21 Mar Symbol blockchain news update – 21/03/22
Monday again and before I started work I had a little time to catch up on what I missed over the weekend! Here’s today’s Symbol Blog update, they have been a bit sporadic recently but I need more news to write about so get building, tweeting and organising events and I will start writing more regularly! 😁
Sensational surprise
I was not even aware that Tresto was even running this event (or I just forgot if I already reported on it – my memory is terrible at the moment!). It seems that he was offering a prize pool of 200,000 XYM for a set of projects and people that he thought had made a significant contribution to Symbol over the last year.
The 20 lucky recipients were contacted over the weekend and to my complete shock Symbol Blog was chosen as one of the winners! 🥳 It is a real boost to know that the Japanese community appreciate the blog and this support (and the support of everyone else who has donated or harvests on my node) is incredibly kind. It gives me some extra motivation to keep going and keep improving – I really can’t say thank you enough to everyone for your support!
Get gaming!
It’s not too late! You can still participate in The Tower anniversary event and win some amazing prizes! It runs until March 23rd 23:59 JST. You may not make it to the top of the leaderboard as some of the participants appear to be completely insane and have too much time on their hands 😂 There are other prizes though and if you create a character and make it to floor 5 (which won’t take long) you will be entered into a prize draw. The game is also super awesome so please give it a go – it runs in your browser and is available in English – no excuses!
Metaverse meetup
So I don’t know anything about this event but it seems like there was a virtual meetup in the XYM City metaverse on Cluster. It’s great to see so many familiar faces coming together (albeit virtually) to hang out and have fun. I really need to learn Japanese but it’s so freaking hard! I think that there is a poll to gauge whether there is an appetite for a regular series of meetups so if you were at the last event or want to go in the future then this is the poll (in Japanese) for you 😉
Valiant valkyrie
You may have noticed that all of my headings have alliterated so far, this started unintentionally but I thought that I would keep it going and it took me a couple of minutes to think of an adjective beginning with “v” to fit the theme. I think I pulled it off though 😁
@yasudagabou has created this amazing piece of artwork for @ValkyrieFunds and I love it! Do other crypto communities have so many excellent artists? I feel like the Symbol community is small but a comparatively large percentage of us really participate and bring such a variety of skills, passion and talent to the table. Symbol does not like spectators or speculators.
Anniversary artwork
I reported on this last week and you can also read Tresto’s original article here. It seems that this one of a kind Symbol anniversary NFT is now at auction on COMSA – but there are only two hours left to bid!!
Get your bids in quick and you might be lucky enough to win this:
Wonderful whisky
So I am a big fan of Japanese whisky, Unfortunately over the last 10 years or so it has become hugely expensive and hard to come by the good stuff so this picture really caught my attention. After some minor delays ABELiA bar in Hokkaido Japan will be accepting payment in XYM from tomorrow so if you live nearby go check them out. I have my eye on the Yamazaki 12-year-old. I have a bottle in my drinks cupboard but I am saving it for a special occasion. Hope that there can be a meet up for Symbol’s second birthday – the first round of drinks will be on me! 🍻
Symbol snacks
Whilst on the subject of Symbol payments, it looks like @koKeshi_Symbol_ paid a visit to @rasfriet to spend some hard-earned XYM on some delicious food and drinks 😋
Still waiting people – any restaurant or bar owners in the UK please start accepting XYM payment! Are there any venues in the whole of Europe that will let me buy food and drinks with XYM? If there are then let me know and maybe I will go on a fact-finding mission and write it up for an article 😊
Thanks!
Thanks for reading and thank you to those that have donated to the blog recently – I am blown away by your support, it is so wonderful to know that people appreciate what I do 😊 I will be back again soon with another update – if you have anything that you would like me to report on then just get in contact and let me know!
I’m a Symbol and NEM enthusiast and run this blog to try to grow awareness of the platform in the English-speaking world. If you have any Symbol news you would like me to report on or you have an article that you would like to publish then please let me know!
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