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China's Belt & Road Initiative - Why its important to you!

29 Sep 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Keith Thuerk $0.11

China's Belt & Road Initiative - Why its important to you! China's program is AKA BRI and B&R the ambitious growth plan was launched in '13 to counter Russian and US Global Influence. Additionally, as a way to China to move away from recycling US inv...

LTC partners w/ Walmart to make Crypto easy for payments

13 Sep 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Keith Thuerk $0.04

LTC partners w/ Walmart to make Crypto easy for payments WELL, egg on my face, it seems this is a HOAX - WOW. sorry for the false start folks!  Nothing to see here move along As I stated in my Crypto View/Rant - https://www.publish0x.com/new-to-crypt...

CipherTrace acquired by MasterCard

9 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk $0.09

CipherTrace acquired by MasterCard   Who is CipherTrace - they were started in 2015 in Menlo Park, California as a Blockchain Analytics & Cryptocurrency forensics firm.    They were funded in part by US DHS (Department of Homeland Security) along w/...

Crypto ATM growth lead by EU & North America

8 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk $0.02

Crypto ATM growth lead by EU & North America It's hard to believe it was 10-months ago I wrote a piece on Crypto ATM's (as a follow-on to my Nov. 8th '20 which is you missed it you can catch it here - https://www.publish0x.com/new-to-cryptos/us-crypt...

Crypto Regulations My Honest View/Rant

3 Sep 2021 4 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk $0.79

Crypto Regulations My Honest View/Rant   SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Famous for his MIT Vid's) stated in an FT interview that Crypto's should be Governed via a Public Policy Framework. My question, why subject new offerings to staid rule sets? What is le...

Ever wonder what Businesses do with their Loyalty Program data?

31 Aug 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk $0.17

Ever wonder what Businesses do with their Loyalty Program data? You probably know about these Reward / Loyalty programs, perhaps, you belong to one of 10 of them. They come in a variety of offerings, Hotel chains, Airlines, Rental Cars, perhaps you m...

Amazon KDP

30 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk $0.04

Amazon KDP I stumbled upon KDP last month by accident, you might of just said to your screen, have you been living under a rock? to me it sounded like a super easy side hustle.  I then discovered Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) started in '04 a...

ETH bug reveals miners still using old version of ETH

29 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Keith Thuerk $0.12

ETH bug reveals miners still using old version of ETH   Did you catch the news this week (Aug. 27th '21) about ETH miners being excluded from the ETH mainnet? Yes, you read that correctly, a consensus bug was found in the Geth version of ETH that cau...

Rules good for thee, not for me.

9 Aug 2021 4 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk $0.03

Rules good for thee, not for me.   This piece is designed to be in your face about the rise of 'ism's' across the globe in the past 18-24 months.  The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.   You must always stop and ask yourself who benefits? I...

Fed's RAID Crypto Mecca in USA

3 Aug 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk $0.09

Fed's RAID Crypto Mecca in USA   New Hampshire has license plates that state "Live Free or Die" and for nearly that past 20-years has been the focal area for the Libertarian movement. As that movement morphed to include Crypto (away from Fiat) it sta...