#does this count for ftts

[killedbythegroove]

[ailtrahq]

Ethereum completed its transition into a proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism on 15 September 2022. While ETH grew briefly at the beginning of the year, its price has trended downward since April. A year ago, leading Layer 1 (L1) blockchain Ethereum [ETH], transitioned from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to a proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism. How much are 1,10,100 ETHs worth today? Under PoW, miners competed to solve complex mathematical problems to validate transactions and add new blocks to the blockchain. With the PoS consensus mechanism, validators stake their ETH to secure the network and validate transactions.  Ether since then While many predicted a jump in price following the merge, the network’s native token, ETH, suffered a price decline in the few months that followed the transition. On 10 November, the alt’s price fell to a four-month low of $1085 before initiating a rebound and closing the trading year above $1200. As the general market recovered from the unexpected collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX [FTT] in November 2022, bullish sentiment made a re-entry into the crypto market in the first few months of 2023. Leading crypto assets led the way with significant price gains.  Bitcoin [BTC], for example, started the year exchanging hands at $16,500. As new demand flocked in and the general market gained a semblance of stability, the coin’s price rallied to a high of $30,000 within four months. Sharing a statistically significant positive correlation with BTC, ETH also saw a jump in its value in 2023 Q1. For the first time since May 2022, ETH traded above the $2000 psychological price level in April before suffering a correction.  Source: Santiment While the ETH to BTC ratio rallied for a while post-merge, the year so far has been marked by a steady decline.  The ETH to BTC ratio metric tracks the price of ETH relative to the price of BTC and is often used to gauge ETH’s relative strength and weakness compared to BTC. Data retrieved from Kaiko showed that the ratio stood at 0.08 following the merge. However, it has declined steadily since then, from 0.08 to 0.07 in the first quarter of 2023 and from 0.07 to 0.06 in the past few months. Source: Kaiko One reason for the decline in this metric could be the market’s expectation that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will soon approve a spot Bitcoin ETF, while an Ethereum ETF does not seem feasible in the short term. Also, historical precedents show that BTC typically outperforms ETH in bear markets, hence the decline in the ratio.  As a result of the drop in ETH’s value for most of the year, it has also seen a decline in cumulative trade volume since the merge.  The trade volumes of Ethereum and the top 30 altcoins were similar from September 2022 to January 2023. This was gleaned from the running sum of their trade volumes during that period. However, as the general market saw growth in January, altcoins began to outpace ETH, widening the gap in trading volumes.  Since the merge, the top 30 altcoins have seen almost $1.5 trillion in volume, compared to $1 trillion for ETH. Source: Kaiko ETH staking grows unabated Despite current market conditions, staking on the network has grown since the merge. With 27 million ETH staked as of this writing, the total amount staked has risen by 107% since 15 September, data from Dune Analytics showed. The growth in staking on the network is also best shown through the steady rise in the number of Lido Staked ETH (stETH) holders. Data from Etherscan put the holder count at 266,378 at press time.  This has grown despite the consistent decline in the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) given for holding the token. Data from Dune Analytics showed that Lido’s staking APR peaked at 8.59% on 16 November 2022 and has since fallen by 58%. Is your portfolio green? Check out the ETH Profit Calculator At press time, interest earned for staking ETH with Lido stood at 3.62%. Source: Dune Analytics On Coinbase, this was 3.3%, while it was 3.89% on Binance. 

[furryarbiterangel]

I'm CRYING <3 and I love this idea!

I can answer a few of these questions!

Part of the mystery of the plot and why they go on the adventure in the first place is finding the egg! They don't even know what type of egg it is at first, only that it calls to them and probably isn't dangerous. What the readers see that the characters don't is that in the prologue the egg is taken from the dragons hideaway and placed in their path. For us the mystery is the who and why, for them it is also how.

Meili and Aurora's relationship is far to indepth and complicated to do any justice in a short post but they start as found family... and then things change as obstacles and other characters are introduced... ending with a dramatic and heart wrenching death

Thank you so much for the shout out and I'm excited to follow this tag to find more people!

Day 2: Falling to the Stars

Author: @furryarbiterangel​

Genre: fantasy

What first piqued my interest: The premise! Aurora and Meili have to return a dragon egg to its home…but dragons are thought to be extinct. I am a sucker for stories that start with a twist.

What I want to learn more about: Why do people assume dragons are gone if there’s still an egg lying around? What’s the relationship between Aurora and Meili like, and how will this adventure change it? (“They learn very different lessons about life and love” has me VERY CONCERNED–and intrigued!) And who is this evil mind controlling the world’s creatures??

