centrally controlled set of inter-operating digital currencies, at your expense. Expect these "Wizards" to try to slow or even halt and replace (By decree or constitutionally challenged regulations) the "Blockchain world's" progress of "Hard Money" and "transparency by choice" with their own self-styled systems of financial control for their own benefit.
The Wizards? Who are they? Gates and Buffet aside, they are, my CryptoPreppers, largely the shareholder's of your local Central Bank (which are other central banks and large financial institutions and even the regimes you voted for or, against) and you, to them, are just part of the 'herd' they see themselves entitled and destined to manage, harvest, cull and if necessary destroy, to satisfy their own self interests.
My advice? Don't fall for this BIG "Wizards of Finance" GAMBIT. It's a shitty plan driven by govt. money presses operated by their central bank partners creating another bailout for the "vested interests", much much bigger than the 2008 bailout. In fact at more than US$ 7 Trillion, for the US, this big bailout is almost double the US current estimated GDP "Gross Domestic Product" for 2019 thought to be US $4.3 trillion. Talk about kicking the can down the road, you and I will pay for all of this in higher taxes and inflation at a time not to far off in the near future. OUCH! (Oh yeah you get a shitty check from the government monthly for the next 4 months (the Canadian way) as a "shut in" which might cover the rent or mortgage, provided you pass the govt. 'beauty test' to qualify.)
Snuffing a Wellhead Fire, same principles apply to fiat, starve the fuel source of what it needs, your use of fiat
How? A Move to Crypto for more Buy/Sell = Starving the "WIZARDs of Finance" at their fuel source, fiat money..
We can all do this by using fiat less and less AND, by all of us accepting and using quality crypto more and more. If you don't use fiat, that fiat money supply can't grow (nor can your own debt and National Debt in fiat).
Big purchases like houses and cars are the place to start using crypto, facilitated via peer to peer cryptocurrency transactions enabled by asset centric smart contract platforms powered by PoS or PoW (and not PoA "Proof of Authority", as we want get rid of these authority 'middlemen' which don't really add value any more given distributed public permissionless ledgers do that work for us for much lower fees in a "trustless" way).
For some of us in the know, we are indeed "prepping" for the end of the Financial system as we know it, protecting our earned value (by reading and/or publishing posts and earning our meritorious or "fair" share of tips) from the rampant erosion of our fiat currency buying power caused by excess govt. regime money printing, this time to "save' us from what effectively is a govt. planned (plandemic?) "lockdown" of voters directly violating the 1st Amendment in the US.
The Score so Far while the first "Rebound" is underway in the markets?
Crypto Market -50% and holding Steady Fiat Markets -35% to - 65%, in Money Printed Rebound?
Stepping up to BAT and 'Swinging for the Fences': A 'CryptoPrepper' Home Run.
What makes us all genuine CryptoPreppers in the Virtual Republic of Publish0x is BAT.
For those posts that qualify, the act of tipping in Publish0x can trigger a cryptocurrency BAT (issued by Brave the open source browser company) issue of "hard money", an 'inflation resistant' reward(Fixed supply vs. endless fiat money printing by govt. regimes) given to both the reader and the publisher for their time and effort. In Publish0x the share of the tip between both parties is determined by a slide bar feature, which is adjusted solely by the reader prior to hitting the tip button which automatically pays out the tip to both.
Today, BAT has a reasonable form of liquidity, which allows the earned value (you read something, it took time & effort, you tipped the author for their content creation effort). That ability to convert BAT to other forms of currency crypto and fiat, relatively easily, indicates BAT has 'moderate' liquidity, especially given the number of reputable, well financed cryptocurrency exchanges supporting BAT conversions to other forms of currency both crypto and fiat is indeed quite large, relative to even some of the other Top 100 cryptocurrencies.
Soon BAT's liquidity will increase even more with the addition of the Binance Widget and, Brave's recent deal with TAP Network which allows purchasers to accumulate BAT as rewards for purchases made on the TAP network which can be redeemed for goods and services with the business partners working with TAP.
BAT we know, can be converted into Ethereum via ERC20 protocol easily these days in well featured wallets. Once BAT is converted to ETH, liquidity is straightforward from ETH into other ERC20 tokens (you pay a small gas fee in ETH) via various different wallets and, major fiat denominations, such as US $ and Euro, can also be converted via several reputable cryptocurrency exchanges (Kraken, Binance, etc..,) to other non ERC20 formats, where the wallet holder pays a small fee to convert a BAT instance to say non-ERC20 BTC Bitcoin, or exchange BAT in US $, CAD $, Euro, etc.
TK Observation- The Brave Browser Company which has announced its support to handle multiple cryptocurrencies by including the Binance widget within their own private operating network, secured by the BAT Ethereum permissioned distributed ledger, imo creates an interesting opportunity to integrate with the Publish0X tip drop directly issuing BAT, by offering the Brave Wallet as the drop target from the Pulbish0x user settings panel?
Wad O' Marketing Cash, Today Mostly Spent online with Google Ads, Amazon, fiat style
Given BAT'S main utility purpose today is for use as a currency to buy online permissioned advertising and allow readers to tip the advertising content they like, BAT's upside is very clear, there is a "Big wad" of Google Advertising Marketing Budget spend by private companies which will soon discover the higher targeted conversion rate Brave's Ad Placement logic creates is definitely worth shifting toward Brave, via the purchase of ad placement using BAT. This means potential advertisers need to go out and buy BAT on the market first, then use that BAT to buy ads, which drives the volume , interest and price up for BAT over time.
Given the above, imo BAT is a natural token to "hodl", especially as the fiat value of assets of all types fall in the face of this COVID-19 world pandemic triggered (and govt planned) lock-down of you and the economy. Fiat money printing is not our friend.
