History
The Strange Story of a German U-Boat Attack Survivor in WWI
Quite unexpectedly, I have been deluged with inquiries from around the globe about how the Lost Books of Quatria and the tales contained therein came into my possession. While I wish I could take full credit, I must admit that I was not the first to find the hidden way back to Quatria. It was, in fact, revealed to me via a 100 year old mystery, which in many ways is equally, if not more curious than that ancient lost world itself.
In 1916, a German U-boat sank a merchant marine ship flying Allied colors off the coast of Antarctica, somewhere between Elephant Island and Deception Island in the South Shetland Archipelago. It was believed that all souls aboard the ship had been lost, along with its cargo of food and medical supplies bound for the Western front. That is, until a lone survivor was recovered some two years later in 1918 on an unnamed tidal island just off the north-west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. …
With the value of Bitcoin (BTC) having recently topped $40,000 USD, can you afford not to get in the action as it inevitably climbs higher over the next two years? Definitely not!
Mining cryptocurrency in the cloud (“cloud mining”) is a low cost way for people who are new to crypto to get their feet wet, and set up passive income streams in BTC while they learn the ins and outs of the markets and technologies that power the cryptocurrency boom.
I’ve been exploring these fascinating subjects at a frenzied pace over the last few weeks, as I try to get up to speed on the current crypto boom, and make sure that I don’t get left behind, or get scammed. …
Are you a crypto addict eagerly tracking Ethereum’s (ETH) upward climb? Will it reach $2,000 USD? $5,000? What about $10,000???
Lucky for you, you can now contribute to the explosive growth of ETH using the power of magic. You read that right: MAGIC!!! ✨
How, you ask?
By buying this NFT on Rarible: ETH TO $10K HYPER SIGIL.
How does it work?
Sigils are used in chaos magick and the occult to bend reality to the will of the sorcerer. They’ve been used for thousands of years. This NFT is a magic spell to pump ETH over $10K. …
Who were the mysterious Magi who appear in the magical holiday miracle tale of the same name? To more fully understand, one would do well to immerse oneself in relevant Quatrian lore, much of which was suppressed or sublimated by later Pentarch conquerors. What follows is an attempt to answer this question in its proper context, and consists of a synthesis of various recovered texts, and other sources.
- The Magi were human magicians from the Dawn Land trained in the celestial, meteorological, alchemical, and divinatory arts of the Magonians (Majona) or Sky Lords.
- They followed the trail of the Great River as it arced across the night sky in search of the opening of the Hypogeum, and the birth of the luminous one who would issue forth. …
Some product feedback in no particular order. (cc: Ev Williams)
- I was resistant at first to switch my profile from medium.com/@username to username.medium.com but now I like it, as it has the effect of putting the author’s name first, before the platform’s.
- There’s a weird issue with how Medium post titles and subtitles show up in Google searches. I think an erroneous
.is getting inserted automatically somehow between the title & subtitle. - There’s something odd visually for me still about the post preview/snippet lengths or formatting or something… And the “Read More” link is too small a click target (desktop) and not inviting enough as an action. I want as a reader to dig in deeply on an author (like in old school blogging days), but still feel I’m being bounced off that page somehow visually, instead of pulled further and further into that author’s world. …
- According to NASA, there exists probable evidence of a great number of extraterrestrial oceans, which means there is a vast potential for life in outer space.
- In most cases, these oceans are thought to be subsurface oceans, hidden beneath the often icy exterior of various satellites, moons, asteroids, planets, and exoplanets, such as Titan, Rhea, Titania, Oberon, Europa, Enceladus, Callisto, Ganymede, Triton, Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Sedna, Orcus, Gliese 1214 b, and Kepler-22b, among many other possible candidates.
Unwelcome advice to Americans on their “Big Day” from Canada
While Americans are exclusively focused on which old white guy they want to rule them, I’d like to offer for posterity a modest proposal: abolish the executive branch entirely.
I know, I know, your sacred Constitution blah blah blah.
But hear me out: if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past four years, is that there is too much power concentrated in the Executive branch. And until it is completely dismantled, and the White House turned into a wax museum, we are just going to see this same cycle repeat infinitely. …
How Crypto Can Prepare Us For the Fallout of American Politics
Whatever happens on Election Day 2020 in the United States, and after, it seems unlikely that we’re all going to end up living together in the same singular consensus reality.
Perhaps we’re already not all living in the same reality (especially those of us outside the US, who most certainly are not), but no matter what the outcome is, we’re almost certainly headed for what cryptocurrency people already know of as a “hard fork.”
As the venerable Investopedia explains:
“A hard fork (or hardfork), as it relates to blockchain technology, is a radical change to a network’s protocol that makes previously invalid blocks and transactions valid, or vice-versa. … Nodes of the newest version of a blockchain no longer accept the older version(s) of the blockchain; which creates a permanent divergence from the previous version of the blockchain… One path follows the new, upgraded blockchain, and the other path continues along the old path. Generally, after a short time, those on the old chain will realize that their version of the blockchain is outdated or irrelevant and quickly upgrade to the latest version.” …
The short answer is yes — on Rarible.
Back in the early 2000’s, I experimented on eBay selling “intangible experiences.” I don’t remember much of the details nearly 20 years later, but I remember I sold a few before eBay shut it down as a rules violation.
The world just wasn’t ready.
Now that we live in crypto-future-land, though, it’s starting to look like the world is very much ready for intangible digital ownership.
What are NFTs?
Enter NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. NFTs are touted as being the basis for the emerging “digital collectible” market, and come in a few different flavors technically (depending on which Ethereum ERC version number they represent — but I won’t go into that here, try this). Suffice it to say, each NFT is a unique “thing,” which is what makes it “non-fungible” — it can’t necessarily be exchanged 1:1 with another unit. …
