Test Cricket I don't know where to start! It is rare for me to start like this, but that is my current sentiment. I have to assume ignorance of Cricket as a sport from most of my readers. Yet, I also know

Idaho Springs, CO I was surprised to see that worldmappin doesn't have a pin for Idaho Springs, CO. It is a beautiful little town right on I-70 going west from Denver. It is about 30 miles west of Denver

Price of Arbitrary Today I was having a discussion with @beaker007 after he posted the price of Aura in the Splinterlands discord. His tool calculates the Price of Aura, based on variety of different use

Dead Weight I get into a lot of heated discussion often about what should and should not be socially acceptable at hive. Don't get me wrong, hive blockchain is "Immutable". Meaning you can do

Camping in Colorado As you might know my family prefers to stay out of Houston over the summer. As the school gets into summer vacation for our kids, we typically take two or three weeks off and go somewhere

Finance of Curation Recently I came across a post by @costanza, and it is one of the numerous KE ratio related articles that I tagged to lately :) Here is the post. The reason it sparked my interest because

Purchasing Energy in Game! Today I saw a video by @synist3r which is quite thought provoking for me. I liked a lot of the problems discussed in the video. I requested him to post an expanded version and

Selling a Straddle Recently I was talking to @beaker007 about Liquidity Pool Profit-Loss Chart for theoretical price changes, and I made a comment that it is similar to selling a option straddle. Many

Your Own Cards! From the days I started played trading card game, I always wish I can create my own cards. I wanted my cards will be unique, and it can't be obtained from store. When Splinterlands announced

Envy and Resentment Yesterday night there was a live stream by @stever82. Dave McCoy and a few others joined the livestream. I and not going to give any link to that content, because that stuff is NOT

Here are the Airdrop expectations Many people asked me who is getting how many airdrop cards. The number is not fixed, as people can always add more cards to the wagons. However, it is likely, that most

Stagnation I have been reading an article by Peter Thiel written in 2011, which offered a view of technological progress and its pace. Lately I have been trying to understand if my 15 year long investment

Finance and Economy of Hive I have written many posts about the reward systems at hive blockchain. When I did and do this, I typically look at it from the social network aspects and not from the nitty-gritty

Conflict Expectations Okay, so I was trying to crunch numbers and understand how to populate my wagons for conflicts. Especially I have two scholar accounts with regular foil cards only. So I was thinking

Fill your Wagons Finally the Conclave Arcana Conflicts are here. I dug out my Rebellion Conflicts post. Here is the official announcement. The mechanics remains the same: You get your wagons, and you stake

Outliers This morning I happened to watch the highlights of the final day of the 2nd Test Cricket match between India and England (which India have won by the way!) on YouTube, and then somehow went into

A Bit of Soul Searching on Splinterlands It is a Sunday Morning. I just returned home after a week in Colorado. It was a late flight last night, and in summer time if you fly out of Denver you probably

Resource Pools and Asymmetric Risk If you are following my previous post in the new community of Praetoria, you might know that I have started investigating the in-game resource pools. I wanted to understand

AMM Pools Liquidity pools are a core component of decentralized finance (DeFi), enabling trading on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) like Uniswap or SushiSwap. They’re essentially pools of funds, where users

Asset Bubble If you are farming Praetoria, you must have seen that your earning is declining a bit. This is due to falling asset prices, and that is due to high supply and low demand for the assets. Below