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brendio
@brendio Jul 12, 2018, 10:50 AM UTC

My Visit to Australia’s First Digital Currency Town

With friends visiting recently from southern Australia and heading up the coast, my family took the opportunity to continue on with them north and explore the adoption of digital currency in the newl…

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brendio
@brendio Mar 6, 2018, 11:19 AM UTC

A new toy arrived yesterday

I am still setting up the server for it and getting familiar with it. It's a General Bytes BATM2 model.

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brendio
@brendio Oct 2, 2017, 11:20 AM UTC

TIL: Wheelie bins make a good makeshift rain gauge

In true Australian fashion of extreme weather events, today, after months of drought, we had torrential downpours and even a tornado. I was out all day doing some work and then taking shelter at my b…

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brendio
@brendio Jul 29, 2017, 1:29 PM UTC

Bitshares bitGOLD asset in black swan

I have been experimenting with shorting some bitshares price stable assets into existence. I noticed just now that my position has been liquidated. It looks in this block here like the asset bitGOLD,…

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brendio
@brendio Jul 3, 2017, 1:02 AM UTC

Fun and controversy with traffic light people

Growing up, I don't think I ever really thought about pedestrian traffic lights. They were merely a pragmatic means to safely convey people travelling by foot across busy roads populated by vehicular…

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brendio
@brendio Jun 20, 2017, 7:23 AM UTC

Sign fail

Now is it ooh! signs or Doh! signs? BIOS screen on an electronic billboard spotted in my local shopping centre.

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brendio
@brendio Jun 12, 2017, 11:14 AM UTC

Building Australia: The Queenslander and My Personal Moving Queenslander Experience

My wife and I are big Grand Designs fans, so when I stumbled across Building Australia series on the ABC, I was instantly hooked and told my wife she has to watch it. The show is narrated by John Doy…

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brendio
@brendio Jun 9, 2017, 12:56 AM UTC

Seven-week-old girl has 1900 % p.a. investment returns

When my daughter was a week old, I gifted her a bitcoin as an investment in her future. At the time, it was worth $1700 (AU). As of now, bitcoin is worth $3730 (AU), which is a return of 219% in 6 we…

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brendio
@brendio Apr 26, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

Bitcoin for my Baby

One week ago, my wife and I welcomed into the world our little angel, Zoe. When I was a few months old, my father took out a whole of life insurance policy for me. Today that policy is worth over $80…

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brendio
@brendio Mar 24, 2017, 1:20 PM UTC

TIL My fitness watch cannot distinguish between driving along bumpy roads and actual walking

So I achieved my daily fitness goal of 8000 steps by sitting in a car for 7 hours today ... ... apparently.

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