OverviewCurrent Performance as of 1/2/2022Performance Details & Previous ComparisonsIs DRIP Part of My Early Retirement Strategy?The Manor FarmMy Previous Retirement Plan ArticlesGet Started With DRIPCryptozoa DRIP Team Info

I initially got involved with DRIP back on October 17th last year (2021). So far, DRIP is my strongest performing member of my overall crypto portfolio, far outshining the DAO projects and other tokens I’m HODL’ing. As of today, my DRIP stake is up 164.97% since 10/17/21. For comparison’s sake, here’s the last article I wrote about DRIP on 11/15/21, followed by my first DRIP article I wrote on 10/31/21:

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Getting involved with with DRIP has been a great experience for me so far. The community is strong, the token itself is strong and the future looks very bright with a dedicated and committed development team and upcoming projects. That being said, I continue to be personally very committed to DRIP, especially as depicted by my holdings in my CoinMarketCap portfolio along with the DRIP token current price as of this writing date (1/2/2022):

Note: calculations above are based on DRIP’s true price per token from the DRIP Community site’s “fountain” page due to the lag on the CoinMarketCap site (but not too much of a lag as depicted below).

That being said, let’s break down in some detail how my DRIP holdings are doing, shall we?

I’ve included two sets of my six wallets below, the top set consisting of snapshots from a few moments ago while the second row set consisting of my six wallets on 12/2/2021. The images below are:

Well, you can be the judge…but, I certainly think so, especially due to the projections from both Kelly Snook’s fantastic spreadsheet along with the calculator on the DripFi site.

Breaking the two images below down:

Ah, yes, the long anticipated Manor Farm was released a couple weeks ago. The project’s white paper can best explain what it is but, in short, the game produces up to 3% daily or 1,095% APR, based on participation and efficiency. My personal current Manor Farm earnings are netting me approximately $37.80 of passive income per day.

I’m also moving some of my DRIP earnings into the Manor Farm which is a miner-based project, developed and released by Forex Shark, DRIP’s developer. A point of this project is to help increase the liquidity and stability in the DRIP token. Since the Manor Farm is also based on the BUSD stablecoin, while a bit riskier than both DRIP and Elephant since the average daily 3% compounding is not guaranteed, I felt it a worthy project to jump into, based on my experience and performance with DRIP itself.

Ordered by latest to oldest, top to bottom:

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I am part of the Cryptozoa DRIP team. We are a global community of DRIP enthusiasts who are welcoming and helpful. We converse on our own private Telegram group where we share DRIP tips, strategies, breaking news, and more. If you would like to join in the conversation, please join the Cryptozoa team (by getting into DRIP and using my Buddy address above), and then head over to the Cryptozoa Telegram Gateway. Let the admins on duty know that ZygarDude sent you — then once you are onboard, please feel free to look me up and DM a “hello” to me. Would love to talk with you about your crypto journey!

Cryptozoa Telegram — https://t.me/joinchat/PbTulqLoCmAzZmQx

DRIP Lightpaper — https://www.docdroid.net/0i3RJTu/drip-lightpaper-pdf

DRIP CONTRACT LINK — https://bscscan.com/token/0x20f663cea80face82acdfa3aae6862d246ce0333

Buy BR34P: https://v1exchange.pancakeswap.finance/#/swap?outputCurrency=0xa86d305a36cdb815af991834b46ad3d7fbb38523

NOTE: The amount Deposited is not withdrawable. In exchange you receive 1% of that staked amount on a 24 hr basis for the next 365 days, which can be rehydrated/compounded, or claimed.

The Manor Farm — https://themanor.farm/

The Manor White Paper — https://themanor.farm/docs/The_Manor_Farm_and_The_Animal_Farm_Pre_Sale,_Farm_Mechanics_&_LP.pdf

Nothing in this article is intended to constitute investment advice. Neither the author nor the publication takes any responsibility or liability for any investments, profits or losses you may incur as a result of this information. Readers are encouraged to perform their own due diligence and research, or consult a licensed financial advisor or broker before making any and all investment decisions. This content is intended for general informational and educational purposes only. Though the author strives for accuracy, the data contained within the article cannot be relied upon. The author may own cryptocurrencies and tokens discussed in the article. The article may contain affiliate links.

Bitcoin’s success as a decentralized digital currency inspired the adoption of blockchain technology across the world. Over the years, blockchain has proved to have transformative potential, replacing centrally controlled systems with decentralized, community-run alternatives. When Ethereum introduced smart contracts, it helped make possible the creation of a global settlement layer managed and regulated by its own users.

