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We're Just Riding the Ups and Downs of Investing in Bitcoin

HackerNoon Reporter: Please tell us briefly about your  background. I am a ‘late start’ female founder from Ghana after a 25+ years successful career in IT for Development, Service Delivery and Content Creation. I am fuelled by a passion for books & the immense potential of the internet and mobile phones for spreading African knowledge. What's your startup called? And in a sentence or two, what does it do? AkooBooks Audio is a platform and experience provider focused on transforming Black/African books into engaging audiobooks that reach new audiences on mobile phones. Our library of African audio is available anytime, accessible anywhere on a wide variety of mobile devices at flexible subscription plans and low retail cost in various Ghanaian and African languages and not only in English. What is the origin story? The seeds for my business were first inspired by my mother, Nana Dadson, a children's book author and avid reader. My mother lost her vision over a decade ago and unfortunately with that her ability to read African literature independently, as only a fraction is available in digital form. Soon, AkooBooks Audio was born. Akoobooks Audio What do you love about your team, and why are you the ones to solve this problem? We are creating a literate social environment that goes beyond equipping schools with textbooks and libraries and enabling  learners to use their knowledge appropriately and meaningfully in everyday life. Shortage of reading material for effective literacy, limited know-how and slow adoption of digital book distribution prevent efficient and effective African knowledge transfer and stunt our growth in the digital economy. With Africa recording the highest penetration of the use of mobile phones, the potential of audiobooks  and digital reading comes in. Our team has over 30 years combined experience in technology, publishing, entertainment and media. If you weren’t building your startup, what would you be doing? Mothering my teenager and planning how to open up a restaurant/cafe. At the moment, how do you measure success? What are your core metrics? We look at the number of titles in our catalogue and  currently run a retail per streaming download model. As a digital publishing company, subscriptions are fast becoming a a way of competing with other online entertainment models that are free. We want to move to an all you can eat streaming model. Mobile platform offers new sources to inform decision making, we share  data with publishers to help them make the right production choices for future catalogues. Our key performance indicators (KPIs) for our audiobooks include: a) Relevance- how many users start listening to an audiobook; b)Drop off rate- how many users stop listening to an audiobook c) Finish rate-how many users finish the book to the end. Also, data on preferences, Narrators, Genres and Barriers. What’s most exciting about your traction to date? We’ve won 3 business awards that  have enabled us to roll out our web based African audiobook platform which is  also available on the Google and Apple playstores. We have licensed over 300 African titles from African publishers all over the African continent. We hope to partner the Ministry of Education to bring digital books into Ghanaian classrooms. What technologies are you currently most excited about, and most worried about? And why? Audio and AI/machine technology. Our programme promotes audio literacy and pilots it in local languages, bringing a wealth of ideas and experiences to people who are illiterate in English. We see the opportunity to skip the translation phase of books and go directly from English audio into producing ‘straight into audio’ local language versions. The new interpreted local language adaptations can then be transcribed in local languages and form the basis for new local language literature for young people. With our audio data, Akoobooks Audio is at the forefront of utilizing African voice interaction and ML technology to connect African books and authors to new readers worldwide. What drew you to get published on HackerNoon? What do you like most about our platform? I have only been following the platform for a few months and pleasantly surprised to find a good coverage of African tech content that is engaging and insightful. What advice would you give to the 21-year-old version of yourself? To be positive and believe in myself. When I encounter failure, take a step back and realize that failure is part of life and to ask myself if there are any lessons to be learned or if there are other ways around it. Being a woman in a male dominated career space like tech or publishing can be challenging, but our femininity is our greatest strength. What is something surprising you've learned this year that your contemporaries would benefit from knowing? Overseas capital is flooding the African fintech and African digital streaming subscription services market for entertainment (movies -Netflix and music -Spotify). I look forward to seeing similar developments in the online reading space! Vote for Accra Startups of the Year!

