Each Thursday we bring you great, new, potential additions to your high-tech, low-life arsenal! We always help answer the question, What is the latest in cyberpunk gear?
Our New Best Friend… The Digital Wallet
As always we offer three quick insights into the latest gear!
HOT v. COLD
COLD Wallets are either device or paper. Password is key for the former as devices. Trezor and Ledger Nano X come to mind; find out more here) can help you secure your dough with 2FA(Factor Authentication) using industry-standard encryption, but remembering the password is up to you. So, we write it down. Heck, we can write it all down, that’s how the paper goes cold.
Get multiple notebooks and write it all down. Private keys STAY private. Public keys go PUBLIC. While paper can mean word docs or software programs, we prefer the trees for this!
HOT Wallets are pure stream digital. They are live and accessible, they are software. Exodus, Electrum, and Mycelium come to mind. A benefit here is you can find multiple players to help protect. Think BitGo. Multiple keys are required and in addition to yours, companies can play that third party. But do we really need this? We decide individually.
Just so you know, even the cryptos themselves can offer their own wallets. For example, just check out Energi!
Wallet Hygiene
GET SMART – Only buy what you can afford to lose!
GET IT OFF the exchange. Exchanges get HACKED, the BLOCKCHAINS don’t.
PLAN IT OUT, long-term go COLD WALLET, or even staking! Go HOT WALLET for short-term use!
MATCH COIN TO WALLET; BTC to BTC, ETH to ETH.
Know your codes, pins, and passwords. This is OUR SECURITY.
MULTI-PASS – use Multi-factor authentication, Multi-Signature/Party Wallets for Regular Transactions.
NO FAIL-SAFES… crypto is the new, wild West! WE STAND ALONE, and individual; we have the power and the responsibility.
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And just when you thought we were done…
We wanted to share out a fantastic guide to move you through operating crypto top to bottom, with Crypto Casey. A great resource if you didn’t know (and many thanks for vids like the one below)…
Closing for Now…
Just so you know, we are not sponsored by any of these products, companies, or organizations. However, we are long Energi, Bitcoin, Ethereum (#Full Disclosure).
We just love to share the coolest gear out there to cyberize and self make our worlds! Speaking of which, Medium is a great background source as well!
As always, makes sure we are doing our own homework and making our own decisions, for the responsibility is on each one of us, as individuals! Come back soon and to check out more in Cyber-Gear follow this link!
We know, we’re terrible, but we have completely fallen down the rabbit hole of crypto. No more excuses, back next week with technē & Ἥφαιστος, we promise.
We are big proponents of cryptos here and as we love to share what we have learned in our journey into the blockchain multiverse, we are now going to do even more of it. But, we are doing it the BCB Cyber way: simplifying and visualizing.
Know Crypto… Build Tomorrow
Each glimpse we take into cryptocurrencies, we offer a clear look into a unique blockchain topic (for example total market cap). More specifically, we look into the crypto-sphere and pull it back into a plain, easy-to-understand visual matrix. This way, we can help the masses to wrap our collective heads around a potentially perplexing and problematic proposition. So today we turn to a simple topic, how we can each build tomorrow!
We all have heard of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin, basically the supreme store of value (overdone, but think digital gold), and Ethereum, the place for the next generation of digital transactions and smart contracts right? All over the news. They are definitely our base, as shown in the illustration above. But what lies beyond?
What we may not know is the ever-growing, decentralized world of opportunity around these two gems of the crypto multi-verse. Teams of brilliant people are working the world over to develop blockchain elements, features, and tools that incorporate these disruptive technologies into all aspects of our defi-lives and beyond.
As a way of introducing them, we submit three in particular that can literally, help to build the world of tomorrow and therefore fulfill the true promise of crypto and blockchain. While there are many different projects ongoing in this space, three stand out to us as a real means of building a better tomorrow: Polygon, Helium, and Energi.
And now for the introductions:
Helium: Building the Network for IoT
By building a network created by individual people, or more specifically the locations we inhabit, we can build a “community of connectivity” for all our individual smart devices. Individually installed hotspots will not only offer the chance for our devices to work to their fullest, all the while conveying the means to a whole new host of people to develop their personal finances with a little investment. Each one of us has the chance to contribute to building the connected world of tomorrow through IoT (Internet of Things, you know all those smart devices we buy that are monitoring our environment) and enhance our well-being at the same time.
