Luckily, this was not my first Series. No more learning curve. I hopped on and 45 minutes later I had both wallets setup, bounty hunter rocking, and I was back in the zone.

The reality is experience and learning from my mistakes from expedited the process.

For this reason, I share my experience, tips, and trick to scroll for Avastars in this short series of videos, all viewable below.

Videos include:

Here is a short video on installing the bounty hunter tool by Kai. The github link is here: https://github.com/kaigani/avastars-bounty-hunter.

It really is a simple process. Make sure you have Chrome installed. I also suggest making sure your Chrome Favorites Bar is viewable.

The Bounty Hunter tool will come pre-loaded with a few bounties. In this video I will quickly explain setting up different bounties.

Once you have the Bounty Hunter installed, you need to start searching for Avastars. Make sure to connect your Metamask wallet.

You will notice two queues, Teleporter and Wish List. If you have a Avastar in your wallet, you will see a 3rd queue called Consignment. The Teleporter queue is used to purchase an Avastar.

This video goes into greater detail and includes some tips on finding and consigning Avastars.

This video goes a little deeper into consigning. I also explain how I post multiple global feeds, where to post your feed, and where to find bounties.

Scrolling ends with Series 5. However, in the Replicant series I do believe you can consign traits. So, do not forget to pickup your own Avastars when scrolling.

Turn on your favorite music and enjoy!

Website: www.Avastars.io

Bounty Hunter: https://github.com/kaigani/avastars-bounty-hunter

Discord: https://discord.gg/9bt8KbX7

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvaStarsNFT

Cryptocurrencies can similarly be compared to your normal Fiat money (Dollar, Pound, Euro etc) and or shares investments in companies that you would buy. There are many different types of Cryptocurrencies which are discussed below.

Cryptocurrency is a type of virtual or digital currency that can be used for buying, selling, trading, investing or for a multiple other uses for multiple different industries and markets. Cryptos are secured by “cryptography” (secure communications techniques) and blockchain technology (a digital ledger of records called blocks), which makes them nearly impossible to hack and manipulate.

Essentially, you can think of cryptocurrencies in the same way as

• Your local FIAT currency (dollar, pound, euro),- Shares in a company (Tesla, Canon, Google)- An investment into something like property- A Medical Aid platform- Financial Options (borrowing, lending, staking)

• depending on which cryptocurrency you choose. Just like the “real” companies, the risk of liquidation, collapse projects are a risk and everyones is always advice to DYOR — Do Your Own Research.

• The vast majority of cryptocurrencies are decentralized using blockchain technology, which is a a distributed record of transactions enforced and secured by a huge network of interconnected computers. Esssentially, its a network of computers run by different companies, groups, individuals that keep a copy of the ledger. Nothing can be changed as there are multiple computers that are needed to approve one transcation. The defining feature of cryptocurrencies is that they are usually not issued by a central authority, therefore making them immune to government interference and manipulation.

• The first cryptocurrency based on this blockchain technology was Bitcoin, which to this day, remains the most popular and most valuable crypto on the market. Today, there are more than 15 000 alternate cryptocurrencies with many different functions and unique specifications.

• Some of these are based on Bitcoin, such as in the case of clones or forks, while many others are new currencies that were built from scratch, using similar technologies and systems as Bitcoin.

• Following Bitcoin’s success, many cryptocurrencies have begun popping up everywhere. These cryptos, often referred to as “altcoins,” include Ethereum, Cardano, XRP, Binance Coin, and Litecoin. Today, the total value of all the cryptocurrencies in the market is worth around $1.5 trillion, with Bitcoin currently representing more than 60% of the total value.

• The world of cryptocurrencies is growing and evolving at a constant and rapid rate and there the categories for different types of cryptos keep expanding. Here is a list of MAIN crypto categories that you should know about:

• Payment Coins- Privacy Coins- Stable Coins- Utility Tokens- Meme Coins- NFTS- Cryptocurrencies make it easier to transfer funds directly between two parties, without the need for banks or credit card companies to oversee the transaction. These transfers are instead secured by the blockchain and crypto network itself.- Cryptocurrencies are decentralized and are therefore not controlled by a central authority. This means that the likelihood of being targeted for hacking is extremely low. It also means that no one has access to the crypto blockchain and therefore, it is impossible to manipulate or be controlled by any one individual or by any government or organization. - Cheaper transaction fees are an added benefit of cryptocurrencies being decentralized, as we do not need to pay banks or other authorities to oversee the transfer and so the fees are heavily reduced.- Transactions are also speedy, taking only mere minutes to approve and secure the transaction. This is much faster than most transactions between banks or other organizations. Some cryptos are faster than others and are constantly being improved on.- Due to the nature of cryptocurrencies being semi-anonymous, it can make them well-suited for a host of illegal activities, such as money laundering and tax evasion. However, there are also many benefits for those who are attempting to avoid repressive governments. - Since prices for cryptocurrencies are based on supply and demand in the market, the rate at which a cryptocurrency can be exchanged for another currency can fluctuate immensely, since the design of many cryptocurrencies ensures a high degree of scarcity.- There is concern that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are not rooted in any material goods or any tangible product. Some research, however, has identified that the cost of producing a Bitcoin, which requires an increasingly large amount of electricity to mine, is directly related to its market price.- Cryptocurrency blockchains are highly secure, but user accessed wallets and other aspects of a cryptocurrency ecosystem, including exchanges, are not immune to the threat of hacking. In Bitcoin’s brief 10-year history, there have been a few online exchanges that have been the subject of hacking and theft, sometimes with millions of dollars worth of “coins” stolen.

