Decentralisation seems to be hitting roadblocks put in place by the very markets it was meant to disrupt, the rebirth of the VISA gatekeepers.

Morning morning folks! :) how’s life treating you today? Just seen my daughter out with all of her stuff in the car (I get her over the weekend for a day often) and so now we are into part two of the day as I see it. I don’t normally try and force a post out in the morning if she wants to use the computer or if I know I have other tasks to do.

today it was rent day and fill the water up run, I did managed to sneak in a trip to the shop so I don’t have to go anywhere today and @dayleeo the champ did the pots (what a star!) so I’ve literally got nothing to admin or chore mode into, that’s pretty damn great so I’m firing up the kettle and making some matcha green tea blend that dayle got yesterday via that magic delivery system in the cloud el amazon.

did you know you can run ‘curl geo.steem.pl’ in your terminal to get a list of public steem full nodes and if they are up or not, pretty useful for at a glance especially if you move around a lot because you can find the best geo located server to where you are (change to that in esteem, steem.supply and steemnow.com to mention a few

We took a trip into town yesterday for coffee and to take a wander up to the school to pick her up and made sure we had a half of Guinness along the route for some extra vitamins! :) sure you’ll find some pretty photos from dayle she took yesterday, she’s really finding her feet with that new iPhone 7 camera, she’s been getting her eye in recently — I expect we will start adding a ton of photos to nomad.pictures in the coming months again, maybe after we switch out the platform we are using.

Attack on crypto europe ATM withdrawals?

Note I put europe as it appears that bitpay US is NOT effected by this, kinda interested that they went after this Gibraltar based company wavecrest knowing how many of the platforms that would effect, basically cutting off and upsetting customers of those platforms by having their access to their funds removed from taking out fiat — what’s the story behind it? Anybody know? Did this wavecrest really flaunt the rules or is this a very calculated and state sponsored targetted roadblock and if so why?

That being said you can still use the wonderful SatoshiPoint - Crypto ATMs if you are here in the uk, lots and lots of spaces have these now, be smart thou and maybe have them on a ‘one time’ device — hardware or in an independent wallet away from other funds, that’s just being smart about the transaction and always case out the place, go with a friend, secure the money before you leave the place and just be smart, maybe have a cab or uber waiting for you outside to jump into if your taking big amounts! :)

It certainly stopped me in my tracks regarding the new show @cryptocards but it’s also good because I’ll be able to discuss the highs and lows of these services moving forward — we are going to need a lot more ways to swap, deal and exchange these digital funds that don’t require us to convert them into local currency, I’ll be looking into those as well - crypto value to crypto value rather than getting caught up with all the charges you would normally have with the middlemen financial roadblocks

50/50 split is falling massively - SBD through the roof!

Even thou SBD has dropped from highs of $15 down to around $8 it’s still a brilliant pay out for active bloggers looking to make a little income from the platform, it’s certainly been helping both me and dayle out as we transition into the new year — we made rent today because of additional client work but it’s great to have residual income come in and go towards other things that help us really ramp up the quality of our work and creative project — I’m personally excited to really get back to vlogging and cinemagraphs again.

The price of steem on the internal market in recent days has started to go up and the 50/50 split of steem appears to be getting small in the pots, guessing a lot of people are powering up their accounts and are sitting on nice looking account values, the more steem power you have is really going to make an impact in the coming months when SMT take off but also the limelight switches over to steemit as people see that a social blockchain that is the fastest transaction pretty much everyday has been already up and running for twenty months — no waiting on money you invested in an ICO, invest it here in steemit instead and just be an active blogger for the next year, I’m already seeing the benefits of having a bit of savings in crypto — I’ll be checking those investments this time next year.

the scores on the crypto doors

Happy to see STEEM still high at $6.40 that’s pretty amazing and I’m expecting we might see another pump on the STEEM SBD in the coming weeks, all my other cryptos are up too with ETHEREUM doing really nicely this week and DASH finding it’s feet again — great to see bitcoin trying to get back up to $17k, will know when to pull the trigger on that again in a few months time, also reconsidering my position on a few cryptos I started with at the start of the year — not sure what to transition them both into yet but whichever ones I do I’m certainly going to put the funds to one side and forget about it for a year.

deleted games, getting into creative strides

I made a big decision a few days back, I deleted a game that I had been playing on and off quite a lot over the last six months, it had started to take up hours and hours each day, the best way for me to remove that addiction was to straight delete the damn thing, that’s opened up some more free time to get back to learning and exploring — next on the list is to get a new vlogging camera to get back to editing and filming again and I’ll be certainly learning premium pro with that new content, a big project for the end of the month to look back on! :)

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