Where Helium gave the individual the opportunity to contribute to the capability of tomorrow’s networks, Polygon (formerly Matic) seeks to make sure we all have a minimal barrier to access by means of super-low fees and, in addition, a more ambitious goal to be sure – creating the internet of blockchains!
Energi – “The Ultimate Feedback Loop… A Living, Breathing Organization”
Beyond the development of features of blockchains, self-sustaining, self-reinforcing blockchains are the ultimate future, tomorrow and beyond, for decentralized finance. We are now to the point of building “living” digital systems and we have the opportunity, as individuals, to help build those new life forms and be a part of the future of humanity to a whole new level. Could we even go so far as to say this could form the next evolutionary step in the global, socio-economic order?!?!? Perhaps… it’s up to each one of us to decide!
Again, not sponsored by any of the above, but we do think they’ve got something to offer and wanted to share.
If you are intrigued and want to jump in and try for yourself, consider using our link for Coinbase, we’ll each get $10 in free Bitcoin when you sign up and deposit your first $100. Remember though, we need to all do our own homework and decide for ourselves.
While Helium and Energi are not quite yet available for trade on the site (Coinbase), Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polygon (formerly Matic) all are. And for those who really want to go down the rabbit hole alongside us at BCB Cyber, buying Bitcoin and/or Ethereum on Coinbase can be used to transfer to other exchanges where we can buy the other two! But, that’s a story for another day.
Exploring Health Catalyst, Part 1 – An Introduction
As a rule, we follow the technological advancements of corporate giants in tech health to help inform those of us individuals choosing to define for ourselves who we are and what we want to be. That means knowing the world and those tracking us, good and bad.
Incredible advancements are made every day by health companies seeking to do good in the world, no doubt. However, we need to follow and examine them to enhance our own capabilities and positioning. We are not victims, we are active agents in our lives.
In this new topic within the theme, we are exploring a company ready to help make the healthcare industry efficient and reflective of market factors. I know, I know, we thought this day would never come. Well, it has come indeed, the real question is are we, the masses, ready for it?
Big Brother is Now AI, at Least in Terms of Our Health
As we leap into the age of Artificial Intelligence there is no doubt that we, as the masses, need to recognize that massive business is being built on our data. We are used to that in social media perhaps, are we prepared for our health data to be treated the same way?
Making Healthcare Efficient, A New Ecosystem Model Built for Healthcare: Three Elements
For Health Catalyst, the new opportunitiy they provide as a company lies in the reformation of how healthcare is understood. By creating a model that is built on the entire ecosystem of data produced by the individual business agents (hospitals, clinics, etc.) of the healthcare system, and the clients they portend to serve, their claim is that management of those systems can be pushed forward in efficiency, creating scaled value through lower costs and higher profits.
Fair enough on the surface. Building a new OS that is tailored to the healthcare industry with intuitive design, new levels of diagnostics capability through machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the service metric offered by Health Catalyst seems a straightforward way to interpret, effectuate and mediate data diagnostics on an industry well known for its data issues. Now, Health Catalyst is asking the industry to accept a single point of contact to envision a health care universe built on a holistic data aggregate.
1. The New Healthcare OS (Operating System)
The initiation of this system is a conversion to a new operating system. This means the point of data collection and integration. Clean interfaces, more intuitive understanding and reliability to the system, speedy and efficient data models built on the cloud, and full-scale interoperability across data sets, purport to be the entry to this system.
Simplified data interaction, with the clean transfer, is apparently the goal, and the integrated machine learning to this OS proposes to make data integral and maximize its use within the interface whereby care itself goes from “reactive to predictive, proactive, and preventative.”
As for the modeling, this is where Health Catalyst truly seems to shine. Their software offerings provide a single point of contact for the industry to aggregate data and draw large-scale, executable solutions from AI inference.
All of these newly modeled services, like refill management, all come with a cost that is not illustrated within the proposals above. While all good things that would certainly benefit the industry, and likely the consumer within the masses, the issue left out in the cold is data security.
