The Tale of Robinhood and Crypto

I'm sharing a very informative article written by a Read.Cash member, a community I recently rejoined because a team decided to revamp the platform. I had been inactive for a few years but received an invitation via email to come back. It turns out that they saved all of my content from previous years, which I can now access again. In addition, I got to reconnect with old members who also returned.

I was very happy to see this particular member again because he always wrote informative articles about the wonderful world of cryptocurrency. This particular article started with the question:

• “Do You Do Robinhood Things, Bro?”

The article discusses the “Robinhood chain”.

“Robinhood Chain is basically Robinhood’s own Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain, built with Arbitrum technology, designed to bring things like stocks, ETFs and other real-world assets added onchai.”

The idea is a bit too complicated for me. But no doubt, there are so many others out there who are more enthusiastic and brave when it comes to cryptocurrency, and “doing Robinhood things” might be right up their alley. 

(Psst... I don't even do NFTs.  I never got the hang of them, and one night I watched an episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and he totally convinced me not to try NFTs.  I can still see the brown paper bag.😄 I'd like to point you to a link where you can find old SC shows, but ... AI doesn’t get access to buried information.😉😉)

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MY TAKEAWAY

I have to admit that when the question was posed, “Do You Do Robinhood Things, Bro?”, my mind went in a completely different direction. Because of course, I was thinking of the legendary outlaw Robinhood, who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. So! My response to doing “Robinhood things” with my crypto is YES!

• There is a proverb that says: “Do not withhold good, when it is within your power to do so.”

Unlike Robinhood, I don't steal.  But whenever I can, if I have cryptocurrency available, I use my coins for charity.  "Charity never fails." ❤️

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Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

With so much emphasis in 2026 news on the Epstein files and pedophilia, the words of the late Michael Jackson give me pause.

(Yes, there were criminal court trials involving allegations of child molestation, etc. However, a California jury found him not guilty on all 10 criminal charges on June 13, 2005. That being said, no doubt this man would like to be remembered as an extremely generous humanitarian and would no doubt like people to remember his love and genuine care and concern for children.)

Michael Jackson was so much more than an eclectic and consummate entertainer. He was an extremely generous humanitarian and would no doubt like people to remember his love and genuine care and concern for children.

“HEAL THE KIDS” SPEECH at OXFORD UNIVERSITY 2001(Excerpt):

As you all know, our two countries broke from each other over what Thomas Jefferson referred to as “certain inalienable rights”. And while we Americans and British might dispute the justice of his claims, what has never been in dispute is that children have certain inalienable rights, and the gradual erosion of those rights has led to scores of children worldwide being denied the joys and security of childhood. I would therefore like to propose tonight that we install in every home a Children’s Universal Bill of Rights, the tenets of which are:

1. The right to be loved without having to earn it

2. The right to be protected, without having to deserve it

3. The right to feel valuable, even if you came into the world with nothing

4. The right to be listened to without having to be interesting

5. The right to be read a bedtime story, without having to compete with the evening news

6. The right to an education without having to dodge bullets at schools

7. The right to be thought of as adorable – (even if you have a face that only a mother could love).

What is the Standard for Poverty?

“ The poor ye have always with you.” { John 12: 8 }


Not only are the poor always with us but they are all over the world. From what I can tell - by comparison - there's “poor” and there's PO!


P-O … have to break off the word, because some people can't afford the last two letters.


Growing up in my home in Liberty City / Miami, Florida, we were considered “financially disadvantaged”. When I was a child we lived in the “projects” - short for federal housing projects, which is an initiative of the U.S. Government to house people with low income who could not afford to buy their own home or pay rent at the current market rates for a nice neighborhood. You could say we were “poor” but bet there are people in other countries who would beg to differ.


America has poor people. Other countries have PO PEOPLE!!!

• For those who live outside of the United States of America – does your government provide some sort of housing for the poor?

• How are the less fortunate treated where you live?

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What is the Standard for Poverty? - Persona Paper

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