What I’m excited about: Quest stories can be sort of hit-or-miss for me, but what I really like about this one is the opportunity for character development and what looks like some really cool worldbuilding.

WIP Blind Date post

(Tangential shout-out: @pens-swords-stuff​ ran the WIP Blind Date event not too long ago, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that that event is what inspired me to do this one. If you haven’t told Undine how awesome she is lately, please go do so!)

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The WIP Shout-Out Project is a challenge I created for myself to give a brief virtual high-five to one WIP every day in July. While these shout-outs aren’t super in-depth, I’m hoping they’ll still help spread a little love and encouragement to the writeblr community. If you want to follow along, I’ve tagged all related posts #wip shout-out. Feel free to give your own shout-outs, too!

[bitcofun]

It took the world's biggest exchange less than a day to significantly reevaluate its choices. Key Takeaways Binance might desert its offer to get FTX, according to reports. Yesterday's news that Binance would obtain its most appropriate rival sent out markets reeling. The concept of the offer failing, nevertheless, does not bring much convenience to the marketplace. Binance is supposedly ignoring its offer to get FTX. Backout The world's biggest crypto exchange, which revealed simply the other day that it would obtain the world's second-largest exchange, is apparently having doubts on the matter. According to a tweet from DB News today, Binance seemed reassessing its choice to purchase Sam Bankman-Fried's embattled exchange after seeing the state of the business's financial resources. [DB] Binance Is Strongly Leaning Toward Scrapping FTX Rescue Takeover After First Glance at Books: CoinDesk Source-- db (@tier10 k) November 9, 2022 DB News verified the report this afternoon, sharing on Twitter that the Wall Street Journal had actually acquired verification that Binance would leave after due diligence efforts and reports that FTX had actually mishandled user funds. News of the acquisition, which appeared to verify reports about monetary concerns at FTX and its closely-affiliated company, Alameda Research, sent out markets into a tailspin the other day. FTX's native token, FTT, lost near 80% of its worth the other day, which stimulated contagion throughout the marketplaces-- Bitcoin has actually sunk listed below its 2022 summer season lows and is presently trading at $17,182 ETH, on the other hand, is trading at $1,172 Binance taking out of its offer might be a death knell for FTX. Blockworks reported previously that Binance had actually tried to strong-arm the acquisition of FTX.US into the bundle. It has actually likewise come to light that U.S. regulators are penetrating FTX's handling of customer funds as well, which might have affected the choice. Disclosure: At the time of composing, the author of this piece owned BTC, ETH, BNB, and numerous other crypto possessions. The details on or accessed through this site is gotten from independent sources our company believe to be precise and trustworthy, however Decentral Media, Inc. makes no representation or service warranty regarding the timeliness, efficiency, or precision of any details on or accessed through this site. Decentral Media, Inc. is not a financial investment consultant. We do not provide individualized financial investment suggestions or other monetary recommendations. The info on this site goes through alter without notification. Some or all of the details on this site might end up being out-of-date, or it might be or end up being insufficient or incorrect. We may, however are not bound to, upgrade any out-of-date, insufficient, or unreliable details. You need to never ever make a financial investment choice on an ICO, IEO, or other financial investment based upon the info on this site, and you need to never ever analyze or otherwise count on any of the info on this site as financial investment recommendations. We highly suggest that you seek advice from a certified financial investment consultant or other competent monetary expert if you are looking for financial investment guidance on an ICO, IEO, or other financial investment. We do decline payment in any kind for examining or reporting on any ICO, IEO, cryptocurrency, currency, tokenized sales, securities, or products. See complete conditions Binance to Acquire FTX.com News Nov. 8, 2022 The world's biggest crypto exchange has actually struck an offer to obtain the world's second-largest exchange. Buyout After days of butting heads on Twitter in the middle of reports of monetary difficulties at FTX ... Binance's FTX.com Acquisition Plunges Market Into Chaos The crypto market is concerning grips with the possibility that FTX being gotten by Binance might imply that Sam Bankman-Fried's exchange and its close partner, Alameda Research, are possibly .

.. SBF Scrambles to Cover Tracks After FTX Blowup Before accepting offer FTX.com to Binance, Sam Bankman-Fried ensured his Twitter fans that the exchange remained in great monetary standing in a number of since-deleted tweets. Obviously, it wasn't. SBF Goes ... Read More

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Not Just Cinderella Ch. 2

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              “So, is anyone going to tell me what happened in class?”

    Logan’s words have me shrugging my shoulders, “I have no idea,”

    “I can’t believe it, I just can’t believe it,” Elena waves her hands busily, the neon bracelets clanking together noisily. “Prince Charming actually sat with us, us!”

