My background is creative writing. I have a passion for multimedia art. I have been interested in cryptocurrencies since they began.
10 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon
I’m sorry, Mr. Searle, but you are nothing more than a Chinese room. You simply cannot see all the books. Find the hexagonal library at the end of the garden of forking paths; see the Argentine at the door. When you arrive, plant a jot of dust and wa...
9 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon
Hello! Welcome back to my opinion pieces on the crypto world in general. I want to talk briefly about Splinterlands, a blockchain-based trading card game, and some of the circumstances surrounding it. In particular, although I'm no expert in any of...
9 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon
“That blue light in the west is such an uncertain thing it cannot be proof of land.” Trickster or healer at journey’s end lands at dawn, and the people come to the shore. I hear he was blinded by the white sand, the broken sun on the water. It is sai...
8 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon
Is my writing unique? Perhaps it’s too obscure or enigmatic. Will anyone read my poem? I’m sure no one but God will witness this. Nowhere will reproduce me for I have burned all my bridges. I entertain the possibility of profound failure. I tried to...
8 Mar 2020 3 minute read 2 comments AlmightyMelon
This continues last week's post. A faucet 'drips' out a small amount of crypto every so often to a registered address. As previously discussed, they prevent entropy in the blockchain, amongst other things. An example of a 'true' faucet is the one on...
7 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon
Come, then, O tuneful muses, and make a fanciful statement based on as little as weak etymological connections which only sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife, working us up into a frenzy as their discourse progresses, such as the in...
6 Mar 2020 1 minute read 5 comments AlmightyMelon
This continues yesterday's post. Me: "Honey, I found a magic button that gives me free money." Wife: "There's no such thing. Is that what you're looking for in life, though? A magic button to fix your finances?" I had a similar discussion with my dad...
6 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon
“And this is pure white and is in the charge of the Archangel. This is where you connect with the spirit world. It’s about finding peace. It’s also where you connect with the unicorns.” (Cooper 2012) I have drawn four cards from the pack for you. Her...
6 Mar 2020 1 minute read 5 comments AlmightyMelon
This continues my post from yesterday. So, after withdrawing my first 10 millibits of Bitcoin to a software wallet on my desktop, and making sure I had back-ups of the keys, I sat back feeling satisfied and I checked my email. My identity had been...
5 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon
If you turn on an old tap, slow degree by degree, the water changes shape. My mind is that shape. In the beginning, all things connect. The alpha and the fish, an unseen novelty – and that vortex of the new draws us in together. And Cézanne. And coni...