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Este artículo también aplica para personas que han conversado algunas veces del mundo crypto y saben que bitcoin está basado en la tecnología de blockchain pero realmente no saben nada más profundo. Voy a intentar de usar la menor cantidad de términos posibles pero que se entienda el panorama.

Primero que nada, hay muchísima información de baja calidad que solo busca que compres una moneda digital(comúnmente llamado token, felicitaciones tu primer término!) diciendote que es el futuro y que va a valer millones en unos meses. Estos suelen utilizar términos tecnológicos “complejos” para desviar tu atención y terminar los argumentos con una proyección de crecimiento exponencial.

Lamentablemente el mercado no se puede predecir con tal facilidad, si no, todos seríamos millonarios jajaja. Recomiendo realmente enfocarse en las formas en las que la tecnología puede afectar a las personas porque en eso no hay especulación solo desarrollo.

Para poder entender mejor bitcoin, NFTs y otras palabras más extrañas del mundo crypto hay que saber qué cosa es el blockchain. Imaginate que estas planeando irte a la playa con algunos amigos y hacen un excel para gestionar los gastos. Si este excel solo lo tiene una persona, todos tienen que confiar en él para que no se le pierda, para que no lo edite sin el permiso de los demás, lo muestre cada vez que alguien quiera, etc. Cuando son unos cuantos amigos esto puede ser tarea sencilla, pero qué pasa si ocurre esto en una empresa, tienen que haber más personas encargadas, más excels, más confianza, etc. La complejidad aumenta rápidamente con el crecimiento de la empresa.

Si es que el excel de gastos tenía ciertas compras ya registradas y se compraron más artículos, se le agregan a esta cadena de compras ya existente. Esta es una analogía a lo que es el blockchain, cada pedazo de información que se agrega a la cadena se llama bloque y a la cadena de estos, blockchain.

Se tienen diferentes personas a lo largo del mundo buscando poner un bloque más a esta larga cadena debido a que con cada bloque añadido se les da un incentivo(normalmente un token, en el caso del blockchain de bitcoin, se le entrega este). Solo una persona puede colocar un bloque de información a la vez por lo que deberán competir sobre quién lo logra colocar primero.

El bloque contiene datos de diversos tipos. Puede ser desde transacciones monetarias, certificaciones, bienes digitales, contratos, etc. ¿Pero porqué usar esto en vez de métodos tradicionales? Primero dejame contarte de un par de términos para que se entienda mejor su beneficio.

Para que pueda proceder esa transacción y colocar el bloque, ocurre un proceso computacional un tanto complejo que básicamente busca hacer operaciones matemáticas y el que hace la operación más rápido gana. Una vez que logra descifrar esta operación matemática, se la muestra a todas las demás computadoras en el mundo(o también llamados nodos) que están tratando de hacer lo mismo y si están de acuerdo que se logró, entonces se coloca el bloque en la cadena.

No quería asustarte con los términos pero este proceso de poner un nuevo bloque se le conoce como minar y las personas que lo realizan son los mineros. Por otro lado, el proceso computacional es el Proof of Work pero ahorita no importa mucho eso. Es importante mencionar que este proceso lo hacen las computadoras automáticamente. Por más que se le llamen mineros a las personas que operan estas máquinas, el trabajo manual es mínimo.

Lo interesante de estas cadenas es que las partes que escriben la información nueva(los bloques) lo hacen de manera pública. Ahorita mismo puedes entrar a blockchain.com/explorer y ver todas las transacciones en tiempo real a lo largo de todo el mundo. Se puede ver cómo se actualizan los bloques minados en tiempo real y como todo está codificado(o encriptado mejor dicho), nadie sabe de quién viene y hacia dónde va. Justamente como todo es público y los bloques están siendo supervisados por los nodos, la información escrita no puede ser alterada por alguna persona sin que todas las computadoras lo detecten y lo boten del sistema.

Ya Bruno te creo hasta ahora pero, ¿para qué sirve todo esto? Este proceso es el esquema de operación principal de bitcoin y es muy útil desde un punto de vista meramente financiero y económico que explayo acá.

