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Free crypto advice and investment recommendation
As bitcoin is currently underway in its bullish period (the time of year when it rises a lot in value, followed by a bearish period where it crashes), it looks like it’s swinging down again and bringing most alt-coins with it. But not mine it seems!
As every investor will tell you, diversion is key. But there’s another key, and I’ll share it with you for free. Be lucky! Sorry. I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s exactly what I was when I chose the coins I currently have. Mostly. For the bit that isn’t just luck I did this:
- Check the website, twitter account, medium page and if you can be bothered also their telegram and chats.
Does it look like an active, well-intentioned community? If it’s lots of thousands of people in their channels but it’s eeringly quiet – do not invest, they are all inactive. If there’s constant shouting of selling, getting rich etc, also run since it’s just another scamcoin. - Read the fundamentals and decide on whether the coin has a use-case. Ie: is it useful for something? Does it have anything unique about it?
- Check the price history and market cap on, for example, coingecko or coinmarketcap. See if it seems like it has a consistent investor base over some period of time, unless it’s brand new.
- Use your gut and listen to it. If it tries too hard to sell itself, it’s for a reason.
So, which coins is it that I’ve decided to keep my very little investment savings in, that seems to be impervious to bitcoins current temporary downward spiral?
My list of great alt-coins that goes against the bitcoin trends:
CRO, since crypto.org is currently just under way of releasing their entirely brand new layer 2 blockchain called Cronos. The really, really sweet thing about Cronos is that it’s a chain running on the nice and popular (and cheap) crypto.org-chain – but with full ethereum smart-contract compatibility! If you don’t have any idea what that means, don’t worry about it. If you do, then you understand what a big bloody deal that is!
I am currently using a couple of the new marketmakers setup there with some small investments, currently running at more than 800%. (They’re CronaSwap and VVS Finance but I can’t recommend any of them, since it’s all really new and untested. Newbies stay away, those who don’t enjoy losing all their money stay away.)
If you want in on the action but don’t have CRO, and for some reason don’t have an account at the excellent exchange crypto.com, feel free to use my referral link to get yourself up to 50$ in actual usable funds: https://crypto.com/exch/zr7pvmqbww
Elrond has some pretty great fundamentals! And the community is actually quite amazing. And just recently they launched the *huge* deal which is called Maiar. Don’t believe me? Try installing the app. Then tell me how you ever doubted me. Oh, and I think you will get a 10$ cashback using my invite referral: https://get.maiar.com/referral/3bu45gch9u
Cosmos, or Atom, is the last one. I’ve been staking this coin and the related OSMOS since mid-summer. It’s just a fantastic project (a interconnected blockchain, or IBC, which allows other blockchains to interact with each other. Which is, honestly, fantastic as an idea), with really dedicated community. Also, the absolute best staking platform I’ve ever seen: Osmosis. It’s just brilliant.
Hope you find them rewarding! But don’t come complaining if I’m for some reason wrong. I am probably, since I’m just a guy on the internet. 😉
Free music! New tracks released.
I’ve recently started not only uploading my music freely for everyone, but also providing music videos for them. And lastly, and so very not leastly, I have invested in the ability to release some of them officially through Spotify, Apple and all the usual suspects! Fun!
This is really fun for me, but I do wish for other people to find them so I can get some sort of feedback. 😉 And it would be neat if other people with my kind of strange tastes would find out, so the joy can be spread around. It’s a big internet out there, and stuff like this is impossible to get noticed, and my music is really hard to describe or attach a genre to. And a bit weird.
I think in a good way, but it’s surely not for the common mans tastes, but I think there’s more people out there than me that enjoy the mixing of worlds, like hard disted ebm and aggrosynth together with choirs and orchestras. And mixing it up with a classical ambient instrumental one track, and club EDM the next track. Or I’m just a deeply damaged soul…
#industrial #ebm #ambient #crossover #instrumental #moodmusic #soundtracks #confused
In either case, find my music at these places listed right here: Songlink
And if do, pretty please let me know if you have any comments at all in any of the comment sections available on any platform! Or if you prefer, on my twitter.
