Thoughts on economics - systemic, investments, and cryptocurrencies
14 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Grim Reaper from the Death Splinter. Despite his wider world reputation, the Grim Reaper isn't that terrifying in the Splinterlands - he is pretty much 'average' - at Level 7, one b...
10 Feb 2021 2 minute read 2 comments RealSociology
Siacoin (SC) is the native token of Sia, a blockchain-based distributed, decentralized cloud storage platform. The main goal of the project is to become the "backbone storage layer of the internet." It is currently ranked 81st on CoinMarketCap with a...
9 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Defender of the Truth from the Life Splinter. Unfortunately I only have this card levelled up to L3 where it just can't compete with my other cards - even if I did have this up L6 I...
7 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments RealSociology
At time of writing ARK is ranked 177th on CoinMarketCap with a value of $53M ($0.41 and a supply of 130M). (Of course by the time this publishes these rankings may well have changed!). What is 'ARK'? (ark.io) It's a unique delegated proof of stake...
31 Jan 2021 2 minute read 1 comment RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the neutral Elven Defender. The Enchanted Defender is a bizarre, niche use card - low mana, good shields but very low health, slow and with a mediocre attack but thorns, so all in all a...
26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week had a slightly different flavour to it - requesting us to showcase a Dragon Splinter Summoner, so I opted for the classic Selenia.... Selenia is one of the most awesome 3 mana summoners, coming with a...
24 Jan 2021 2 minute read 1 comment RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week had a slightly different flavour to it - requesting us to showcase a Dragon Splinter Summoner, so I opted for the classic Selenia.... Selenia is one of the most awesome 3 mana summoners, coming with a...
19 Jan 2021 3 minute read 2 comments RealSociology
With the Hive price continuing to flounder, I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing something in terms of other cryptos that are maybe worth more, so I thought I'd take a look at some of the other alt coins which are sitting alongside Hive in terms of...
17 Jan 2021 2 minute read 2 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week is to showcase the exploding dwarf. Well I've failed to find a suitable opportunity to do this, as the Dwarf is just too specialist - you need equaliser or a pro-melee rule set and I just haven't been g...
16 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
You've no doubt heard that Donald Trump has been banned from FaceBook and Twitter - if you try to find his Twitter account now, all you see is this: And at the same time the pro free speech app Parler, favoured by alt-right Trump followers, has been...
