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Chris Bell | 'There are tons of different factors that go into ranking well, but the biggest is high quality content.' |
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Chris Bell | 'There are tons of different factors that go into ranking well, but the biggest is high quality content.' |
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Ethereum ICO, NFT, DeFi & Smart Contracts - Chris Bell
One of my favorite reasons for using Ethereum so often is that I can use MetaMask or Ledger to sign into countless websites rather than logging in with personal data, verifying emails and confirming credit card numbers. Once I log into MetaMask I can use Opensea.io, Rarible.com and Uniswap.org without any additional information needed. Imagine a young person about to join the career world, but instead of filling out applications, they open an Ethereum wallet, join Virtual Reality and get a job with Nike as a customer service representative on their parcel of VR land. The VR economy is coming fast and it’s all running on Ethereum gas.
Somnium Space April 2021 Sales on OpenSea
The Somnium Space secondary land market for virtual reality NFTs has become fierce on OpenSea.io due to the amount of uses and returns each parcel can bring to its owner. A small parcel for $6,000 USD can rent for $600 per year to artists all over the world within seconds on Ethereum. The tenant has a full year to monetize the land or create $600 worth of value to their current business. Host modern zoom calls in SomniumWEB where you can join as a guest in VR with the ability to speak and use video, in addition to texting. Brand the parcel with your company logo and easily drag-n-drop your blockchain items, youtube videos or externals links and images. I’m sure these tools can help your current business in excess of $600 per year.
Somnium Space VR Land Sales Part 11
The fourth week of the #Road2SLO started off strong with 5 XL parcels sold in the first 15 minutes. The auction price for XLs stated at 10 eth and 5 of them sold for 9.85 eth because they were close to the water and city center. Many of the new users in Somnium Space will start in the center area so there are good chances for these parcels to see a lot of early foot traffic.
Somnium Space VR Land Sales Part 4
Another eventful week in the secondary market of Somnium Space VR land sales hosted on OpenSea. OpenSea is a platform that trades digital items on the Ethereum blockchain, which are called ERC-721 tokens. When your Ethereum address owns the token for a virtual reality land parcel in Somnium Space, you have the ability to build on that land without any coding experience. Immersing yourself into VR is an experience that you will soon discover, and the sooner the better.
Somnium Space VR Land Sales Part 3
This video and blog post will discuss another week of Somnium Space VR Land Sales which has been a popular NFT lately in blockchain technology. Somnium Space is a company looking to break new ground in the virtual reality world by creating a space for everyone in the world to gather quickly and easily while truely owning their land as an Ethereum Token.
Somnium Space VR Land Sales Part 2
Somnium Space proves two weeks in a row that their land parcels can sell for more than double the auction prices. Medium parcels went from 0.75 in the auction to 3 ETH in two weeks. The demand is strong! Waterfront parcels are the favorite in these early stages while road front seems to have precedence as well. While only 1500 of 5000 parcels are owned so far, 99% of the waterfront parcels are gone.
Somnium Space VR Land Sales Part 1
There were 6 VR land parcels sold in Somnium Space without a water or road marking on OpenSea. Four Teleporters traded wallets and 8 waterfront parcels sold on the secondary market. There were also 6 road parcels sold that were either near the water, mountains or center of the map. The ILO prices in November 2019 were set at 0.3 ETH for smalls, 0.75 ETH for mediums and 1.45 ETH for XL parcels. So, compare the prices that you find on OpenSea to the recently sold parcels rather than comparing prices to the listed parcels which could be higher prices.
Explore the Somnium Space Map Before the Second Land Auction
The most expensive spots on the map continue to be the island, city center, waterfront and XL parcels because it’s very similar to Earth. Condos and homes on the ocean cost far more than those in the center of US, while the center of the city continues to be more expensive than the outskirts and rural areas. This theory is shown by the current red parcels on the map compared to the gray parcels. Therefore, if you’re curious about the hot spots in the second auction, I suggest looking for gray parcels that are surrounded by red because it shows that people already value that area.
Visit and Download Somnium Space here: https://somniumspace.com/
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Understanding Battle Racers Game on Blockchain
The game of Battle Racers is played in your browser within an alternate reality. The user moves their avatar into the giant car-shaped structure, builds a car using 4 parts and races against other community members. The game is currently in early access, so users can play for free and enjoy the friendly competition, but when the game launches to the public, racing will get much more competitive!
