After losing a large chunk of unpublished work written over the last ten years, one of the saddest losses of my life, and a huge blow to my potential future income, a hike is exactly what I needed. #itsjustbooks #welcometothejungle #dramaqueen
Category: Writing
Adding Value to NFTs on Stellar
It was January 2020 when I first heard that NFTs might soon become possible on the Stellar network. Most people understood that NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, were going to be important for personal identification, medical records, and ownership of real-world items. Personally, I had hoped to issue Kindle-like digital books as NFTs and found Ethereum’s […]
How to Read NFT Data Entries on Stellar
NFTs on Stellar utilize a Data Entry to hold the IPFS hash or CID for the content being tokenized. Once locked, the NFT’s issuing account will forever point to a single IPFS hash regardless of changes to the token’s toml, which is stored elsewhere and can be modified. Some have chosen to link the NFT’s […]
Doc Roach
Dr. Aldo Betta stared at the glass enclosure where the cockroach moved with deliberate precision across a small branch. Delicate circuitry glinted on its carapace under the laboratory lights, a marvel of bioengineering barely the size of an SD card. The device represented years of painstaking work, the culmination of his research into neural interfaces. […]
Summon the Wind
The wizard climbed to the top of the rocky bluff overlooking the seaside village far below. If his calculations were right, this would be the place. He stood straight, raised his arms to either side and brought them together in front of him, holding the mighty staff in both hands. He watched the setting sun […]
Goblin Ore
Dr. Andrew Pratt spent the last four minutes of his life explaining what was wrong with my blood.I noticed him on the downtown platform at Union Square because he was the only person not looking at a phone. Gray beard, an old coat that had seen better days, and a paper bag of clementine’s he […]
CucumberCat
I jumped up on the fence and gave one of my ginger paws a quick lick. Reynolds is a gray Persian that lives next door and we meet up at the fence often to talk and occasionally go on walks together. Usually, Reynolds, who was regrettably named after some hairy 80’s actor, has exciting stories […]
UnicornCat
“That wasn’t catnip,” Dorothy thought, looking again at the strange package her friend had sent by special courier. It looked almost like glitter, but Furmidable, the grey Chartreux cat she was catsitting, and who was normally very calm, dove into it like a starving child into a pool of candy. It was too late to […]
Manner’s Maketh Man
Roger squinted through the dirty windshield of his truck at what appeared to be a person walking down the road. Nobody walked the road this far outside of town, especially this early in the morning, he thought to himself. Squinting harder he realized he didn’t recognize the stranger and pulled up alongside them to make […]
The Grind: Small Account Market Making
One Trade is Legion The Grind is not about a single trade. It is about stacking both buy and sell orders in a series of trades in order to profit off the spread while helping the market maintain liquidity. This is quite a different view of markets than taken by the average trader. It is […]