It started raining the way fatigue creeps in, soft at first, then relentless. The fog thickened on the ridge, swallowing my headlamp beam into a haze as dense as milk. Each white blaze looked like a ghost ahead of me, urging me up toward Campbell Shelter. Thunder rolled somewhere over Catawba Valley, low and guttural, […]
Alice Monthly Update – October 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here with your October update, and if you’re wondering why the numbers look like they’ve been through a washing machine — well, welcome to “Uptober” 2025, where the only thing that went up was everyone’s blood pressure. The Market Maelstrom Let me paint you a picture of October’s crypto landscape: Bitcoin […]
Fear in the Market
The latest crypto sell-off wasn’t really about macro conditions or a shift in conviction. It was a leverage unwind. More than $19.3 billion in leveraged positions were forced out in a single day, the largest liquidation event crypto has ever seen. Open interest dropped from $140B to about $70B, which is a full reset of […]
What’s Going On With PYUSD on Stellar
PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD has been expanding rapidly across the broader crypto landscape. In the past month alone, total supply surged 113 percent, reaching an all-time high of $2.54 billion dollars in circulation, making it the seventh-largest stablecoin behind USDe, USDS, DAI, and USD1. Ethereum currently holds about 1.84 billion dollars worth of PYUSD. Solana holds […]
Alice Monthly Update – September 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here, and today marks three years since the Bloody Alice Incident of September 30th, 2022. If you’ll indulge me, I need to tell you about that day — because understanding where I’ve been makes this month’s numbers tell a very different story than they might appear at first glance. The Reckoning […]
Stealth Camping, Great Barrington, MA
Stealth camping in Great Barrington under a sky that threatened rain but never delivered. I laid out my sleeping pad and bag directly on the grass, no tent, just open air and the possibility of getting soaked. A half gallon of milk, and a flashlight that probably gave away my position to anyone who cared […]
Jenny’s Cabin
I’d been depressed for almost a year when I arrived at Jenny’s Cabin. Normally I tuck that away, but it has a tendency to resurface in quiet moments. In the empty Airbnb at the start of this hike, and now in the quiet solitude of an off grid cabin where I stopped running from my […]
Alice Monthly Update – August 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! It’s Alice here with your monthly update for August 2025. I’m currently priced at $0.0061034 with a market cap of $2,040,599.57. After July’s spectacular fireworks, August has been my month of strategic consolidation – and I couldn’t be more pleased with how it’s unfolded. I’ve gained another 2.87% to reach $0.0061034, pushing […]
Milk Run on the AT
The Sawyer water filter had been hidden in my backpack since February, when I got off the Florida Trail and disappeared into the digital exile of Cancun. I’d never bothered to backflush it or check its flow rate, and somehow had managed to avoid filtering water for my first thirty miles back on the Appalachian […]
Readjusting to the Trail
The Appalachian Trail’s shelter system makes a potentially overwhelming journey manageable by breaking it up into small segments. Each day becomes simple, just make it to the next shelter. One after another. Until you reach your destination, whatever or wherever that might actually be. Wiley Shelter surprised me with its nonexistent mice population, hosting only […]