También hay muchas otras aplicaciones interesantes como por ejemplo el poder hacer un seguimiento de los votos en las elecciones. Si es que emites tu voto en un blockchain, este está encriptado por lo que es secreto, no se puede modificar una vez inscrito y está todo público por lo que se tiene una mayor transparencia. Todo esto además de ser más rápido y no necesitar de mesas de votación ni miembros de mesa.

Por otro lado, se tiene el poder realizar el registro de tu vivienda. Imagínate que quieres comprar una casa y cerciorarte que el vendedor es el dueño del inmueble. Actualmente la persona saca su título de propiedad firmado y sellado por un notario. No solo este puede ser falso, si no también puede perderse, no contener la información completa, entre otras cosas. Si esto estuviera en un sistema de información como blockchain, se dispone de los beneficios mostrados anteriormente.

Espero que esto te haya sido útil y ya no tengas miedo cuando te hablen de blockchain, minar, nodos y otras cosas más. Hay veces que tanta información de cosas abstractas además de los términos puede ser un poco agotador pero es muy divertido cuando se explica con simpleza.

Si te gustó mandaselo a alguien y te invito a suscribirte a La Crypta, que es una revista que escribo con un par de amigos todas las semanas en la que hacemos un análisis económico del mundo crypto además de contar algunas noticias relevantes.

In economics, a similar concept is called spillover: an event that occurs because of something else in an unrelated context. Just as a new tech created in one mania may be retooled in other industries, applications & even future innovations. There are many more exaptation examples in the book: Where Good Ideas Come From. Lucky for NVIDIA, they are having a few Tulips: Gaming, Cloud & Crypto.

A quick way to solve it temporarily is to open the terminal and type:

xdotool mousemove 200 200

If you do not have xdotool, install it with

sudo apt-get install xdotool

Hope it is helpful.

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The Internet is on the brink of its next stage of evolution, and many opinion makers, scientists, and ideologists state that the era of Web 3.0 is about to begin. Let’s look at what Web 3.0, what the key takeaways of this idea are, and how it came to be.

But first, let’s take a short trip down history lane. We are now living during the late Web 2.0 age of the Internet. Web 2.0 emerged after the collapse of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s and was marked by the appearance of the social media giants. Web 2.0 is the type of Internet and also an approach to web design where systems improve alongside the number of their users, as in, the more, the better. It’s the ruling age of user-generated content and user-generated services. It gave us all the most famous blogging platforms, social networks, and the Wikipedia type of knowledge bases. Speaking of web 1.0, in the timeline of the Internet, it is considered so basic that many refer to it just as the state of the Internet before web 2.0.

We have all watched it unfold, and we have all watched it stagnate. The signs of stagnation are all there, from social media-induced anxiety disorders to the general deterioration of any credibility for almost any source of information and to universal biases being formed all the time.

What will make Web 3.0 tech a breakthrough?

The Internet today, as many thinks, is a rather sad place. So, what’s web 3.0 bringing to it, and how is it going to make it all better? The concept was formed by Jason Calacanis as a continuation of Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 one. Its other name is Semantic Web, and this is exactly what it is. The kind of Internet that not just understands your input and can analyze it. It perceives your request behind that input. As such, any content that you consume and are offered to becomes customized for your particular taste, interests and is adapted for your person and personality.

If social media are the pillars of Web 2.0, machine learning algorithms, blockchain, and AI is that for web 3.0. Web 3.0 applications will not just work with concepts, but they will work with context.

How does blockchain technology factor in? Most web 3.0 apps will use decentralized ledgers and protocols, so it is expected that blockchain will receive a huge boost as a tech shortly. Web 3.0 apps will operate on smart contracts for automation and will be utterly scalable, adaptive, and ambivalent. Tim Burners-Lee, who coined the term ‘Semantic web,’ stated that Web 3.0 would connect people, machines, and any type of environment, such as home, work, and others. Scalability and being built on the back of blockchain tech will also make web 3.0 apps omnipresent, bringing them to the spheres of life that went just fine without the Internet before. This will become possible with the spread of the Internet of Things, putting smart devices in place of regular ones. Jokes aside, but jokes about your smart fridge being capable of shutting you out if you have had one beer too many are not jokes anymore even now.

And what about social impact?

Web 3.0 has already given rise to various new professions, many being connected with Big Data, all sorts of information analysis and prognosis algorithms, and AI. Cryptocurrencies are also expected to do yet another climb and receive a surge of development. It is agreed that within the new model, they will take up the role of a universal means of quick and safe exchange, leaving centralized means, such as bank cards, far behind.

Web 3.0 and its decentralized, personalized approach to information may just as well give us a fairer and more unbiased version of the World Wide Web that will become far more integrated with our everyday life.