The final set piece to enable developers to build out censorship-resistant Web3 experiences completely on-chain is a “world computer” — a concept that first emerged in the early Ethereum community. DFINITY Founder and Chief Scientist Dominic Williams assembled over 200 world-renowned cryptographers, distributed systems engineers, and programming language experts from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, et al. to tackle the massive challenge of building the Internet Computer, a world computer powerful enough to support infinitely scalable Web3 dapps.

But a network managed by thousands of people running millions of nodes across the globe comes with potential challenges, particularly regarding scalability — the measure of the number of updastes or transactions that a network can handle per second (TPS). Crypto dogma dedicates the more decentralized a network is, the lower its scalability and TPS. Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two most popular blockchains, have a speed of about 5 and 13 TPS respectively. When the demand for transactions exceeds their capacity, the performance of these networks suffers, creating a backlog and leading to problems like network congestion and high transaction costs (aka gas fees).

Scalability issues have long stood in the way of blockchain’s widespread adoption, preventing it from providing optimal solutions to businesses and industries worldwide, and ultimately, leaving the cypherpunk vision of a world computer just out of reach. The DFINITY Foundation recognized that a blockchain network needs to run at internet scale and web speed to take this revolutionary technology mainstream — which is why DFINITY developed novel cryptography and computer science to build and launch the Internet Computer, delivering on the vision of a decentralized world computer.

The Internet Computer is the ultimate original layer-1 blockchain that developers around the world can use to build infinitely scalable dapps, DeFi, social media, enterprise systems, NFTs, and web-based services. Canister smart contracts are capable of receiving and responding to HTTP requests and processing data at the speed that users expect when using the web.

Smart contract executions are divided between update calls, which modify state, and query calls, which are read-only requests. Update calls are processed on every node in a given subnetwork, while queries are processed on one node. A recent Internet Computer performance evaluation tested all subnets concurrently except the NNS by targeting their nodes with an incrementally increasing load, demonstrating a throughput of 11,000 update calls/transactions per second over 4 minutes, with peaks of 11,500 and finality of 1 second on dapp subnets. The throughput for query calls stood at 250,000 per second, with completion within 200 milliseconds.

These numbers are particularly significant in comparison to Solana’s measurement of 1,000 TPS, which was until recently considered a benchmark in blockchain performance.

As a result, everything from DeFi systems and dapps to online games and tokenized social media running on the Internet Computer can operate at web speed and offer unprecedented scalability. It provides developers with powerful software frameworks to reimagine and rebuild the world’s systems and services on the blockchain.

The Internet Computer Protocol is running on standardized node hardware in independent data centers around the world. The Network Nervous System, the open, permissionless, on-chain governance system, scales the network by combining nodes from different data centers to spin up new subnet blockchains.

The Internet Computer’s partitioning into subnet blockchains is what allows the network to infinitely scale. Each subnet blockchain is capable of processing update and query calls independently from other subnets. This means that the entire network can easily be scaled by simply adding more subnets to the network. For update calls that need to be processed on every node, this method of scaling the network can ensure that more update calls are processed per second. The Internet Computer is capable of adding hundreds of new subnets via the NNS.

For query calls, however, scalability can simply be achieved by adding more nodes to a subnet because these calls are processed locally on one node. The network is capable of adding thousands of new nodes in its current state. The addition of more nodes and subnets to the network ensures web speed and infinite scalability.

The Internet Computer’s novel consensus mechanism also plays a key role in the network’s ability to scale. Internet Computer Consensus (ICC) consists of four different layers that create candidate blocks, identify valid blocks, rank block makers, and then finalize the agreed upon blocks. The blockchain’s asynchronous finalization mechanism is impressively fast, ensuring that the finality for new blocks is achieved in under two seconds on average on the NNS subnet, and 1 second on dapp subnets.

This contributes to the Internet Computer’s resilience. Additionally, unlike legacy blockchains, the Internet Computer has no nodes hosted by cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare, helping ensure that the network is tamper-proof, secure, and stable.

The advanced scalability of the Internet Computer signals a new era in the development of decentralized apps and systems that are capable of supporting tens of millions of users, substantially reducing the costs associated with blockchain transactions and making blockchain-based services feasible for mainstream adoption.____

Usamaro was a character from Ao No Exorcist, one of my favorite animes growing up and I really loved his back story. He was a small fox demon which loved to play and have fun, and he couldn’t understand humans’ pain and struggles. Hence, he removed their sad and painful memories, so they can play and have fun with him. He ended up learning about the importance of memories, wether they were good or bad. I’m not going to spoil the end for you, but it was what made him memorable for a 15 year old 0xUsamaro.

