Category: Investing
The 4 Year Cycle – Bitcoin Price Prediction ๐
“The 4 Year Cycle” is one of the most important posts you’ll ever read. I mean it. People that understood the cyclical nature of the markets will never struggle financially. In this post, I’ll explain the single most relevant indicator for Bitcoin’s price and how I used it to build a position with full conviction. …
Index Investing & Index Funds – A Gentle Introduction
Index Investing represents an investment strategy which aims to track the performance of a market index. Not “picking winning stocks”, not “timing the market”, not “beating the market”. This strategy is synonymous with matching the market – at least the one you choose to match. Index Funds An index fund is a special type of an …
Stock Market Index โ Explanation and Examples
After publishing my post on ETFs I received many questions about how to approach picking one. Understanding stock market indices is crucial for this. In this post, I’ll cover what is an index and how to use one for your investment strategies. What is a Stock Market Index? Directly from Investopedia: A market index is …
Airdrops I’m Hunting or Received (Big List for 2024)
If you’ve read my last post on airdrops, you’re probably interested in what I’m currently positioning for. This post contains a list of projects with confirmed or probable potential for airdrops. Remember: this is just your starting point. If you’re interested in any of the listed airdrops, make sure to DYOR and figure out how …
Airdrops – The Real 0 to $100k Opportunity
An Airdrop represents a distribution of free crypto to users’ addresses. These distributions may be worth up to 6 figures and oftentimes require no financial investment. However, they’re rarely announced or guaranteed. As a veteran in the DeFi space and a recipient of tens of airdrops, I want to shed some light on the process. …
CSPX vs VUSA vs IUSA – My Thoughts
A US ETF is usually the core of most investors’ portfolios. For Europeans, the questions of CSPX vs VUSA or VUSA vs IUSA often pop up. In this post, I’ll do my best to answer the trilemma and give my recommendation. CSPX Ticker symbols: CSPX, SXR8, CSP1; ISIN: IE00B5BMR087 CSPX (iShares Core S&P 500 UCITS …
Bitcoin Block Reward Halving (Explanation & Price Impact)
The block reward halving is one of the key characteristics of Bitcoin. It’s extremely relevant both for ideologists and investors, so make sure to understand it. Introduction to Bitcoin Block Rewards All Bitcoin transactions are grouped into blocks, which are added to the blockchain through a process called mining. Each Bitcoin miner tries to be the fastest one to …
Why the Stock Market Always Goes Up?
You probably saw “the stock market” being portrayed as a “safe long-term” investment. But how is everyone so sure that the stock market will go up in the long run? Let me tell you my perspective. First of all, I’ve been investing for around a decade and made massive gains in multiple asset classes. The …
Cash vs Stocks in 30 Years
Cash or stocks – hoard or invest? This discussion comes up so often that an analysis post was due. While I don’t necessarily consider a 100% stock portfolio to be the best investing approach, it will definitely prove a point about assets outperforming cash over the long-term. Without further ado, let’s break down a case. …
The Death of the Gold Standard – What Happened in 1971 (Part 1)
The gold standard is a monetary system where a country’s currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold. Investopedia, What is the Gold Standard? Throughout a major part of human history, gold was the only globally recognized unit of account. And it still has that status, as every system/country/empire agrees on its …
Lump-Sum Strategy (Time in the Market Done Right)
A lump-sum payment describes a payment that happens once, at a particular time, as opposed to multiple smaller payments over time. If you accumulated a somewhat large amount of savings, you might wonder how to put them to work. At the end of the day, if you just dump them in the market, there are countless …
DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) – Investment Strategy Explained
Cost averaging (DCA or dollar cost averaging) is an investment strategy for investing capital over time. It can be especially valuable to beginners that determined their asset allocation but still looking for an entry point for the actual purchase. This post will describe one of the best and time-tested strategies of deploying cash. What is Dollar …
The Byzantine Generals Problem – Simple Explanation
The Byzantine generals problem is a distributed computing problem introduced in 1982, in a paper of the same name. In this post, I’ll give a simplified summary of a formulation of the problem. Then, I’ll explain how the Bitcoin blockchain and its use of Proof of Work solves it in practice. The Byzantine Generals Problem: …
Preparation for EigenLayer’s Restaking Unpause (Airdrop Opportunity ๐ช)
EigenLayer announced that they’re unpausing restaking on 29th of January. I already feel sufficiently exposed to EigenLayer’s contracts, but decided to do one last deposit. As they’re integrating new LSTs (liquid staked tokens), I spent some time evaluating which ones to use. If unfamiliar, I recommend learning about restaking, as it’s a completely new and revolutionary narrative …
Protect Your Seed Phrase (10 Tips to Secure your Crypto)
Having control over your seed phrase is equivalent to having control over your crypto. I already covered the importance of self-custody before, so if you’re reading this post, make sure to know the basics. With that being said, let’s dive into how you can protect your seed phrase and increase the security of your crypto assets. …