Crypto
Forays into blockchain, NFTs and POAPs live here. I write about minting POAP tokens at family events, celebrating Ethereum’s 10‑year anniversary by creating an NFT and even using monitoring services to keep my POAP feeds up and running.
- Robots in Rowboats
- A.D. Hogan
- Bill Nagel
- Skape Designs
- James Powell Art
- CrewlArt
- Eric Beauchamp
- H. Ward Miles
I’m going to be sharing my love of POAPs at the Minnesota Blockchain meetup on June 30th — Creating Community with POAPs! Will include 612 POAP Challenge as an example and will also be sharing a POAP for the evening of course!

Today Tammy and Tyler completed a 26-mile walk around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. They started at 6:21 AM and completed at 2:58 PM. Epic. I thought it deserved a POAP — Lake Geneva Loop Legends! So very impressive. 🥾

Collected POAP 7371704 for Lake of the Isles — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7371688 for Bde Maka Ska — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7371669 for The Kid’s House — 612 POAP Challenge.
Stone Arch Bridge Fest
Today was Mazie’s birthday and one of the things she decided we should do is the Stone Arch Bridge Festival. It had been a very long time since we had been to this and I was really impressed by the size of it. There were so many artists and vendors. It felt to me like it had a particular Minnesota flare to it, with a lot of art that was locally inspired. We spent about four hours but could have spent the entire day there.

Some artists that caught our eye:
Mazie bought a piece of art with her own money — her very first art purchase from H. Ward Mileswww.hwardmiles.com.

I also really liked these very local artist creating location pieces. Maybe I could get one of them to participate in a future year of the 612 POAP Challenge. 😊
We grabbed some switchel from Hobby Farmer on our way heading back home!
Got a recursive selfie while collecting the Grain Belt Sign for the 612 POAP Challenge with the family (see moment).
Favorite quote from Mazie @mthingelstad : “Why is this actually kind of fun?” Love it. 😍

Collected POAP 7371441 for Grain Belt Sign — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7371432 for Hennepin Avenue Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
I dig the design of this new Coinbase One card. On the waitlist! 4% rewards in Bitcoin — awesome!

I completed the final set of achievement tokens for the 612 POAP Challenge tonight! I also setup a specific 612 POAP Challenge Mailing List. A few folks have collected tokens. I completed the Architecture Aficionado category! Now to spread the word…

Collected POAP 7369497 for 612 POAP Challenge - Architecture Aficionado.
Collected POAP 7369494 for 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7368654 for Riverside Plaza — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7368652 for Basilica of Saint Mary — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7368641 for Capella Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7368640 for Wells Fargo Center — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7368639 for IDS Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7368638 for Foshay Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
Collected POAP 7368637 for Campbell Mithun Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.