Bitcoin isn't anonymous, it's the opposite Bitcoin has long been seen as the currency of choice for illegal markets and criminals because it is "anonymous" - however, Bitcoin is actually the opposite of anonymous, contrary to
Finance Net worth vs liquidity - Jeff Bezos didn't get $13.2 billion in minutes Recently, I've heard sentiment from some people who are typically anti-capitalist which I find simply shows that they are ignorant of money and how it works, or even the basics
Musing The minimum wage is bad for everyone The purpose of a minimum wage is to ensure that people have enough money to "survive" by ensuring that they earn at least a certain amount of money per hour
Newsletter The Cracklord Newsletter #1 Dear newsletter subscribers, You probably subscribed to my blog a long time ago and never got a single email from me. Well, that's for two reasons. I haven't been that
News Crypto.com drops MCO token in favour of CRO token Crypto.com has made a decision overnight that has caused major controversy in the community. They have decided to swap their MCO tokens, which were the tokens that were needed
Musing Ray Croc wasn't a bad guy The Founder is a documentary style movie about the beginnings of McDonald's and ultimately it focuses on Ray Croc as the protagonist of the movie. It follows Ray Croc personally
News The perfect crypto storm is brewing When the coronavirus situation started, the stock market plummeted. Worldwide lockdowns began and the economy subsequently tanked. Crypto however, has been increasing ever since and recently the stock market has
Advice What's better financially, renting or buying? There has been a lot of debate on this topic in the financial freedom world with some confusion about how to actually determine whether renting a property or buying a
Advice The best debit cards in Europe are cryptocurrency cards Ever since the European Union implemented legislation against credit card companies charging more than 0.3% to merchants on credit card transactions, Europeans credit cards have lost almost all of
Getting Started What are cryptocurrency ATMs? Cryptocurrency ATMs are in-person points where you can exchange fiat currency such as dollars or euros, for cryptocurrencies. The range of cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies that are available to be
Security Beware of well executed Ledger phishing email Today I received an email that appears as though it's from Ledger. The header claims "IMPORTANT: Ledger Nano S and Ledger Nano X SECURE RNG CHIP CRITICAL VULNERABILITY". This however,
Security How HP is Bringing a Bigger Focus to Security Introduction Security doesn’t sell. When most people walk into a Best Buy looking for their new laptop, they aren’t looking at the security features offered; instead, they look
Security Defending Against Phishing Attacks Phishing has been a security threat from as far back as the 1990s, which speaks volumes of its usefulness, adaptability, and effectiveness. The term “phishing” is derived from fishing to
News No, Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra is not taking on Bitcoin Today the internet is full of news about Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra. FOX Business titles a video "Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra takes on bitcoin" tells us that they have absolutely no idea
Investment DGX plus cryptocurrency card equals, gold card One of the safe havens against times of economic uncertainty are precious metals. Historically, this has been gold for the most part. The problem however with owning gold is that
Security Browser extensions, a still untapped goldmine for hackers Want to avoid getting your accounts hacked? Maybe you should rethink all of those browser extensions that you're using.
News Blockport is closing its doors, what happened? Blockport held a reasonably successful ICO starting on the 24th of January 2018 and ending on the 28th of February 2018. They raised a total of $15m in ETH. A
Tutorial Understanding the 24 hour change percentage on cryptocurrency index websites It may seem like a simple thing to comprehend but you might be surprised by the nuances in calculating the daily percentage change that we've all come to know and
Investment Blockport (BPT), the upcoming social trading platform Blockport is a new cryptocurrency trading platform which is being developed in The Netherlands and version 1.0 is to be launched by the end of June. There's a few
Tutorial Common cryptocurrency trading fallacies and psychological traps With many cryptocurrency speculators confident that a new bull market is emerging, I'd like to go over some standard fallacies that traders in markets often perform. These fallacies are essentially
Security How a hacker may have used a trading bot to steal millions of dollars on Binance Update: Binance has released a statement about this attack. It turns out to be similar to the situation I described in this post. API keys were phished maliciously and stored
News Cryptocurrency fear, uncertainty and doubt, according to mainstream media Over the last month or so, cryptocurrencies have been taking a bit of a hit. Most people are now calling this a bear market. However, the absolute onslaught of lies
News BitGrail exchange has been hacked and it won't be the last On February 8th 2018, BitGrail declared to its users via their website that it had discovered a shortfall of 17 million XRB. At the time of writing this post, XRB
Investment In a sea of red, DigixDAO is solid gold There's blood in the streets in cryptocurrency right now, but it's not the blood of DigixDAO. January hasn't been a great month for cryptocurrency investors and February is now looking
Tutorial Why do the prices of most cryptocurrencies follow Bitcoin's price? You may have noticed that whichever direction Bitcoin goes, it seems that just about every other cryptocurrency follows Bitcoin's price. Are people just intentionally following the price of Bitcoin in