So don't be shy when it comes to BAT or other quality cryptos, Swing for the Fences!
A refresher presentation for those who care
Networking the Virtual Republics: BAT Post Linking to grow Earned Value- The Eroding Value of Fiat and how to Resist it..
Publish0x itself is Cryptocurrency centric in its focus, attracting publishers and readers of same, who themselves link their Publsih0x posts to other social platforms where their might be some interest in the post and in this way, "the Poster" making the link is behaving as a "Network Node" extending the information posted into another Community of Interest.
All good. As such, it's easy to see Publish0x as a Virtual Republic. When we dig deeper, Publish0x is both virtual and "pluralist" in nature, that is, your online publishing or reading in the latter case, is subject to both up/down vote judgement and, receiving or not receiving a reader decided tipping percentage, the latter action which is the reader's choice alone and, an excellent example of one exercising their sovereignty in a democratic fashion, provided the reader's action abides within the rules of the Publish0x "Virtual Republic" terms and conditions of use. ("Laws of the Virtual Republic")
The Emergence of Networked "Virtual Republics": In the Face of a Fiat World Meltdown?
Like minded users working on 'stuff' together or, exchanging ideas and opinions between themselves as a community of like minded individuals in a democratic fashion, with clear virtual borders "Terms of Use" and their own functioning voting system and forms of currency is a Virtual Republic in my 'books' (as it is in 'the books' of most political wonks, ;0 )
CryptoPreppers are really, in USA terms, the "Minutemen" of the day, responding to this current crisis by taking up arms in the form of multiple cryptocurrencies , hodling now to get ready for the BIG Meltdown (after the fiat engineered pump causing the current rebound), to defend their stores of value and not just survive, but thrive in the wake of this engineered lock-down and impending financial disaster.
IMNSHO, no amount of government handouts is going to fix this "Wizards of Finance" engineered problem. Those tempting government handouts advertised as personal help (for a problem they engineered) are designed to first enslave you and then, make you totally dependent (a la UBI "Universal Basic Income") , later restricting your rights (freedom of movement) and as well as access to credit and, will ultimately make you 100% answerable to the current regimes , the cadre of self entitled wizards which are supposed to serve you and the general public fairly, yeah those same people which created this big Financial and Economic mess in the first place (for their own self-enrichment).
Take Action Now, -Defend your Hard Store of Value and Grow your Use of Crypto Everywhere
Citizen CryptoPreppers, we all need to get back to work virtually, asap, and start using cryptocurrency to effect local, regional and international transactions among our existing online communities, these budding Virtual Republics, to defend ourselves. IMO we can't move fast enough to convert the fiat assets we all have into a good mix quality hard stores of value, be it land, metals, commodities and crypto.
The number of good quality cryptocurrencies have enough capacity to soak up all that fiat, converting as much as you can into hard stores of value quickly to create a much healthier composite world money supply of "hard stores of value", and this includes hard asset management via smart contracts valued in cryptocurrencies (likely counter valued to the US $ for now, as everyone rushes to it as a hard store of value, don't be fooled that status will not last long..)
As More and More Communities, both old and new online, are centring their platforms around Cryptocurrencies, they are in effect, really making a conscious move to offer both their readers, users and publishers yet another opportunity to create value and place that value in harder stores of value, cryptocurrency than what is offered in the Fiat world. The limits on the number of coins issued ensures the "hard store of value" quality of the crypto.
Can We learn from the recent past (2008), can we predict the future? Looks like we have, some HackerNoon Research circa Jan 2019..
The Network of Virtual Republics and the Growth of the New "Hard Money" Supply: Fast Growth means a more prosperous & safer world for all..
The effective size of that new "hard store of value" networked money supply remains to be determined. I expect both #BTC and #ETH (in version 2.0 form) and the latter's Altcoin ERC20 ecosystem to be around for along time and make up the dominant share. Ledger gateways (#Cosmos et al) controlled via Smart Contract conversion logic will "network" the ledgers together using established protocols and new ones not yet deployed or even written. As New improvements in "Hard Money" emerge and open up new markets like the Machine2Machine Economy (See #IOTA on that one for more details) and other new markets no yet devised, these new systems of "hard" money will get added to the emerging Network of Virtual Republics via distributed ledger gateways. As a result expect rapid growth (collective Market cap) of that composite "Hard Store of Value" used by the Network of Virtual Republics.
Personally I expect these Virtual Republics to form, network and layer over top of the existing geographically "locked down" Republics fairly quickly and, become more important over time to each of us in our on-going fight against future inflation and onerous taxes as we try to preserve and grow our buying power.
After all it is human nature to be found grouping with like minded individuals, doing it on our own accord especially as it applies to topics of interest, buy and sell transactions as well as voting events and general currency use. We don't need a govt. to tell us to do that.
What we have all learned from this latest fiasco and lock-down taking away our rights is we cannot trust govts to save us, we must save our selves from (govt & 'vested interest" engineered) financial ruin.
Saving myself and family now via more crypto hodling and measured use are the big parts of the journey I am taking toward living in a Network of Virtual Republics based on a sound( collection of hard stores of value), composite money supply, employing cryptocurrencies and hard assets (gold, silver, metals, commodities, land, real estate etc..). The quicker we get there, on our own, the better off we all will be as imo, no govt. will save you, nor do we need their ever-eroding buying power issued as fiat.
On a closing note, please beware of 'impostor' centralized Digital currencies controlled by central 'authorities' with no coin issue cap. Think Venezuela Petro, don't use them unless you absolutely have to, starve them of their fuel source. ;)
The future is what we make of it, via our simple sovereign choices.
TK over and out.