Also, I can’t recommend Audius enough. It’s a new blockchain-based alternative to Spotify which hosts thousands of artists, free to use and audio quality is extreme:
Official releases (spotify and youtube)
Music video releases playlist:
Music video releases under my old band project, about:blank:
Soundcloud, that I use more liberally for uploading unfinished tracks and experiments as well:
How to make portable software
One of the most consequently annoying things about Windows PCs, in contrast to my Macs, is the way installing software can break both the OS and the software itself in a billion different ways. Or one day it just stops working, because something somewhere changed the registry or such. My own solution to this is that I, where possible, make most of the software I use portable. No installations, no local files cluttering up the system, no registry changes. And it can be used exactly as it is when I reinstall Windows or boot another partition. But how, do you say? Take a seat, young Padawan.
First, do no harm.
You absolutely need to do this in a virtual computer, on a completely clean windows install. If you portalize your software right in your main OS, you will find that a myriad of things get weird, quickly. Apart from the fact that your portable software seems really, really huge – because the setup listeners also recorded everything else in your system that was active and thus you have half your system incorporated in the software. So first, you can download what I run, which is VirtualBox.
1. Oracle VirtualBox
Then find yourself a windows installation ISO.
2. Microsoft
(In chrome, open developer tools – network – change the user agent for yourself into another OS so microsoft won’t force you to use the media tool but provide the ISO itself)
Create a new virtual machine, add the windows ISO to its CD drive and boot, install and configure it as you like. Preferably you should uninstall everything you possibly are allowed to, and remove any graphical effects etc. We want a super clean, lean machine. Then you can download and install your choice of portability software, configure it and I recommend you start it and let it run it’s pre-setup scan first so it’s ready to go when you want to portabilize something. Now create a VirtualBox “Snapshot” at this stage. The snapshot will save your windows exactly as it is, and you should then boot to that precise moment from now on – undoing every change made when installing software etc.
VMWare ThinApp
This is by far the most common program used. It’s also probably the best on the market at this current moment, even though I can’t say I like it too much. But it is what I use most of the time, only because it works on the highest number of different softwares. It is supposed to be used by corporations to deploy specialized software through virtual environments on VMWare Horizon to the employees, but just creating a sandboxed app is what it does and is what we want. But it lacks a little in configurability, and what you do configure is mainly done through editing ini-files. So not very user friendly. But, again, it really is the most popular for a reason. You have the user guide here.
Price: Free trial!
Download
And I’ll just leave this completely random field of random digits here. For no purpose or any reason at all: AF18W-A0Z02-JZDWW-9NX5V-NC7RP
Also, you can make portability software portable itself. For your enjoyment, here’s a prepared and ready to go version of thinapp.
Zippyshare Usersdrive
Cameyo
I like Cameyo. Quite a bit actually. But it isn’t what it used to be, literally, because it’s no longer available as a local portability maker, but they’re now doing something with virtualized network environments. Or something. But it’s available out there on the net, and when you have a copy it can’t be simpler. Run it, “capture a install” and install your software. That’s it. You can then choose to edit the portable install you created, if you need to finetune it, but usually it works just fine right away.
Here’s a random file for no reason.
Zippyshare Usersdrive
Turbo Studio
Turbo Studio is probably the second most common software to use for this, and it’s a good one. Almost great, I’d say. The only downside is that it’s daunting for anyone but professionals, the user interface allows for many configuration options. It is also a virtualized desktop environment, so you can create an account and upload your finished ports there. But I wouldn’t say there’s any use in that for this purpose. What I do find very nice with Turbo Studio is the ease of access to do changes and edits in the port, within the graphical user interface.
Here’s yet another completely random file.
Zippyshare Usersdrive
Honorable mentions: Evalaze, molebox, P-apps
These are apps that I’ve basically never used myself, or extremely little. So I can’t really say how well they work, although they *seem* to work nicely.
Molebox is also available in a portable version. P-apps, which i guess is short of portable apps, is also available as portable. Evalaze is freeware it seems, but there’s also a commercial and portable version.
How and where to buy and trade crypto easily (mostly)
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum are all the rage nowadays, and I don’t see that ending anytime within our lifetimes so all of us better make the most of it. I’ve been following this particular part of the internet subculture for many years by now, and have been playing around with lots of aspects including DeFi (decentralized finance). That’s basically investment bank services without the bank. Or investment in a way, since you can trade/invest in nothing but an idea (someones coin idea). But it’s services. That it is.