    “Yeah, that,” Logan glances over at the excited girl. “And you don’t think that’s a little strange?”

    “Oh yes, definitely,” she nods gravely, bobbing her head. “But still, he sat with us!”

    Logan shakes his head at her excitement before he looks over at me. “Did he do anything weird to you?”

    “No, uh... He lent me his pen but that’s all. He didn’t really say much either,”

    “Hm...” 

    “Why? What’s wrong?” He looks oddly suspicious.

    “It’s nothing,” Logan waves me off. 

    “Oh! How’d it go with the thing-a-majing you were called for?” Elena asks, finally snapping out of her Prince-Charming-induced-daze. “Are you in trouble?”

    Logan rolls his eyes. “Oh, it turned out to be nothing. She thought I did something, I didn’t do it, she didn’t believe me so I’m getting detention anyway,”

    “What?” I gape at him “That’s so unfair!”

    “Well, whatever,” he shrugs, shoving his hands deep into the pockets of his hoodie “Not like I care, it’s just detention,”

    Logan you should definitely start caring a bit more about this injustice. 

    “It’d be nice if detention were a subject. I’d pass it with flying colours,”

    His relaxed attitude makes me sigh. “Please don’t be so proud of that. Your track record is really horrible this year,”

    “Sorry,” he doesn’t sound sorry at all. “I’ll be more careful. Cross my heart and stuff,”

    I click my tongue at his reply, but he simply gives me a laid back smile. Adorable idiot. Someone definitely dropped him on the head when he was a baby.

              The next two classes are pretty uneventful, and when it’s time for break we reach the cafeteria in no time at all. Separating from Logan and Elena, I walk over to our usual table while they disappear into the crowd to buy their lunches. I sit myself down at my seat and take out the sandwich I prepared this morning.

    I still can’t wrap my head around what happened this morning. The school’s very own Prince Charming had somehow deemed me worthy of his company. Since when do things like that even happen?

    A loud, painfully familiar laugh drags my attention over to the table in the centre of the cafeteria. It’s the unspoken ‘popular table’, but we of Loserville like to call it the ‘Fairy Tale Table’, or FTT for short. Especially since it has Prince Charming, but we quietly gave some of the other table sitters roles as well. Of course none of us plans to tell Dakota that we dubbed her the Wicked Witch.

    Only the rich and beautiful are allowed to sit at that table anyway, even if you can remove 90% of that beauty with a wet wipe.

    The one laughing is Cecilia, the twin sister of Drew who is seated next to her. They both have wavy long, black hair and gray eyes which would honestly look about half their current size without the fake lashes and flattering make-up they always busy themselves with. Stylish and poised, it’s no surprise that they hang out with Dakota; little bees under the reign of their queen.

    Personally I’m all too familiar with how rich Cecilia and Drew are; though no one has really realised yet, they’re my stepsisters. Gotta be grateful for the world’s small favours though: despite being in the same grade, we’re not in the same class. That’d be enough to make anyone wonder if God is real and looking out for me a little, right?

    I peek a glance over at the other side of the table where most of the guys are at. When my gaze meets a familiar baby blue, my body does an odd little twitch and I swear I can see a small smile before I turn my head away.

    No way.

    Since when is direct eye contact even a part of ogling Prince Charming?

    Wait, why was he even looking my way at all?

    “You look like you’re ready to throw yourself into a dingy little hole to wait for death,”

    Wow Logan, thank you.

    He sits down opposite me while Elena sits next to me, and I try to ignore the delicious scents of their food and to focus on my slightly dried out sandwich instead.

    “Did anything happen?” Logan asks, raising a fry to his lips.

    Mm... Fries... I must be staring at his food more than I thought because he suddenly dangles a fry in front of my face, a grin on his lips. “Here girl, come here,” he teases “Come and get it,”

    With a playful growl I rise up in my seat a bit, capturing the fry with my mouth. Elena bursts out into a fit of giggles at my side and I sit myself back down, suppressing a wide grin and turning my attention back to my own food.

    Most of the break is spent eating our lunches and random things we plan to do. Though, for me, there’s not much to say where that’s concerned.

              Seven times. Throughout the school day I made eye contact with Prince Charming seven. Freaking. Times. And let’s not linger on how often exactly I glance his way, but instead let’s give it some thought that, before today, I don’t think he ever glanced my way even once.

    Is today even a real day? Am I dreaming?

    The air is still as cold as it was this morning, and the walk home is uncomfortably long without Logan around to amuse me. It’d be nice to ride back with Drew and Cecilia when the weather is like this, especially considering how Cecilia has a car, but I think they’d rather strangle themselves with their own insides than have anyone associate the three of us with each other.