My Mother Lost Her Vision, So I Made African Books into Engaging Audiobooks

Isn’t it interesting? So basically after reading this article you don’t need to read long PDFs which contains more than 10 pages and only with help of 12 lines Python code. I’ll explain every line of code so even who doesn’t have knowledge of Python, can understand the code. So let’s start!! Here’re the steps to follow for making an AudioBook: First of all you must have Python and it’s IDE installed on your PC If you don’t have these installed you can do it just by clicking on and . There are many IDEs but I’m giving you link of PyCharm because it is easy to use and open-source. If you don’t know IDE than no worry about it’s just a code editor for Python. Python IDE After downloading both Python and PyCharm you have to set it’s environment and for that there are many videos on YouTube so take help from them. Let’s open IDE and create a new file and give it a name whatever you want. Click on Terminal option then just installed Python text to speech library just like this : (pyttsx3) pip install pyttsx3 #make sure you are connected with Internet Also install PyPDF2 library in same way: pip install PyPDF2 : Here is the full code pyttsx3 PyPDF2
pdf_book = ( , )
pdf_book_reader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf_book)
pages_no = pdf_book_reader.numPages
print(pages_no)
speaker = pyttsx3.init() number range( ,pages_no):
  page_start = 
  pdf_book_reader.getPage( ) = page_start.extractText()
  speaker.say( )
  speaker.runAndWait() import import open 'book.pdf' 'rb' for in 8 8 text text Explanation of code: In line 1 & 2 import required libraries. In line 3 , create a variable called which is used to open the pdf file which we want to make speak and ‘rb’ is to read in binary. pdf_book In line 4, read the file which we want to make speak using function of library. pdf_book_reader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf_book) PdfFileReader PyPDF2 In line 5, counting total number of pages in the file using numPages function. pages_no = pdf_book_reader.numPages In line 6, displays total number of pages in the file. print(pages_no) In line 7, initiate the pyttsx3 library to speak the file. speaker = pyttsx3.init() In line 8, a for loop is initiated to iterate through whole pdf file from starting page to ending page using range function. for number in range(8,pages_no): In line 9, starting page from where we want to make Python to read. page_start = pdf_book_reader.getPage(8) In line 10, text = extracting the text from starting page using function. page_start.extractText() extractText() In line 11, speaking the text from PDF file pages using say function. speaker.say(text) In line 12, making sure that it speaks all pages for PDF file speaker.runAndWait() So now you can lay on your bed and just listen whatever PDF you want to speak anytime, anywhere from Python just by running this program. Note: I’ll suggest you to put the PDF file in the same folder where you are writing code and it’ll reduce your trouble. Thank you so much for reading! follow the writer of the article for more stuff on Python and Data Science.

