A foray into crypto, A technophobes journey

A foray into crypto, A technophobes journey

A personal blog about how we got into crypto and the rollercoaster ride it was.


Solanas big plan

21 May 2025 3 minute read 5 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   I have recently heard about Solana's plan to have a Nasdeq type equivalent on chain to trade a decentralized market for trading real world assets and equities. My first thought was wow as I have been thinking about a few stoc...

Taking a look at Celestia and its tokenTIA

13 May 2025 5 minute read 5 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   So as you may be aware from some of my previous  posts, I have a bag of TIA (Celestia), now I used some of the earnings from my Helium miners to buy this in the sole purpose of being eligible for airdrops, well I was late t...

Cardano as a layer 2 for Bitcoin

5 May 2025 3 minute read 5 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   So I may be late to the party, but this is the first time I have heard about Cardano becoming an L2 for Bitcoin, so I thought it was interesting enough to take a look at. Possibly because Cardano was one of the first L1 token...

Ethereum vs Solana, is there a winner

29 Apr 2025 3 minute read 9 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   So for the sake of my son's second largest asset in his portfolio I thought I had better at least take a look at ETH, my bad.....perhaps I should have done this sooner! Firstly I had to go through the history to check when th...

Altcoins and narratives

21 Apr 2025 4 minute read 5 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   If you read my post about my portfolio update, you may think it was a bit 'chaotic' well it was to some degree but let me tell you why. portfolio-looks....   Narrative     I am learning all the time, but I try things to see...

What are Tarifs

14 Apr 2025 3 minute read 6 comments crypto newbie mom

  Also posted onn Bulb.   Good morning/evening   The current word on everyone's lips at the moment is tariffs, some people seem to think that tariffs are a new thing but they are not the first was way back in 1789 when the USA urgently needed revenue...

What Benidorm was really like

7 Apr 2025 3 minute read 0 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   As some of you may recall from my post Bitcoin hits 100K now I have to go away, my husband and I were asked to go on a surprise birthday trip for my mum to Benidorm, we said well  OK if BTC goes to 100K we will do it, and y...

A Microsoft nightmare

3 Apr 2025 3 minute read 8 comments crypto newbie mom

  First posted on Bulb   Good morning/evening   You may think that what I write here is a fictional story but unfortunately it is not.   So let me take you back to the beginning, BTC is doing well (yep November 24) and we had taken some profits, so f...

Portfolio looks....................

24 Mar 2025 4 minute read 16 comments crypto newbie mom

    First posted on Bulb.   Good morning/evening   The markets have been looking a little, well, red of late so I thought I should take a look and see just how badly the portfolio is doing. There is a saving grace at the moment to being Bitcoin heavy...

Pi Network, a word of warning

19 Mar 2025 1 minute read 41 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening.     OK Pi people or Pioneers as we were called I have a warning for you all.   First let me explain, as a noob I thought that tapping a button every day to earn some free money was actually a thing so I tapped, I made my hu...