I woke up for work today. I am traveling tomorrow for work. While traveling, I won't be using my home internet connection nor gadgets (xbox, light switches with BT, apple TV with Alexa, and my regular mobile phone, etc ), so I leave them connected and sleeping, as I always do ( I personally restart every 2-3 months ) .
My laptop and other smart gadgets, are logged into a network that uses their wireless, processing or storage capabilities on demand, I configured them to be available to serve nodes of this network, only when they are connected to the internet and power sources and when idle. ( not when I am using them ). Today I take the laptops with me, but tomorrow, I will leave them connected to the power source so I can make some profit out of my wifi when I am not a home*.
I get into my car and realize the tank is empty. On my way to the gas station I stop by for a McMuffin and I get 1 McCoffee point as a loyalty reward when I pay with my phone, or plastic card (debit/credit). 5 McCoffe points are equivalent to a large coffe at McDonalds, and I accumulate about 3 per week. I can exchange them at any McDonalds wordlwide, with one difference, in Costa Rica, I get 1 coffee every 5 points, but in Europe, I can get 1 coffee every 4 points. I have an explanation for this, but it doesn't come to the case.
I stop for gas, there is a brand new Subaru Imprezza STi at this gas station, every $20 on gas, you accumulate one coupon for participating on a ramble. I like to this station first of all, cause of the car being raffled, and second, cause they accept digital payments and when you pay with your phone, you are automatically given a digital coupon, and you are automatically participating on the raffle and will be notified in case you win. On the other gas stations, they still give you paper coupons that usually end up disposed unfilled cause I am in a hurry, plus they raffle Toyota Yaris instead of Subarus..
Day 2:
It is saturday, I took my flight overnight and arrived well, today I woke up late and breakfast was over, so I went out to get some and theonly place I found open and nearby was a Subway(R). Went in and when I was paying my order, the card got rejected.. I forgot to call the bank to inform I was traveling and that physical international charges should be available for the country I was visiting and the period I was visiting it. No panic, I see they accept Digital Currencies, only their national one, probably due to regulations, but that is no problem, they have open WIFI, so I ask for the QR Code, and I pay with my phone.
I come back to the hotel, but instead of doing an international call to the bank, to authorize my credit card, I log into my Ether Waller and transfer some ETH over to my daily use wallet. Then I log into my credit provider website ( I opened an account months ago, that is based on my buying records on digital currencies, untied from my local banks and fiat currencies ), and increase my credit limit and security settings for my traveling period. For the rest of my trip, I only used my phone to pay on either debit or credit everywhere, including the bike rental service, taxis, buses and metro.
Back at Costa Rica, I go to Burguer King and oh no!! is says it is closed until further notice. Back at home, I search on Google and it turns out the local franchise went bankrupcy months ago and I never read of it.. too bad. I immediately remember I had a bunch of BKpoints in my BKWallet cause I never have the phone with me when I go there, but their system has my national ID or phone number tied to my BKWallet account, so I do get my BKpoints when I pay with cash or plastic. So I take my phone and check the price of each BKpoint on the wordwide market, it is $0.1 per point and I have 180, so, around $18 on BKpoints that I won't be able to use anytime soon.
I decide I don't want to keep this BKpoints, so I tap the exchange tab on my wallet and exchange the BKpoints ($18) directly for McCoffee points, and I get 36 McCoffee points in return, directly loaded into my McWallet, which I use way more often.
I go to check my file sharing and processing and mining stats and I smile when I see that the the file sharing network produced 1 file coin and the mining devices around the house produced 3 iotas all together. This is all profit, mostly from the unused wifi. Since I have solar panels that produce 2 power coins per day and since I am not home, the house alone only consumes 0.7 power coins at day, including the computers and devices being on. I also feel glad I didn't have to configure nor call a technician to configure all of this devices and networks, I add a mind note: I need to rate that app I used with 5 stars cause this all worked right out of the box as soon as I installed the app and it scanned the wifi network.
Note: This is a draft I wrote at lunch and I think perhaps it should be called tales from a crypto near future, with each tale representing a different use case.
I on purpose tried to avoid any reference to blockchain, BTC and any coin to not confuse anyone not familiar with crypto terminology nor technology at a whitepaper understanding level.
WIP