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I ran a witness node on the Steem / Hive ecosystem for more than 5 years. During this time I had just a couple of hiatuses, none of them longer than 2 months. It's been a bumpy ride, to say the least,

There is a little bit of a drama going on in the Cosmos ecosystem right now. I know, this is a pleonasm, there's _always_ drama in the Cosmos ecosystem. But it's one of the very few _good_ dramas out there,

Let me start with a story. About 5-6 years ago I signed up for my first 48 hours race. It was held in Athens, and it was my first ever event of this type. By that time, I already completed a few over 100km

After #januarystreak, a month in which I published an article on Hive every single day, I thought to take a short break. Heavily influencing that decision was the fact that, before #januarystreak, I also

Today marks the end of the January streak I started on the first day of 2022. I wanted to have something finished during the first month of the year, as, traditionally, this is a month of ups and downs,

I recently started to watch Snowpiercer on Netflix. I don’t know how I missed it so far, because it’s one of the most thought-provoking series I watched lately. Granted, sometimes the acting isn’t as great

During January, I did a few experiments with the price of my punks. Some of them, I already documented, some of them not. As we are close to the end of the month, I thought to give a short update. If you're

According to the Arizona Legislative official website two days ago a bill was introduced to make Bitcoin legal tender. The bill, which you may read by following the link above, is still in "inquiry"

One of the most interesting use cases for NFTs is tokenizing real life assets, like real estate. There are quite a few attempts at this, and I recently learned about a new one, called Propy (I assume it

In an official meeting with the members of the Russian government (transcript here, Russian content), President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia has "some competitive advantages when it comes

During the last massive crash of the market - which doesn't seem completely over, by the way - one token (or, to be more precise, one ecosystem) held surprisingly well. ATOM, OSMOSIS, JUNO were by far

According to this news, published around an hour ago, IMF, The International Monetary Fund, urged El Salvador to remove Bitcoin's legal status. What's surprising is how much time they needed to react,

About a month ago, I wrote a short piece about the only crypto investor test you will ever need. If you don't have time to read it, here's the TLDR: if you want to invest in crypto, take out a 50 EUR bill

Decentralization. A word introduced in the mainstream vocabulary once Bitcoin took off. It's also one of the most commonly misunderstood concepts in our world. Decentralization means there's no single

After yesterday's experiment with Anti Viral Memes, I thought to pivot a bit, and also choose a more narrow niche. Introducing Degen Crypto Memes: a collection of NFT memes aimed at hardcore crypto

I am continuing my experiments with word-based NFTs (as opposed to plain paintings or drawings) this time on OpenSea. If you're extremely curious, you can just click here to see the collection: Anti Viral

For those not so familiar with the Cosmos ecosystem, Osmosis is the leading AMM of it. Launched around 6 months ago, it reached to the top almost instantly, based on a combination of high incentives,

I know it sounds too good to be true, almost ironic, and yet, it's true. If we were to believe this news, Milo, a US fintech company is allowing customers to put down Bitcoin as collateral, get a mortgage

As of today at 3:00 AM UTC (or block height 23850000), Polygon implemented the London Hardfork. If you remember, last year in August, Ethereum made a big fuss about it, and for good reasons, it paves the

It's called Airdrop Futures and it was just launched on Polymarket. If you don't know what Polymarket is, well, it's a place where users can ask simple questions like: "Will X going to happen?",