Cryptocurrency : Proof of Stake

Claiming Your Stake For Rewards and Mining In the late 1800’s, citizens of the U.S.A. were given the opportunity to stake a land claim in the expanding territory of the west. One of these seven land run events was the Land Run of 1893, where an estimated 115,000 participants road horses, wagons, bikes or just ran to stake a claim on 6 million acres and 42,000 homesteads in what was previously grazing land for the Cherokee. The participants would have to run to a plotted out homestead, which was about 160 acres in size, and plant their flag. If you Continue reading Cryptocurrency : Proof of Stake

Creating A ‘To The Moon’ Image

Working with PHP GD Image to Dynamically Create an Image Now that I have the correct max date query pulling the “To The Moon” coins list, it is time to work on creating an output image to let people share it with the world. From previous experience working with my website, before WordPress was WordPress, I knew that PHP had tools for manipulating images. I figured, I could take several images and text and combine them together to create a shareable image for each coin. While there is a great PHP image manipulation tool called ImageMagick, I am limited to Continue reading Creating A ‘To The Moon’ Image

Getting the Correct Max Date

After I added the dynamic search feature to my “To The Moon” 🚀 Coin Calculator, I noticed that the price of BitCoin (BTC) was not increasing. I knew that it was over USD$9,000 all day, but it was still showing a price just about USD$8,000. When I ran the query in the MySQL database, I noticed that it was pulling back the correct date, but not the correct price. QUERY FAIL!! So, it was off to figure out why my query wasn’t working. To start, I was using the MAX() function to retrieve the latest date added to the table. Continue reading Getting the Correct Max Date