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I make some time to explore publishing platform and social media in crypto space. Recently it was expanding and added few exiting features that ride the meme coins wave.

Originally, I just wanted to visit this publishing platform caller Mirror. It was kinda similar like Substack but the underlying stack was based on crypto. It was stored in blockchain, NFT, yada yada yada. You got the idea. I understand it was bought by similar platform called Paragraph, which using crypto stack too.

While Mirror has few interesting features, per ChatGPT, eventually it will merge into Paragraph. I was advised to use Paragraph instead investing my time in Mirror. Registered in Paragraph. Smooth experience. So not yet reach Substack level in term of functionality and features. But I believe sooner or later they will add all those things that Substack has.

What’s interesting is that, recently they activated this coin features. It turns your post (or stories as they call it) into a single (meme) coin. Which means EACH post is tradeable. User can buy the coin by “Support” the post. It set default price for you to buy; either $1, $5 and $10. You then receive the coin and obviously you can sell the coin afterwards.

The same goes to Zora. I take Zora as same like Instagram. The UI or layout looks like underground zine. My feed full of AI generated content. Not really pretty. Zora need to do some curation. Maybe update their algo. Zora did the same thing. The turned EACH post as coin and tradeable. Even better, each user profile now is also coin and tradeable. Amazing.

Doom scrolling will give it benefit finally. You just need to deposit some ETH into your wallet and be the early adopter.

But I don’t know what the value and benefit here. There’s millions of tradeable coin now. The meme coins with thousands of launchpad still not enough. It just feels like this going to make users keep on chasing that carrot without any finishing line. Are we really that desperate to make money? (I am yes actually :P)

Per what they say, the intention is noble. I have no issue with it. For some users its true and really bring value to them. But what will be the impact then? On social, on economic and life value. Probably in the coming generation, their value is based on their profile market cap.

Now this coin feature was shipped, I hope the platform could lower their priority on this and pivot their focus on something else.

I think the best way to play this game is to buy the platform’s official coin. Then wait. Chasing the coin inside the platform will not go anywhere. But I still want to play. As a social experiment. And let’s see what’s the result later.

I make some time to explore publishing platform and social media in crypto space. Recently it was expanding and added few exiting features that ride the meme coins wave.

Originally, I just wanted to visit this publishing platform caller Mirror. It was kinda similar like Substack but the underlying stack was based on crypto. It was stored in blockchain, NFT, yada yada yada. You got the idea. I understand it was bought by similar platform called Paragraph, which using crypto stack too.

While Mirror has few interesting features, per ChatGPT, eventually it will merge into Paragraph. I was advised to use Paragraph instead investing my time in Mirror. Registered in Paragraph. Smooth experience. So not yet reach Substack level in term of functionality and features. But I believe sooner or later they will add all those things that Substack has.

What’s interesting is that, recently they activated this coin features. It turns your post (or stories as they call it) into a single (meme) coin. Which means EACH post is tradeable. User can buy the coin by “Support” the post. It set default price for you to buy; either $1, $5 and $10. You then receive the coin and obviously you can sell the coin afterwards.

The same goes to Zora. I take Zora as same like Instagram. The UI or layout looks like underground zine. My feed full of AI generated content. Not really pretty. Zora need to do some curation. Maybe update their algo. Zora did the same thing. The turned EACH post as coin and tradeable. Even better, each user profile now is also coin and tradeable. Amazing.

Doom scrolling will give it benefit finally. You just need to deposit some ETH into your wallet and be the early adopter.

But I don’t know what the value and benefit here. There’s millions of tradeable coin now. The meme coins with thousands of launchpad still not enough. It just feels like this going to make users keep on chasing that carrot without any finishing line. Are we really that desperate to make money? (I am yes actually :P)

Per what they say, the intention is noble. I have no issue with it. For some users its true and really bring value to them. But what will be the impact then? On social, on economic and life value. Probably in the coming generation, their value is based on their profile market cap.

Now this coin feature was shipped, I hope the platform could lower their priority on this and pivot their focus on something else.

I think the best way to play this game is to buy the platform’s official coin. Then wait. Chasing the coin inside the platform will not go anywhere. But I still want to play. As a social experiment. And let’s see what’s the result later.

Despite my deep love to this Twenty Fifteen theme, its time to say goodbye and move on. The theme has been nothing but good to me. The very basic, minimalist but elegant design always make me use this theme for most of my projects. But its time to move on with the new way of doing things. I’m updating to Twenty Twenty Five now.

Wishing happy holidays to you and your families. I’m taking a break while taking the opportunity to push my projects to the market as conversion is high! Here to another blessed of year.

Have you ever met someone who use #deodorant as #perfume? Well, nothing wrong with it (depend on your pov), but…

Recently I made a google a form in sense to track how much money I gave to my kids. In different pov, for my kids to track how much money I own them hahaha (because I don’t hold much cash in hand). So instead of inserting data into spreadsheet, we could use the google form as data feeder for standard input and more user friendly (in my opinion), then connect it with google sheet at the backend. After that, it came to my mind a whole lot of other things that I could and want to track using the same method, sex tracker, how many times I went out with my buddies, how many times I called my mom etc. Obsessed for a while. This actually deferred to you to keep on download various new app to your phone for that kind of purpose.

Doesn’t feel like weekend since the problem I try to solve didn’t get solved yet. More than 5 hours and counting

Any update on the WordPress drama? I first know about the news from opinion articles written by Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner. Kinda shock and witty. Following the timeline of what happened, it’s an act of cry for help, I think. But I don’t know, as I don’t know Matt personally. Everyone has their own intention and agenda. People is looking how they can benefit from the drama. Not me.