The day started with a trip to Joshua Tree. I am ashamed to say that for the past three years, I have lived within two hours of this gem and until today had not taken the time to pay it a visit. What was I thinking... where have I been? ... with my head in the clouds by all accounts.
My step son has been visiting for a few days after Christmas. He loves to climb and investigate, as most boys his age do, so this was a great place for him to burn up loads of energy and explore. We sent him off, with a two way radio, to discover caves and great places to have camp fires. He was in his element; as was I, climbing up huge boulders, looking down at how high we had climbed and taking photographs along the way.
The sheer size of this park is somewhat overwhelming, it's age beyond comprehension. As we walked our way around the Barker Damn, on our way back not only was I grateful for the overcast day, I was in awe of the people that had come out to prospect here or cattle ranch, back in the day. How they had carved a life for themselves in this desert and survived the heat with nothing but their horses and saddle bags.
Who would have thought that less than some 200 years from the days they were discovering these parts on horseback, the country would have exploded with motor cars, mobile phone and now crypto-currency. I couldn't help but wonder what these people from the past would make of all these people wandering around, looking at where they once called home. Wandering around trails that they took years to find and then, the same people driving motor vehicles home to their computer systems, making their money not from mining gold, but now from mining Crypto-currency?
The State of California once famous for the Gold Rush in the wild, wild West... now in the midst of another Gold Rush, only this time a result in part, of Silicone Valley.
I had no idea that owning and marketing a company was going to provide me with such a challenge. Obviously to me now, I have been living under a rock for the past almost 30 years. Now I am finding myself in a World that has changed beyond recognition and I am overwhelmed, to say the least, at the tasks that lay before me.
After a good solid day of hiking, climbing and being grateful for rare California clouds, it was back to the homestead to talk Crypto speak.
We spent the night with an ex-stockmarket trader friend, to talk portfolio's: Ripple, Steem, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, etc. The challenge for the evening was to get the Bitcoin Cash converted to Ripple. Will Bitcoin recognize Ripple and is now a good time to invest with Ripple then go back to Bitcoin Cash?
By the end of the night, we had worked out how to get the Bitcoin converted to Etherum, we are still trying to work out how to get the Etherum converted to Ripple, which exchange to use and what fees are involved.
All this talk about wallets, conversions, fees, forks, binance, finance, etc. Anyone walking into our house would think we have all gone Crypro-Crazy.
And honestly I think we might well be a bit barking mad.