Play the Game here: https://play.battleracers.io/
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How to Use Ethereum Name Service – ENS | Chris Bell
Since Ethereum uses long encrypted addresses, users are forced to copy/paste the address to request payment. They can also send QR codes instead of the 42-character ETH address, but it's not much easier. So, wouldn't it be nice to look up "chrisbell.eth" to find my associated ETH address? If I tell the ENS system that chrisbell.eth is associated with "0xDDd3964D75D59B6B6d5c31eB313BBA5EBF076364" (my ETH address), then wallet providers can look up my address. Once that is set up my wallet allows me to request Ethereum and all Ethereum tokens with chrisbell.eth. Simply, use your favorite wallet on any device to type "chrisbell.eth" into the SEND box and you'll see my address popup to confirm. You need an ETH address and you need to own an ENS name to point the name to the address. Therefore, you can imagine that short names like "chris.eth" would be worth more than "christopherbell.eth", which creates a strong secondary market of names for sale.
Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Buy Goldman Sachs (GS) Stock
Goldman Sachs' balance sheet is strong, growing and well organized. They have $75 Billion of equity and $71 Billion of net tangible assets which is amazing progress in 149 years (1/2 Billion per year since conception). This is a positive reason on my list because of how it compares to the market capitalization, which is $85 Billion at the price of $225 in October 2018. I could buy all the shares, own Goldman Sachs and be the CEO if I pay $85 Billion today. The best part is that I get $75 Billion of "stuff" or total net tangible assets to sell when times get tough. If I buy a company for $85 Billion, then I'd ave $75 Billion in net tangible assets the next day, along with $6 Billion in net income. That way, I'd get my money back in 2 years.
Top 5 Reasons Why NOT to Buy Tesla (TSLA) Stock
Tesla's balance sheet is awful, starting with negative retained earnings in the billions and ending with net tangible assets of $4 billion supplemented by selling their own stock. They have $4 Billion of equity and $3.7 Billion of net tangible assets which is amazing progress in only 15 years. This is a negative reason on my list because of how it compares to the market capitalization, which is $52 Billion at the price of $309 in September 2018. I could buy all the shares, own Tesla and be the CEO if I pay $52 Billion today. The problem is that I only get $4 Billion of "stuff" or total net tangible assets to sell when times get tough. If I buy a company for $52 Billion, then I'd like to have $40 Billion in net tangible assets along with $3 Billion in net income. That way, I'd get my money back in 4-5 years.
Top 5 Reasons Why NOT to Buy Amazon (AMZN) Stock
Amazon's balance sheet is strong, growing and well organized. They have $35 Billion of equity and $21 Billion of net tangible assets which is amazing progress in only 24 years. This is a negative reason on my list because of how it compares to the market capitalization, which is $943 Billion at the price of $1,935 in September 2018. I could buy all the shares, own Amazon and be the CEO if I pay $943 Billion today. The problem is that I only get $21 Billion of “stuff” or total net tangible assets to sell when times get tough. If I buy a company for $976 Billion, then I'd like to have $700 Billion in net tangible assets along with $50 Billion in net income. That way, I'd get my money back in 4-5 years.
Top 5 Reasons Why NOT to Buy Facebook (FB) Stock
Facebook's balance sheet is strong, growing and well organized. They have $80 Billion of equity and $60 Billion of net tangible assets which is amazing progress in only 14 years. This is a negative reason on my list because of how it compares to the market capitalization, which is $480 Billion at the price of $165 in September 2018. I could buy all the shares, own Facebook and be the CEO if I pay $480 Billion today. The problem is that I only get $60 Billion of “stuff” or total net tangible assets to sell when times get tough. If I buy a company for $480 Billion, then I'd like to have $400 Billion in net tangible assets along with $20 Billion in net income. That way, I'd get my money back in 4 years.
What is Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency? Decentralized | Peer-to-Peer | Encrypted | Borderless
Bitcoin is decentralized, peer-to-peer, borderless, fast and safe. You're in full control of your Bitcoin, there are ways that it provides a return on investment through forking, and the infrastructure is currently building throughout the entire world. Roger Ver is the founder and CEO of Bitcoin.com, and the cofounder of Bitcoin Cash, and he explains: "Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government."