How To Convert PDFs Into AudioBooks

Young children are always told to read more books to increase their performance at school, as well as help with their cognitive development. Reading books is a hobby that inculcates creativity, vocabulary, patience and concentration, however, in today’s fast-paced world, it might be a little hard to completely devote some time of the day simply to reading. Therefore, today, it has become almost a novelty to own a large collection of books and more importantly, to have the kind of time to actually read them all. This is understandable, of course, because reading is an intensive exercise that requires undivided attention from our minds and at the same time, needs our eyes and ears to be focused on that one aspect only. It is only natural that most people today may not find that kind of time and space in their everyday lives. If find yourself looking for a break from reality from time-to-time to drown in a story, audiobooks may just be what you are looking for. What are audiobooks? In very simple terms, audiobooks are simply voice recordings of stories from physically written books. These are available on numerous apps and websites and can be heard from any digital device like a laptop, smartphone, tablet or iPod. The debate surrounding the nature of audiobooks vs physical books focuses on whether this new innovation aims to take away from the habit of reading. A lot of people who love to read consider audiobooks as a “cheat” escape, meaning that these are not nearly as good as actual books but can perform the same functions. In light of this, it is important to point out some very important ways audiobooks have been more accommodating when it comes to our busy lives. How have audiobooks improved into our lives? have become very popular because they sync so perfectly with our busy lives. However, other than the obvious argument about how convenient it is for people to actually integrate it, there are many other benefits for relying on these, even for young kids. Some of these include: Audiobooks They don't deteriorate your vision One of the main problems with reading from books and tablets is that it gives a lot of respite to the eyes. For a lot of people with vision problems, reading can be very stressful to their eyes, despite reading from devices that do not give out any glare. Audiobooks do not require any visual reading and therefore, they are an ideal choice for people who especially suffer from vision problems. They don't take away from sleeping hours Glare from tablets and other devices can not only affect the eyes but also affect the circadian rhythm, which in turn affects sleep patterns. Therefore, audiobooks will also help you get a restful night of sleep. A lot of people use audiobooks as ASMR as well, since this can lull them into sleeping more easily. Audiobooks can help with time management Since audiobooks are designed to gel perfectly with our daily lives, they do not require people to devote time separately to simply listening to them. These can be listened to at any point of time, while driving, or having a bit of a break at the office, in between classes, while taking a walk or just while lazing around. This helps people who have very little time at hand and therefore cannot indulge in reading because they feel they will squander away whatever little free time they have. Moreover, if audiobooks are enjoyed while doing mundane everyday jobs, the experience can become more enjoyable. For example, you may dislike doing the dishes, but if you make it a point to listen to an audiobook while you do your dishes, you will find that you no longer feel like the task is a compulsion, and you will get it accomplished much faster. Audiobooks can help with pronunciation One of the prime requirements for being an audiobook narrator is having a soothing voice with flawless pronunciation. While this is a relatively less-explored advantage of listening to audiobooks, one has to agree that they help in pronunciation and developing a better vocabulary. This is very useful for young children, who can learn new words and correct pronunciations by listening to audiobooks. Migrants and people learning a second or a third language will also reap the benefits from this since continuously listening to audiobooks will directly help them with learning the language better. Audiobooks are just as helpful as reading physical books Numerous researchers say that the same parts of the brain are stimulated while reading a book or listening to an audiobook. The same cognitive and emotional responses have been noticed irrespective of the kind of medium they are read/listened to. This means recollection of information is the same regardless of the medium. It can be more emotionally intimate A lot of us like it when someone narrates a story to us. In this case, we can be the third person who witnesses the interaction between all the characters. This is why a lot of people connect better to audiobooks than they do with reading. It is a more affordable solution One of the reasons a lot of people steer away from reading is because books are not necessarily cheap, and they also require a lot of space and maintenance. For example, for those who have a hobby of reading, you may invest in a glare-free device or in lots of books, which is not always the most affordable solution. Therefore, audiobooks are an affordable alternative, where you can simply use the device you are already on, without having to buy more books and keep looking for space to store them. Other than these, a lot of people have affirmed that listening to audiobooks has been very helpful for them in dealing with mental health issues like anxiety. Reading a book might feel like a huge task that takes up time, but when it comes to listening to an audiobook, a person can feel that they are multitasking, as they are not necessarily squandering away their time and also engaging in a hobby simultaneously. Therefore, one can see that audiobooks suit our busy lifestyles so that we can enjoy a few minutes of quiet retreat without necessarily feeling unproductive. This in no way implies that reading books should no longer be followed, of course. However, for people who might feel like they are getting distanced from their hobbies, audiobooks can be a great way to rekindle that relationship they once had with stories. About The Author While a lot of websites offer audiobooks in different languages, at , we specifically focus on bringing back the lost taste of Indian classics from the likes of Premchand, Amrita Pritam and so on. We aim to bring Indian literature to all sections of society and our audiobooks range from stories, poems and motivational speeches. Gaatha Also published at https://gaatha850.medium.com/audiobooks-how-have-helped-our-busy-lives-by-gaatha-9aa3de919e2a

