DECENTRALIZED FINANCE

Last Edited 9/15/2021|By Jesse J Rogers

Dogecoin’s 12,000% price increase towards the beginning of the year might have landed on your radar.

It’s possible that you read the New York Times article about how an image you can easily copy to your computer right now for free somehow sold for half a million dollars.

But by this point, you’ve almost certainly heard the news that a sovereign nation has just made Bitcoin (BTC) legal tender.

There’s a lot of dots to connect and some of them frankly seem a bit silly. …

Decentralized Finance

By HogeFather, aka Jesse J Rogers

PALM BEACH — After months of shilling Hoge to everyone I know, I expected my home state of Florida to account for an increasingly higher share of search volume than other states. Nope. Humbling — but no, Jess. That’s not how this thing works.

According to Google Trends, the search term “hoge” is most popular in North Dakota and Iowa, dropping off significantly after that. …

CRYPTOCURRENCY

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Doge took 12 and 7 years respectively to get to the stage that they’re at. Doge briefly touched 1 cent in 2018, before dropping to a fraction of that and languishing for 3 long years.

Just imagine that you had bought at the peak of 2018, and immediately watched the money you put into it simply melt away into unrealized losses. It would be crushing, wouldn’t it?

But suppose you got a visit from your future self (presumably they’re so rich they could afford a time machine). That future self assures you, “don’t worry, in 2021…

SOCIAL MEDIA

By HogeFather, aka Jesse J Rogers

This morning I went to check on Lunarcrush to see how Hoge Finance is doing, and was presented with a bit of a surreal surprise. Apparently, according to them I’m the #1 influencer at Hoge Finance now (they’re obviously not counting Scotty and Adam who primarily produce other kinds of content), surpassing even the official @hogefinance Twitter account. Official has a much higher follower count, but I’m still on top because of engagement.

Uh oh.

Translation: I’m spending way too much time on Twitter, and not nearly enough time on things that are the…

CRYPTO GAMING

By Jesse J Rogers, aka Hogefather

The HOGE community couldn’t be more excited to take #HOGEeverywhere into the world of Fortnite. And we’re doing it with two of our favorite people. The event is scheduled for 8pm ET on August 8, on the @HogeGaming Twitch channel.

Who is Adam?

Adam Rose is quite possibly the most entertaining man to ever wear a blue cardigan sweater. Fortnite has literally paid him to incorporate his Tik Tok dance into their game.

Check out his skills at Fortnite after only one fortnight.

Who is Scotty?

Scotty Sire is the musician who among many other things is known for…

My friend and colleague Dr. Andy Plotkin recently contributed an article to the Orlando Sentinel about the Billionaire Space Race.

I believe privatized space travel is an incredibly important subject, which is why I assured Andy in a meeting we had the other day that I’d weigh in with a response.

In this commentary, I’ll first give consideration to Andy’s perspective, and then in typical Jesse fashion I’ll take the discussion on some wild, unexpected tangents that will hopefully leave some readers utterly delighted, while others surely become annoyed.

To briefly recap, for anyone who refused to disable their adblocker…

Finanzas Descentralizadas

Escrito Por Jesse J Rogers, Hogefather

Perdone la traducción automática. Quiero que las audiencias de habla hispana tengan acceso a esta información, pero no tengo los recursos para nada más sofisticado.

Si lo piensas bien, una gran cantidad de trabajo humano ya es algo extraño.

Con el autopago, no necesitamos cajeros. Con la conducción autónoma, no necesitaremos conductores de camiones. Nunca necesitamos saludos de Walmart. Y así sigue y sigue. No es simplemente que el avance tecnológico hará que nuestros trabajos se vuelvan obsoletos. El problema es que muchos de estos trabajos inventados no eran realmente necesarios para empezar.

Es…

DECENTRALIZED FINANCE

By Jesse J Rogers, aka Hogefather

If you think about it, a large amount of human labor is already somewhat extraneous.

With self-checkout, we don’t need cashiers. With autonomous driving, we won’t need truckdrivers. We never needed Walmart greeters. On and on it goes. It isn’t simply that technological advance will make our jobs obsolete. The issue is that so many of these made-up jobs weren’t really needed to begin with.

That’s a bitter pill to swallow if you gain a sense of pride from the work you do. But if you hated working to begin with because it feels…