My God Bones…what have I done?
When I first watched the Enterprise speeding through the Genesis atmosphere in a ball of fire, I remember thinking, “Why?”
Why let the Enterprise crew survive a harrowing battle with one of its most challenging foes it ever faced, (Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan) and just when they start refitting one of the greatest ships in all of science fiction, they blow it up, and send its burning remains careening into Genesis.
It was one of the most epic scenes in all of film history.
Star Trek III – The Search For Spock. Kirk and a handful of his top level command officers steal the Enterprise, and outrun the new flagship of the Federation to help Bones get his mind back, and reunite Spock’s Katra with his body. In the process they discover Spock has been regenerated by the “Genesis Effect” as they run into a Klingon Captain bent on a desperate power-grab. The encounter takes place around Genesis, an experimental world of the highest magnitude. An attempt to create new life, on a lifeless planet.
Kirk’s son is killed by the Klingons, and it drives Kirk into a quiet, yet fiery rage of masked vengeance, where he allows the Klingon’s to board his ship, after they’ve set the ship’s self-destruct and beamed down to Genesis. The Klingon Captain watches helplessly as his crew is consumed in a fantastic explosion and decent into the atmosphere. Shortly after, Kruge, (The enemy Captain played perfectly by Christopher Lloyd) learns Kirk and his friends are safe on Genesis. (For the moment)
Kirk challenges him to “Come down here to get it!” (The secrets of the Genesis project)
The two have their final battle, and after defeating the one responsible for his son’s death in a blazing furnace of a planet surface being consumed by accelerated age and decline,
Kirk commands Kruge’s first officer to beam him up, impersonating Kruge on his communicator. Once onboard they hijack the Bird of Prey and head for Vulcan.
As a child I was blown away by this movie. There was some disappointment from critics at the time, and even by some today who say this is definitely not as quality a film as say its predecessor, because the crew had to abandon their iconic ship in a last ditch, fraught-with-hopeless-despair effort to survive.
They blew up the Enterprise.
But that was what set III apart from so many films, even in its own series. It set the “self-destruct” precedent as one of the most badass ways to defeat your enemy, and versions of it have been recreated in movies, decade, after decade since.
To those who would continue to shove Star Trek II in my face when I attempt to bask in the glory of III: I realize the Khan-Kirk rivalry goes way back. I also know that some great lines came from II, and its score was nominated for awards. Yes, it even contains a scene where Kirk makes 16 or so, “choke my crying down” facial gestures at Spock’s funeral. (Just before they blast him into space! I know, right?)
Star Trek III is its own movie. It has Doc Emmet Brown from the ‘Back To The Future’ trilogy playing a foaming-at-the-mouth Klingon who must be reckoned with. I know, I know… there’s the kind of awkward pong farr scene where Spock has to quickly go through puberty too, but listen.
They Steal the Enterprise. Then, they blow up the Enterprise in a huge middle finger to one of the biggest adversaries of the Federation, hijack their ship, and fly back home. It’s Kirk at his finest.
Ok. Why bring all this up?
We in Crypto are witnessing, and living one of the biggest, most epic scenes ever play out. The yin to the yang. The flipside of digital asset investing. The destruction of the Enterprise. Even for me, a TRX lifer, it was a deep psychological blow to see bitcoin come down to the 8k range recently. As deep as it was to see the Enterprise fall to its doom.
I am however, a hodler. I sleep well knowing that we all have the rest of 2018 ahead of us. Oh did I mention 2019? 2020?
Why the market has declined to this extent has seen a few potentially logical explanations given for some contributing factors, like the subpoenas issued by the CFTC to Bitfinex, and Tether. Though that is unfortunate press to hear for any currency trader, crypto-exchanges answer legal questions from regulatory bodies on a frequent basis, and I don’t buy that’s the ‘big’ root cause of the last few day’s continued decline.
All of this feels and looks as if it’s by design.
Tinfoil hat, maybe?
I’ve heard a few rumors through the internet grapevines that btc futures have allowed wall street an “in” for their own manipulation. It wouldn’t take much to influence the value of our small crypto-market. I say ‘small’ when compared to other larger internet-based markets like Google, Amazon, etc.
Though these are just rumors: For someone to make a statement like this one when they only speak officially on such matters if they know something is a sure thing, and say what they said, when they said it, seems too easy to associate with what’s currently happening to us all who have begun to invest our lives in crypto. Maybe they’re right, to some degree. Maybe this is all just a failed bubble of our own making. Maybe Warren Buffett was just speaking from his many wise years of investment experience to an ill-prepared, young and budding crypto-market. I’ve heard those responsible for the current downturn want to see btc “decoupled” from the altcoins.
Either way… today is definitely not the day to sell, for Spock’s sake.
If anything, it is time to buy.
TRX is, according some sources, at a floor like the rest of the market. Today. (Or the beginning of one)
I hope their estimates are accurate. I am very confident in Tron and TRX. They’re attempting to ‘boldly go’ where no one has gone before in an evolving frontier, and have a great head start.
TRX is now listed on Cryptopia.
There have been new exchanges taking on TRX, every week. The more access to this sparkling gem, the more it will be traded and used.
Currently there are over 12 exchanges where TRX can be purchased (@ $.039!):
liqui.io, hitbtc.com, bit-z.com, bitfinex.com, huobi.io, gatecoin.com, qryptos.com, yobit.net, mercatox.com, etherdelta.com, abucoins.com, tidex.com and Binance.com, with most of the volume being traded on Binance.
Beta Launch
The launch of Tron’s beta version is scheduled for March 31st. Chen Zhiqiang, TRON’s head tech, said the main network will contain several advantages over existing blockchain systems, including improved performance, over 1,000 transactions per second and ultra-low fees. The launch will include the TRON virtual machine (TVM), which will allow smart contracts development in multiple languages, including Java, which will then by compiled into byte-code by the TRON compiler. (Coinburn also still scheduled for March!)
Another great addition to the Tron Labs Team –
From the Tron Labs Medium Blog: Former Baidu and Meituan senior technical engineer Edison Wu formally joined TRON technical team, who is mainly responsible for native code research and smart contract research. With an extensive education and work history in the field, he is another highly skilled individual added to a long list of valuable team members!
You know what happened to the crew after they blew up the Enterprise in Star Trek III? (They did ride in a hijacked Klingon Bird of Prey for a film, but) In the end, they got a new Enterprise. The ‘A’.
If this is the end of btc as we know it, as #1 on all the listings…Don’t worry – there will be another!
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