Tis' The Season

The past few years have been a bit different for @mrsbozz and I when it comes to the holidays. It's a bit interesting when you don't have kids. I can remember a few Christmases in the past where we didn't put a tree up until the week before Christmas. The year our basement flooded I don't think we put up a tree at all. As I said though, the past couple of years have been a bit different. The early dark has been impacting my wife more than I can remember, so we have been putting our lights and decorations up a bit earlier to add some "warmth".

This holiday season seems a bit different in general to be honest. I think with all of the hype we had going into this year with the crypto markets, and then the ensuing disappointment, we are all looking for a bright spot to close out the year. I'm sure there are a number of people out there who played things right or had longs and shorts that made them a lot of money this year, but I think the majority of us were left still holding the bag...

You might remember a week or so ago I wrote a post about some moves I was making with my HIVE account. I recently received the goods that I purchased via my time here on HIVE. I am pretty happy with how it all turned out. This is the first time I can remember using my HIVE for something not chain related, so it was kind of a big deal for me.

The biggest purchase was probably my new Garmin watch. I saved up my HBD for a couple of weeks to pay for this new watch. I have a FitBit, but the battery is starting to go on it and it doesn't track my heart rate. The Garmin Forerunner 165 does track my heart rate, and honestly as I get older that is more important to me than tracking my steps.

I moved the HBD into HIVE and then I sent the HIVE to my BitPay wallet with the SwapSpace service. It was a bit nerve wrecking moving that much crypto, but I did some small test transactions first and everything went well.

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Now I need to just spend some time learning all the ins and outs of my new watch. Garmin has a wide range of smart watches available. This one is actually towards the bottom of the lineup. @mrsbozz had gotten the Forerunner 55 a while ago, and I liked what I saw, so it helped make my decision easier. I had been looking at the Pixel watch, but the battery life on a lot of those is horrible (like one day). I didn't want something I had to charge every night, so the Forerunner 165 with it's 11 day battery life felt like a better fit.

Of course @mrsbozz was a little annoyed that I had to get the model above hers, but I think she will recover!

I also used a bit of my HIVE to purchase a few pieces of silver from a fellow HIVE member. Since I had never dealt with this person before I sent half of the HIVE to them and then when I received the pieces I sent the other half. I'll share all the pieces eventually, but the first was this Canadian Maple Leaf from 2023. It's a 1 oz round that is .9999 pure silver.

With the price of silver pushing close to $70 per ounce, this felt like a really good time to move some of my hard earned HIVE into something a bit more tangible. I already have a different Maple Leaf, but I really like how this piece has the ridges in the background. It makes everything else just "pop" a little more.

I apologize that first photo isn't very clear!

I also picked up some new disc golf discs as I mentioned in my @bozz.sports post yesterday. I didn't pay for them with HIVE, but it turns out I could have. I didn't realize it at the time, but the site where I buy my discs, 1010discs takes crypto as a payment form. I think we are going to start seeing that more and more in the future.

My NuScale stock that I have been really bullish on the past couple of years is still having a bit of a hard time. I noticed the other day it is about half the price of the all time high, but still twice the price I paid per share. NuScale has recently done some restructuring and the fact that they still haven't turned a profit isn't helping them. That seems to be the case for a lot of these small modular nuclear reactor stocks right now though. I think the important thing to remember is that NuScale already has the regulatory approval that some of these other companies do not.

I got a private message on Facebook the other day from an organization claiming to be NuScale that wanted me to join their WhatsApp group that discussed trading stuff. Which seemed totally sketch given NuScale is a nuclear power company. So I blocked the user and considered the fact that if people are impersonating them hoping to scam someone, that might mean they have actually gone mainstream. That's the way I am going to look at it anyway!

Finally, in the future I am going to be making some more moves with HIVE. Since everything is all public on the chain, I hope no one questions my commitment to this chain or how much I believe in the technology and the people who make it what it is.