Here I am at the edge

  The Darkest Hour There is a  proverb that says the darkest hour is before dawn. If I was to believe that, I could hope that next year could see me earn a publishing contract for my romance novel , as I said if I believed the proverb but with odds of 6,000 - 1 against me I am not holding any hopes. This is my darkest hour, I don't know why I write this blog anymore, come to that why I write my short stories ; nobody buys them or reads the free blog. By the end of May 2022, I will have no e-books for sale on either Amazon or Draft2Digital ; I won't miss the $0.30 cents a month I used to make with sales.

 A fools game Gambling is at best a fools game, as you are more likely to lose than win - I speak from experience - but some gambles such as cryptocurrency are less of a gamble than throwing your money away. There is a man in Tokyo  who has ruined his life for Bitcoin shares; he embezelled Sony of over $150 million, and now faces a long prison sentence, not to mention the disgrace he will impose on his innocent family for his stupid crimes.

 Financial Times An executive from Sony , in Southern California is now under arrest for embezelling over $154 billion and turning it into Bitcoin . The police caught him as he tried to transfer the funds to an account in Tokyo .  The Financial Times financial expert has gone on record as saying BTC is worse than the worst Ponzi scheme as it is a no profit enterprise.

 Bitcoin is not a gamble I am amazed that for a country that is supposed to be plagued by the    austerity of being run by a Conservative Party  so many people are willing to throw money away by using cryptocurrency sites; I have no pity for them as there is information aplenty about this scam going back years.

  How to lose money fast For months, I have blogging that Bitcoin is a scam ; an article came out yesterday that a report from a BBC cryptocurrency miner was used to defraud a man in India  of his life's savings of £3,000. People remember the Golden Rule ; if something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

Never Dream The world of Science tells us that dreams are the mind's escape from reality; what they don't tell you, as it would scare you awake is that having a dream can haunt you all your life. I used to dream of being a writer , but now my life has changed so much that I have an aversion to books . Once, the way to find me was to find a bookstore , now you are more likely to find me in a health food shop, not because I am a health food freak, but because they have food I haven't tried.

 The Forbin Project For many years, I was trying to find the name of a film about two super-computers that linked to threaten mankind - the film is called Collosus: The Forbin Project .  The film is about the power AI has on mankind, when scientists realise the computers are thinking beyond their demands, they pull the plug, only to be told "Turn the power on or we will destroy the planet."  You may consider this an unlikely event as AI needs power, but these days at times it is hard to tell who does what when robotics are taking over. Will there come a day when mankind ceases to be useful to AI?