We were misled as children about many things, for certain, but chief among them was the sanctity of the weekend. Few respect it nowadays. As a child in school, you learned to tolerate Monday and Tuesday and suffer through Wednesday so you could reach Thursday and look forward to Friday. When the 3:00 PM bell rang on that fateful day, you were home free, riding the bus with windows down or carpooling with your older sibling.

When I started playing around with Stable Diffusion and another text-to-image generator, OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, I wracked my mind for what I’d actually like to see. Something ridiculous like a puppet playing guitar on the moon? No. A beautiful sunset? Nope. But what about a scene I was writing in a script? Without the resources and time to consult a concept artist for inspiration, DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion proved useful.

The cryptocurrency ecosystem is an ever-expanding and contracting web of technologies, experiments, scams, games, and communities. Despite the present fog of war in this monetary arena, the innovative spark drawing minds from the world over is simple: nobody (if you know what you’re doing) can touch your extremely volatile form of money except you. The protective moat surrounding properly coded cryptocurrencies is the same technology that secures millions of websites. Your browser connection with your bank is cryptographically secure.