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The US government is shutting down (for the 14th time since the 80s), meaning governmental agencies are forced to close or cut non-essential expenses as a result of not being appro…

Since I dropped my daily writing routine, I checked, and my posts have been mostly focused on heavy subjects, probably some controversial too. While there have been opportunities t…

I woke up this morning to a red crypto market. I mean... really red, especially alts. Rektember finally arrived? No... this was different. It was an emotional response to something…

Yesterday the Fed chair Jerome Powell held a press conference where he announced the decisions made in the latest meeting of the Fed board. The most anticipated of them, the drop o…

In a world capable of total annihilation multiple times, we are going back into living on the edge. Maybe not regular people, although they have their own reasons to be on the edge…

<center> https://img.leopedia.io/DQmYoQ5FnqFokEuVfiMoreHxyByb3fphTRTjzf3tW7gEg9s/image.png </center> For a while now, Hive has used Postgres DB for Hivemind and HAF. These are t…

The new mode meant to introduce new players to Splinterlands after they go through the campaign has proved to be quite successful among older players as well. I started playing it…

This is a late post from pretty much all points of view. But don't they say "better late than never"? I'm not sure this is correct every time, but sometimes it has some ground. Ye…

In nature, that's not something we question, since all boats are lifted by the rising tide, unless some boats are no longer capable of floating, for example, if they have a... leak…

LEO has been one of the few outliers originally coming from (and, I'd say, despite the new rhetoric and development push into LeoDex and on Arbitrum LEO, still having deep roots in…

I briefly read a feed abounding of FOMO. I stay as far away as possible from such places especially in times like these when the market itself provides all the FOMO fuel needed to …

I'm sure you know that. They differ between companies making them available, and they differ between the models of the same company. But I'm not here to tell you all that, but rat…

If you've been reading or merely seeing my posts in your feed for some time, you probably know until recently I used to post daily. When I started on the previous chain, if I reme…

I waited to achieve the ZING goal for this post, to have two-in-one. ## ZING Goal Achieved. New Goal Added. This may have been a pretty difficult goal when I set it at the begin…

The time off from most Hive activities I took while on vacation allowed me to detach and see some things clearer, with a wider and perhaps less routine-driven perspective. Some th…

We are back home after a short vacation. While we are all happy to be home&mdash;as always&mdash;we are certainly not happy to arrive at 42 degrees Celsius from max 30, and the sea…

This is a short sum-up table with the state of my goals in easier TLDR form. The table has only a general overview, with details expanded in the post. |Current State/Other Selecti…

I've been with Splinterlands since the early Beta set time. So many things have changed since. Then, it was more of an adventure, now it became more of a business, with polished pr…

# The News It was good to see some improvement in the [$HIVE price](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/hive) this week. Most things are up. That may be helped by some [cryptocurre…

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