Ask Solo anything - AMA

I really like Splinterlands, so I bought a few Alpha, Beta and Untamed booster packs to hodl for a long time. Not knowing whats inside has some special value to it I think. I think having unopened packs will be worth alot one day. I also hodl DEC (Dark energy crystals) but Ill probably sell them one year after hodling (to minimize my capitol gains taxes).

PAL I wish I kept, as they have a dapp for prediction markets (@dublup). And Oracles can earn more PAL by supporting those markets. I may buy back enough to be an Oracle, but still thinking about it.

Dublup is solid def. check that out. Uses PAL token.

After learning about the predators that prey upon the Mason bees I decided to take a few hours every season and harvest them. Out in nature they just make due, but pollen mites, fungus and wasps will diminish their numbers. So by harvesting the cocoons I can greatly increase my yield of bees.

Ive really taken a liking to gardening in the last few years, ive been raising plants for a few decades but in the last five or so years Ive really stepped up how many I have in my yard. If I counted I probably planted a few hundred by now. And every spring seeing them pop up from the ground gives me a special feeling inside like I made it happen. Having my bees visit those plants makes me feel even better. And since I spend so much time on computers and technology I think its important to have some "low-tech" hobbies. Looking forward to growing Cannabis when its legal where I live as well, though right now I cannot do such a thing. But one day I would really like to grow some weed plants.

I think the sky is the limit for crypto, since the effect halving has on coins I think the next 5-15 years will be quite impressive when it comes to price discovery. I think BTC may hit a million dollars or more in our life time and 100s of thousands in the next few years. Alts as long as they stay relevant and will follow Bitcoins success (Altseason). I plan on sticking around in crypto for a long time, and really happy with all the friends (including you Qua) ive made doing so.

It seems to me the talks of SMTs have really dropped off since Hive Engines arrival on the scene. I am curious if sidechains happen eventually on Hive, as one of the coins I hodl (Horizen) has native sidechains. Looking forward to what they do with it and maybe Hive will do the same eventually.

But for now I like Hive Engine and happy to buy and sell tokens there. I doubt Ill be buying BEE tokens, as I do not have a need to make my own. But with Diesel pools (see @aggroed's recent post) maybe there will be a need for them and curious to see how it plays out. As I am all about dividends and if there are some good rewards I will consider it.

I consider myself a hermit, and an introvert. So I prefer doing things myself, I do have a close group of friends I do things with (like hunting, offroading, traveling or camping) as its safer to do those things with someone in case something bad happens.. Nothing worse than hurting yourself or getting stuck somewhere and not being able to get help.

But for the most part I do things by myself and try to find a way to make it work.

Proof of brain: Hive and LBRY
Proof of stake: Horizen
Proof of work: Zcoin aka Firo

Hive is something I try to earn every day, through posting rewards, leasing or curating. Playing Splinterlands, with and without my bots is also like mining to me.

LBRY gives me rewards as well through tipping and milestone rewards, I am also staking a few hundred thousand LBC there for more exposure.

Horizen is a project I have been a part of for a few years now, I used to rent virtual private servers to run their nodes but now I pay for hosting. Its cheaper than the VPSs I can find and I dont have to update all the time.

Firo is similar to Horizen being a zk-snarks coin, I mine it when its cold outside as it uses video cards and CPUs for mining. Been mining it for a couple years as well. Helps warm up my office on this cold mornings... Its protocol MTP (Merkel tree protocol) makes it ASIC resistant. And I think thats important to repel 51% attacks through renting ASICs for double spends.

Be ready to get frustrated, you will feel like a fish out of water for a year or so rolling with more experienced students. The learning curve feels very extreme and foreign. But if you stick to it for many months or years you will get better. Just stick with it and you will get better.

Also do not be afraid to tap, its never worth it tearing your joints out of place trying to be a tough guy by not tapping out. People will always respect you if you tap, and make sure to respect others if they tap and release your grip right away.

Hehe yeah Ill check in every day and answer them...

Zero fees on Hive, its made Splinterlands possible on this chain. Imagine it running on Ethereum, it would be crazy expensive to play and doubt many would play it. I also like three second block times making transactions very fast.

