On the afternoon of Thursday 28th of January, the sky was a subtle but pleasant mix of white and a very light grey. I hadn’t noticed it until I stepped out of the GA1, the bus that is being used to used to replace the Gawler Central train while they are electrifying the railway line, and onto North Terrace, beside the Adelaide Casino.
I had decided to see if I could do my Splinterlands daily quests by the time I got from the casino to The Jade pub for the monthly Adelaide Hive meetup. I now have it on my mobile phone and can grind out matches.
Occasionally small droplets of rain would land on the screen of the phone, interrupting my enjoyment temporarily before I wiped the screen clean with my T-shirt, as I walked along Rundle Mall.
Eventually, I made it to The Jade pub and met with 
Normally, 
It turns out that I did eventually make my daily quest on Splinterlands, but not until a few minutes after I got to the pub.
The Jade
The obligatory statue photo at The JadeThere was a rather weak threat of rain, which forced us to change tables but that threat, like most threats was largely unfounded.
We got to catching up and talking about movies and television and pretty soon the focus came around to all things Hive.
Especially when it comes to all things crypto / block-chain / Hive related.
While we were talking, I got a few email notifications from Coinspot, my local exchange. Apparently there were password attempts to get into my account.
I somehow already knew this, but getting the emails from Coinspot unsettled me a little. I have 2 Factor Identification on my account anyway.
Since then I have seen numerous phishing attempts in my emails.
I decided to order a toasted sandwich from the nearby food stall.
The chicken toasty. Not bad for $4!What was discussed?
As a general rule, the meetings are sort of hush hush but I can talk about things in general terms.
We talked about the raffle tickets with Splinterlands after the land sale. I own 3 plots of land and will probably mine them for resources when land comes online.
We also discussed some of the cheaper, but highly undervalued Splinterlands cards, and how they work at higher ranks and with the new rule sets.
Account creation tokens and a reminder to accumulate them when your resource credits are full. Just go through the pull down menu on the HP section in your wallet.
Shhh... “There’s a bot that helps to buy NFT game cards within dcity.io”.
You can invest in Bitcoin, ETH, Litecoin, dogecoin, etc. via hive-engine.com by buying the corresponding .swap token. For example, Bitcoin would be SWAP.BTC and so on.
Living Room Of Satoshi allows you to pay your FIAT bills like electricity, gas, etc. with crypto. It’s an expensive process, but you’re paying for convenience.
Plus, you can use this service via Hive-Engine if you have the appropriate swap token (don’t quote me on that)
Incredible stuff!
I decided to buy a little Bitcoin this way and it’s going well. (Not financial advice).
The down side to this is that you might draw attention to yourself paying bills this way.
Pretty soon, it was time to go and
As always, I can’t wait for next month!
Why not consider making a local Hive meet up of your own? Don’t wait for Hivefest!
Anyway, thanks for reading this.
Until next time, keep on Hiving on.
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