I’m a big fan of podcasts. Not only are they great ways to learn but as with The Joe Rogan Experience, they are some of the least biased sources of news and information left available.
My goal with this new Hive series is to eventually turn it into a podcast. I want the content to be a mashup of random thoughts, poetry, humor, and news from my own unique perspective. If you’ve connected with my past work please stay tuned for more episodes and, with any luck, eventually a podcast.
The vision for this series is becoming crystal clear but what I still need is the name. So far the best I’ve come up with is Trickles of Transcendence. Yeah or Meh?
Can you think of anything better? It needs to be four words or less, be catchy and unique, and speak to the content.
I’d love to hear your ideas.
Are We Becoming What We Despise?
Who is Satoshi? The answer to that question truly is anyone who holds Bitcoin. Since the Cypherpunks first created the Bitcoin white paper there has been a revolutionary element to the project. The entire idea took root during the peak of the Housing Crisis and enormous bank bailouts, after all.
Whether investors realize it or not Bitcoin is as much a movement as it is a currency or investment vehicle. The more you know about Bitcoin the more you see the ingenious revolutionary aspects of it are built into the code, independent of those who hold or trade it. If you buy and hold Bitcoin you are indeed part of the revolution.
As the cryptocurrency space has become more diluted, swelling to over five thousand different coins I’ve seen less and less of that original idealism. I guess this was bound to happen as cryptocurrency and blockchain evolved but was one thing that many of the crypto-OG’s underestimated.
During the previous bull cycle of 2017/8 we saw a plethora of scammy ICOs, talk of Lambos, and catch-phrases but this cycle has brought with it DeFi, Nfts, and behaviors reminiscent of 1980’s Wall Street. As we all become more wealthy together I think it’s important to have a purpose more profound than just making more money. I think it’s important to continually ask, Are we becoming what we despise?
Eulogy for a Friend
Over the past few decades I’ve used my writing skills in just about every way imaginable. This past week was a first for me. I had the honor of writing the eulogy for a good friend of ours who left this world far too soon.
It wasn’t an easy thing to write. I mean how do you sum up a life in three pages? Joe was only a few years older than me and his passing was another reminder of how little time we have and how important it is to make the most of it. Rest easy my friend.
The Perfect Pause
Again, I’d like to thank everyone who followed, engaged with, and reblogged my meditation series, The Perfect Pause.
I’ll be working on getting the Table of Contents created soon for this so there will be one easy to find landing page to navigate to all of the chapters.
I basically rewrote a good portion of the book as I was posting it so I’ll be publishing a revised version of the book on Amazon soon as well.
If You Can’t Beat Them Join Them
Speaking of podcasts, I was listening to JRE #1713 with former CIA agent Mike Baker. It seems that soon your credit score will likely depend on more than just your financial responsibility. If banks have their way your credit score will also be determined by your digital footprint including things like -- your web browsing, search, and purchase history.
I frankly didn’t believe it so I had to do a little research on my own and it seems this idea has been being tossed around for the past few years. The IMF has studied it under the guise of creating a “more accurate” credit score and being able to offer credit to more people.
This sounds an awful lot like China's social credit score to me and it’s something to pay very close attention to. If we're not careful the world will soon become a lot more dystopian in nature. The potential for abuse of this kind of privacy overreach should scare the bejeezus out of us all.
(Gifs sourced from Giphy.com, photo is original.)
All for now.
With Gratitude,
Eric Vance Walton
Poetry should move us, it should change us, it should glitch our brains, shift our moods to another frequency. Poetry should evoke feelings of melancholy, whimsy, it should remind us what it feels like to be in love, or cause us to think about something in a completely different way. I view poetry, and all art really, as a temporary and fragile bridge between our world and a more pure and refined one. This is a world we could bring into creation if enough of us believed in it. This book is ephemera, destined to end up forgotten, lingering on some dusty shelf or tucked away in a dark attic. Yet the words, they will live on in memory. I hope these words become a part of you, bubble up into your memory when you least expect them to and make you feel a little more alive.
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