    To be honest, that thought is a little comforting.

    Fortunately I make it back home before my limbs are completely numb, so I’m willing to count that as a point in my favour.

    I don’t know what other people do when they get home, but for me it’s typically the same; I put my bag in my room in the attic, grab my apron and gloves, then I get to cleaning. By the time I finish the first round of cleaning it’s often time to work on dinner so I work on that next.

    Moving around the kitchen, the sound of the door opening and closing reaches my ears, followed by laughter. Drew and Cecilia are back from wherever they went. Judging by the sound of various bags being dumped unceremoniously on the floor, I’m willing to bet they went shopping with Dakota again.

    “Alexis I’m hungry! Hurry up!” Drew calls.

    Then make your own food, please. 

    “Food is almost done,” I carry the tableware out of the kitchen to the dining table, yelping when I nearly stumble over a shopping bag, fumbling to stay standing without dropping anything.

    “Watch out, you klutz,” Cecilia scoffs at me, waving a hand like she’s royalty or something. “Those are new, you know?”

    You damned slob. You know your mother would kill me and mutilate my corpse if I’d drop these plates!?

    “Sorry, I’ll be more careful,”

    “See to it,” She sniffs haughtily before turning her attention back to the TV.

    Snob.

    “You’ll unpack them for us, won’t you?” Drew asks airily, knowing full well that I’m not in a position where I can’t say no.

    “Of course,” Minding the bags, I take out the rest of the tableware, setting the table for three before returning to the kitchen to grab the food.

    The front door opens again, only this time it comes accompanied with a stern, “Goodness gracious. Why are all these bags here? Am I to break my neck?”

    “Welcome back, mother!”

    “I already told Alexis to take them away but she hasn’t yet,”

    Of course I wasn’t! I was making your food!

    “Alexis!”

    Breathe in through the nose, and out through the mouth. Okay, let’s go. Carrying out the steaming plate of lasagne, I plaster a smile on my lips. “Welcome back, ma’am. Did work go well?”

    “Why didn’t you clean up the bags yet, Alexis?”

    Cold and unforgiving, her gray eyes stare at me as if I’m no more than a speck of dirt at the bottom of her shoe. Actually, she’d probably prefer the dirt. As usual her ash blonde hair is pinned back into a neat bun, the tailored navy skirt-suit fitting her form perfectly.

    “I was going to move them aside after I finished setting the table, ma’am,”

    “You’d have me break my neck, Alexis?”

    Shouldn’t you be asking your bratty kids that question?

    “Of course not, ma’am. I’m sorry,”

    “Put everything away, now,” she turns her head away, as if the conversation is over.

    “I was planning to put everything away after dinner-“

    “Did I stutter, Alexis?”

    I press my lips together for a moment before forcing out a, “... No, ma’am,”

    I ignore the giggles from the couch and place the last of the food down on the table before gathering all the bags strewn throughout the living room, barely able to carry them all. My stomach clenches when they start to eat, and I allow a longing thought to my own plate of food in the kitchen, before starting the struggle in carrying the bags up.

    I can hardly remember what my life was like before Vivaldi and her daughters moved in. I vaguely remember spending some wonderful times with my mother and my father, but the memories aren’t as prominent as the memories of mother’s failed battle against cancer.

    Father had grown sullen, and the air would often be heavy. I’d tried my best to cheer him up and he’d try his best to cheer me up. Despite our best efforts, it was hard to keep the good cheer.

    One day he’d come to me, struggling to broach the subject of remarrying. He said he’d fallen for a lovely widow, and that it might be good to fill up the house with laughter once again. I hadn’t looked forwards to a new mother, but I wanted father to be happy. And so, with a smile, I’d given him my blessing.

    Too bad the promised kind new mother and fun sisters turned out to be from Witchville.

    They’d play nice enough when father was around, but whenever he’d leave on a business trip, I’d often go ignored. It was lonely, but it was doable. I had my friends, my hobbies: I had anything I needed to keep myself amused, knowing that when father would come back from his trip things would get better.

    When news came that father would not return from a business trip, things only got worse. His body was never found, devoured by the sea. Where there is no body, there is hope, right...? Even though survival is, by all means, impossible, the lack of closure had me hoping, even after he’d officially been declared dead.

    Though, it seemed I was the only one who was hoping and grieving...

    My room somehow ended up becoming Drew and Cecilia’s, and I shudder every time I see what they did to it. The old and rickety attic became my new room; a cold place where the heater never wants to work properly. 

