It was only a matter of time, but last night I instigated the vicious cycle of lawn mowing. I am now beholden to cut my lawn at least once per week until Autumn comes back or we hit a dry spell and everything turns yellow. I always forget just how much of a toll push mowing takes on my body until I get those first couple of times out of the way each Spring.
I actually don't hate it as much as it sounds, and it sure does look pretty when it is finished. I really should look into getting a self propelled mower... My neighbor has a riding mower, but that just seems a bit extra for a .25 acre piece of land. Plus, I don't mind the exercise (most of the time), those 100 degree days can be killer though.
Meanwhile, BTC seems to be going on a bit of a tear this week. I half expected to come into work this morning and see us hovering around the 98K mark. It seems we have fallen back to the $93,000 range, but who knows what the day will bring.
It is time again for another Finance Friday/Friday Finance. This is a series I started where I talk about random bits of financial stuff that I have seen, gathered, or experienced during the week. I hope as a reader you find it informational, entertaining, or both. I also hope it can generate some good discussion and edify the community.
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Travala
I got an email the other day that in 48 hours Travala would be closing the window for their quarterly earnings initiatives. You probably remember I talked about this in a previous post. Since I got the email about five days ago, that should mean the window closed around Tuesday of this week. According to the email, I have to wait until Tuesday of next week for the claim window to open. I let you know next week how much I earned for doing the ten easy tasks they gave us.
Trust
@mrsbozz and I made another trip over to the lawyer yesterday evening to sign the papers for our trust that we had established. The key goal of having the trust is to keep things from going to probate court should something happen to the both of us. Now we just need to wait for them to file the documents and send me the bill. Then the fun task of changing all of our secondary beneficiaries over to the trust begins. I have a feeling I am going to miss at least one of the many places we need to change it.
Holozing
I have noticed over the past couple of days that my earnings in @holozing have increased pretty significantly. It used to be when I did my daily collection of rewards I was getting about 1500 ZING per claim. Lately it has been closer to 2700 ZING. I'm wondering if something on the project side has changed or if people have just dropped out of the liquidity pool due to the long wait for the project to launch. I don't mind either way, it makes it easier for me to get to my goal of 1 million ZING staked.
WAX
I got an alert the other day that WAX might be shifting gears and moving away from their focus on NFTs and moving more towards RWAs. I'm not really sure what it all means, but anything that brings some value back to the token that I own stacks of is okay with me. In the heyday of NFTs WAX should have been at least a $1 token all day every day. Unfortunately, it never quite made it to that mark and now here we sit. Heck even HIVE made it to $3 at one point! I hope this turns things around and I can at least extract some more value from the chain.
Spot Silver Price
I had written in a post a while ago that I wanted to use AI to track the spot price of silver so that if it dropped below $30 I would be alerted. I tried out the Gemini app on my Pixel phone and the answer I got was a bit disappointing. It appears although the phone has Gemini AI built in, it can't actually interact with the other apps on the phone. I was able to discover that the Robinhood app allows you to track the silver futures market and that price seems to be kind of close (if not in line) with the spot price. I haven't set it up yet but I think I might use one of the notifications in the Robinhood app to alert me when the price is right for buying.
Crypto Buys
Things have loosened up a little bit in my real world finances lately, so I decided to start doing some monthly buys of crypto again. I added a small BTC buy back into my schedule as well as an even smaller VET buy. I also cancelled my ATOM buy that I had had happening every month. Just to recap, I am now making monthly buys of USDC (to quickly move into other things when price fluctuations favor it), BTC, and VET. I've always been a fan of DCA'ing and it always killed me a little bit that I had to stop some of those when finances got a little tight a while ago.
So there you go! Things seem to finally be thawing out a little bit both Earthwise and marketwise. I hope that the end of April and the beginning of May can be just a taste for us of what the rest of this year has in store. I don't know about you, but I am ready for the bulls to run!
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