Category Archives: Mania

Big news this week is the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork, scheduled for November 15th. A hard fork occurs when two separate development teams can’t agree on how to move forward with coding enhancements, and decide to go separate ways. Two different code bases: two different coins. It’s a coin split. Hard forks are more common than you think.… Read More »

I have a friend who is worth quite a bit of money who, if certain conditions are met, will go out and buy lottery tickets on principle. Every once a while the lotto jackpot is larger than the amount of tickets that are being floated that week. Even though he literally has a 10 million-to-one chance that he… Read More »

About one year ago I was looking at an altcoin called Gamecredits. It was trading at a little more than three cents. I had picked that coin out of lineup because I thought the name was intriguing. The coin was intended to be used as currency for mobile games. I checked out the website at decided at the… Read More »

Was NOT starting a paid investment research service in January as originally planned. The second best-move I will make this year is starting the service in May when the bottom hits (or least you will see it from there). When I started this blog last summer, I had every intent to launch a subscription service in early 2018.… Read More »

Bitcoin had a nasty 25% drop last week on news that US regulators want to subpoena Bitfinex over the issuing of Tether, a digital coin that is (supposed to be) backed by the US dollar. After a bounce back Friday, Bitcoin tanked again on the weekend. Yesterday, it continued to drop before bouncing back on “Turnaround Tuesday.” What’s the cause? Many… Read More »