Thoughts and Prayers
Thoughts and Prayers

Thoughts and Prayers

A collection of my thoughts on the economy, businesses, crypto and the latest news cycle.


Comparing Cub Finance's Dens With PancakeSwap's Syrup Pools

17 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment positivitee

  Cub Finance (https://cubdefi.com/) is LeoFinance's Farms and Staking offering on the Binance Smart Chain. Needless to say, it has opened our eyes to the world of DeFi for a lot of us. If you are familiar with the Binance Smart Chain, then you woul...

January Splinterlands Earnings: Casual Player Gaming

2 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments positivitee

It's a new year and a month has already passed. That means it is time to review the earnings from playing Splinterlands. It is hard to track rewards across months as the value of cards can make a significant difference. Also, many cards sell for mor...

December Splinterlands Earnings: Casual Player Gaming

2 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment positivitee

How much does a casual player make playing Splinterlands? Read on to find out as I track how much I make on a monthly basis. As someone who only plays to complete the daily quest and barely any more than that, I think I qualify as a 'casual player'....

Soon, You Might Need To Register Your Personal Crypto Wallets With Exchanges

24 Dec 2020 1 minute read 3 comments positivitee

  There's a new proposal by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), of the US Treasury to require users to register their personal crypto wallets if they wish to use exchanges. You can read the proposal here: https://public-inspection.fed...

The Scary Thing About Holding Fiat

17 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments positivitee

  While we celebrate Bitcoin hitting $20,000 again, let's look at the other side of the equation - and that is the US dollar. Why has the USD been so weak against physical assets - gold, silver and also digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum i...

November Splinterlands Earnings: How Much You Can Make Ordinarily Make

2 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments positivitee

Here's my review of Splinterlands earnings in November 2020. This includes my DEC earnings from battles, quest rewards and season ending rewards. I am currently playing in the Silver league and earned 3,149 DEC over the month as a casual player. At...

The Path For Hive Is Clear

13 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments positivitee

  Let me start off by saying that I enjoyed the concept of Steem / Hive when it started back in 2016/2017. Getting paid for blogging... who would have thought that we'd actually see that coming true? As more users joined up, the economic flaws were...

Splinterlands Rewards Are More Balanced Now

27 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments positivitee

A lot has been made about the changes to the ranking system on Splinterlands. I think it is fair to say that the game has become pay to win. Not that it is a bad thing, however.  The rewards payouts were too high previously. I was competing in Diamo...

Cover Your Damned Camera

23 Oct 2020 1 minute read 3 comments positivitee

  Zooming By I was just reading about the latest Zoom malfunction to occur to a relatively high profile name. In case you haven't heard a writer for the New Yorker and frequent political correspondent was caught pleasing himself during a work meetin...

The Key Differences Between Steemit and Publish0x For Authors

17 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments positivitee

Publish0x and Steemit are two popular blogging platforms in the crypto space but that's about where the similarities end. For any blogger looking to start on either of the platforms, the way posts are rewarded couldn't be more different. While the h...