I know that this is not some massive win - but for me, it is. I learned to solve my first ever Rubik's Cube last night - albeit... a 2x2 version I bought for my daughter. And, I still don't quite remember the algorithms by heart - my memory isn't cut out for this and since building automatic repetitive functions are now a manual task, it is harder again.
But, it's a start, right?
At least now, I know what this means now:
WHITE
R' D R D'
TOP LINE
R' D R L' D' L R' D R
YELLOW
R U R' U R Ux2 R'
BOTTOM LINE
R' F R' B'x2 R F' R B'x2 Rx2 B'x2
That is the solution for a 2x2 Dice, once it has been set into the right start position.
I wrote this for my daughter with a couple words included so she can read it. She followed the instructions and was able to solve it too and once she has good flow with it, I will get her a better quality Speed Cube that she can play with.
I hope she ends up a geek.
Speaking of writing things for Smallsteps, on the weekends now I write letters for her and leave them under a toy outside her door to read when she wakes up. I write them in Finnish so they are easy to read for her and she thinks it is hilarious how wrong I get things. However, I think this is good, because I want her to learn language blur interpretation, something that Finns aren't very good at, since so few "outsiders" speak Finnish at all.
And speaking of reading correctly, I picked the HIVE market yesterday that there was a pump incoming, because while there have been some spikes on HIVE:BUSD over the last week and a half, the volume dropped down to less than 50K dollars worth over the 24 hours.
The problem was, I didn't pick the velocity well:
The volume on just HIVE:BUSD flew up to 4.2 million and I heard total volume is the highest it has been since February 3rd, where the price was almost 3x higher. I suspect that this is a false recovery though, So I will bide my time a little before buying back, just in case. I have managed a couple of small swing trades though and I did sell and buy back a few days ago for an additional few percent, but I was also buying in the mid-50s too a month ago.
The entire market has been going through "familiar" pump cycles the last week and a half, as if it is gearing up for a run in the coming couple months, but I don't think that is going to be the case quite yet. Six to eight months, maybe.
I could well be wrong though!
As said, I am not great with numbers or algorithms, but I used to be decent at picking patterns, which was useful in trading, even if still relatively hit and miss. Better than 50% is a win though, right?
But at the end of the day, it isn't about the trade, it is about the hold. The algorithm is simple - increase holdings of tokens that you suspect are undervalued in terms of future price. It is easier in crypto than it is in fiat too, because there are many ways to earn tokens "for free" through trading other items of value, like time, skills, information and entertainment content.
And, in my opinion, if doing it well, what we do to earn is also adding value to others, which is why I will keep a substantial amount of my holdings in Hive. So many people are looking to by in crypto to get back into fiat - but I think that long term, the goal should be to leave fiat and move more of our value-adding activity into crypto. Rather than using our personal value-adding skills to earn fiat, we will apply them in the cryptosphere and then, we would have to opt-in to fiat if we choose. That means, centralized currencies will have competition and if they do not offer value, they will not be used.
Do you think they are offering value for the average person by printing massive amounts of wealth that ends up in the pockets of the few, who then convert that into generative assets, while those average people are still left trading their skills for more fiat that will never be enough to generate personal wealth, because it will keep ending up in those same pockets again?
That is what is happening through inflation.
When I was a kid, being a "millionaire" meant having a million dollars in wealth, which translated into a beautiful house, car and holidays. Having a million in the bank meant having 60-80K a year coming in on interest alone, which at the time was over twice the average salary. Now, a million dollars is an average house and a million in the bank, earns less than 10K in interest, which is 1/8th of an average salary in Australia. And that change has happened over the space of 25 years.
Being a millionaire, ain't what it used to be!
People are conditioned to focus on the money though, which are just numbers that are meaningless until context is applied. That context is, what you can buy with those numbers and we are seeing that it is "not much" at the moment. But, it depends what you buy, doesn't it? However, people are still more than willing to trade their values for fiat, where even though the numbers might be larger than they were when we were young, they don't buy much. A "unicorn" startup used to be valued over a billion...
A billion?!?
That doesn't go far these days.
Just think, there are talks of a boxing rematch for around that amount and NBA stars are getting 300M contracts for 4-5 years. Inflation. The numbers are meaningless without context.
If it doesn't generate value of some kind, what value is it? Fiat money doesn't generate value until it is spent on something that does, which is why we should be looking to move our wealth into asset classes that do generate wealth and, what better than what simultaneously benefits us as the average human - instead of the narrow sliver at the top of the fiat wealth profile.
It is all about algorithms.
What moves do you need to make to solve for a better quality of life?
Whatever they are, learn to make them. Earn to make them.