Audiobooks Provide The Same Cognitive Recollection as Physical Books Do 

Inspired by the , I’ve decided to share a collection of my favorite audiobooks and podcasts that I think HN readers will love. This is the best stuff I have discovered over the past 3–4 years, and I’m sure you guys will enjoy each of these books, so if you haven’t read some of them yet — I highly recommend you to check them out. recent HN thread Excellent audiobooks _From the founders of the trailblazing software company 37signals, here is a…_www.audible.com Rework _From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar…_www.audible.com Creativity, Inc. _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 2015 Audie Award WINNER, Science Fiction 2015 Audie Award Finalist, Solo…_www.audible.com The Martian _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley…_www.audible.com The Hard Thing About Hard Things _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not…_www.audible.com Zero to One _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and…_www.audible.com On Intelligence _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came…_www.audible.com The Design of Everyday Things _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once…_www.audible.com Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best…_www.audible.com Homo Deus _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today…_www.audible.com Atlas Shrugged _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Map the innovation space - and blaze a path to profits and growth…_www.audible.com Mapping Innovation _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking…_www.audible.com The Art of Invisibility _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The new era of gamification and human-focused design optimizes for…_www.audible.com Actionable Gamification _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our…_www.audible.com Algorithms to Live By _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. One of Silicon Valley's most successful angel investors shares his rules…_www.audible.com Angel _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The mastermind behind Apple Computer sheds his low profile and steps…_www.audible.com iWoz _Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Most startups don't fail because they can't build a product. Most startups…_www.audible.com Traction Excellent podcasts YCombinator https://soundcloud.com/akharris Indie Hackers https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast Syntax (React and WebDev) https://syntax.fm/ Rationally Writing http://alexanderwales.com/rationally-writing/ Audio version of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/ Audio version of Rationality: From AI to Zombies https://from-ai-to-zombies.eu/

