I've been thinking about writing this post for quite a while now. Pretty much every time I have to look for something in my bookmarks, I get about halfway through the list and I think "I should write a post about this". In the five years I have been involved in blockchain I have gathered quite a number of web site bookmarks in my Chrome browser.
Too many in fact.
As I said, it often takes a good thirty seconds to scroll down through all of them when I am looking for something that I just recently bookmarked. It's time to clean them out and I am going to share them with you as I do that.
Maybe it will be totally boring for you, maybe you will be hit with a touch of nostalgia. I doubt I'm the only one with a list like this. Projects that never saw the light of day or have been rugged for a long time now.
Sit back, relax, and let's take this journey together...
Masternodes
Way back in 2018 this guy named @raymondspeaks reached out to me in Discord to ask if I was this other person he used to know. We got talking and the topic you see above came up. Masternodes is the first link in my list and it actually looks like the site is still up. I never quite understood the concept, and back then I didn't really have money to invest in something like this.
It seemed like a good deal though, I mean 1000% ROI is pretty decent. I almost feel like this was kind of the precursor to DeFi and liquidity pools I could be totally wrong though.
Steem Crap
Probably no surprise I have a bundle of bookmarks leading to old Steem services that are no longer up and running. The majority of the links are dead. I am not going to cover them all here, but Steemfollower, UA Steem User Authority, My Steemit Friends, and adsactly.city are just a few of them. Believe it or not, I even found an old Steem faucet that also seems to be defunct. Freesteemmine. I feel like it was connected to Splinterlands somehow back in the day. I could be wrong about that though.
I think @adsactly is still kicking around and to be fair they were kind of platform agnostic if I remember right, but this link seems to be dead so off to the trash bin it goes!
What to mine
There was a time when I was really interested in mining my own tokens. Which is pretty stupid, because even back in the day, it was pretty much already too late for the average home user to mine anything. I do have some tokens that I was able to snag mining BOID, but those are pretty much worthless right now.
Is still around and it is a site that tells you what kind of return you can get on certain tokens if you wanted to mine them. I don't recognize any of them honestly so use at your own risk. It's fun to go back and look at, but I wouldn't count on getting rich off of any of them.
Bitcointalk
I was involved in BTCTalk for a short time thanks to @daan. He had a pretty big account over there and I was thinking it might be kind of easy to transition from posting on Steem to posting over there. I was definitely wrong. As hard as Steem was to get noticed, Bitcoin Talk was even harder. Plus there were quite a few people who immediately deleted or modded my first posts into nothingness.
To be fair, I didn't know enough about Blockchain back then to really be participating. I think I could hold my own now, but I was so green back then and it was obvious. Merits (their unit of upvote) were hard to come by. What you were hoping was that you could get enough merits that your account would stand out. Then you could have a advertising banner in your signature. People would pay you to passively promote their site.
As long as you were commenting a certain number of times per day and getting their name out there, they would pay you like $100 or $200 a week in BTC. It was a good gig if your account was big enough. Sadly mine never got to that point. I stopped visiting the forums a long long time ago.
It looks like it is still pretty active and I could reactivate my account if I wanted. I might hold onto this bookmark for a bit longer.
MyEtherWallet
Long before MetaMask was around, there was a Ethereum wallet called MyEtherWallet. I was super new to crypto, but I needed to hold EOS on the ETH chain so I could get the airdrop when the EOS main net launched.
I don't think I could have picked a more confusing wallet to use. MEW is super powerful, but it also isn't that user friendly. Certainly nothing like what we have gotten used to with MetaMask. If you ever used MEW, you probably know what I am talking about.
I still have an account, so I don't plan on deleting this bookmark, but I think I also imported that account to MM a while ago, so accessing it via MEW isn't really that important anymore.
https://www.myetherwallet.com/
Feel free to check it out! It looks like they have come a long way from their start as "Ethereum's original wallet".
This post is getting a bit long and I still have a ton more bookmarks to go. I will continue this in another post (or five). Be sure to check back for some more great walks down memory lane!
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