Happy Halloween!
And with that, we have come to the end of yet another month. No trick-or-treaters came around, mostly on a count of the pouring rain and stiff wind that have been dominating the landscape all day, today.
I am smiling wryly to myself as I am thinking that I feel disappointed that I am feeling disappointed about yet another month in this year of our Lord 2025! Any cryptogeeks out there who believed in the idea that October means UP-tober better sober up.
Meanwhile, I find myself living in a country that has now had a shut doen government for 30 days. I tried to explain this to one of my cousins back in Denmark, and he was pretty much dumbfounded by the whole thing... given what I know about him, about Denmark and the Danish mindset, I think the hardest to fathom thing for him is that the government wouldn't be working for the benefit of the people.
It's funny how the world turns.
In denmark, people trust the government, and with good reason. In the USA, people don't trust the government, and with good reason.
Although nothing is cast in stone yet, I do know that we will (most likely) join the ranks of the uninsured — with respect to healthcare — next year. The the Affordable Care Act is not extended (which the current administration does not want to do) our monthly health insurance premiums will likely rise to somewhere in the region of about US $3,000 per month, and that's not even for particularly good care.
There's no way in hell we can afford that, unless we give up food, electricity, Internet, phone and driving a car. Do the math!
$36,000 per year is more than many people's gross income before taxes! How on Earth is that supposed to functionally work?
Time to be reading up on those old-time home remedies!
Meanwhile our Hive is rotting, sitting at around the lows we saw in early 2021, and not terribly far from driting into a sustained all-time-low situation.
Don't get me wrong, I love this community and the whole idea, but I fear it has all gone in a very undesirable direction... perhaps chasing the wrong priorities. I am cautiously hopeful that some of the recent ideas that surfaced at HiveFest will actually be put into action.
From where I am sitting, the problem with crypto — and not just Hive — is that it has skated by fior far too long with projects having no idea of such things as revenue and profit and hope to operate like there's an actual business. Far too much "pie in the sky!"
Hopefully November will be better... I could use a bit of positive news.
These are definitely strange times in which we live...
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!
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