adetorrent 3Speak Podcast

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=adetorrent/pmzwrqut It's been a minute since I last posted a video on 3Speak. How's everyone doing on here? It's nice to see the platform is still around and kicking. In this video I talk about Hive search engine authority and the lack thereof. I reminisce the time when we were on Steemit in the early days and that site had a massive authority due to, amongst other things, the speed of the blockchain. What do you guys think? Can we ever get that authority that I talked about in the video back?

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=adetorrent/ogqvfnsj I've decided to can the vlogs, lol. No sustainable Expensive to watch in countries with poor access to internet data Boring Making too many videos already Peace & Love Adé

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=adetorrent/ivehqjfh The energy price cap is set to increase again in January 2024. The energy price cap is apparently expected to rise by around 20% in January 2024. This would mean that a typical household would pay around £2,368 per year for their energy bills. That may not seem like much, but that represents around 200 quid per month! The rise in the energy price cap is due to a number of factors, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and the continued global economic recovery. The war in Ukraine has pushed up the price of gas, which is a major component of energy bills. The global economic recovery has also increased demand for energy, which has put further upward pressure on prices. The issue in Ukraine, affecting the gas, has eased for sure, yet the prices never went down. Instead the energy companies poste record profits! The rise in energy prices is having a significant impact on households across the UK. Many people are already struggling to pay their bills, and the increase is likely to make it even more difficult for them to do so. The government has announced a number of measures to help people with the rising cost of living, but these measures are not enough to offset the full impact of the increase in energy prices. In the meantime, there are a number of things that households can do to reduce their energy bills, such as switching energy suppliers, using energy-efficient appliances, and setting heating schedules (freezing to death indoors that is), spending more time in heated public spaces rather than at home, and so on. My heart goes out to the poor elderly. I've been using the cafe more these days to reduce the amount of heating I have to do, but I wonder if coffee and food at the cafe don't cost even more than the gas I'm supposedly saving anyway. Emmigration is looking more and more like the cheaper alternative these days I tell you. Peace & Love, Adé

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=adetorrent/pvasoxwa The first day of December didn’t bring the motivation that I expected. Instead I found myself quite demotivated. It must be the cold. We temperatures dipping below zero for the first time in a while, my mind has slowed down a fair bit haha. I will give it a better go tomorrow. Peace & Love, Adé

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=adetorrent/duottkon You may have heard that, starting from January 2024, the taxman in the UK will be going after side hustles. Not only will they clamp down on those hustling in the UK, but they have partnered up with a soon-to-be-global consortium to clam down on international income. The saddest part of this is it will affect the “little guy” the most. Those already struggling to make ends meet in this country and have taken on a second or third “job” to cover the basics. Some have taken to driving cabs, delivering mail or even selling on eBay, because they need to feed their kids. It is these folks the government want to monitor closely to make sure they’re not making a single dime they’re not being taxed on. This doesn’t exempt crypto by the way. Centralised exchanges like Coinbase have been reporting all our activity to the government for a few years now. Thy have also been tracking cold wallets and associating them to their owners when they interrupt with CEXs. It’s not popular here in crypto land, but I’ve been paying my taxes every year. 2020-2021 tax year was especially painful given he amount of tax I had to fork out. It had to be done though, otherwise I could have been blogging from behind bars right now :) I use software that tracks my wallets via API and generates tax documents for me. It works in most countries like the US, UK, Canada, etc. It’s been pretty handy over the past few years. Here’s an affiliate link to it -> HERE<-. It’s free to sign up and analyse your wallets, but you have to pay to generated tax returns. Some people use it to compare to their manual calculations without paying. By the way, if you ever do pay for the service, I may get a little referral commission. Well, November has come to an end. This is looking forward to a fruitful December. Tax deadlines are coming. Peace & Love, Adé

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=adetorrent/otweoegb Lisbon MY FIRST TIME IN PORTUGAL I just got back from Lisbon, Portugal. It was my first time ever in Portugal, let alone Lisbon, if you can believe that. I'd been wanting to go for a while now. Apart from being a major European city, it's just one of those places that's packed with so much history, good and bad, that's been on my list for such a long time. Lisbon is also very close to London, relatively speaking, and very easy to get to. It's a short direct flight and there are no visa requirements to worry about. In addition to this, Portugal has some of the most favourable crypto laws in the world, which got my attention a few years ago. So when I had a little time on my hands, Lisbon was an easy choice. I took a very early morning flight from London. I did that on purpose because I could maximise the day there by arriving so early. Besides, the ticket was cheaper too. It was a smooth flight and I even dozed off for about half an hour. Anyone that has flown Ryanair knows that's a miracle in and of itself.