StrongBlock Nodes; I randomly came across a video about this… technology? About a
month ago from a YouTuber named Jesse Eckel. Turns out we’re both on a quest to ruthlessly
reinvest basically all of our money in a feedback loop of fairly risky ideas in an attempt to
escape a life of living to work.. He seems like a cool guy
Anyway, Jesse Eckel turned my gaze towards Strong Token - and its function to create
and own Strong Nodes as a somewhat rabid form of passive income.
I will admit, I should DEFINITELY have a clearer understanding of exactly what a thing is before
putting in as much money as I did into it, all at once… I found myself in something
of a fever dream, my eyes gone black like a shark - sending a picture of myself holding
my drivers license to literally I dont know who to make a trust wallet, I DONT KNOW WHAT
A TRUST WALLET IS!? I think I might have given out my social security number during this
process…
Because of that- I want to be very clear about the following: I am not implying that you,
internet person, should drain your account and jump into strong nodes - they cost a lot.
I am irresponsible… I also have a very large safety net, and a possibly sociopathic level
of indifference to debt; so if you do, too - let me tell you a bit about Strong Nodes
and Ill show you how to set one up!
When I INITIALLY saw this thing on that guy’s first video about it, one Strong Token cost
800 dollars. In order to set up a node, you are required to put in 10 Strong.
I tried late one night and failed to do this. You cant actually buy Strong anywhere. You
can only trade to get it - and its not offered on the exchanges I regularly use for Crypto.
Initially when I was researching how to get my hands on some - It was this confusing multi
step process of verifications and swaps, and I gave up part way through. Then forgot all
about it.
Then a month went by, I had been in New York for an art thing, I got real busy blah blah
blah, smash cut to last week and we had a fun little crypto dip and Strong dropped down
to $475! That means starting a node went from $8000 to $5000 (after gas fees and my mistake
of sending ‘just the right’ amount of ether, which ends up being NOT enough ether
after the transfers, so I then sent MORE ether, and paid more fees, whatever).
Ive talked previously about the devil inside me that wakes up when I see what the half
of my brain that I do not necessarily have full control off deems to be a good opportunity,
my wife calls this part of my brain Dick, (My name is Nic) he also hides my keys often,
but drives for me when im daydreaming.
This crypto dip lit a raging fire in my belly, I just assumed it was temporary and I had
no choice but to act, and I went back to strongblock.com with an unstoppable determination to acquire
a node - which very quickly became two nodes. So I’ve got three Strong Nodes, it is one
day later.
Before I tell you the easiest way to set up a Strong Block Node - let me give you a very
simplified, MOSTLY accurate description of what they even are - with my still limited
understanding of the project, even though I did make it through the white paper.
So, the blockchain. A blockchain is a complete history of all transactions, and therefor
a ledger of who owns what and how much of a cryptocurrency.
Part of what makes a blockchain so valuable as we move into the future of finance, is
that it is decentralized. It does not exist in one place, but everywhere and no one can
edit the history of the transactions.
These Strong Nodes will serve to constantly update the ledger - they will keep the copies
of consensus to prove transaction history and provide bandwidth for future projects
to be built onto existing blockchains.
When you pay to set up a strong node - it does not exist on your computer - you do not
need to have something running 24 hours a day like a miner. And I am still unclear on
exactly what I’ve paid for, like wether I am adding to the fund to buy more physical
hardware to perform these tasks or just paying to allocate existing network power towards
this project. But what I do know is that the reward system is consistent and clear.
For each node you own, you receive 0.1 Strong per day. The price of strong is fluctuating
like any other crypto currency so the US dollar value of 0.1 strong per day is not consistent,
today, right now it is $580. But, with this reward system, you will recover your initial
investment in only 100 days. Thats three months and a little over a week! Thats only thinking
in terms of Strong Tokens. If you buy in, and the price suddenly doubles - well now
in terms of US Dollars, you’ll have that initial investment back in half the time..
You “pay” 10 Strong to set up one node. Then you pay minimal maintenance fees monthly
on each node you set up. So for me, the first one was $4800 - then I bought a second one
in the same day for $4900 and the next day I couldn’t stop myself and got a third at
$5500. With the token at $580 right this moment, I am earning $58 * 3, so $174 a day $5220
a month! And the price of Strong is on the rise.
Now I went and found a few reddit groups devoted solely to this seemingly too good to be true,
gotta have money to make money, passive income investment.. And I read back through over
a year of posts, looking for ANYONE telling of how they lost everything, or how its not
what you think it is, like you see so often in the mining community. And it just wasn’t
there. There are some people who missed their maintenance
payments and POOF, just like that your node is erased and with it a bit over a thousand
bucks a month of income that you can not reactivate (pay your maintenance fees). But that was
about it aside from fears of the price collapsing - but thats all cryptos, all stocks, real
estate, NFTs, all of it.
Surely watching this video now youre muttering about how lucky I was to make such a stupid
investment at such an opportune time, or stupid I was to lose this much money - depending
on where this went and if it turned out it was a pony scheme after all.
Anyways, some portion of you came here to figure out how to make a StrongBlock Node
of your own - so here is the process. The steps are actually pretty easy! Parting with
thousands of dollars may not be.
First; go out and get yourself a Trust Wallet. Theres an app for it on the apple app store,
im sure android has it also. Do whatever verification they ask, write down your key phrases on waterproof
paper, bury them 8 paces east of the tallest tree on the highest side of your property
in a jar with an aluminum top.
Then go to Strongblock.com, click on app, click on connect wallet, choose wallet connect
and follow the prompts to connect your Trust Wallet.
Now, before you do anything else, you have to obtain IN THAT WALLET, 10 strong and Im
going to say $500 USD worth of Ether. The easiest way to do this is to start with all
ether. So go into your trust wallet app, press ethereum, press receive, and copy your Trust
Wallet Ethereum Address.
Next, go to wherever you have your ethereum now, or if you dont have any, go buy a bunch..
You will need 10 strong plus 500 dollars. So look up the price of strong, today its
$580 - you would need $5,800 dollars, plus 500 dollars, so get $6300 US dollars worth
of Ethereum and send it to your trust wallet address that you copied from the trust app.
Doing this at night will be cheaper than doing it in the day time because of gas fees on
the ethereum blockchain. Excellent, now you have something like $6150
dollars worth of Ether in your Trust Wallet. Open that app back up, click on Ethereum,
choose swap, and search for strong. fill out 10 strong, right now thats 1.26969ether (sweet).
Babam!! Youre ready! You’ve got what you need - You’ve got 10 Strong bucks and a
few hundred dollars left over of Ether to cover various fees that change constantly.
Now go BACK over to Strongblock.com, press create node, give it a name, give it a description,
agree to this paragraph full of rules and press submit!
This next part got me on my first attempt, pick your phone back up and wait for a notification
from Trust Wallet to execute a smart contract. It will take between a few seconds and a few
minutes but once you hit that, things will turn green and your node will come to life..
Now our financial fates, and the fate of Jesse Eckel and his many children are tied!
I will update the progress of this as time goes on. So if youre too nervous to pull the
trigger because you still dont fully understand what this even is (I dont), please allow me
to take these risks for you and report back about their efficacy.
Only one more week down here in Miami and I’ll be getting to the real meaty Immersion
Cooling ASIC stuff I just cant wait to get into, as well as a cross country road trip
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