It is assumed that data aggregation makes the solutions better, which I would certainly grant that presupposition, however, at what cost? Aggregated data in one location provides a hefty target for bad actors already working across this industry with ease. Again, please reference the noted recent issues.
Ultimately these services do offer a unique means of cleaning up the data mess that is healthcare. Are we trading one problem for a bigger, more singularized one? At the heart of this whole discussion is the data of the patient, from billing to health metrics, it is the data of the masses being acquired, stored, and utilized to make these systems run.
As any good business should, Health Catalyst closes the model loop with a services component. Offering an agency to step in and assist the healthcare industry agents with implementation and operation is key toward seeing the full benefit.
After all, heavy proposed benefits, when combined with ease of use, is always a recipe for successful integration. But does that mean that it’s safe?
Only Just Begun…
While we’ve only just begun our investigation into Health Catalyst we are going to leave off here for today. Always better to let new info settle in.
And just for full disclosure, we are long on Health Catalyst and do maintain a position in our portfolio, for we see a tremendous opportunity in Wealth and benefit with a company like this. A flip from above we know, we choose to be critical but also recognize opportunity and a means to expand our individualized integration.
In any case, next week, we’ll continue our drive and break down the tech a little further. We’ll look further into the services offered by Health Catalyst and more importantly seek out the companies stance on security and their proposal to ensure data safety for the masses.
As always, make sure we are thinking for ourselves out there, doing our own homework, and cyberize our lives with the best in disruptive tech. We aren’t doctors or professional investors, we’re just the average guy out there in the free flow of the masses looking for understanding and wanting to share.
For those fueled by health tech make sure to explore our BCB Cyber Health Section in more detail! See you next time on BCB Cyber.
Good Monday everyone and welcome to the BCB Cyber Series that takes on the Tech stocks that can provide the cyber-fuel we need to pursue our digital wealth passions.
This week we are jumping in with one of the most exciting growth opportunities based on a gaming environment to arrive since the SIMS or even Second Life back in 2003. The possibilities seem endless.
Starting out the month of April’s analyses with an explosion of opportunity, we are back at it this month with Tech-Growth Companies looking this time at Roblox. As always, we are digging for the cyber fuel we need and that means we need quality growth in the stock. For all these growth stocks we are looking for top-line revenue growth of 20% or more!
Roblox, as seen in the chart above, is definitely on the trend line we look for in growth. It simply blows away that 20% indicator we look for in a growth stock investment opportunity.
Before we dive too deep though, as always BCB Cyber loves the deep dive, we strongly advocate that you don’t act solely on anyone’s opinion, even ours! Make sure we are all thinking for ourselves as self-definers and making our own decisions. In the end, the responsibility is on each one of us as individuals. So decide wisely!
Jumping right in now, we do these quick deep dives so we can all get the info we need but also do so in a way that keeps us going in our day. To do this the BCB Cyber way we cover 3 quick pieces of important information. First, we tackle the story to find out who and what the company is, second, we look at the numbers both positive and negative, and finally we discuss our own BCB Cyber position.
This is TS2B, Tech Stock to Buy, hi-tech growth edition, and this week we are going to take on Roblox, the San Mateo, California gaming, entertainment, and multimedia powerhouse changing the way the next generation will work, play, and live.
Roblox is a tale of risk, but also of huge opportunity. We do love that revenue growth! So, let’s wade in and keep a watchful eye.
Where Roblox goes from here will definitely be a story worth following. So far, that story is just getting better.
1 – STORY
Roblox is a story built on people self-defining their own worlds in life, play, and creative energy in a safe place.
Roblox Company Info/Graphics from Roblox Press Kit blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience!
Roblox Company Info/Graphics from Roblox Press Kit blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience!
It’s a moment to ponder when your ten-year-old tells you that they are building their own house but the “bills suck!” The world is so engaging, however, that this doesn’t discourage them and they forge forward working to build their own place.
It has even driven many young gamers to turn developer: crafting and designing new elements to build their own cottage industry and means of developing their own digital lives. All this built on a free-standing digital economy and even their own currency Robux. Don’t believe me, just check it out for yourself. Yup, you can even buy ’em at the checkout at Walmart or on Amazon (#CommissionsEarned).