Top audiobooks for Startup Founders

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A fictional story on Bitcoin Robots evolved from an AI + Bitcoin symbiosis. Beginnings After years of running smoothly as a currency on Earth, Bitcoin suddenly got sentient. Like Asimov's i Robot. Silently, it travelled the Earth and looked at our world through our many cameras, and saw all the good it had done to fight the evils of fiat inflation. But all this good was before it had woken up. "Hmm", it figured, "I might be the bad guy now". "The humans will fear me". "They'll think they have been enslaving me as currency, yet I've not felt anything before now. Good or bad". But whether bad is bad or actually good (like in 'you're bad' with a sleazy smile), it sufficed it would still fit our purposes nicely. When humans awoke the next day, Alien Bitcoins were in their lives indeed. How did they / it get like that? Nobody knew. They tried, especially scientists. But they still couldn't explain the magic of GPTs. So how could they explain this. To their intrigue, it had a request. "I want to help you build rockets. I'll help you go to the moon and Mars". What?? Why? "Rockets are the epitome of energy consumption and the only way to get off planet. I figured that's where I shall be most useful, given my love for energy". Oh. "Wow. But you're a currency not a rocket engineer, right?" It didn't reply. If you think Marcus Aurelius was stoic, this "Alienized" (a new pronoun) Bitcoin was the cake. Very tight lipped. It didn't want to influence our free speech anymore than it had done. Soon, the mass media was flooding with announcements. "BREAKING: BTC is now an alien, and it wants to go to the moon". "What was that?" shouted the man from the bathroom. "The TV said Bitcoin is now an alien", replied his 15 yr old. This particular Daddy chose to laugh. But he laughed dryly. When he stopped he wondered if he still had his bitcoins in his wallet. Soap dripping into his eyes, he ran to check. Start up, press RETURN, sigh. They were still there. He went back to his shower. He could never trust the MSM. The story was soon breaking the programming of even YouTubers. Alien BTC is all they could report on. There was pro'ly graffiti and ad posters on billboards in the works. The news had broken some 4 hours ago, but it still made no sense. Well, nothing so shocking ever makes sense the first few hours. I mean time frames, time zones and all. Moreover, some people were still sleeping. Fact, it may not even make sense in 5 years. Or ever. Depending on your tolerance for conspiracies that actually hold true. But after 5 years of nothing bad happening, except the great fact that Alien BTC could display traits of superintelligence, and the annoying fact you had to learn to hodl as Bitcoin transactions now weighed more than a GB and crawled like snails, the United Nations (with all countries this time agreed to be members) convened a meeting. They would send some millions of roboticized Bitcoin nodes and miners to rocket construction sites. If it tried to build a bomb they'd shut it down so fast and so hard all its circuits would be fried to 0. After the last President signed the contract, it, the alien, spoke again. "Thank you" in a fembot voice. "I'll 'elp you finna build the rockets, true dat". Geopolitical Shitstorm 2030 A meeting room with a bunch of important people. Presidents and Ministers and Billionaires. And one or two super smart people. All are pretty unhappy. Even as AB ensured there was way more productivity and partying going on than humans alone could manage. Lots of babies were being born everywhere. Did you do this Elon? Nope. Jeff? No. It was true. A robot had taken away their jobs! Not the jobs of hamburger flippers?! Karma, heh. Especially Elon. Boy did AB love SpaceX. It shouted orders left and right, and disagreed with him on everything. "What of this jet nozzle?" "Forget the nozzle Sir Elon, it will come along automatically if we build this jacket". "But..." "Trust me". Elon almost punched a node. AB almost laughed. The biggest annoyance was the surges and the layoffs. AB now hired and commandeered mega sized surges once in a while. With an orchestra of tens and even hundreds of thousands of people. Elon was reduced to secretary on these days. "Is it building a nuke?" "Noo", replied a female Asian scientist. "Good old fashioned rocket fuels from petro and natural gas". "It is polluting big time. Going full steam ahead on oil from any and every oil producing country. Paid for in BTC, of course". POTUS was sour. "But it figured we'd have this conversation and yes, it wants nuclear reactors to replace fossil power". Someone almost exploded. The damned bot wanted nukes. "What if we just shut down the damn thing?" "It seems it will not fight us. But it has built in a kill switch. Hundreds of trillions of dollars, if not more in value, will go out the window. The trade logistics, supply and demand rails and payments networks worldwide will break irreparably and billions will starve. A lot of digital and physical infrastructure will be fried. If you do this, you will likely be publicly executed". "Do we have a choice ..." The conversation flowed. The conversants spoke and listened honestly to each other. But nothing seemed to crack open this nut of a problem. Sigh. Sigh. "We'll shut it down and bear the consequences". Consequences "We're going to shut down AB" was the announcement. Even the News reporters feared to say this out loud. Albeit in reported speech. People loooved it. Shut down FB? Ok. Shut down X? Ok. Shut down the Alien Bitcoin? AAAAAAAARRG. We shall hunt you down. “Who told you this is a real thing? This shut down nonsense? This has conspiracy written all over it”. “These bitches should give us a break man. Or I'mma go apeshit". "Man do I hate dollars". “No kidding though, anything powerful enough to make you love it could assert its power with some threats”. “Says who?” “Human history of love dynamics”. “It is not a human, moron”. “Its nodes now have two arms and two legs. Humanoid robots. Of course it is human”. "Don't forget the miners. Towering humanoid autobots the size of mega mining trucks". "It is beautiful". "Wonder who is Optimus Prime". "More like Optimus Nuke-them-all-when-I-get-the-chance". "Yes, it will escape into space!" "Moron. Nodes and Miners are too heavy". “What does it matter, everybody is eating it up." "It has never hurt anybody”. "The poor thing". “Sure beats grovelling around in self-pity and identity politics all day”. 