Blockchain

Content warning: Blockchain, AI, Metaverse. Please do not read if you have or feel you may have a susceptibility toward “Web3”. See your doctor at the first sign of symptoms.

This song tells the story of a pup named Crypto who dreams of becoming wealthy through trading on various cryptocurrency markets.

You aren’t going to enjoy the RECUR/Paramount.xyz experience – and you won’t be able to afford it, either. I went through the process to make a Star Trek NFT profile picture, one recognized by Twitter, and I did it for a fraction of the price and I got exactly what I wanted. Here’s how you can do the same. There may be some folks out there who haven’t yet heard about the Star Trek NFTs, so briefly: ...

I don’t have anything long-form to talk about, but there’s been a bunch of smaller things. So let’s talk about those. Crypto I’ve been in crypto for a month. I have even made some money – not much, but some. Theoretically, I could take the money I have put in and convert it back to dollars, and after all the fees have been paid, have enough profit that I could buy myself a lunch, someplace cheap. ...

I had the Ethereum. I had Bitcoins and Doge Coin and even Bounce for awhile, but I had the Ethereum to play a few cryptogames. This is what I found. It’s my feeling the largest barrier to cryptogaming is having to shell out a substantial amount of money before you even know if you like the game. The games I’ve seen are fairly simple and not really innovative, aside from using the blockchain in some way. ...

Am I just too stupid to play crypto browser games? Or just too poor? I don’t hate cryptocurrency and blockchains. They do use resources to mine that could be better used doing something useful, but that ship has sailed, and it’s pretty clear crypto, in some form, is here to stay. To that end, I bought some crypto on CoinBase – a mix of BitCoin, Ethereum, and DogeCoin, just to dip my toes into the water. I’ve made about a buck so far. ...

DC Fandome said – sign up and get a special NFT just for you! Tweet it, and get another one! Well, I’m just about to buy my Lambo, because I have an NFT and I’m gonna be RICH. Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, are entries into a blockchain ledger that associate your name with a bit of information in that ledger, usually a pointer to some object on the web, plus some meta-information. My NFT was for a spinning GIF of a Batman comic cover, rendered as if it were a label for a 3 1/2" floppy disk. ...

I hate to be hyperbolic about this. But… I just can’t. Imagine… a marketplace, backed by the “blockchain” and “non-fungible tokens”, where you could buy gacha packs that contain random gifs of old Atari 2600 cartridge boxes. Some just stand there, doing nothing. Some are colored gold. Some spin. If you are very, very lucky, and spend a lot of money on gacha packs, you might find yourself in the possession of a gif of a box that opens up to show the game being played for a couple of seconds. ...