The first thing to understand about cryptocurrency is that it's decentralized. If you understand the structure of a relational database management system (RDBMS) of customers and inventory then you understand how companies create a central database for their employees, and sometimes their customers, to make updates to their central server. Then, a few seconds later, the central server has the updated information for users to access and run reports from. Now imagine that you and your friends want to keep track of your golf scores in a Microsoft Excel sheet to review them later. If one person keeps the scores on their desktop, it's centralized. Likewise, if you put the Excel sheet into the cloud for everyone to manage together, it's centralized.
Don't Buy Over-Priced Stocks (Companies)
I'd much rather call stocks companies and I'd urge you to consider buying an entire company before you buy a single share. Time shares are 1/52 of a home, or one week's value of the full value, so in order to consider buying a time share you must also consider the full price of the home. If you feel the home or condo is worth $52,000 then $1,000 seems like a fair price for the time share. Likewise, if a company is worth $1 million dollars and there are one million available shares, it seems as if $1 per share would be a fair price.
How do you value a company?
There are numerous formulas online to determine what a company is worth. Marcus Lemonis of The Profit uses a vague formula of [Assets - Liabilities + (Earnings X 3)]. Warren Buffett is much more conservative due to his mentor Benjamin Graham and uses a vague formula of [Assets - Liabilities], or Total Equity (also known as Book Value). Buffett only buys a company (stock) if the total equity equates to more than the total outstanding shares. Technically, every company that Warren Buffett buys could liquidate the next day for more money than the outstanding shares are worth. Not only that, Buffett also makes sure that the company has been in business long enough to withstand the wrath of a horrible economy, world wars, recessions and depressions, along with a longstanding dividend payment and increased earnings. But that sounds like a once in a life time opportunity, right?
Stop looking at charts and start looking at financial statements, if you can handle it, that is..
Diversify: From Real Estate to Compound Interest
I've spent 12 years after my 21st birthday investing my savings into real estate because I've always wanted to survive on rental income as a full time job. Even though real estate is the retirement plan I think about, I also have a Simple IRA that I contribute to at work. A Simple IRA is different from a 401K plan because I'm allowed to invest the money in particular stocks such as Google if I choose to. I add my contributions to the symbol SPY which is an index fund with low fees that follows the S&P 500 index of the 500 largest companies in the US. Aside from my current contributions to a Simple IRA and real estate, I'd like to start thinking about compound interest. Albert Einstein says that it's the eighth wonder of the world and Warren Buffett has followed the strategy since he was 10 years old. Warren Buffett doesn't like to sell his investments, he continues to buy more. When you sell a stock or a home the IRS will want a portion of the profits (capital gains tax), so the longer you keep your asset the faster it grows by compounding on itself. Also, if you cash out $10,000 in profit, then pay 30% in tax, your next investment needs to grow 30% to get back to even. Selling an investment when you're 65 is different, you pay tax once and use the money without trying to invest in something else to recoup the taxes and fees you paid.
It's easy to avoid capital gains tax, never sell anything.
Showing Up in Google After Website Launch | Chris Bell
After you launch your 5-10 page website, the next question you type into Google is, "How do I get to the top 10 results?" The simple answer is to write quality blog posts about your products and services every day. Keep the nice clean look of your 5-10 page site while you fill the blog with content about your previous jobs, and how your services are top quality every time. Don't tell your readers how bad your competitors are or how much better you are than them, simply describe how you handled your job in a professional manner with quality in mind.
50 Blog Posts
Google doesn't care about your 5 page website, or any other 5 page website. Google cares about reputable companies and very large websites. You absolutely need at least 50 blog posts (Owning a Blog) before you can think about ranking in the search engines. Each blog post is another title that the search engine spiders can pick up and rank, so if you have 60 page titles you have 60-times more chances of being ranked.
Best Investment Strategy Possible | Chris Bell
The best possible investment you can make is in yourself and your education. Most of us make less than $100,000 per year and most of us don't manage 20 people because we aren't educated enough to do either. The founders of FaceBook, Google and Twitter didn't just collect millions of dollars for having an idea. They worked endless hours on their education and then created their companies from scratch.
Where to Start
One class at a time. Don't compare yourself to friends and family members that already have degrees, and don't focus on any specific major when you begin. Your associate's degree takes about 2 years to complete one class at a time and there won't be too many classes specific to any major. The classes will be compiled of English and Math courses because you need English and Math expertise to handle most of the more difficult classes later on. There will be many electives that you get to choose along the way in order to find out what specific major you want to focus on. Later on, the classes will get much more focused.