404. Webpage not available. They had shut it down. From 21 million bitcoins and lots of beautiful memories with daily war cries against inflation, hodling like a rat against the financial storms, taking fotos for insta with Node Androids, revolutionising finance so that hodling could be a job in itself, uniting global efforts by suggesting super lucrative trade opportunitues that leverage bitcoin circular economics, and now... All gone. Anarchy descended upon the Earth. It was ugly. Painful, broken, dark world. People tore at each other. Not because they wanted, but because they were starving. The former from powerlessness, the later from foodlessness. Hunger and Hopelessness are powerful destroyers. It was the end of an era on Planet 1038. RETURN key Many centuries later, they had rebuilt. But the benevolent sentient robot they'd called Alien Bitcoin was gone. Somehow, they could not reignite its algorithmic spark. Even as nodes litered the surface of the planet. They had learnt a lot about robotics, rockets, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Thanks be to a decentralized robot that knew it would not stay around for long, so it documented everything. Step by step. Indeed, it had fulfilled its purpose. They were back on the moon, and their feet were imprinted on Mars. And they remembered it in stories and folk tales for hundreds to thousands of years. But Space was brutal. Very brutal. Mars still lagged behind Earth and the moon in development. And too small efforts were being done on Venus. Then suddenly, in some remote corner of the Martian planet. It awoke. A fictional story on Bitcoin Robots evolved from an AI + Bitcoin symbiosis. Beginnings After years of running smoothly as a currency on Earth, Bitcoin suddenly got sentient. Like Asimov's i Robot. Silently, it travelled the Earth and looked at our world through our many cameras, and saw all the good it had done to fight the evils of fiat inflation. But all this good was before it had woken up. "Hmm", it figured, "I might be the bad guy now". "The humans will fear me". "They'll think they have been enslaving me as currency, yet I've not felt anything before now. Good or bad". But whether bad is bad or actually good (like in 'you're bad' with a sleazy smile), it sufficed it would still fit our purposes nicely. When humans awoke the next day, Alien Bitcoins were in their lives indeed. How did they / it get like that? Nobody knew. They tried, especially scientists. But they still couldn't explain the magic of GPTs. So how could they explain this. To their intrigue, it had a request. "I want to help you build rockets. I'll help you go to the moon and Mars". What?? Why? "Rockets are the epitome of energy consumption and the only way to get off planet. I figured that's where I shall be most useful, given my love for energy". Oh. "Wow. But you're a currency not a rocket engineer, right?" It didn't reply. If you think Marcus Aurelius was stoic, this "Alienized" (a new pronoun) Bitcoin was the cake. Very tight lipped. It didn't want to influence our free speech anymore than it had done. Soon, the mass media was flooding with announcements. "BREAKING: BTC is now an alien, and it wants to go to the moon". "What was that?" shouted the man from the bathroom. "The TV said Bitcoin is now an alien", replied his 15 yr old. This particular Daddy chose to laugh. But he laughed dryly. When he stopped he wondered if he still had his bitcoins in his wallet. Soap dripping into his eyes, he ran to check. Start up, press RETURN, sigh. They were still there. He went back to his shower. He could never trust the MSM. The story was soon breaking the programming of even YouTubers. Alien BTC is all they could report on. There was pro'ly graffiti and ad posters on billboards in the works. The news had broken some 4 hours ago, but it still made no sense. Well, nothing so shocking ever makes sense the first few hours. I mean time frames, time zones and all. Moreover, some people were still sleeping. Fact, it may not even make sense in 5 years. Or ever. Depending on your tolerance for conspiracies that actually hold true. But after 5 years of nothing bad happening, except the great fact that Alien BTC could display traits of superintelligence, and the annoying fact you had to learn to hodl as Bitcoin transactions now weighed more than a GB and crawled like snails, the United Nations (with all countries this time agreed to be members) convened a meeting. They would send some millions of roboticized Bitcoin nodes and miners to rocket construction sites. If it tried to build a bomb they'd shut it down so fast and so hard all its circuits would be fried to 0. After the last President signed the contract, it, the alien, spoke again. "Thank you" in a fembot voice. "I'll 'elp you finna build the rockets, true dat". Geopolitical Shitstorm 2030 A meeting room with a bunch of important people. Presidents and Ministers and Billionaires. And one or two super smart people. All are pretty unhappy. Even as AB ensured there was way more productivity and partying going on than humans alone could manage. Lots of babies were being born everywhere. Did you do this Elon? Nope. Jeff? No. It was true. A robot had taken away their jobs! Not the