Mar. 10, 21: Chain Troubles, CUB Airdrop, Napping, Oculus, TV, and Games

almost 4 years ago (Edited)

Tired really doesn’t capture it, to be honest...maybe “old” is a bit better way to describe how I’ve been feeling. I was up just past four again this morning, but only an hour or so short.

Got on with the morning routine early, watched some YouTube, and chatted over on Discord. Crypto markets starting to see a little bullish action with volumes on the rise, but nothing major yet...looking like we could have a huge cup and handle pattern, will be looking for a break toward $60k+ with volume behind it here shortly.

Of course, most of the discussion today centered around the CUB airdrop, but I didn’t jump the gun and buy, was waiting for the airdrop first to dip my toes in and start trying to figure things out.

It was about that time that we started having node issues. It seems there was a fire in the building where the hive.blog servers are located. Like everyone else, I started mode hopping and found one that was stable enough to let me log in and check my balance (which I do obsessively). Even basic ops like voting and claiming rewards were timing out, though and I was skeptical I’d be able to post.

After I struggled to get at least the structure of my post done for the day, I scheduled it to post in the hope of going back to bed for as long as possible. I put on The Do-over, but it was actually quite entertaining and I didn’t fall asleep at all.

After the movie ended, I got up to find that the airdrop had gone through! 🤑 That, of course, led to a couple of hours trying to figure out how to connect a wallet and get an address and then getting a moment when the wrapping interface wasn’t crashed. I did finally get at least as far as to get the CUB wrapped and into my Trust wallet.

The instant I saw the balance on cubdefi, I regretted not having thought things through. If I lock it up, then after a week there’s no way back, well, not without at least three intervening steps (and consequent exchange fees/loss).

In fact, the more I’ve thought about it, the more I can’t help but see what LEO has done as a betrayal of the chain. If you want to do anything with the tokens what chain are you on? Binance Smart Chain (BSC). What token are you forced to buy to conduct any transactions? BNB, not HIVE. If anything, they’ve created a reason to sell HIVE (to give to CZ)!

I mean, I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but it seems like they kind of threw us a bone on the way out the door. I don’t know, maybe in time they will provide a way back to HIVE (or at least some vague reason to buy some, rather than some other chain), but that remains to be seen. Meanwhile, I only have a week to make a decision of whether to see if it’s possible to get back out.

After lunch I collapsed again. Slept for a solid two hours, so there’s a chunk of the afternoon gone, plus the time trying to get back to feeling normal after waking up.

I decided to jack in for a bit to get the blood flowing with Beat Saber, but despite trying a few songs and working up a bit of a sweat, I just couldn’t seem to find the zone and kept failing out.

Grabbed just some chips with melted cheese on for dinner and started looking towards bed again. I still had more than two thousand steps left to go for the day, though, so I did some laps to make up the difference. Kept the streak alive! 😄

Watched a little bit of the new Mad About You. Helen Hunt has really had a LOT of work done on her face...sad, she was super hot, now she looks kinda’ weird, like she’s one of the aliens from Star Treck or something.

Didn’t make it very long, just an episode or two and I fell asleep again.

Woot! Smooth sailing in my dCity today! 🤩🥳 Seems that Brofund and Ecoinstant are working on a campaign to shake up the governance. I’ve voted for him in the past and would do so again, especially if it means the taxes would relax!

Did I get the SIM it says I was supposed to? Nope. 😡

Not too bad over on Holybread today. Got all my tasks done without too much trouble. I’ve got plenty enough gold saved up to start spilling into stats, but I’m considering trying to go for the max potions. I’d need 120k to buy those, so I think I’ll try and see how close I can get.

No changes on the leaderboard; still holding number ten. 💪

Just peeked in on CryptoBrewmaster once today. I suppose it’s cool that I can eventually get a bit of HIVE for clicking buttons, but it doesn’t really satisfy any craving for seratonin, click a button, wait, click, click, click, wait...