Think of Real Estate as a Retirement Plan
Real estate fluctuates just like stocks, however people need a place to live much more than they need Google stock. Real estate can create a nest egg for you that many other investments cannot because it's tangible and it's something that people will always need. It can be easier to think about real estate as a retirement plan because the thought of growing your savings account to $500,000 or $1,000,000 sounds insane. We all know that you'll spend the money on something before it reaches a million dollars.
Only spend money on appreciating assets.
It doesn't count as "spending money" when you buy something that can appreciate in worth. For instance, Google stock and real estate are different than buying a car or a toy. Google has plans in place to increase in value over the next 10 years and you can simply hop in the car and ride with them. There's no financial plan for real estate, but everyone that sells a home must turn around and buy another home.
Real Estate Doesn't Always Have to be a Deal | Chris Bell
I just signed a Purchase and Sale agreement to buy a 2 bedroom condo in Merrimack NH for $110,000. I could have offered $105,000 or waited for a foreclosure or short sale to come on the market, but I was more interested in the return on investment rather than the purchase price. Instead of comparing recent sales in the area or current inventory on the MLS, I looked at the monthly figures, monthly cash flow, tax deductions and rental income.
Monthly Figures
Monthly figures involve the mortgage payment, monthly condo fee, monthly taxes and monthly insurance. Each of the monthly expenses change for each home or condo which makes it important to look for low condo fees, low taxes and the best insurance rate possible. As homes increase in value taxes and condo fees also increase, but it's not as relative as you might think. Tax assessments are only done once every 5 years and can vary dramatically for comparably priced homes. Condo fees also vary depending on the amount of units, property conditions and possible assessments. This particular home, my 4th piece of property, has low fees across the board along with a low mortgage payment over 30 years.
There's No Real Estate Bubble - Bubbles are for Children | Chris Bell
Real estate is the most powerful thing in the world. It's Earth. How could you not want to own a piece of Earth at some point in your life? Expert after expert will drive you to think that it's a perfect time to buy, or a horrible time to buy, or to wait six months for prices to hit rock bottom, then buy. Experts on television are not always paid for their thoughts, sometimes they're paid to read from the teleprompter. What do you believe? Who do you believe? The bubble is coming! It's about to pop! Sell all of your real estate now!
Pay Down Real Estate or Buy More | Chris Bell
Deciding what works best for yourself can be difficult when you have experts telling you to do something else. However, the experts are part of the problem because every situation has two opposing experts telling you that their way is the best way. Should you pay down your current real estate or should you leverage additional money to buy more real estate? It's a tough question to answer because both ideas are smart and well thought out.
Pay Down Your Real Estate
No one can argue that paying down a loan is a bad idea, no matter what type of loan it is, but people argue that there are better ways of spending additional cash. Adding money to your mortgage payment saves you from paying interest on that money, it lowers the amount you owe the bank and it increases your credit score. If you continue to save money and add it to your mortgage you will save thousands and thousands of dollars by the time it's paid off completely.
How to Invest if You Want To Make Millions | Chris Bell
The best way to think about investing no matter your income level, is to add a zero. Focus intently on turning $100 into $1,000, then you can focus on turning $1,000 into $10,000. You may think of Mark Zuckerberg as an overnight success, but it took years of hard work, previous years of education, over $1,000 of investment capital, and finally, partners willing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars once the idea was almost a success. Even with 1 million users and almost $1 million in capital it was difficult for him to turn a profit as the CEO.
Remember that making money is difficult, it's only the elite that figure out a way to get their hands on large amounts of it.
Forget Dreaming, Do It and Live It | Chris Bell
Humans have easily trainable brains that can copy, mimic, master, and even alter body movements and information. Do you seriously believe something is so differently inhuman about you that you can't lose the exact amount of weight you want to within a year or two? Or so wrong that you can't learn a sport, or run the marathon? You may not master your favorite sport tomorrow, but you can start practicing and you'll learn new tricks before you know it. Hanging out with others doing the same activity will spike your interest level and give you the determination to learn something. Financing is available for most people these days, and you can use it to start a business or to start a new chapter of your life!
Knowledge is Power
Some people that you may not want to call smart have plenty of cash in their pocket for various reasons, but those with knowledge hold their own talent. They choose to learn more every day. They didn't just go to college, "get super smart", and start making money. These particular people still take classes online or in person forever. Their difficult high paying jobs force them to take training classes within the company or get licensed for something in their field, which forces them to study and read continuously. Knowledge doesn't always win, but it's a key to success every time.