Taraz
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Interesting process and thoughts on the HIVE transactions. I'm not a stock market player, nor any type of real investor/advisor. I am fascinated however by HIVE and the concepts behind it. I love the non-censoring, distributed ownership. I love the fact that I can earn HIVE and HBD by posting pics and curating to increase my worth. This earning power continues even when the price is low (just not as fast). What's really amazing to me is that any HIVE earned while price is low is then still increased in value when the price goes back up, making those increases even more dramatic. I'm a long-term hodler, not interested in the short ups and downs. I've been on Hive and the before shall-not-be-named platform for almost 5 years (next month!) and never powered down or withdrawn. I remember I bought into some HIVE when it was at 22 cents and boosted myself up to dolphin at those prices. I also remember how awesome it felt when the price went over a dollar, then a dollar and a half, then etc.
I invested more last week at what I felt was a good place around 33 cents wish I could have done about 3-10 times as much, but I'm not much of a risk taker and not just independently wealthy (yet), so limits. I'm hoping that will get me to Orca or reasonably close to make it there in the next year on my curation and posts. I guess we'll see come this PUD, I'll be getting a large Bee! I guess I've drunk the kool-aid and it was good. I can't wait for the next Two dollar price spike and the feeling upward charts bring on the way! Just love watching that value number go up and the voting rewards looking like real payouts! That's the best way we have to bring in more members, getting those common payouts for good posts up over $50 and $100 consistently. That will bring new members flocking in.
Enjoy seeing your investing strategies, status, and gaming wisdom shared, thanks for that!
In HIVE terms, it can be faster as there is less competition on the pool - for HBD, it is slower :)
It is incredible - a lot of people say "it isn't worth posting" at the lows, but that "worth" is influenced by future price too. If someone has the means to buy a lot at the lows, yeah, it might not be worth posting, but for those who won't buy to invest, it definitely is.
That is awesome! Looking forward to it :) And, think about the curation value at that 2 dollars 5 or 10 dollars worth a day, suddenly becomes 30-60 worth.
Exactly right on the curation rewards earned at the low amounts all of a sudden being worth many times over what they were originally earned at. Have seen that proven out multiple times now.
There's correct starting positions to set them into? O_O
And hey you solved it, isn't that supposed to be good for your brain or something? You'll be onto those ridiculous ones in no time XD
I have solved a Rubiks cube before (just the standard 3x3 one), would not have won any speed records with it and I don't even know how I solved it as it got tackled in the usual way that I solve tactile problems, which is by somewhat zoning out and fiddling with it until it works (it's how I untangle knots, and apparently I'm really good at untangling knots so I get all the necklaces and fishing lines and have saved many "hopelessly tangled" fishing lines that would have been otherwise chucked).
if there's an algorithm I haven't figured it out
Then there's a friend of mine who made a little decorative sculpture out of a smashed Rubiks cube and the hammer that he smashed it with XD
I kind of blurred with the trade talk as I usually do x_x but it did remind me of an interesting part of the long rambly conversation I had with my mother yesterday when I was telling her about my cryptos and she was like "aren't they expensive" and I got to introduce her to the idea that there's a lot more than just Bitcoin and Ethereum XD
Who'd have thunk it!?
I wanted to do it to see if I can train some muscle memory - it isn't easy for me to do now :)
You sound like my dad (who never sold a rubiks cube) but was great with knots! I wonder if there is a "knot algo" ?
I would add the smashed mirror after seeing the massive failure staring back :D
Bitcoin, Eth and Hive ;D
Maybe. All I ever do is pull on the knots til they unravel XD
I told her the name and that it's a social media thing and that's where we've left it at. She's not really a social media person despite occasionally using WhatsApp like Instagram XD (only thing she's missing is hashtags).
Interesting do you know there are bigger Rubik cubes than 3x3? And adding something on a related subject, the researchers are saying that the main problem of this generation is the lack of capacity to restrain themselves now for better results later. In the long term. There is a fascinating book that I read about the Marshmallow experiment, when you ask a kid to eat a marshmallow now or wait 10 minutes and receive two. It was showing that all kids that delayed and were able to get two, using different strategies were later in life very successful. !LUV and !PIZZA
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Yep, those who can delay gratification are made with investment in mind - so even when cautious, they do well against those who continually consume.
I have seen the larger cubes, but I have the feeling that once the algorithms are understood, they aren't that much harder, they just take much longer to solve, kind of like cracking an encryption.
Who cares the average person? Even if they want to offer value by printing massive amounts of wealth, it ends up in poverty for the average person, which is called inflation. However, this is not the same with cryptos. One's generating wealth on HIVE could generate wealth for another.
Yeah, no one cares about the average, not even the average.
Woke up this morning to see the hive price had climbed back a considerable % and wen to “ my peeps “ feed and this was the first post i found referencing it. Nearly 4 years into being on the blockchain and I still find it hard to understand why more widespread adoption hasn’t taken place. Baffles me how people almost refuse to accept it and mindlessly use the usual platforms. By the way as a kid imcheated and took my rubiks cube apart and reassembled it. Nobody knew even though it felt looser after that.
It is super strange!
This is the only way I have ever solved one prior... It is very unsatisfying!
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