The Fascination
The Fascination

The Fascination

In this blog I tackle the crypto world from the view of a true beginner, more used to 401ks and index funds than DeFi, DEX, and DOGE. I share reviews and unexpected complications in pursuit of the fascination.


WISE Presale on BSC is Wrapping Up Soon! A Quick Look at a Stability-Focused Play

7 May 2021 2 minute read 7 comments PopPopPrego

An interesting project is coming to the end of its presale, and it is one that I think is well worth a look from PublishOx readers. WISE token is a project designed to create permanent, locked-in liquidity to give investors confidence that the value...

What is AlienWorlds Up to Now? A Quick Take on "Planet Binance" Missions

6 May 2021 4 minute read 14 comments PopPopPrego

Let's look past the very sports-stadium-y crossover marketing grossness of "Planet Binance" brought to you by AlienWorlds, and the Fiat Panda, which is the official vehicle of Little Green Men and Nordic Women throughout the Gemini-Coinbase-Mastercar...

Buffet and Munger are Not Morons: They Don't Like BTC, No Conspiracy Required

5 May 2021 5 minute read 18 comments PopPopPrego

What is the point of getting upset, polishing off your favorite old people jokes, or concocting frantic conspiracies about double-switch Spanish prisoner long cons every time we hear anyone rich or famous say anything we don't like about BitCoin? Are...

100 Straight Days in the Faucet Forest of Cointiply - What Did I Earn?

2 May 2021 4 minute read 24 comments PopPopPrego

There is was - a message that filled me with pride and no small amount of embarrassment:  Congratulations! You've been active for 100 days in a row. 100 is a special number. It is a square 10x10. Not too shabby. It is the root of the metric system....

What is Pi? An Introduction to the Cryptocurrency You Can Mine on Your Phone

2 May 2021 9 minute read 79 comments PopPopPrego

One of the very first projects I ever played around with when I entered Cryptoworld was Pi. I had really no budget, and whatever budget I had was quite nervously applied to earning interest from stablecoin I deposited with centralized exchanges like...

Earning in April - Blogging, Microblogging, and Brave

1 May 2021 7 minute read 24 comments PopPopPrego

April was a potentially pivotal month for me. If we rewind a bit, I wrote my first piece for PublishOx around Feb 8, 2021. I was a near complete noob, transfixed by almost everything I saw in Cryptoworld. I had small dreams, mostly fueled by a desire...

BetFury - the Gambling Site Turned Faucet Site Turns Off the Faucets for Another 20 Countries!

27 Apr 2021 3 minute read 35 comments PopPopPrego

BetFury popped up an announcement a few hours into my morning: Fun! Why wouldn't I agree to losing everything I have spent 4 months trying to slowly, slowly, slowly save??? It's a no-brainer! If you look at the list of the countries now excluded fro...

FARSITE - How to Get a Free Spaceship from the New Blockchain Game That Already Looks Like a Winner

27 Apr 2021 4 minute read 21 comments PopPopPrego

The theme of colonization has dominated most of the breakout blockchain games recently. There is the colossus AlienWorlds, but also new launches of Colonize Mars, Sphere, and several others. It is a concept that seems perfectly suited to blockchain b...

Ode to My Favorite So-Bad-It's-Good NFT - How to Start Your Own Collection of StupidAwesome NFTs!

24 Apr 2021 7 minute read 9 comments PopPopPrego

When I heard that a very stupid looking digital image of what looked like a blue finger wearing a hat sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, I thought I wanted my own dumb looking finger with a hat picture! Lucky for me, there are many fans on Pu...

Cruel, Cruel Cryptoworld - Getting AMPLForked Over, the New FOMO, and Learning the Right Lessons

23 Apr 2021 6 minute read 56 comments PopPopPrego

My jaw dropped when I read "Made $5,000 today selling FORTH from AMPL!" $5,000 is a lot of money! And would create such amazing opportunities to build sustainable crypto assets. The AMPL thing caught my eye, too. PublishOx pays all of us users in AMP...