Damn, I exchanged 200 pounds cash before going to London for the Gem-A gemology Diploma exam in the winter of 2017, and today when I went to the money changer they surprisingly refused to exchange, saying that this batch of banknotes has already been withdrawn from circulation and has all been replaced with plastic currency.
If I want to exchange, I can only do so at the rate of 1.4 paper pounds for 1 plastic pound. I'll just keep it as a souvenir.
Cash should also be spent early, otherwise it will depreciate.
Is there anyone like me who hasn't started playing OpenClaw yet? Let's line up. I'm still observing and don't want to spend time worrying about configurations or spending money on subscriptions for large models, a Mac Mini, and cloud services.
Because my time and emotions are very precious, I don't want to waste high opportunity costs on unfinished products.
Having experienced projects where the harder I worked, the more I lost, I now know that choice is greater than effort; good things take time.
For example, my game jewelry company, where I worked tirelessly for 3 years, got worn out and lost a fortune.
On the contrary, I've made 4 times more by hoarding 18K gold without doing anything.
Let the bullets fly for a while longer; I'll observe the pitfalls that everyone else is stepping into.
Bonk has changed its tune about deleting posts. It's not that the Bonk project wants to settle in the Alibaba Center in Shanghai's Solana Shanghai Builder Station.
Rather, it's about participating in the creation of this builder incubator in Shanghai.
As a technology provider, helping Shanghai build a blockchain overseas industry base, this wording is much safer.
Web3 youngsters can be educated!
The Alibaba Center in Hongqiao should belong to Minhang District.
Minhang District should learn from Xuhui, quietly giving a building by the riverside, allowing law firms and technology service providers doing Web3 business to settle in.
In sensitive industries, a bunch of projects that issue tokens on-chain to take advantage of others leave a mess behind; it's very difficult to identify early-stage projects without tokens.
Exploring new industries must be done quietly when the policy direction is unclear; carefully selecting projects is really necessary. One must conduct due diligence on the founders' relatives across three generations, otherwise, they cannot be endorsed.
If the Solana Shanghai Builder Station at Alibaba Center in Shanghai can successfully open on March 20th, the Shanghai municipal government and Alibaba executives will attend the speeches, welcoming various major Solana ecosystem Web3 project teams to settle in for office work.
That would be a huge relaxation of blockchain industry policies in China!
In the face of a series of cryptocurrency bills from the Federal Reserve and SEC over the past six months, it seems that Dongda also needs to catch up. I find it hard to believe that the central government would open the floodgates so wide all at once. Following the principle of enjoying the spectacle without being bothered by the chaos, I will continue to observe closely.
Shanghai has always been a leading advanced area for technological innovation in the country, and the officially supported Solana blockchain developer conference has also been held. In 2023, Shanghai's Chinajoy also featured the GDC China Web3 game forum, inviting people related to blockchain games to give speeches, but there have been no such events after 2023. Now it is a bear market, where exactly is the favorable wind blowing to Shanghai?
Why do some people think that university computer science majors are heading towards extinction?
There are indeed layoffs of engineers in Silicon Valley, and undergraduate students in the computer science department of the University of California are unemployed.
The problem is that other majors have been cut more, and there are more unemployed.
Look at OpenClaw; for those who know programming, it's like picking fruit from a tree.
For those without a programming background, it takes a lot of extra time to install it.
Those who were charged for credit card fraud after installing Lobster were also those with a liberal arts background, while graduates of computer science do not make such basic mistakes.
In 2026, the undergraduate computer science programs at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University still have the second highest A-Level admission score (medicine has always been the highest).
In 2026, permanent residents studying medicine at the National University of Singapore have an annual tuition fee of 48,000 Singapore dollars, while the computer science major only costs 12,000.
In 2024, the median salary of undergraduate graduates from the National University of Singapore for all subjects has computer science ranking second, with 6,500 Singapore dollars a month; the highest in the medical field is the dentist, which is only 4,450 Singapore dollars.
Even for middle-class families, raising a medical undergraduate requires a hefty family asset, as nurturing a medical undergraduate over five years costs 240,000 Singapore dollars. Many local children in Singapore pay a slightly cheaper tuition of 33,000 Singapore dollars a year, which is unaffordable without a scholarship.
In conclusion, computer science remains the most cost-effective undergraduate major for middle-class families.
My younger brother was determined to study medicine in middle school, really a lot of pressure!
Fortunately, being in your forties is precisely the age for striving!
Searching through the list of speeches at GDC in San Francisco, I only found one speech related to Web3 games, discussing the player incentive system in games. There is a vice president from the old chain game Star Atlas on Solana attending the panel.
In the GDC speech list, I found myself dizzy and couldn't find any themes exploring how players use AI avatars to play games.
Most of the content related to AI still uses AI as a tool to develop games. However, players in the AI era are not concerned about how you develop games; they just want to raise their own AI avatars to compete in the game.
This AI avatar is not just a pet in the game, picking up drops and showing off muscles; it is truly a replica of the player themselves.
The ICO pre-sale of the chain game Cambria will end in 4 hours. Currently, only 788 people are participating in the fundraising, with a total pledge of only 780,000 U, far less than the target amount of 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 U for this ICO.
To be honest, the collapse of the Fableborne token yesterday really affected everyone's enthusiasm for participating in the chain game token new offerings.
I originally planned to put in 1,040 U. I had already transferred the funds to my Ronin wallet for playing games yesterday afternoon, but I couldn't get in after trying three times. I don't know what the technical bug is.
Seeing the situation with Power, I think I'll pass. The confidence of chain game players has been completely destroyed, so I won't participate.
If blockchain games continue like this, they will really become common.
I played the blockchain game Fableborne for a while, but I couldn't get the hang of it, so I didn't buy any assets. In 2024, I went to the GDC in San Francisco, and I also attended their breakfast meeting where I met their development team member Maria G.
The founder Kam is an Indian-British person who transitioned from the Web2 game developer Pixion Games to making Web3 games. Pixion Games has been around for 8 years.
I really don't know how they plan to wrap things up.
Do the people from Binance Alpha and the contract listing team want to say a few words?
I just found out that my wallet has been inexplicably stolen again. On February 26th, a batch of scattered EVM tokens was transferred away, and a little BTC from Merlin was also taken, along with the staked STHQ certificates. The loss is nearly 500u.
On February 12th, I had also received ESP tokens, and selling them was fine. I haven't operated my OKX wallet at all in the past ten days. Why was it also stolen?
I checked the situation of the U.S. military stationed in Singapore and found that there are no permanent U.S. troops in Singapore, which relieved me. It takes an 8-hour flight from Singapore to Dubai. Even if Iran has intercontinental missiles, it probably wouldn't launch them at Singapore; it's too expensive and not worth it. It would be better to launch them directly at the U.S.... Flying from Singapore to Seoul, then to Japan's Okinawa, and then to Guam, all take over 7 hours. Taiwan is the closest, with a flying distance of 4-5 hours. Is this being overly worried?