<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:58:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@jenkinrocket/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe Hive is Where it Needs to Be: Playing Devil's Advocate with Myself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Often, to fully understand and stress test your opinion, you must consider the opposite opinion. A few days ago I began to talk about my frustrations with this platform (despite my love for it!), being]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/maybe-hive-is-where-it-needs-to-be-playing-devils-advocate-with-myself</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/maybe-hive-is-where-it-needs-to-be-playing-devils-advocate-with-myself</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone Alive is Your Contemporary]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 100 years, if the human race or whatever follows it is still around, 90 to 99% of everything that feels incredibly important to us will be either taken for granted or totally forgotten. Can you remember]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/everyone-alive-is-your-contemporary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/everyone-alive-is-your-contemporary</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Does Crypto Go Down With the Stock Market?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's a question I've had on my mind for some time now. People in the crypto community think of the stock market as being part of a legacy monetary ecosystem, one that we are forced to take part in but]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/why-does-crypto-go-down-with-the-stock-market</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/why-does-crypto-go-down-with-the-stock-market</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hive the Bank vs Hive the Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[I seem to be on a kick about making improvements to Hive, so we'll keep it going with this post. You can make a pretty penny simply by letting HBD sit in your account undisturbed. You can make almost as]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/hive-the-bank-vs-hive-the-platform</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/hive-the-bank-vs-hive-the-platform</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:13:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts on the Hive Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was reading this post by @acidyo and it reminded me about a lot of my thoughts about how this platform should evolve going forward. I know for a fact that my thoughts will be considered controversial]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/thoughts-on-the-hive-platform</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/thoughts-on-the-hive-platform</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:19:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Return to Hive]]></title><description><![CDATA[My last post on the chain was in 2023, 3 years ago. Much has changed with me personally since then. I went back to school and am on the verge of graduating (if all goes well this semester). The obstacles]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/a-return-to-hive</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/a-return-to-hive</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:38:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Original Steem User's Vision of the Future. First Post in Over Two Years!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's been over two years since I've written a post here. Yes, my account is from way, way back when Hive was Steem and just getting started. It was an exciting and electrifying time, when it seemed that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/an-original-steem-users-vision-of-the-future-first-post-in-over-two-years</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/an-original-steem-users-vision-of-the-future-first-post-in-over-two-years</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:31:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anime Review: Btoom!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like much of the anime I run into, I have no idea when or where it was that I first ran into Btoom! I only know that watching it was quite a bit of fun. Normally I don't go for the whole "player wakes]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-158489/@jenkinrocket/anime-review-btoom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-158489/@jenkinrocket/anime-review-btoom</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-158489]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 02:13:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQ9UQfreDtYj72uWz4YuAE9noQvJFvGcE2F7MQe7QwPJmgTcE2g863UL1vzqf9DTXSCr2h5bsoQe1kWbVufCMt7jnYUdBsgZVKQEHGVNJ1UPvA5iAaSKvdC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyperautomation: The Future of Exponentially Competing Paradigms]]></title><description><![CDATA[I keep seeing articles about a new buzz word that's come into being: hyperautomation. 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She couldn’t remember his name, but knew he was the eldest. The middle child had proposed to her. “Let’s hang]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-132410/@jenkinrocket/children-of-cradle-a-hive-exclusive-sci-fi-novel-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-132410/@jenkinrocket/children-of-cradle-a-hive-exclusive-sci-fi-novel-part-2</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-132410]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 23:10:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLHiutyDUhq55RxSrqCMeLDUkaS77tAn3ck7CxkYFAsvEDSVjVMqzsAjQhwMTTFDkxtkvdfc2ao699PZjE2D2YjLBtd4VHnLvqbqUufu4eeUmrP85UFev?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Blockchains are the Best Way to Organize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instinctively most of us know that an individual will be smarter than a large group of people on average. 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It's late, I'm tired. Instead of sticking to my usual schedule, I decided]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/things-running-on-my-computer-when-its-late</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/things-running-on-my-computer-when-its-late</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 04:52:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQ9UQfreDtYj72uWz4YuADWm3pYLoDZLzMKoiHs2phoAptj8hUj4MQj4dMwjLHpLkgnN2DB7B5Jcu5qBvHnB88qGXnj5ZRtrgLK5jrFx9zGjvB44ieZV7dg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Future of Visiting the Past: Blockchain, Communication, and the Age of Immutability]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was going down memory lane, looking through many of my old comments, articles, and conversations, when I began to realize another important accident of the blockchain and the internet in general: Your]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/the-new-future-of-visiting-the-past-blockchain-communication-and-the-age-of-immutability</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@jenkinrocket/the-new-future-of-visiting-the-past-blockchain-communication-and-the-age-of-immutability</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jenkinrocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 04:54:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQ9UQfreDtYj72uWz4YuADWo7rt3Kz5Vx6b2A5GZvVqfK3n2uuEpFJrbMHuUGyJpf7p2yrRUwFxqVV49wvyZEGNgVCKktgryFoRUPEWcvyvT6PdVQNPKgkW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage Ninja Turtles II Arcade V.S. 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