Lucky for me, this song was number 1 the summer I turned 16, and so whenever I hear it played, I'm transported back in time to another era....

According to @oudekaas Bitcoin mining uses as much power as Croatia ! (in his Steemit post located at That is shocking. Meanwhile, Bitshares, which provides much faster and infinitely cheaper transaction

I love this youtube video clip of a very young Mark Knopfler, paying tribute to Gerry Rafferty sometime in the mid-80s.

If I'm feeling down, I just glance at Buddha in my garden. The weather is very dry, the grass is parched. I wonder when the rain will come? I hope it doesn't come all at once. The missing picture from

Below I have copied and pasted a Koan, a Buddhist fable or puzzle that reveals simple wisdom. The definition of koan is: a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate

There has been a lot of turmoil in the cryptocurrency markets - a lot of froth and bubble by mainstream critics. They are wrong. They are working within a world that is fast escaping their control, and

I've become a fan of Oscar Wilde, the tragic Victorian playwright, arrested while his star was in the ascendant. I was intrigued to see a statue tribute to him in Galway last month, a gift of the Estonian

I joined steemit when I bought my first cryptocurrency. I then entered a phase where I gobbled all news on them, devoured white papers, ate up the graphs. Soon, I was waking in the night, talking in my

The markets don't give me near as much FUD as fears of misplacing my wallet keys....sending my coins to the wrong address, or simply losing them into the ether, as I have done with a Neo I sent, paving

Keeping up with the latest news on cryptos is time consuming. I wake up in the night and my brain is working away, like a proto-type blockchain, churning the latest broadcasts, the plans I want to undertake

That moment when you forget you have an escutcheon in your hand and your hat blows off...Doink!!!

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha... If you're not laughing, you're crying. I'm taking a photo from my verandah of what I see out my window and attaching it below. Also, a photograph of me taken at my workplace from a gig

The election of DJ Trump focused attention on the media, media bias and manipulation. It highlighted how news can be targeted to specific groups. It's not neutral. Many years ago, I did a journalism unit

Meme Challenge #33 - Entry #2

Meme Challenge #33 - Entry #1

The issue that caused Bitcoin's value to drop in June/July hasn't gone away. There are opposing opinions in how to proceed, because of inherent issues in the blockchain technology. Opinions within the

Don't get me wrong, I love cryptocurrency - I like considering the advantages and disadvantages of individual coins, the various features, characteristics and functions....but until they are put to a material

The mainstream press is heralding the imminent unravelling of the Bitcoin bubble. Since mid-July, just prior to the schism, or Bitcoin fork, a number of other powerhouse cryptocurrencies have risen at

For CoinTree users, if you had Bitcoin in the CoinTree exchange prior to 1 August 2017, you can check if you are eligible to claim Bitcoin Cash at the following hyperlink - you just need to enter your

Tuesday, March 1 2011, a hot night in far west New South Wales. The evening air glowed red from the ambient red centre dust, while glowing golden fields with wheat tips tinged with red hung still, the