Bought our 1st pieces of BTC, July 2017. The process was daunting and confusing. Could easily given up & put it in the too hard basket or have fallen victim to one of the many scams or pitfalls. Grateful to a friend of my son's, who had been in this space for awhile, giving me some good advice & steering me in the right direction. That experience has helped shape my desire to share what I learn. Also always had a morbid fascination with Snake Oil Salesman & their sales pitch; Bitconnect, USI Tech..
24 May 2020 1 minute read 6 comments Bragato18
Lets start with a Satoshi Nakamoto quote from 2008: Its very attractive to a Libertarian point of view if we can explain it properly. I'm better with code than words though. Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto started coding the first implementation...
23 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Bragato18
The year 2010 was a different time. The term Magic Internet Money had not entered the common vernacular. The approximate value of Bitcoin in 2010 was: August 23, 2010 - Bitcoin had a value of $US0.06 December 27, 2...
22 May 2020 1 minute read 22 comments Bragato18
How did you celebrate #BitcoinPizzaDay? You ask what is #BitcoinPizzaDay. The Brief History Lesson It was May 18, 2010 12:35:20 am and Laszlo sent the following message: Pizza for Bitcoins I'll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas..like maybe...
21 May 2020 3 minute read 4 comments Bragato18
It might surprise you, what things can get your Publish0x account restricted or authorship revoked. Especially if you are like me and you only skim read the Terms of Service, when you signed up for the Publish0x platform. It is only recently that I...
19 May 2020 2 minute read 7 comments Bragato18
Congratulations Publish0x on achieving the 100K registered accounts milestone. Well done, you are going from strength to strength. To celebrate Publish0x is running a Simple Quick One Week Writing Contest where we make a list of between 3 and 10 of...
18 May 2020 2 minute read 21 comments Bragato18
This essay gives a brief summary of the main early e-currencies that were developed prior to Bitcoin. And the also the people involved, the developers who went on to work on other projects, became notorious or Satoshi contenders/pretenders....... Quo...
17 May 2020 3 minute read 21 comments Bragato18
I was always under the impression that the supply of Basic Attention Tokens was capped at 1.5 Billion. But lately I have read that the supply of Basic Attention Tokens is unlimited and Brave can create new tokens at will. Today I saw it again in a po...
17 May 2020 2 minute read 10 comments Bragato18
All my experiences of dealing with Publish0x support have been exceptional. They reply immediately and the problem is resolved. I have been impressed. My experiences with other sites support teams, have been a long drawn out process, frustrating deal...
15 May 2020 3 minute read 15 comments Bragato18
The subject of tips and tipping has been a popular topic of late. We all get to make 7 tips of LRC, BAT and DAI each day to publishers who post blogs we like, follow, support or we can just tip randomly. Do you have a tipping strategy? Do you stick t...
14 May 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Bragato18
What can you do with your Post in the Dead Zone? After spending hours getting all the information and pretty pictures together into a readable form to publish. The post still only had 32 views and 3 tips worth $0.01, 23 hours after publishing. How...