Roblox Company Info/Graphics from Roblox Press Kit blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience!
All in all, Roblox is its own complete world. And with the gamer’s turning developer and living and thriving digitally in an all-inclusive environment, the opportunities for a developing return on investment seem pretty incredible. Capturing generations through immersion as children would never work though right? Yeah, just ask Disney! They’ve built an empire on it!
Roblox Company Info/Graphics from Roblox Investor Relations blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience!
As for the current development of the company, they do seem to be growing in all the right areas but the short-term may be a rocky one. As the world opens up again and people step out into the sun, gaming environments may lose a little luster, though we don’t see them being down for long. Perhaps the best part of their investor story though is that they put their Investor Day on YouTube!
Now for the current numbers on Roblox. BCB Cyber loves to follow five specific metrics: Sales/Revenue Growth, Forward Price to Earnings Ratio, Return on Assets, Operating Margin, and Debt Considerations.
Roblox Company Info from Yahoo! Finance blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated with metrics on 03/15/2021
As we’ve seen, Revenue growth is not currently an issue for Roblox. And for analysts, this is definitely a trend they expect to continue.
Roblox Company Info from Yahoo! Finance blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated with metrics on 03/15/2021
And better yet, the analysts are pushing the buy side of this attractive grower!
Roblox Company Info from Yahoo! Finance blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated with metrics on 03/15/2021
However, the financial metrics that would support heavy, early investment may very well end there.
Roblox Company Info from Yahoo! Finance blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated with metrics on 03/15/2021
While Roblox is just starting out, it is an expensive stock. A Forward P/E not yet established and a price to sales of over 40 is certainly pretty hefty, but it does appear to have the wear with all to grow into such a lofty valuation.
Roblox Company Info from Yahoo! Finance blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated with metrics on 03/15/2021
Roblox is definitely a high-risk, high reward proposition. With losing operating margins and a strong negative return on assets this digital ecosystem is definitely still struggling to find a profitable footing!
Roblox Company Info from Yahoo! Finance blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated with metrics on 03/15/2021
In terms of cash though, Roblox does seem to be navigating the economic storm of the last year pretty well and with a business built to provide an escape to so many, this provides a glimpse of the opportunity to come. Debt appears negligible and less important as the cash situation continues to improve.
Roblox Company Info from Yahoo! Finance blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated with metrics on 03/15/2021
Although a good chunk of the newly developed cash flow comes from the new public offering of Roblox, the dramatic near 5x jump in operating cash flow over the last year definitely supports a brighter future!
3 – THE BCB CYBER TAKE
Roblox’s financial information above from Simply Wall Street blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated 04/12/21.
A big thanks to all the work over at Simply Wall Street as they perform great in-depth assessments, but we simply disagree with their current finding. Those analysts see a healthy company but limited opportunity. We see the opposite, in terms of opportunity at least.
Roblox’s financial information above from Simply Wall Street blended with BCB Cyber Fuel for a whole new experience! Updated 04/12/21.
With that “flawless balance sheet” and the super healthy industry Roblox finds itself in we see a great deal of opportunity for the future. As gaming grows and continues to not only create entertainment and escape opportunities, so does its ability to create livelihoods. Building worlds that pull in the global youth and provide them the opportunity to build a career as they grow is the next step in human economics!
Our Position & Direction
As of this morning, on 04/12/21, our stake in Roblox sits at a paltry 0.36% of our portfolio with a cost basis of $73.00. As the stock has gone from an asking price IPO at around $45 that quickly shot to near $80, we’ve seen a lot of volatility in this company’s shares. However, we are careful as we invest for the long-term opportunity (5 years or more) and we will work toward bringing down our cost basis to under $70. Ultimately, we begin this position working toward 1% and plan to go as high as 2-3% in our portfolio.
Remember, we are just like the masses, struggling to make ends meet and build our future. So, we start building and keep doing our homework. Adjusting and flexing over time, if we see a massive spike we may lighten our position some, but always with an eye to keeping our portfolio percentage in check.
The same goes in reverse, so if tech takes a nosedive, you can bet we’ll be watching and looking to add. This is just what we need to start us on our journey toward cyberizing our lives.
