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neilstrauss (68)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years ago
How to Explain Blockchain So Newbies Really Get It
How do you explain blockchains and decentralization to someone so that their eyes don't glaze over? How can you get someone to actually understand blockchain technology, and why…
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neilstrauss (68)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years ago
Ten Days With Brock Pierce: EOS, Puerto Rico, Giving Away His Entire Crypto Fortune, and Burning Man Meets Blockchain
As you all know, from the Steemit article I wrote in Rolling Stone, I've started covering crypto and blockchain for the magazine whenever I can. Today, we broke new ground there…
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carneasadafilms (41)in #introduceyourself • 7 years ago
I WAS PEN PALS WITH BUKOWSKI AND KICKED VIN DIESEL'S ASS
Dear Steemits, You don't know me. I’m just a regular guy who’s figured out clever ways to make his dreams come true. Here are a few examples: BECOMING A SCREENWRITER:…
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neilstrauss (68)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
How The Blockchain Can End World Poverty
“You know, if I can gut it out for five more years, five billion people would have a different life.” Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock, says as he stands in the stern of his…
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neilstrauss (68)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
Overstock CEO talks Steemit, Poverty, and The Blockchain
One of the most frustrating things about the mainstream is people pinning the success of this revolution on the price of bitcoin. They don't understand just how far-reaching…
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neilstrauss (68)in #life • 7 years ago
That one time Bozo the Clown ran for President and almost got assassinated in Dallas (a true story, as told to me by Bozo himself)
One day, Bozo the Clown asked me to write about the time someone tried to assassinate him when he ran for President. It was cognitive overload. There was too much going on in…
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neilstrauss (68)in #music • 7 years ago
THE TRUE STORY OF THE DEATH OF KURT COBAIN
“Kurt Cobain just committed suicide.” The voice on the other end of the phone was my Rolling Stone editor. “What!?” I exclaimed, shocked out of my sleep. “Turn…
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neilstrauss (68)in #life • 7 years ago
I Was a Psychic Spy for the CIA, and I Found God – A True Story
This man right here told me he could kill me with his mind... For twenty-four years, the U.S. government had a spy program that involved psychics. And not just ordinary…
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neilstrauss (68)in #elonmusk • 7 years ago
Elon Musk: The Unedited, Uncensored Version of My Rolling Stone Cover Story
Going to begin a new chapter in my Steemit adventures. And also give some of you something to help you forget about this week's crypto drop and keep your eye on the big…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
Requiem for a Dream: Session Two of the Second Steemit Book Club, Plus Details for Session Three
“Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.” ― David Foster Wallace. While the first chapter gave us a small yet mysterious introduction to young Hal, the second…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
Infinite Jest: First Session of the Second Steemit Book Club, Plus Details for Session 2
We are happy to announce the successful launch of the second Steemit Book Club last Monday. It was a great meeting with a lot of new participants, interesting conversations…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
Penelope: The Final Session of the “Ulysses” Era of the Steemit Book Club (Session 19)
Welcome to the Steemit Book Club: The only online book club where you get paid to read great works! You may be shocked to hear that less than eight percent of those who…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
Psychological Monsters: Session 18 of the Steemit Book Club
In this fascinating journey called Ulysses , we’ve witnessed James Joyce experiment with all sorts of writings styles, and this chapter was certainly no different.…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
Return of the Wanderer: Session 17 of the Steemit Book Club, plus details for session 18
In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus finally arrives home after a long and precarious journey. Once in Ithaca, he reunites with his son Telemachus at the place of a friendly…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
The Birth of Language: Session 15 of the Steemit Book Club, plus details for session 16
“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.” ― James Joyce…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
A New Bloom: Session 14 of the Steemit Book Club, plus details for session 15
“I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.” ― Pablo Neruda In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus washed ashore on the land of the Phaeacians after his ship has wrecked in the…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
You Can’t Argue with Cyclops: Session 13 of the Steemit Book Club, plus details for session 14
"A nation? says Bloom. A nation is the same people living in the same place." — James Joyce, Ulysses. Chapter twelve opens at 5pm with an unnamed, first-person…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
A Song of Sirens: Session 12 of the Steemit Book Club, plus details for session 13
NOTE FROM NEIL: A special shout-out to @the-alien for writing and researching this post in the middle of a local emergency, where he has no electricity or cell service. It is yet…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
The Wandering Rocks: Session 11 of the Steemit Book Club, plus details for session 12
‹ "It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and…
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neilstrauss (68)in #books • 8 years ago
The Ghost Versus the Machine: Session 10 of the Steemit Book Club, plus details for session 11
“There's a man going around taking names And he decides who to free and who to blame Everybody won't be treated all the same There'll be a golden ladder reaching down When…
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