Each day for one glorious month (November 2021) I will be sharing a diary style post of my activities and encounters in the world of the blockchain.
20 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Polkadot Parachain Auctions I was going to include this update in yesterday’s post but got carried away with writing about Streamr, but it’s big news and still worth including here. The winner of the first Polkadot parachain auction has been announ...
19 Nov 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Streamr Today it is time to cast an eye over another potential investment, Streamr. Streamr was set up in the belief that the existing traditional and centralised infrastructure for managing data flows worldwide are simply not up to meeting the n...
18 Nov 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Running on Empty and THETA It’s been tough going today. I’ve felt all day as though I got barely any sleep last night (though I’m sure I did pretty well) and that has left me without the mental energy to go looking for new excitement in the land of...
17 Nov 2021 3 minute read 3 comments Renaissance man
Non-Fungible Tokens It seems to me it was inevitable that at some point during the course of my daily postings this month I would write something about NFTs. After all, how could I not when they’re all the rage. Pretty much everywhere you look ther...
16 Nov 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Tracking my Portfolio I bought my first crypto coins about three years ago. I’d originally looked into this new thing people were referring to as crypto currency about four or maybe five years back, but given up when I simply couldn’t work out how...
15 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Polkadot Crowdloan Auctions Blimey, I hadn’t checked the state of play with the Polkadot auctions for a few days. Seeing how there is the best part of a month still to go before they end, I had decided to limit myself to checking on progress to onc...
14 Nov 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Nodle – Where’s the Money? So, I’ve been running the Nodle app on my spare mobile for a little over three weeks now and I have earned the grand sum of… diddly squat. Yep, that’s a big fat zero that has rolled into my wallet. Now, while I wasn’t exp...
13 Nov 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Hive.Blog At the start of the month, as I summarised my intentions to post daily for all of November, I also took a run through the three social media platforms I would be posting to, these being Read.Cash, Publish0x and Hive.Blog. The first two I...
12 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Blockchain Time Drain It’s been an interesting experience already, writing these daily posts. For one thing, it’s made me realise just how much time I spend deep in the world of the blockchain. As you’ve no doubt discovered for yourself, it can be...
11 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Renaissance man
Crypto Island Did you know there is such a thing as a crypto project set up to buy an island? This was a new one on me when I stumbled upon an article about it today. Yes, Crypto Island has been set up to buy an island in the Bahamas, which is to b...