As you can guess, I love anime and manga. Nonetheless, these aren’t the only things I love. Since I was a kid, I enjoyed tech innovations. Phones, computers, social networks, digital services, games, consoles, IoT, advertising and pretty much everything related to technology evolved rapidly and seeing this evolution made me passionate about what we call today the 4th industrial revolution.

I think it is time to explain the 0x in the name and to do that I may need to go back to 2013. I was a middle-schooler who was curious about many things, I dived deep into forums about tech and gaming. I stumbled upon bitcoin on a forum at the time and I loved the concept of this currency. The first time I talked about it was on the forum of my favorite game at the time : Dofus.

As you all congratulate me for being early, I want to remind you that I was a 15 year old from a third world country with no way to purchase anything online (Visa/Mastercard). I wasn’t able to purchase any bitcoin and while I tried mining it on my Pentium 3 computer. It didn’t work quite well, and I forgot about it.

Fast forward, I get my highschool diploma and fly to a western country. As an 18 years old discovering the west, I had one desire, to have fun. I didn’t pay much attention to Cryptocurrencies before hearing Bitcoin reached 20K. Yet I didn’t buy a single cryptocurrency and only knew about Bitcoin.

Although I didn’t purchase a single cryptocurrency at the time, I was interested by this alternative to traditional currencies and in 2019 when I was asked to write a report about a central bank document of my choice. I choose this report titled: “Crypto “Money”: Perspective of a Couple of Canadian Central Bankers”.

It was 2019, yet even after doing this. I still didn’t put a single dollar into this technology even though I found it very interesting. It was only at the end of 2020, when bitcoin was around 20 thousand again that I decided to finally purchase Bitcoin and my adventure with crypto started.

I started reading whitepapers of various projects, met wonderful people on CT (Crypto Twitter), exchanged knowledge on multiple Twitter Spaces. It was indeed a wonderful year where I learned about proof of work, proof of stake, the general functioning of a blockchain, decentralized and centralized exchanges, lending protocols, NFTs, bridging protocol and many other things. I felt in love with this space and with the possibilities it can give to people.

While I was learning about crypto and blockchains, I was also studying for a master degree in Economics (International Management) with a personal focus on Digital Marketing. I loved learning more about people and their habits, how they interact online and how to categorize them through segmentation and targeting. The possibilities given by digital tools allow a better understanding of people’s persona. Inbound marketing was made easier with these tools and advertising, content creation became very specific in order to cater to the product/service’s users.

I knew that I wanted to be and work in a space where two things matter: Tech and people. Crypto fulfilled this need and I had to document this journey with this blog being its ledger.

As many of you know and as we’ve discussed in the past, the art and design of all elements of the game — NFTs, game graphics, game environments, UI, and UX — are critical to the overall look and feel of the game that leads to your experience. The art and design team led by Yossi Kerman and Boaz Goel are the Ronaldos’ and Messis’ of the game art and animation game.

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel Boaz has over a decade of experience as an artist. Having drawn and sketched from a super young age, his professional career started at 24 years old, working in air-brush sketching and caricatures, animations, and 2D designs. With one of the biggest traveler souls I have ever met, Boaz managed to work almost everywhere around the globe, including Europe, the UK, Australia, the USA, Latin America, only to name a few.

It all started back in 2006 when Boaz decided to travel the world and be a self-employed artist, where he gained all kinds of different experiences from freehand drawing to creating stunning 2d art and animations. After around 11 years on the road, on and off, Boaz settled back in Israel and was recruited to be a 2D Artist at Jelly Button, one of the biggest gaming companies recently acquired by Playtika. There he worked for over three years creating designs and game progressions for the game “Pirate Kings.” He was responsible for designing new game assets, themes, and their many different aspects, including some of the art projects within the game. There Boaz learned how to work in a team seeing he was a free man for so long, and also learned the process of creating art within the gaming industry.

Jumping to today, Boaz is MonkeyLeague’s unique 2D Lead Artist. He is responsible for creating and supporting the creative production process, making sketches and 2D art to enable the visualization of characters, environments, backgrounds, and much more. Of course, all the ideas have to be designed from the ground up in order to create meaning and concept, which is Boaz’s specialty. So, all 3D characters, assets, and environments began as 2D illustrations done by Boaz. Up until now, he has conceptualized and sketched all field environments, in-game items such as Nutrition and Medical, and the variations of MonkeyBots. Now, he’s knee-deep into designing the storyboard for in-cut shots inside the game, like celebrations after a goal or win.

