Quit your Friggin Job #3 – Ahhhh Energy    

“Oh, the energy was just wonderful". Energy, the word itself emits power right out of the mouth. Is it the force behind all that we know? Mmmm, ok.   

If you hang around this lake long enough you get to hear about all the mystical, spiritual, holistical and whoknowsical kinds of energies swirling around all sorts of retreat, meditation, healing, yoga whatever centers that pop up here and there along the hillsides and in the valleys. “Be at one with your own energy - for a first world price”, is kind of how it works I think. I do admire those entrepreneurs that have quit their friggin jobs at one point to live out their dreams of spreading their brand of enlightenment. I’ve not much time or cash for that jazz though and I find myself a bit of inner peace sitting up in the tree platform I build. It’s a kind of place you can really just take it all in; the bird sounds, the lake views, lush green valley and cliff walls with waterfalls streaming down in lines. 

Even in such natural bliss my mind wanders to the cryptoverse and how to wisely interact at this time. I think it’s best to stick to what I know and principles that have been proven to provide positive outcomes. Let’s keep going through the Permaculture principles and see how we can relate them to the world of crypto currency.   

Perma-Crypto-Culture Principle #2 – Catch and Store energy    

Cycle energy through a site is what they say for this one. In the world of sustainable design this means using any sort of energy entering your land in as many ways as possible and try to minimize leaking useable resources off the site. Energy here comes in the form of water and sunlight and to an extent wind as well and animal activities. For example, if you have water running from the high point through the land and out of the lower point in a quick straight line, not really doing much but looking pretty well that’s an opportunity right there for a bounty of neat systems to be implemented. You could first re-route the water so it runs slowly along the contour lines of the land forming a winding river which better sinks water into the surrounding soil and provides for rich planting areas along the banks and newly irrigated nearby areas. You could build a pond with a small spillway and start an aquaponics system which is like a natural hydroponics fertilization system with fish. Depending on your flow and ingenuity you could install a water wheel and produce energy to power a small something or other. The more systems you cycle energy through the more systems grow which in turn attracts more energy like birds, bees and animal life. Another way to think about it with animals is like this. You have your chickens, which help produce fertilized soil which you use to grow corn which you use to feed your chickens. Simple. Now how can we relate this to the cryptoverse?    

Let’s start by talking about some of the alt coins that actually grow when you hold onto them in one of their software wallets. I just recently learned that I was foolishly holding all my ANS on my Bittrex market online wallet, which is always a foolish thing to do I know … but you know. If you hold them in your Antcoin wallet you can generate dividends just by being an investor and keeping them there untouched. Keep them on Bittrex? Well, then Bittrex just siphons off that interest for themselves in what I’m sure is a sweet deal for their company. 

I’ve started to use a site called CoinX where you use your paypal account combined with a bitcoin wallet. When you add some bitcoin you become eligible to become a lender of bitcoin and are payed back with interest which accumulates back into your paypal account or you can use it to add more bitcoin to your savings. Again, simple.   

Even crypto mining, which is bit beyond my studies at the moment, is basically using electrical energy to power cpu’s to solve complex equations to prove they have done work which produces crypto coins that power the finances of the crypto universe.    

The cult like leader of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, explains "It uses incentives defined inside of a system in order to protect and secure that systems ongoing existence." and further goes on to talk about how this is an interesting philosophical idea and these built in 'inner incentives' keep the system functioning are truly the core innovation of cryptocurrency.  On the cover of what is known to be the Permaculture Bible (Old Testimate perhaps) called 'An Introduction to Permaculture' by Bill Mollison there is depicted a multiply layered forest system framed in an oval by a snake which is consuming it’s own tail.    

It seems what we are talking about here is any way for one to interact within the cryptoverse and generate more cryptocurrency at the same time. The entire act of just buying and using your cryptocurrency is a cycle itself whereby you are making use of your holdings which in turn makes them more useful and helps them evolve to be more useable and adapted by more people and systems therefore making them more valuable.  

So those are my two cents on catching and storing energy with your crypto investments. Give a up vote, a follow or whatever helps out. Next time we are going to cover the third and very exciting principle: 

                                          Obtain a Yield 

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