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The Power of Bitcoin

Last Updated: October 30, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Power Behind Bitcoin

The amount of power that goes into securing Bitcoin has long been a heated discussion point. To compare Bitcoin with another big experiment; the Hadron collider in Europe supposedly uses 1.3TWh per year and Bitcoin is estimated to use 22 TWh per year. One project is aiming to test theories about physics to potentially discover new understandings and […]

Filed Under: Blockchain

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Last Updated: November 5, 2018

Giant Cookie Art for Pilots

Giant Cookie Art for Pilots #TeamWork #GlutenFree #Baking #Cooking #Cookies

Filed Under: General, Photos Tagged With: #Baking, #Cookies, #Cooking, #GlutenFree, #TeamWork

Disclaimer: Not actual icebreaker sheep.

Last Updated: June 18, 2018 Leave a Comment

Icebreaker Quantum Gloves Review

I just bought my second pair of these gloves after losing my first. They have served me well for the past 3 years in the dry of winters from 10°C to -25°C. The smartphone touchscreen tips work well as long as you have the correct size (otherwise the seam can get in the way). Highly […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: #Icebreaker, #Reviews

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Last Updated: October 11, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Crackdown on Cryptocurrency Marketing & What To Do Next

As soon as government bodies began declaring certain crypto tokens as securities, it was clear that more eyes would begin looking at how cryptocurrencies were being marketed. One of the biggest events in this timeline was the banning of all cryptocurrency advertising on the Facebook platform in January this year. Ads which had previously passed […]

Filed Under: Blockchain, Marketing Tagged With: #basic-attention-token, #Coinzilla, #Facebook Ads, #Google AdWords, #Mailchimp, #Twitter Advertising

Animoji Poo

Last Updated: September 14, 2017 Leave a Comment

FaceID, TouchID, & The Security of The Biometric Selfie

At the time of writing this Apple have just announced their new iPhone X phone offering FaceID. What is FaceID? Well it uses a complicated mixture of infrared and dot projecting technology to scan your face and confirm that you are really you. Beyond the technology that actually makes it happen, it sounds simple to […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: #Biometrics, #infosec, #iPhone X, #Passwords, #Security

Advanced ActiveCampaign Tracking

Last Updated: July 22, 2017 Leave a Comment

Advanced ActiveCampaign Site Tracking Plugin for WordPress

ActiveCampaign (AC) offer a feature in their marketing automation platform to track user activity on your site and use it to trigger events. By default it only know who your users are if they interact with AC forms or emails during a session, however today I’ve released an Advanced ActiveCampaign Site Tracking plugin on GitHub that […]

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: #ActiveCampaign, #Marketing Automation, #Plugins

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Last Updated: October 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

The Layers of Functionality Within WordPress

WordPress Core Provides CMS (Content Management System) like functionality through admin dashboard. This is essentially a core software layer that provides you with the ability to easily create and manage a website with custom content and settings stored in a MySQL database. It was originally designed to make the creation of blogging sites simpler however […]

Filed Under: General, WordPress

Plugin Patron

Last Updated: July 7, 2017 1 Comment

[Product Idea] Plugin Patron: WordPress Plugin Donations as a Service

One of the great things about WordPress is that there are thousands of free plugins. One of the downsides of WordPress for developers is that users expect amazing software for free. Of course this leads many to adopt a premium (paid) or freemium (paid extras) model. What if there were a way to easily and […]

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: #Donations, #Open Source, #Plugin Patron

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Last Updated: October 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

How to Register Your ENS Identity on the Ethereum Blockchain

Earlier this year the Ethereum Name Service was launched to enable human readable addresses for the Ethereum Blockchain. One potential use case for this is to establish your personal identity on the Blockchain. Whilst Blockchain Identities may not be a big thing right now there are a lot of people working on interesting identity related […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: #Blockchain, #ENS, #Ethereum

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Last Updated: October 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

EOS Release Technical Whitepaper

Block.One release the EOS Technical Whitepaper https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/TechnicalWhitePaper.md #Blockchain

Filed Under: General Tagged With: #Blockchain, #EOS

IPDB - Interplanetary Database

Last Updated: June 13, 2017 Leave a Comment

Are IPDB & IPFS the Web Stack of the future?

Today I discovered there is a team working on creating a decentralised blockchain database system called IPDB (Interplanetary Database). They have stated they are building the project with a focus on strong governance, decentralised control and universal accessibility. If the economic model works for storing larger amounts of data then this could be the database system […]

Filed Under: Blockchain Tagged With: #Decentralisation, #Filecoin, #IPDB, #IPFS

Blockchain Token Sale

Last Updated: June 2, 2017 Leave a Comment

How An “Overpriced” $35 Million USD Blockchain Token Sale For A Product That Doesn’t Exist Sold Out in Less Than a Minute & Why It Will Happen Again

Brave Software Inc is one of the latest companies to sell out a Token Sale (a.k.a. ICO – Initial Coin Offering) in a matter of minutes. With a stated goal of raising $24 Million USD they sold 1 Billion “Basic Attention Tokens” (BAT). They sold these tokens in exchange for Ether (ETH) over the Ethereum […]

Filed Under: Blockchain Tagged With: #BAT, #Brave, #Ethereum, #ICO, #Token Sales

WordPress TV Advert Screenshot

Last Updated: May 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

WordPress TV Ads: “Free to be” Campaign

WordPress announced last year that they were going to really start investing in marketing. As anyone who knows me will tell you, WordPress and Marketing are two things I follow closely. So when I got an email from Matt Mullenweg (Co-Founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic) stating they had released the first WordPress TV […]

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: #Advertising, #Marketing, #TV Advertising

Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic

Last Updated: March 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic: What is the difference?

Recently the Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic question came up. As somebody who actively witnessed the launch of both in real time, I thought it worth sharing some of the facts and my resulting opinions. So let’s get started… What is the difference between Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic? Ethereum (ETH) is a blockchain based system inspired by Bitcoin […]

Filed Under: Blockchain Tagged With: #Decentralisation, #Ethereum, #Ethereum Classic, #The DAO

SCUBA Diving Ratu Kini Fiji

Last Updated: October 29, 2018 Leave a Comment

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course with Ratu Kini Dive at Mana Island in Fiji‎

A selection of footage from a PADI training dive at Ratu Kini in Fiji. Only got to film video at 1 out of 5 dive sites and this was my first GoPro video.

Filed Under: Adventures

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