Really excited about the $AZUSD stablecoin as a force for ecological and social good in crypto.
DeFi principles, regen energy.
We really need more of this combination.
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Great work by the team over the last two months to get this over the line!
Lots more to be done, especially on the project data integration side, but we're excited about where things are headed.
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Any crime fiction fans here?
Would you be interested in getting a single, "unheralded" book recommendation to your inbox every week?
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Will take this opportunity to re-introduce myself.
First, a big thanks to @christin for getting me on here. Really enjoyed it so far.
I've spent the better part of the last 8 years doing Web3 comms and consulting. As an extension of that, I've been focusing my time on @carboncopy-refi, an information hub for the ReFi space (the part of Web3 trying to finance the regeneration of the planet).
In my spare time, I write fiction. I've published two travel thriller novels featuring a shadowy industrial espionage firm called Furtive Khan and one of its intrepid agents Intikam Cobanoglu. Both available as ebooks on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kent-Babin/author/B01KYRFMZQ.
I also co-created an audio drama called Accidental Intrigue. https://accidentalintrigue.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Finally, I started /allthingsfiction to create a space to talk consuming and creating fiction in all its forms.
Oh, and that's me at the Asia-Oceanic Ultimate and Guts Championships in Manila last year.
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Fun fact about me:
I wrote the first draft of my first novel on my mobile phone while commuting to work by bus in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Paragraph by paragraph, day by day, 90,000 words came together to form an unreadable story where some characters changed names halfway through. 😂
Six drafts later, the novel I published resembled that first draft in protagonist and setting only.
But had I not started writing on my phone that one morning, I probably never would've written a novel.
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We have some fun cooking in /allthingsfiction next month!
For NaNoWriMo (https://nanowrimo.org/), we're going to bend the rules a bit and crowd-write an urban fantasy audio drama/radio play!
@dauleah and @christin are already on board to both write and voice their roles.
We'd love to have a few more join in!
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Following up on my cast about opening sentences/paragraphs, here are the opening sentences from my first two novels. Definitely not as happy with the how I started the second novel!
1) Revenge is a Dish Best Served on the Mongolian Steppe
Prologue
"Furtive Khan Global’s head office occupied two floors of a nondescript nineteenth-century building tucked away on one of the small, meandering side streets just off Istiklal Ҫaddesi that have been confounding tourists for centuries."
Chapter 1
"They said only fools and mineral men came to Mongolia in the middle of winter. Intikam was feeling very much the fool as he stepped off the train on a brutally cold afternoon in Ulaanbaatar, the landlocked country’s capital city."
2) Bound by Crimson Threads
"Intikam Ҫobanoğlu, interloper for the industrial espionage agency, Furtive Khan Global, was on the homestretch of an agonizing thirty-hour trip from Istanbul to Delhi. "