Through my adventures in crypto I’ve registered and used innumerable services, apps, wallets and alike. Only a few of them remains in my bookmarks or installed on my phone to this day, as I usually give most things about a day or two to attach itself to my consciousness. If I haven’t used it again within that day or two after registering/bookmarking/installing, I simply delete it. Or, it’s obviously crap immediately. But the few I consistently return to are the following, and I can’t recommend any and all of them enough since I wish more people were able to find them since they make the whole crypto thing very easy to wrap your head around. And some of them make it stupidly simple to start earning more, without any expertise or knowledge.
My recommended top 5 places to buy and exchange crypto:
Bit2Me
This is my favorite gem that isn’t very commonly known about. It’s a crypto exchange located in Spain and has been mostly been just serving their own national market, so they are not widely known about outside of españa. This has the actual benefit of not being known with most banks either, so if you’re like me and your normal bank really do not like you buying crypto or dealing with anything about it, then this place is golden. You can buy crypto directly with your visa or mastercard, and also cash it out the same way or directly to your bank, without any fuss or blocking. It not only is one of the most dependable services I’ve come across, but it’s also insanely user friendly. Like, coinbase level user friendly. But european! Viva españa.
Binance
This is probably, after coinbase, the most well known international exchange. It’s huge. And it’s complicated. And it’s awesome. I don’t quite know why I like Binance so very much, but basically they have everything and anything, with decent rates and without any scammy business practices. This is the only place where I’ve chosen to actually get myself a physical visa card from, which is directly connected to your crypto wallet for super simple real-world usage of your proceedings. Because, like everything in Binance, it is a good deal without fees or catch-you-with-fineprints. And on top the usual low-fee buying of crypto with credit cards, they also (because they’re Binance which has everything, remember?) have a whole own customer-to-customer platform like localbitcoins and such, where you can purchase your bitcoin directly from other individuals instead. To sum it up, if there’s something you won’t find on Binance, it’s probably not invented yet.
Revolut
Revolut is of the first major digital phone app-bank, alternative online bank, or whatever you wish to call it, around. I started using their iphone app a couple of years back, and enjoy their free cards and mostly user friendly interface. And last year they also allowed for buying crypto and investing in alt-coins, on top of stocks and shares. Kinda. Since they don’t allow you to actually transfer out your investments to a wallet, it’s more like a investment vehicle to easily ensure you can gain from the market without doing any actual work with learning about the technicalities. It’s extremely straight forward, and what you give up in control you receive in simplicity. So it’s suited for just that – putting a few bucks aside from your revolut account into crypto to HODL. But not for trading or doing any actual life savings of course.
Ps! Right now you’ll get paid 300 SEK if you’re swedish, and you register with the link above and order your card, as well as do three transactions during october.
Localmonero/Localbitcoins
These are services that allow you to buy Monero/XMR (my personal favorite crypto currency which is the most commonly used privacy coin that is completely untraceable) or Bitcoin/BTC from other individuals like yourself. No need to go via a third party that may or may not do annoying things, charge extra on top, keep track of you or any number of other things you’d rather avoid. Buy some crypto that Billy or Jane has over and want to convert to moneys instead of donating to Coinbase or Binance. It’s not quite as user friendly, and you do really need to mind the conversion rates, but it’s the preferred way of buying and selling crypto. It just is. Get yourself a wallet, register and hook up with someone like it’s tinder for coins.
Coinbase
Yes, yes, this place probably doesn’t even have to be mentioned. For all intents and purposes everyone everywhere know about Coinbase even if they’re not involved with crypto. But still, I just have to include them since there’s a reason for that. They are just the most user friendly, simple and fool-proof service out there. The fees aren’t the lowest and their services aren’t the broadest, but hot diggity do the service work like a well oiled machine. And it does it while also being an actual crypto exchange that actually gives you control of your investments, unlike Revolut and such. While it’s mostly tailored for Americans, I haven’t found much problems using it as a european. But the main reason I had to include Coinbase in this list is actually their “earn crypto by learning” scheme, which is unique and brilliant. They offer you as a customer various short “courses” on different currencies of how they work, and when you answer 3 questions right about it you will instantly get a 3$ reward paid out to your account in that actual coin! It’s free money. And actually interesting most of the time to get a quick primer of a new alt-coin. Brilliant.