But Boaz is not only a free spirit with a passion for 2D art. He is one of the biggest Star War fans out there (seriously, his dog name is Kenobi) with a special place in his heart for music. He is a shy piano and guitar player in his free time and loves doodling, doing yoga, and making barbeque.

Favorite Game Genre: RPG

Preferred Game Console: PlayStation

Favorite Game He Has Worked On: Pirate Kings

That’s all for today’s team spotlight on Boaz Goel, MonkeyLeague’s all-star 2D Artist.

Join MonkeyLeague’s Head of Marketing, Oren Langberg, and Boaz for the 2nd episode of MonkeyTalks Live on Monday, the 14th @ 4PM UTC streaming live from MonkeyLeague, Youtube channel — where a range of issues will be discussed and drilled down with Boaz!

Much MonkeyLove

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MonkeyLeague combines high-production-value, multiplayer gaming with Solana blockchain, NFTs, and decentralized finance to deliver an exciting, turn-based, play-and-earn soccer game that’s easy to learn yet hard to master.

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Take the book and movie Ready Player One, which showed a near-future experience where people went to school, met up with friends, and even worked full time in the virtual world. The metaverse of that story was accessible to all people, with schools even handing out gear to their students so they could attend school. However, as we are beginning to see more and more interest in the metaverse (especially with Facebook’s name change to Meta and their plans for changing the game), more and more people are finding themselves in the same position as Ready Player One’s Wade Watts (in the beginning of the movie): unable to access the full potential of the metaverse due to financial limitations.

But finances are just part of the roadblocks between millions and their chances of not only experiencing, but actively participating in the metaverse. Many metaverse experiences tout their ability to focus on gameplay and create a system and place for players to purchase virtual land and digital assets, NFTs, that can be bought, sold, traded, created, and shown off. The simple fact of the matter is that, as of right now, the metaverse isn’t accessible to everyone.

Of course, there are those who dislike the metaverse concept completely, but those aren’t the ones that are the focus of this story. This story focuses on those who simply cannot afford, or who don’t have access to the knowledge they need, to gain access to the metaverse and everything that it holds. This, seemingly, makes the metaverse and other digital concepts like NFTs and cryptocurrency as a ploy for the rich to continue getting richer, creating a huge barrier for millions of people.

For companies hoping to address this limit of accessibility, there are a few definite things that need to be addressed before the metaverse truly becomes an open experience.

There are a lot of people who would be interested in joining the metaverse or purchasing NFTs and learning how to make an income, like many area already doing. However, a huge number of those people are not able to gain the knowledge that they need to be able to gather enough confidence to take the first steps.

While there is a lot of information out there about how to make money from cryptocurrency investing, for most people it is already too late for them to feel like they can even get into the market because the prices are already so high.

With the metaverse, though, many companies are just starting and emerging, creating new tokens and opportunities for new investors (like the man who was able to purchase two houses after his token value raised over 900%) to get in when prices are low enough. Particularly those in the low-mid tier income levels who are looking for options to supplement their income and possible make financial changes down the road, this is a prime opportunity for them. But they don’t know how.

Like all investments, this is a risk that investors, players, will need to put their money into and take a chance on it paying off. It is hard enough for low-mid tier income levels to focus on making enough in their day-to-day to survive and have what they want and need in the real world. But this shouldn’t stop them from being able to learn about and participate in the metaverse.

While companies may not be interested in finding this demographic and helping them to gain the skills they need to participate in the metaverse, they are a huge amount of the available market out there. Plus, with the correct knowledge, with a bit of time, this group of players might even begin to bring in even more revenue and interest to the game, and not just from big companies, celebrities, and the like.

With the bitcoin boom, the people who reaped the most benefit, in a lot of cases, were those that were able to take a chance early on. Not only did they have the knowledge of what to look for and when to jump in, but they also had the funds to do so because it was so cheap. Now, their initial investments have skyrocketed.

For some of the metaverse options hat are currently out there, there isn’t really an opportunity for players to get started without investing a huge amount of money because they’ve already begun to explode with popularity.

Take, for example, Axie Infinity, one of the current leaders in the metaverse space, whose players are primarily from the Philippines. The average start up cost for new players is approximately $500–600 USD. This is due not only on the basic cost to get started, but also the requirement that all new players purchase three Axies to create their team before they can even begin to play. Axies, the NFT creatures that you can collect, breed, buy, sell and trade in the game, start at about $135 USD each.

