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1 Sep 2023 5 minute read 20 comments Allen Taylor
In late July, I announced that I would be taking a break a August. I did, and now I'm back. The break was a time of reflection for me and a time for me to reassess my content goals in light of my business goals. I'll discuss that more next week. For...
4 Aug 2023 6 minute read 17 comments Allen Taylor
I know some of you look forward to these monthly social media earnings reports, and I look forward to writing them. As promised, here's my report for July 2023. The month turned out to be my third best month this year. In May, I earned more than $91...
31 Jul 2023 4 minute read 9 comments Allen Taylor
Today, I'm breaking with my normal routine to post on a Monday to make an announcement. Regular readers know I've been writing about Web3 topics for two years and separately about Christian topics for about as long. On Wednesdays, I curate the top ne...
28 Jul 2023 6 minute read 3 comments Allen Taylor
Collect this post on Paragraph and receive 300 Taylor Tokens ($TAYL). Last Sunday, July 23, Elon Musk shocked the world by rebranding Twitter to X. Why that was so shocking is anybody's guess because Musk has been talking about X for a long time. Mus...
26 Jul 2023 2 minute read 7 comments Allen Taylor
Web3 funding has been robbed! Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) walking in and stealing the opportunities, Web3 funding has gone south. In fact, since Q1 2022, the number of funded Web3 startup deals has fallen from 797 to 322 in Q2 2023. To be...
21 Jul 2023 5 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
If you hang around Facebook and Instagram for long, you'll notice something that is quite popular but is a colossal waste of time. I call them meme games. A meme game is a type of social game where an individual posts a meme or creates a post on a so...
19 Jul 2023 5 minute read 4 comments Allen Taylor
On July 13, 2023, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres ruled partially in favor of Ripple Labs and partially in favor of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle once and for all whether XRP is a security. Here's how the judge ruled: XR...
17 Jul 2023 8 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
Awhile back, I decided to publish a book I had lying around as gated content here on Paragraph. As a part of a Web3 challenge, I created an NFT on Mirror to serve as the gate for that content. Now I'm ready to do the same here on Paragraph. Starting...
14 Jul 2023 3 minute read 21 comments Allen Taylor
The World Economic Forum (WEF) wants to implant a central bank digital currency (CBDC) microchip under your skin so you can be a legitimate supporter of a corrupt banking system. As scary as this sounds, I think some form of this will be accepted by...
12 Jul 2023 2 minute read 5 comments Allen Taylor
Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin wants bitcoin to experiment with Layer-2 solutions. With Ether.fan, users can stake ETH and mint an NFT. NFT floor prices have plummeted 62 percent in the last month. ApeCoin crashes to all-time low. What happens w...