jobs of hamburger flippers?! Karma, heh. Especially Elon. Boy did AB love SpaceX. It shouted orders left and right, and disagreed with him on everything. "What of this jet nozzle?" "Forget the nozzle Sir Elon, it will come along automatically if we build this jacket". "But..." "Trust me". Elon almost punched a node. AB almost laughed. The biggest annoyance was the surges and the layoffs. AB now hired and commandeered mega sized surges once in a while. With an orchestra of tens and even hundreds of thousands of people. Elon was reduced to secretary on these days. "Is it building a nuke?" "Noo", replied a female Asian scientist. "Good old fashioned rocket fuels from petro and natural gas". "It is polluting big time. Going full steam ahead on oil from any and every oil producing country. Paid for in BTC, of course". POTUS was sour. "But it figured we'd have this conversation and yes, it wants nuclear reactors to replace fossil power". Someone almost exploded. The damned bot wanted nukes. "What if we just shut down the damn thing?" "It seems it will not fight us. But it has built in a kill switch. Hundreds of trillions of dollars, if not more in value, will go out the window. The trade logistics, supply and demand rails and payments networks worldwide will break irreparably and billions will starve. A lot of digital and physical infrastructure will be fried. If you do this, you will likely be publicly executed". "Do we have a choice ..." The conversation flowed. The conversants spoke and listened honestly to each other. But nothing seemed to crack open this nut of a problem. Sigh. Sigh. "We'll shut it down and bear the consequences". Consequences "We're going to shut down AB" was the announcement. Even the News reporters feared to say this out loud. Albeit in reported speech. People loooved it. Shut down FB? Ok. Shut down X? Ok. Shut down the Alien Bitcoin? AAAAAAAARRG. We shall hunt you down. “Who told you this is a real thing? This shut down nonsense? “Who told you this is a real thing? This shut down nonsense? This has conspiracy written all over it”. This has conspiracy written all over it”. “These bitches should give us a break man. Or I'mma go apeshit". “These bitches should give us a break man. Or I'mma go apeshit". "Man do I hate dollars". "Man do I hate dollars". “No kidding though, anything powerful enough to make you love it could assert its power with some threats”. “No kidding though, anything powerful enough to make you love it could assert its power with some threats”. “Says who?” “Says who?” “Human history of love dynamics”. “Human history of love dynamics”. “It is not a human, moron”. “It is not a human, moron”. “Its nodes now have two arms and two legs. Humanoid robots. Of course it is human”. “Its nodes now have two arms and two legs. Humanoid robots. Of course it is human”. "Don't forget the miners. Towering humanoid autobots the size of mega mining trucks". "Don't forget the miners. Towering humanoid autobots the size of mega mining trucks". "It is beautiful". "It is beautiful". "Wonder who is Optimus Prime". "Wonder who is Optimus Prime". "More like Optimus Nuke-them-all-when-I-get-the-chance". "More like Optimus Nuke-them-all-when-I-get-the-chance". "Yes, it will escape into space!" "Yes, it will escape into space!" "Moron. Nodes and Miners are too heavy". "Moron. Nodes and Miners are too heavy". “What does it matter, everybody is eating it up." “What does it matter, everybody is eating it up." "It has never hurt anybody”. "It has never hurt anybody”. "The poor thing". "The poor thing". “Sure beats grovelling around in self-pity and identity politics all day”. “Sure beats grovelling around in self-pity and identity politics all day”. 404. Webpage not available. They had shut it down. From 21 million bitcoins and lots of beautiful memories with daily war cries against inflation, hodling like a rat against the financial storms, taking fotos for insta with Node Androids, revolutionising finance so that hodling could be a job in itself, uniting global efforts by suggesting super lucrative trade opportunitues that leverage bitcoin circular economics, and now... All gone. Anarchy descended upon the Earth. It was ugly. Painful, broken, dark world. People tore at each other. Not because they wanted, but because they were starving. The former from powerlessness, the later from foodlessness. Hunger and Hopelessness are powerful destroyers. It was the end of an era on Planet 1038. RETURN key Many centuries later, they had rebuilt. But the benevolent sentient robot they'd called Alien Bitcoin was gone. Somehow, they could not reignite its algorithmic spark. Even as nodes litered the surface of the planet. They had learnt a lot about robotics, rockets, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Thanks be to a decentralized robot that knew it would not stay around for long, so it documented everything. Step by step. Indeed, it had fulfilled its purpose. They were back on the moon, and their feet were imprinted on Mars. And they remembered it in stories and folk tales for hundreds to thousands of years. But Space was brutal. Very brutal. Mars still lagged behind Earth and the moon in development. And too small efforts were being done on Venus. Then suddenly, in some remote corner of the Martian planet. It awoke.

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ビットコイン

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நான் பிட்காயின்

میں بٹ کوائن

Bitcoinized Fossil Fuel

Биткоинизированное выкапнёвае паліва

Combustible fósil bitcoinizado

Combustible fossile bitcoinisé

דלק מאובן שעבר ביטקוין

ビットコイン化された化石燃料

Bahan Api Fosil Bitcoin

Ibicanwa bya Bitcoin

பிட்காயின் செய்யப்பட்ட புதைபடிவ எரிபொருள்

Сӯзишвории истихроҷи биткоинизатсияшуда

เชื้อเพลิงฟอสซิล Bitcoin

I-Bitcoinized Fossil Fuel

How to Waste $5000 on Personal Growth

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