    At first I got ignored, but then, bit by bit, they started demanding things from me. 

    “Try cleaning,” they’d said while laughing. “It’ll help take your mind off of things,”

    Well the joke’s on them, because I just happen to like cleaning just fine. It’s relaxing, and it’s nice to see everything become clean after my efforts. But it would be nicer if those brat sisters wouldn’t mess up my efforts on purpose.

    However... I’m sure that once I’m eighteen Vivaldi will expect me to leave the house. Lord knows she’s hinted many a times that, with the small inheritance left to my name, I’ll surely find myself a different place to live, right? Though she can’t kick me out due to fear of how it’d be perceived by society, there will be no trouble for her if I decide to move out on my own.

    This house filled with memories... It pains me to think that one day I won’t be living in it anymore, but it pains me even more to think that the rest of my life will look like this.

    The clothes are finally put away, and I make my way back down. I let my food heat up in the microwave while I clear up the dirty dining table, taking my plate up to my room once I’m done.

    I sit myself at the uneven desk and start up the old laptop that once belonged to Drew. It’s slow, noisy, quick to overheat, and I honestly fear a bit for my life every time I have to start it up. I eat and prepare my school books while I wait for the laptop to start and hope the fan won’t quit working and force the laptop to shut down before I can finish my history essay.

              When the last of the chores and my homework are done, it’s nearly midnight. I carefully lower myself on the creaky bed with a tired grunt, turning my back to the nightstand that holds the book I’d been reading the past few evenings.

    I close my eyes with a small sigh, curling up under my blankets, trying to ignore the cold and the sound of air whistling through the small creaks left in the banister of the window.

    Another day is over.

[qthewetsprocket]

dwellerinthelibrary replied to your post: dwellerinthelibrary replied to...

I mean, sashkash’s art is magnificent - look at Lestrade’s face! - but that “ftt” misdirected my easily distractable brain. :)

Agreed on both counts - brilliant work (sashkash does some stunning pictures of Mark Gatiss / Mycroft), but rather unfortunate sound effect.

‘Tschk’ might be a better substitution? (At least one that wouldn’t prod the brains of those who had the misfortune of growing up around teenage American males into thinking of hand farts?) :)

[ailtrahq]

With his trial scheduled for less than a month from now, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), founder and former CEO of the failed FTX crypto exchange, is scrambling to get as much out of the judge as possible. This time around, SBF is looking toward getting released ahead of his trial, but it seems the court is not ready to play ball with him. FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Wants Freedom Ahead Of Trial In a filing that was presented to the court on September 8, Sam Bankman-Fried and his lawyers had asked the court to allow the FTX founder to be released ahead of his upcoming trial. The argument for why this should be approved revolved around the founder not having an adequate internet connection to properly review documents to help build his case. This is not the first time that SBF’s lawyers will be trying to get him out after his bail was revoked for witness tampering. They had previously filed to have the FTX founder be in jail only on weekends, allowing him five days of the week to work with his lawyers and review documents connected to his trial. However, just like the previous request to have the founder released five days a week, the court has refused to grant the defendant’s latest pretrial release request. In the September 12 filing, United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said that the defendant “has not provided a sufficient basis for such a finding despite his relatively unsupported claims that he does not have unimpeded access to electronically stored discovery and other material (collectively, “ESI’) while detained and a variety of other arguments.” FTT Token struggles amid SBF's legal woes | Source: FTTBUSD on Tradingview.com The Judge points to the fact that Sam Bankman-Fried had ample time (seven and a half months) leading up to his bail being revoked during which he had access to most of the Electronically Stored Information (ESI). “Thus, whatever impediments defendant may have experienced in preparing for trial since August 11, he faced no such impediments during the roughly 7-1/2 months between his presentment to this Court and the revocation of his bail.” Furthermore, Judge Kaplan explained that the time constraints being presented by the defendant were of his own making. According to him, the court had given them the October date they had asked for while also being open to considering a postponement of his trial date if requested. The Judge also reminded the defendant that he was wrong in thinking that he had to review every single piece of discovery presented by the prosecutors. Rather, his “substantial team of extremely able retained lawyers” should be able to do so. Last but not least, the Court points out that Sam Bankman-Fried’s team has not presented any specific materials that he has been unable to access while detained. “Generalities about millions of pages without connecting those dots is simply not persuasive,” the filing reads. The FTX founder is still set to stand trial starting October 3 for the original eight (8) charges brought against him at the time of his extradition. This includes one charge of campaign finance and seven counts of fraud and money laundering, to which Sam Bankman-Fried pled not guilty in a court proceeding held on August 22. Source