Aug 9, 2022An Introduction to the new KinkBNBOur old system was subject to a number of real problems that we were never able to solve satisfactorily with the technology at hand. We had a lot of costs and bottlenecks associated with three people running a brand known around the world from almost the day it was born…Ethereum6 min readEthereum6 min read
Aug 9, 2022KinkBNB Hibernation — an end in sight!As anyone who has visited our website since the start of the pandemic knows, KinkBNB has been “hibernating”. This basically means that we’ve had a single static page with our two oldest listings on the front and not much else. We did this to cut down on costs as well…Kinkbnb5 min readKinkbnb5 min read
Published in CryptoStars·Jan 11, 2022web3’s Killer AppIt’s not what you think it is. Whenever a new technology comes along, people usually talk about how it founders and struggles to find its footing until some “killer app” comes along that shows its value. …Web36 min readWeb36 min read
Apr 5, 2021Member-onlyAmerica’s Last Emperor: BulletinChapter Nineteen September 17th, 1859 Norton awoke this morning, feeling clear-headed for the first time in a very long time. He went through his morning ablutions as he had for the previous ten years, but today there was a significance about the ritual he hadn’t expected. He looked at himself in the…Fiction12 min readFiction12 min read
Mar 29, 2021Member-onlyAmerica’s Last Emperor: DuelChapter Eighteen November 20th, 1858 Norton held his anniversary dinner at Macao and Woosung again for the ninth anniversary of his arrival in San Francisco. He had gotten a temporary job as an agent for some goods that arrived in October and managed to sell them all, but his casual talk of…Historical Fiction13 min readHistorical Fiction13 min read
Mar 22, 2021Member-onlyAmerica’s Last Emperor: KnickerbockerChapter Seventeen November 21st, 1857 Eastland talked Norton into reviving his anniversary dinner by offering to pay for it at Macao and Woosung. It was 8 years since Norton stepped off the boat in San Francisco, and the ship that he’d arrived on now lay broken up and scattered underneath the foundations…Historical Fiction12 min readHistorical Fiction12 min read
Mar 15, 2021Member-onlyAmerica’s Last Emperor: WarningChapter Sixteen July 6th, 1856 The days that followed the hangings of Casey and Cora were among the strangest that Norton had seen so far. The events would normally be alarming to him, as the rights of ordinary citizens were trod upon hourly by the vigilantes in their attempts to clean up…Emperor Norton14 min readEmperor Norton14 min read
Mar 8, 2021Member-onlyAmerica’s Last Emperor: Cora and CaseyChapter Fifteen May 14th, 1856 Norton found his life without an office to go to rather unfocused. He continued his twice daily constitutionals but now paid no attention to the time it took him to make his rounds. …San Francisco12 min readSan Francisco12 min read
Mar 1, 2021Member-onlyAmerica’s Last Emperor: MonkeyChapter Fourteen February 15th, 1856 Joshua Norton and Tom Sawyer walked down Powell Street towards the now-ownerless Meiggs’ Wharf. Everyone still called it that despite Meiggs being in South America. Messages were repeatedly sent back to various creditors of his along with payments, as Meiggs seemed very keen to come back. …Emperor Norton14 min readEmperor Norton14 min read
Feb 22, 2021Member-onlyAmerica’s Last Emperor: ForeclosureChapter Thirteen May 15th, 1855 Norton read the paperwork with a grim look on his face. Nearly three years of legal wranglings had led to this moment. He paused for a second, and looked around the room. He was sitting in William T. Sherman’s office at Lucas, Turner and Co…Emperor Norton8 min readEmperor Norton8 min read