Catfish for sure.. They grow them big here in the South.. Fry it up and its my favorite. I hope one day to try "noodling" and catch my own with my hands.

This is my first year raising where I will be raising honey bees, I have not gotten a colony yet but should get one in the next month or so. Everything is set up for them but we are waiting for warmer weather to install a queen and her colony.

Check back with me this summer or autumn and I hope to have some if all went well.

Yes, but honestly I do not drink much. When I do its usually my friends moonshine. And I rarely drink beer.

The taste of German beer seems complex, and I do not have much of an opinion on which one I liked the most.

Ah yeah I need to install it if I can get it working on a non steam version of Arma. I was watching some videos of it. Looks like it may be fun.

I'd say befriending animals, they tend to like me for whatever reason.

Cause I tend to operate better on my own.. and it's short for solominer.

Nope never heard of him, but I'll check out some of his videos.

Louisville is quite far from me. And honestly I have only rolled with my teacher and a couple experienced blue belts. But I did classes in Muay Thai for years so it would probably be fun.

Thanks for the recommendation to follow.

I like to watch motorsports sometimes, like really car driving or Lamans can be fun to watch.

Hmm I am quite happy with my life and not sure I'd want to change much by coming back.. I do wished I grew up in a more rural area but that's about it.

After seeing what others can do with a modified camera I decided to buy a mirrorless DSLR and send it off to Lifepixel to be modified for full spectrum.

Since then I brought it traveling with me and taken all kinds of photos.. check out the infrared and ultraviolet tags on Hive and Steem to see some of my pictures. Ive done macro shots, and landscape.. And star photos when the light pollution is low.

Its really fun, as they look photoshopped but really they are not. Just seeing in other wavelengths of light is pretty amazing. Let alone what you can see at night up in the sky flying around.

My camera is a Lumix GH3, and I use bandpass filters to isolate different wavelengths.

Hah.. I must have a doppelganger around somewhere.

I just built a new computer that I use for gaming and video editing. Its an Intel i9 9900k, ive been overclocking it and made it to 5ghz so far recently. I want to get some better video cards for it but they are all out of stock where I live. Right now it has 32GB of RAM and the two Nvidia 1080 video cards.

Hah you can ask both questions, its all good..

I got into IR/UV photography after seeing examples of it online. And at the time someone was selling a camera that would be a good candidate for the conversion. Mirrorless cameras allow you to see in the viewfinder what the camera sees. Unlike mirroed camera that use their own window to view and you would not see the IR/UV preview until you take the picture. I use bandpass filters that screw onto the lens to isolate different wavelenghs and changes the effects of the image.

As for my haunted home, ive lived there over 10 years now. Things have settled down alot in the last 5 years or so but for awhile we were having strange occurrences every month or less. Such as small things like the cats in the house fixating on things we could not see, or hearing knocking from the walls. To me seeing a shadow person, my ex girlfriend seeing a figure in white with no bottom walking by a door.

Shortly after moving here I went to a consignment shop and bought a buddha head, and it seemed to ramp up what was going on.. And made the animals in the house act very strange. Since then I moved it out to my garage and the activity cooled down afterwards. So I assume there was some "potential" in the house and the buddha head was like a energy loudspeaker magnifying the effects. Just a guess, its the best we have come up with.

For my berries, peaches and peppers we freeze them and slowly consume over the year. Sometimes I trade them with friends for other produce. I got a bunch of eggs from my friend @ryulincoln since I gave him some of my sweet potatoes. For what I cannot freeze like my potatoes I store them under my bed.. haha! So far we do not grow enough to keep it all, so we tend to use whatever we have and buy the rest at the market.

Hey there @ailindigo

I used to live in a big city with little to no nature, I never really liked it there.. Once I moved to Georgia I was lucky to make friends with some people that liked to spend alot of time outdoors. I loved it. As ive been doing more outdoor stuff I find new projects to get involved in and it keeps snowballing like that..

Being able to defend yourself or others is a big pro to martial arts, its quite empowering. But besides that you learn alot about your body and pushing the limits you thought you had. So doing martial arts helps me keep getting better as long as I practice a little.

Well living in this house used to be a little creepy but since realizing it cannot cause any harm to me its something I rarely worry about. And seems in the last few years the activity has really calmed down for whatever reason.