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Happy Holiday’s, Steemit! I’m settling in after a long winter nap, family Christmas party, presents, food, hot chocolate, crypto-nerd shit […which I will be getting to shortly], and an abundance of love. The entire day has been a blur. We were up wrapping gifts till 4:00a.m. and @guthrie was wrapping at the door at 7:00a.m.

One thing I was really excited to give him was a 9.7” iPad Pro, complete with Apple Pencil and miniature Smart Keyboard. @guthrie has always liked to draw, but in the last few months he’s been showing a lot of interest in storytelling through art and comic books. He’s even being drawing multipage sequential art that makes my heart so full of joy. The iPad Pro the perfect tool to fuel the passion for art.

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After holiday running around, @guthrie and I decided to make a subzero journey to @caffetto […probably the only establishment open on Christmas Day] for a couple of hot chocolates! It was great seeing him get comfortable with his new iPad. Setting up TouchID was a mind blowing experience, for both of us. I loved seeing him experience technology I’ve gotten used to […and take for granted] for the very first time.

My time at the coffee shop was spent attempting, maybe on of nerdiest endeavors of my life. Mining cryptocurrency on my iPhone. I stumbled across an article, <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/21/hands-on-mobileminer-how-to-mine-cryptocurrency-on-an-iphone-video/"> “Hands-on: MobileMiner – how to mine cryptocurrency on an iPhone”</a> on 9to5mac.com earlier this week and it’s been eating at me to try it. In the comments of the article is a endless thread of trolls hating on the blogger that wrote the article, the dev that created MobileMiner. I don’t care, at all. It’s cool to me. I love technology, I love cryptocurrency. I even had an old iPhone 6 handy so I could attempt this feat of geekdom on a nonessential device.

I’ll refer you to the article, <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/21/hands-on-mobileminer-how-to-mine-cryptocurrency-on-an-iphone-video/"> “Hands-on: MobileMiner – how to mine cryptocurrency on an iPhone”</a>, for the specifics because Jeff Benjam did a better job walking through the process than I could ever hope to. There are, of course, disclaimers about the risks of installing and running this app to consider. The two sweet parts about this MobileMiner are that it doesn’t require a jailbreak […just Xcode and a free developer account], and that it can run in the background while mining.

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I ran in to a few hiccups, but after 30 minutes I was able to sign and side load MobileMiner. I was interested in mining Electroneum […which is the default] but it works with most CryptoNote algorithm tokens like Monero and Bytecoin. It my first night of mobile mining, I’ve earned almost 1 ETN. I’m not going to get rich. I’m aware this is battery and CPU suicide on the phone, but I don’t really care. It’s geeky as shit and I love it. Seeing this little brushed aluminum rectangle confirm hashes ups my quality of life and that’s enough for me.

Thanks for reading! Hope everyone had a great holiday. I post daily. For more photography, art, illustration and straight up nerd shit, follow me here @kommienezuspadt!

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