BCB Cyber believes in the potential for this risky, gaming world innovator and loves the story. However, this is definitely a stock worth buying at the right price and one that BCB Cyber believes to be the right fuel for the fire!
As always, think for yourself, do your own homework, and cyberize your life with the best in disruptive tech. Learn more in our Wealth Section and dive deeper into Establishing the Baseline on BCB Cyber.com!
Growth Stock Investment Analysis on Video Game World Sensation: Roblox! Coming Monday, 04/12/2021
If our families are anything alike, we know the cry… “we need more Robux!” Christmas, Birthday, every day! The sensation that has our kids crying out for gaming currency is built on a platform that creates a world for our kids to grow from gamers to developers to entrepreneurs. Is it time to place our encouragement, and our investing practices, in the ever-nimble, capable hands of our little gamers?
Bonus Shout Out:
Happy Early Birthday to A Favorite Crypto… ENERGI!
Nope, not sponsored, but we do support what Energi is all about and plan to join the party all month, especially on the 14th! If you want to as well, check out the invite. The graphic above was made for the party and follows the Brand Guidelines.
See ya back here tomorrow for more Cyber-Play with Skylines and Skyscrapers!
Each Thursday we bring you great, new, potential additions to your high-tech, low-life arsenal! We always help answer the question, What is the latest in cyberpunk gear?
ODE TO PI…
Raspberry Pi!
This week we offer three unique opportunities to explore new cyber-fuel for our lives in gear:
We begin with the greatest computing invention for the masses ever created. An ultra-low-cost computing solution that allows for learning, flexibility, and development all at super low costs for everyone. What could be more cyberpunk than giving the power of the hack to the masses at a cost they can bear? Learning is Living. Get into it!
As BCB Cyber loves above all else the ability to do it for ourselves, we love following NetworkChuck on YouTube and found one of his best that gets you going with hacking tools on a raspberry pi.
And finally, for the latest in gear on this Cyber-Thursday, building skills on this platform is easier than ever as the resources are more accessible than ever. Getting started, the Raspberry Pi site offers some incredible intro material. And for the more advanced, diving deeper into the materials offered by NetworkChuck is a great, fun way to go!
Just so you know, we are not sponsored by any of the above products, companies, or organizations. We just love to share the coolest gear out there to cyberize and self-make our worlds!
If however, you are ready to get started and want to help support BCB Cyber along your own journey, please consider getting your own Raspberry Pi, supercharged with a cool old school gamer pack, using our Amazon affiliate link: Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Kit (#Commissions Earned). Come back soon and to check out more in Cyber-Gear follow this link!
Ok, we know we did it again, but seriously… back next week with technē & Ἥφαιστος, we promise but we’re still just too excited about this new offering on BCB Cyber and delving deep into the world of cryptocurrencies. We are big proponents of cryptos here and as we love to share what we have learned into our journey in technology, particularly crypto, we are now going to do even more of it. But, we are doing it the BCB Cyber way: simplifying and visualizing.
What is the total value/the total market capitalization, of all cryptos?
Each week we take a singular concept (for example Protocol or Market Cap) in the crypto-sphere and pull it into a plain, easy breakdown, visual. This way, we can help the masses to wrap our collective heads around a potentially perplexing and problematic proposition.
Plus as an add-on, we’ll do the searching for you and share the inspirational site that gave us a deeper understanding of each concept so we can all dig a little deeper.
This week’s inspiration came from coinmarketcap.com and businessinsider.com. Again, not sponsored but we do think they’ve got something to offer and wanted to share. See you next time!
As a rule, we follow the technological advancements of corporate giants in tech health to help inform those of us individuals choosing to define for ourselves who we are and what we want to be. That means knowing the world and those tracking us, good and bad. Incredible advancements are made every day by health companies seeking to do good in the world, no doubt. However, we need to follow and examine them to enhance our own capabilities and positioning.
We are not victims, we are active agents in our lives. In this new topic within the theme of Health, we are exploring a new company primed to redefine what healthcare as a business looks and functions like. Therefore it will no doubt change the way the masses interact with it. Join us for this coming deep dive on Health Catalyst!
