As of late, Battle Royale video games have been absolutely killing it. PC video games such as, Fortnite and Player's Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG) have been on a tear. The PC gaming scene could not have had experienced a more rapid growth in the video game scene since MOBA favorite, League of Legends or RTS, StarCraft 2.
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If you aren't in the loop, American Express will be hosting their annual American Express Platinum House at Parker Palm Springs for Coachella goers this year. Last year American Express surprised Platinum and Centurion members with a performance from Drake in Miami. Over the years, American Express has been a huge supporter and advocate for
What is Duolingo? Duolingo is a language learning platform for the PC or mobile device. They currently have 28 languages available to learn for free. The overarching mission of the company is to provide the world with free of charge language learning. This is a noble venture indeed, one can take it upon themselves using
What is Discord? Discord is a chat service. People can use voice or text, one on one or in groups. The app has been aimed at gamers primarily, but many people also use it for day to day chat. People say that is is very similar to Slack, another chat service popular with small business.
Who is Pewdiepie? Pewdiepie is one of the most famous You Tube creators in the world. Like many others, he uploads funny videos that sometimes go viral, but thanks to his large audience, he makes much more than the average YouTuber. He has the most popular YouTube channel on the platform, with close to 55
What is Bitcoin Gold? The latest (October 26, 2017) of Bitcoin’s hard forks, Bitcoin Gold (BTG) is not a favorite in the crypto community, despite its seemingly laudable goal of making sure Bitcoin can’t be taken over by companies running huge mining computers. There are no obvious problems with the tech itself, and BTG is
What is Ethereum Classic? Ethereum Classic (ETC) is to Ethereum as Bitcoin Cash is to Bitcoin—the product of an intense practical and philosophical disagreement within the crypto community. In most respects, it is identical to Ethereum, though this will become less true over time as the two currencies continue to pursue different development goals after
What is Letgo? Letgo is a mobile phone app that acts as a classifieds section where you can post items for sale and make money. It is a direct to the community type of interaction, unlike eBay, where most items are mailed. Letgo users are commonly in a certain proximity to each other and physically
What is Bitcoin Cash? One of the most controversial events in crypto history was the “hard fork” that created Bitcoin Cash (BCH) from the base Bitcoin blockchain in August of 2017. Scalability has been one of Bitcoin’s biggest challenges, with transaction fees and times skyrocketing as the network is put under more and more strain.
Who is Todd Chrisley? Todd Chrisley is the lead of Chrisley Knows Best. It is a reality tv show on the USA network. It has been aired for five seasons and season 6 will air in September of 2018. The show is about Todd Chrisley, a real estate mogul in the south and his family.
What is Ethereum? If Bitcoin was the template for the first generation of cryptocurrencies, Ethereum (ETH) is the template for the second. While Bitcoin and many of the coins it inspired are primarily used as money, Ethereum and its crypto offshoots see this as function as secondary to the main goal: putting the whole world
What is Basic Attention Token? The phrase “attention economy” may sound as if it belongs in a Black Mirror episode, but like it or not, it is what fuels the internet. The single best way to monetize online content is advertising, which can slow down load times, eat up a surprising amount of mobile data,
What is Ebates? Ebates is a free to use online cash back shopping site. They have partnered up with many common and not so common online retailers to offer deals to bargain-hunting customers. The site came about during the dot-com boom and was one of the few to survive and profit. Some of the retailers
If you’re ready to take control of your finances and give budgeting a go, you might be wondering where to start. In a nutshell, budgeting means planning how you will allocate (spend) your money, then tracking your spending to see how it aligns with your plans. These days, there’s no shortage of budgeting apps and
What is TRON? Digital media has almost completely replaced physical media, and while this is a welcome revolution in terms of convenience and efficiency, it can possibly be centralized and censored even more easily. TRON (TRX) is a cryptocurrency that claims to offer a solution: a decentralized digital media platform capable of connecting creators and
What is Ripple? Banking technology seems to be moving forward at a snail’s pace compared to other fields. In an age where almost anything is just a few clicks away, money transfers still take days, and exchanging between currencies is even more of a headache. Ripple (XRP) aims to fix that by main transfers nearly
Who is Markiplier? Markiplier is Mark Edward Fischbach, a famous YouTube personality. Markiplier is famous for making videos of himself playing survival horror video games. This type of YouTube video is referred to a Let's Play video. Markiplier currently has 19 million subscribers and over 8 billion total views. He is from Ohio and now
What is Bitcoin? Blockchains as we know them are still less than a decade old. Bitcoin (BTC) popped up in 2009, two whole years after the first modern smartphone, but, like the smartphone, its breakneck rate of progress and fast worldwide adoption make it feel like it’s been around a lot longer. Some already see
What is Steem? Steem is a blockchain which enables users to reward content creators for quality content posted on the Steem social media site. It has tokens and can be traded on exchanges, but rather than being mined, it is given out according to activity on this website. The whole project can be thought of
This infographic on Bitcoin has long been overdue because I've been meaning to do one on the founder of all cryptocurrencies. I came across some interesting stories on the web about Bitcoin why I figured why not compile them into a fun graphic just cause? Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy the graphic. If you
What is PayPal? PayPal is a fully electronic payment and banking system. It is one of the first and certainly the largest processors of online payments and peer to peer money transfers on the internet. Founded nearly twenty years ago in 1998 by famous entrepreneur and Tesla creator Elon Musk, it was originally called X.com
What is Robinhood? If you own a smartphone and have had even a passing interest in trading stocks, you’ve probably heard about Robinhood. This no-fee stock-trading app has taken the younger elements of the personal finance world by storm and has recently even gotten into the cryptocurrency game. While most brokerages charge $5-10 per trade
I thought I'd do another infographic for Ethereum seeing how much people like them. I know the title for the infographic is a bit sensationalist, but it was intentional to poke some good fun at crypto memes, jokes and puns on the cryptocurrency that sort of started all the “to the moon” memes. But in
What is Bitshares? Many cryptocurrencies are targeted at improving aspects of the current financial system—payments, contracts, speed, privacy—but Bitshares (BTS) aims to have it all: a universal asset exchange equivalent to something like the NASDAQ, a price-stable cryptocurrency, a lightning-fast transaction network, a corporate finance platform, and more. Bitshares has a lot of complex layers,
What is Bytecoin? Though it has recently experienced a resurgence of interest, Bytecoin (BCN) has been largely stuck on the sidelines since its creation in 2012. Nonetheless, it is one of the earliest cryptocurrencies developed and is the first to be based on the Cryptonote protocol—a technology also used by its more successful heir, Monero.
What is Siacoin? Data stored in the cloud generally heads straight to one of a few big companies that put it on machines in a few big warehouses. Siacoin (SC), on the other hand, is one of several cryptocurrencies that plans to make the cloud much more cloud-like by taking your data, encrypting it, splitting
It has been a while since I've posted about Ripple XRP. The last time I posted about Ripple XRP was January 6, 2018 on the piece called Why I am Bullish on Ripple XRP Solving the Cross-Border Payments Problem. Rest assured, I am still a Ripple supporter as much as the next guy. In light
What is Zcash? The “Z” in Zcash (ZEC) stands for “zero,” as in “zero-knowledge proof.” This refers to the cryptocurrency's main feature: the ability to prove that a transaction is valid without any information about that transaction actually being revealed. Users can make their transactions virtually untraceable—unlike Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, where the history is