It’s unusual for me to stretch my reading of a fiction book over a number of weeks. I think the last time I did this was with Nicola Griffith’s Hild (for much the same reason, I needed uninterrupted time to pay attention). I am now more than a halfway through, and unless it ...
In the crypto world, an airdrop works the same way. A new blockchain project wants people to know about it, so they “drop” free tokens into the digital wallets of potential users. Sometimes, all you need to do is hold a specific token or sign up with interest, and voila! You get...
It is a very special place. This unusual place was not originally a zoo. At first it was called the Forked River Animal Care Center. The workers there looked after lost or unwanted cats and dogs. Today the center is part of the zoo, but now many other kinds of animals are helped ...
Second only to the illegal drug trade, it is thought to be worth more than illegal arms, and may net $10 billion a year. Tropical fish, birds (particularly parrots), and other animals are captured and sold as pets. Some—like turtles, whales and sharks—are prized as delicacies. Q) ...
Odontoceti: The Toothed Whales The members of Odontoceti, which include dolphins and porpoises, lack baleen and instead feature a row of sharp, conical teeth perfect for catching fish. When it comes to whale food, fish reign supreme among toothed whales. There are more than 76 toothed whale ...
It’s late autumn in the Arctic Ocean(大西洋). The water is covered with ice. It’s difficult for the white whales to breathe, so they come up to find openings in the ice to get enough air. As the winter is coming, they know it’s time to leave. A group of about a hundred wh...
At one point, it wasn’t unusual to see users paying more in gas than the value of the tokens they were trading. The situation was wild, and Uniswap was right at the center of the storm.In August 2020, Uniswap hit over $1 billion in daily trading volume, and Ethereum just couldn’...
The youngest NFT millionaire, Benyamin Ahmed, launched his “Weird Whales” collection at the age of 12 in June 2021 and quickly amassed over $1 million worth of cryptocurrency. This collection, featuring pixelated whale images, became a viral sensation, with some pieces selling for as much as...
As we use the internet, we need to be more vigilant than ever to separate truth from falsehood and recognize what's important over what's popular.
It's a good idea to pay attention to what the whales are doing if you're a crypto investor, but movement doesn't necessarily mean you should panic. Many whales arebusinesseswho have invested heavily in cryptocurrency. These might be the ones worth observing if you're going to whale watch....