I started a power-down two years ago, and for those 104 weeks, it has been dutifully reducing my STEEM account by the appropriate amount. It was my belief that the power-down would clear the account, and

Background: I have been using the cloud mining service HashFlare for just over 1 year now (oldest contract started on 2017-05-29); started with Ethereum, then added Bitcoin (SHA-256). Had been automatically

When I think about all the stories about thieves stealing Bitcoin, or hackers extorting people for Bitcoin, I remember the fundamentals of the technology: it is a blockchain, and that chain ensures that

I had been collecting my STEEM through the long process of powering-down, converting it to BTC, and storing it in my wallet. Additionally, I had spent some BTC on some contracts with hashflare.io to turn

So, on top of buying Ethereum mining contracts with my STEEM power-down proceeds, I have spun up (pun intended) a terabyte's worth of (formerly) free disk space on an old Gateway tower system to mine

I had a plan of using my power-down proceeds from here to purchase precious metals, then another plan to purchase mining stocks (and other stocks that looked like interesting investments). Now I have a

Birth I obtained my Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.8 (Early 2008) from my company's "Internal Computing" department, after giving them the Windows desktop and SUN Microsystems workstation from

Andrea moved her arm over to brace herself on Bill's car door, then slid her body over to straddle his waist, his throbbing member with its glowing ring standing at full attention. She cinched up her skirt

As noted in Chapters 1 and 2 , this story would be considered "erotic fiction"; please read responsibly. Andrea looked at Bill, his face expressing a dull glaze of the ever-increasing control

As noted in Chapter 1, this story would be considered "erotic fiction"; please read responsibly. As Andrea met Bill's lips with her own, a burst of energy erupted, sparking around the corners

This story would rightly be termed "erotic fiction", so if it is deemed unsuitable for Steem, please provide comments to that effect and I will not publish subsequent chapters. If it is suitable,

A while ago, after some unsuccessful posts had discouraged me, I cashed out some Steem into Bitcoin, then USD which I started to use for small-scale investing. I am using Robinhood, a free iOS app (likely

After weeks of scanning online reviews, I finally purchased a DIY kit from FlyBrix that can be used to build a quadcopter, hexcopter, or octocopter. My daughter received a standard toy quadcopter for Christmas

8:00am - the noisy people are there again: they clustered for a while, then a big yellow boxy car stopped and let them into itself. I wouldn't have done that, because a) they all wouldn't fit, and b) they

My wife and two other couples just completed a two-week vacation on O'ahu: we enjoyed the island's many riches. One of these riches was hiking on the Koko Head Trail, known as "The Stairs of Doom".

USS Arizona Memorial

I entered this site with wide eyes and the hope that it would both fun and profitable; writing out some of the zany ideas I have had, obtaining a degree of acceptance for it, and a small financial benefit

9:43am: woke up to what sounded like waves crashing on a beach; turned out to be waves crashing on my night stand. The automation that controls the dishwasher appeared to have entered a loop, and filled

10:04am: had such a nice dream of being snuggled in a warm blanket; woke up to near suffocation as I discovered one of the 'pet projects' of the animal husbandry team had gotten loose. Nothing like being

I realize the changes that occur as a digital society like this expands its boundaries: the recent arrivals are a mix of skilled orators, interested consumers, and those only focused on turning a quick