Owning a Blog that generates income is hard work that can only be achieved with determination, knowledge and the perfect amount of optimization that doesn't get you banned from search engines. Search engine optimization and marketing was created by the search engines themselves to deliver better results to their customers. Start with a domain name and hosting. Paying for monthly hosting is like paying taxes on a plot of land, you need it for your domain.
Keywords
Let your page flow by focusing on the title throughout your post. Don't listen to articles that tell you to pack your posts with keywords. Google is searching for titles, once the titles are clicked 1000 times, Google picks the top ten pages that were visited the longest, and those in which multiple pages were viewed. Think about visitors staying on your website rather than which keywords to use.
WALK AWAY From Your Mortgage Today Bedford, NH
After a few headaches about your mortgage payments, expenses and home improvement ideas you might have thought, "What if I could just walk away." You feel like you would be better off without any of it. If you weren't a home owner you could get rid of the lawn mower, snow blower, rake and plenty of other items that take up space. Well it's not as hard as you think.
Plenty of people out there want your mortgage. They know it's costing you money, but half of the costs would be given directly to tenant that leases your home. The tenant still pays for their own heat, cable, electric and groceries. They also pay rent that most likely covers the mortgage payment and taxes. The tenant mows the lawn, shovels the driveway and pays the expenses all while the loan dwindles.
Buying a 2nd Home - Chris Bell Real Estate
Buying a 2nd home is a big step into real estate investing because it's difficult to do in April 2015. I own 3 pieces of real estate, including one townhouse condo (left image), one garden style condo (primary home) and one residential home that I also lease. When I bought my 2nd condo it was 2006 and the real estate market was booming.
It was easy! I bought my first condo in 2005 for $205,000 with 20% down. Therefore, I had 20% equity in the home immediately. Since the economy was in good shape in 2005-2006 banks were offering 110% Home Equity Loans. So, 3 months after purchasing my first condo I went to the bank and got a Home Equity loan for $40,000.
I'm Seeing Dollar Signs at the End of my IT Degree
I've learned an incredible amount from attending SHNU for an IT degree with a focus of web design. I had taught myself HTML and CSS while building a company website for my father's small company. We didn't have money for expensive programmers so I started using basic code while I took online courses.
I also learned how to rank a website in search engines by simply labeling web pages with keywords and phrases about your products and services. PHP scripting is by far the most difficult thing I've had to learn because there are numerous things happening at once. It takes 3 pages interacting with each other to build a simple log in form. Your name and password must be stored in a database (spread sheet) and then pulled from the database, validated, and approved with a landing page that welcomes you to the website.
Sounds confusing? That's why the jobs pay well at the end of an IT degree. I have 5 classes left and each class is directly focused on web design, storing information in databases and how to retrieve it once it's there.
Incredible PHP Lecture by David Malan
Professor David Malan of Harvard University gives lectures on YouTube about PHP scripting language and many other areas of interest. I watched a few of his PHP lectures and they were loaded with useful information that few could understand after watching it only once.
If you have an interest in PHP I suggest you watch these videos. However, you should have prior knowledge in HTML and CSS because those languages are incorporated into PHP to structure and dress the page behind the function you're completing. PHP tells things to happen within the HTML pages such as "accept form field" and "place form field here" once submitted. Facebook uses PHP commands to accept your posts, likes and personal information updates.
Learning PHP Code | Chris Bell
I just began a new class in SNHU called IT-370, Web Server Design which is a beginner PHP class. There are a few coding languages that one must understand to build a website from scratch and PHP will help the website interact with the visitor. Here's what I've gathered thus far:
| HTML: Uses tables to structure a page with a Header, Body and Footer. |
| CSS: Makes it pretty. Using Font, H1 tags, background colors and images. |
First Website From Scratch www.tradestockcheap.com
I'm about 3 years into my web design degree. I just began learning how to build websites from scratch using HTML and CSS. I'm posting my progress here to see how I improve as I get closer to my bachelors degree.
The header shot of www.tradestockcheap.com is to the left. I started by putting the basic HTML functions in place such as, head, body, header, section, article and footer. From there I moved over to the CSS page to start formatting the look of each section.
I had a lot of trouble with the NAV attribute so I used a basic Table attribute in its place. I have more experience using tables so I was able to make it work with a:hover and rounded corners. I know it's not ideal code work so I plan on studying NAV elements in the next couple of weeks.