July was awesome! I had a three week break from work and the weather cooperated beautifully. And because I had refrained from planning any trips I could submerge myself in vacation bliss from the very first moment after leaving the office. No suitcases to pack, no rushing to airports, standing in line at check-in counters … Continue reading Portfolio Update: July 2019
Adventures In Deep (Crypto) Space
Investing in digital - or crypto - currency is somewhat of a taboo in the FIRE community. Say Bitcoin and you are frowned upon. You want to be one of us? Denounce your deeds of darkness! Repent your evil ways! Follow us on the true path to FIRE. I exaggerate. But we do pride ourselves on making … Continue reading Adventures In Deep (Crypto) Space
FIRE Aside: Building A Vintage Vacuum Tube Radio Receiver
Some time ago I built a mining rig for mining crypto-currencies ('Ether' to be more precise). I am not going to explain all the technical details, but it's a very powerful computer that does only one thing: Running a so-called hashing algorithm. Hashing is the transformation of an input into a usually shorter fixed-length output … Continue reading FIRE Aside: Building A Vintage Vacuum Tube Radio Receiver
Bitcoin And How To Keep The House Clean
In this post I will try to explain a bit more about Bitcoin by using real life analogies. It will be far from scientific, very incomplete and won't contain any detailed technical descriptions of the underlying protocol. But I do hope it will shed some light on the subject for those of you who are … Continue reading Bitcoin And How To Keep The House Clean