For players in the Philippines, middle class citizens are earning approximately $850-1500 USD each month, while low income range from about $400–800 USD a month. With more than 14 million people falling into that demographic, there is a huge potential for new players if the price is more affordable to get started.

This is definitely one of the hardest things to consider because it means not only thinking about initial profits for a company, but the long-term reach and availabilty that the metaverse they create will have for players new and old.

With the current state of the metaverse, crypto, and NFT markets being chaotic due to the frenzy and rush to create the next big ticket item that will soar in price as soon as possible, it is easy to see many of the companies developing metaverse platforms are seeking to capitalize on the buzz.

While that makes sense, for now, it is important to consider that with the promise of a true metaverse experience, players are going to want options to continue playing for a long time. Companies need to develop things that will allow players to do this, but will also allow new players to begin playing as the years pass as well.

For example, when players join an MMORPG, they are looking to become immersed in the world, the game, and the community. Companies would do well to take a page out of their books and make an enjoyable experience a priority for those who have been in there since day one and those that are just starting, years after it has launched.

While the cost of tokens, NFTs, and land throughout the metaverse can fluctuate depending on demand, by offering chances for players to earn back their investments and then some would do a lot for making the metaverse more attractive. From staking to play-to-earn opportunities, companies need to remember that those who join their metaverse are not all going to be able to invest a lot right away, and thousands of players won’t even begin playing until a lot of what was launched has already been bought up. Making the metaverse a place where players can feel invested in it, from day one, is an important part of making the metaverse a long-term opportunity.

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MetaMask is a cryptocurrency wallet that can be used as a browser extension or mobile app. When used as a browser extension it can interact with decentralized applications (aka dapps), which are web-based applications that let you interact with a supported blockchain. Most people use MetaMask with the Ethereum blockchain, but there are other supported blockchains as well. For this article we’ll focus on the Ethereum blockchain.

MetaMask allows you to seamlessly interact with web-based applications on the Ethereum blockchain. Some examples are using DEXs (de-centralized exchanges) to trade tokens, lending and borrowing, participating in liquidity pools to earn rewards, and buying and selling NFTs. Once you get started you’ll be amazed at how much is out there.

Step 1: To get started you’ll need to add the MetaMask extension to your browser. Go to https://metamask.io/download.html and click to install MetaMask for your browser. As of the writing of this guide MetaMask supports Chrome, Firefox, Brave and Edge.

You may need to confirm the extension in your browser’s web store. Here’s what it looks like for Chrome:

Step 2: This will take you to a welcome page for MetaMask. Click the Get Started button. The next page asks the question New to MetaMask? Click the Create a Wallet button under Yes, let’s get set up!

The next screen asks if you’d like to allow MetaMask to collect usage data. You can decide, neither option impacts your use of the wallet. Click No Thanks or I Agree to move to the next screen.

Step 3: Create a password. Make sure this password is secure! Use a random stream of characters, letters (lower and uppercase) and numbers. MetaMask requires at least 8 characters, I recommend at least 12. I recommend writing your password down on paper rather than using a password manager. You can keep a notebook for this purpose. Confirm your password, click the box for the Terms of Use and click Create.

Step 4: IMPORTANT! This is where you will view and write down the secret backup phrase for your wallet. The secret backup phrase is a list of words that can be used to verify and access your account. They basically represent the keys to your wallet. Anybody with your list of secret words can access your wallet. So make sure to write down your words and keep them in a secure place. I recommend writing them in a notebook. Remember that anything recorded on a device that connects to the internet (a file on your computer, a note or picture on your phone) can be hacked.

Click the grey box to view your secret words.

Write down your words in the exact order you see them. Once you have written them down click next.

The next screen will ask you to verify your words. Click the list the words in the exact order you wrote them down. Click the button to Confirm.

If you entered your works correctly you’ll get a Congratulations page. Click the All Done button. You may see a message about swapping, click the x or anywhere outside the box to close the window.

Step 5: You will now see your wallet displayed in a page on your browser. We’ll add it as a pinned extension so it’s always easy to access. On the right hand side of your address bar you should see a puzzle piece icon. Click that icon to access the extensions menu.

Click the pin icon to pin MetaMask to your browser window. You should now see the MetaMask fox icon next to the puzzle piece icon. Click the MetaMask icon to view your wallet as a browser extension.

Your wallet is now set up and you’re ready to go!