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les-peters (58)in #steemit • 7 years ago
end of power-down, now what?
I started a power-down two years ago, and for those 104 weeks, it has been dutifully reducing my STEEM account by the appropriate amount. It was my belief that the power-down…
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les-peters (58)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
Hashflare mining update 2018-06-01
Background: I have been using the cloud mining service HashFlare for just over 1 year now (oldest contract started on 2017-05-29); started with Ethereum, then added Bitcoin…
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les-peters (58)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
Can a thief benefit from stealing Bitcoin?
When I think about all the stories about thieves stealing Bitcoin, or hackers extorting people for Bitcoin, I remember the fundamentals of the technology: it is a blockchain, and…
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les-peters (58)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
Full Stop
I had been collecting my STEEM through the long process of powering-down, converting it to BTC, and storing it in my wallet. Additionally, I had spent some BTC on some contracts…
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les-peters (58)in #cryptocurrency • 8 years ago
Plan C: Section 2 - Burst coin mining
So, on top of buying Ethereum mining contracts with my STEEM power-down proceeds, I have spun up (pun intended) a terabyte's worth of (formerly) free disk space on an old Gateway…
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les-peters (58)in #cryptocurrency • 8 years ago
Plan C: Cloud Mining for Fun and Profit
I had a plan of using my power-down proceeds from here to purchase precious metals, then another plan to purchase mining stocks (and other stocks that looked like interesting…
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les-peters (58)in #computing • 8 years ago
The (hopeful) immortal life of my Mac Tower
Birth I obtained my Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.8 (Early 2008) from my company's "Internal Computing" department, after giving them the Windows desktop and SUN Microsystems…
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les-peters (58)in #fiction • 8 years ago
Covering the Bases: Chapter 4 (NSFW)
Andrea moved her arm over to brace herself on Bill's car door, then slid her body over to straddle his waist, his throbbing member with its glowing ring standing at full…
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les-peters (58)in #ficiton • 8 years ago
Covering the Bases: Chapter 3 (NSFW)
As noted in Chapters 1 and 2 , this story would be considered "erotic fiction"; please read responsibly. Andrea looked at Bill, his face expressing a dull glaze of…
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les-peters (58)in #fiction • 8 years ago
Covering the Bases: Chapter 2 (NSFW)
As noted in Chapter 1, this story would be considered "erotic fiction"; please read responsibly. As Andrea met Bill's lips with her own, a burst of energy erupted, sparking…
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les-peters (58)in #fiction • 8 years ago
Covering the Bases: Chapter 1
This story would rightly be termed "erotic fiction", so if it is deemed unsuitable for Steem, please provide comments to that effect and I will not publish subsequent chapters.…
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les-peters (58)in #investing • 9 years ago
Update: My investing with Steem money
A while ago, after some unsuccessful posts had discouraged me, I cashed out some Steem into Bitcoin, then USD which I started to use for small-scale investing. I am using…
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les-peters (58)in #diy • 9 years ago
My entry into DIY drone engineering using Arduino and LEGO blocks
After weeks of scanning online reviews, I finally purchased a DIY kit from FlyBrix that can be used to build a quadcopter, hexcopter, or octocopter. My daughter received a…
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les-peters (58)in #funny • 9 years ago
Diary of a Car: mile 120858
8:00am - the noisy people are there again: they clustered for a while, then a big yellow boxy car stopped and let them into itself. I wouldn't have done that, because a) they…
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les-peters (58)in #travel • 9 years ago
My trip up and down Koko Head Trail's "Stairs of Doom"
My wife and two other couples just completed a two-week vacation on O'ahu: we enjoyed the island's many riches. One of these riches was hiking on the Koko Head Trail , known…
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les-peters (58)in #travel • 9 years ago
USS Arizona Memorial
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les-peters (58)in #steemit • 9 years ago
END OF LINE
I entered this site with wide eyes and the hope that it would both fun and profitable; writing out some of the zany ideas I have had, obtaining a degree of acceptance for it, and…
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les-peters (58)in #fiction • 9 years ago
Mad Scientist's Journal: Day 56
9:43am: woke up to what sounded like waves crashing on a beach; turned out to be waves crashing on my night stand. The automation that controls the dishwasher appeared to have…
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les-peters (58)in #fiction • 9 years ago
Mad Scientist's Journal: Day 53
10:04am: had such a nice dream of being snuggled in a warm blanket; woke up to near suffocation as I discovered one of the 'pet projects' of the animal husbandry team had gotten…
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les-peters (58)in #steemit • 9 years ago
In a world of whales, dolphins, and minnows, I am turning into a barracuda
I realize the changes that occur as a digital society like this expands its boundaries: the recent arrivals are a mix of skilled orators, interested consumers, and those only…
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