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 …

Thought Experiment: Oh hi, Marc

SavingNinja published another interesting thought experiment. I always wonder how he does it: Ask inherently thought provoking questions that I simply have to respond to. I enjoy these thought experiments a lot, but I have to admit: This new one is not easy. "A different opinion is somewhat frowned upon in our clique based society, but …

How to invest in the ‘digital currency space’?

Update: This is a old post I wrote some time ago about investing in cryptocurrency. I am publishing it here because it is related to 'early retirement planning'. I am not actively investing in digital currency, but do operate a home made mining rig. Let's say you want to jump on to the cryptocurrency train …

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 …