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.


Solar savings

7 Oct 2026 2 minute read 0 comments crypto newbie mom $0.34

      Good morning/evening   If you have read my post on getting a solar set up with the help of AI, this is a quick update on how it is performing. I know technically that almost four months of data is not long and also it has been summer so these n...

Degen DeFi time should be now

17 Sep 2026 4 minute read 4 comments crypto newbie mom $0.23

  Good morning/evening   Well it is that sort of near the bottom of the crypto bear market IMO and this would normally be the time where I would be thinking about getting my degen on and use DeFi to borrow some stablecoins to buy some more Bitcoin. I...

The Psychology of a bull run

1 Sep 2026 3 minute read 9 comments crypto newbie mom $0.21

  Good morning/evening   If you've been in crypto for any amount of time, you'll probably know exactly what I mean when I say that a bull run doesn't just change your portfolio, it changes the way you think. It starts off innocently enough, Bitcoin b...

The latest project with the help of AI

25 Aug 2026 3 minute read 8 comments crypto newbie mom $0.26

  Good morning/evening   As you may well be aware, my husband and I are perhaps not the best at being semi retired, therefore when we started doing the miners that shall not be named, we were busy, that adapted to crypto which made us exceptionally b...

The AI picked a portfolio

12 Aug 2026 4 minute read 0 comments crypto newbie mom $0.21

  Good morning/evening   Well after asking AI what side hustle or business I should set up, I then thought what would AI give me as a portfolio, not that I will follow its non financial advice, but just interested to see what it would come up with an...

Repurposing Pi's and Bobcats

4 Aug 2026 4 minute read 4 comments crypto newbie mom $0.16

Good morning/evening   Now that I have collected Helium miners from friends houses (all of them turned off now) I am looking at a pile of miners, antennas and cables wondering what to do with it all, so I thought I would look at some other things I c...

Bitcoin miner, to buy or not to buy

28 Jul 2026 3 minute read 11 comments crypto newbie mom $0.19

    Good morning/evening   Due to now having solar power, it has got me thinking about miners again, not the DePin stuff, been there done that lol but more like a small Asic machine. I know they aren't for everyone and I know plenty of people will te...

Passive income or is it

20 Jul 2026 4 minute read 11 comments crypto newbie mom $0.48

    Good morning/evening   One of the things that first attracted me to crypto wasn't necessarily the price going up. Of course, who doesn't like seeing their investments increase in value, but what really caught my attention was the idea of earning...

Dead tokens and blockchains

13 Jul 2026 3 minute read 13 comments crypto newbie mom $0.19

    Good morning/evening   After writing about what I see as a possible death of the Helium network, (They did have their own blockchain in the beginning before moving to Solana) or at least the peoples network as it was called, I started thinking ab...

The death of Helium

6 Jul 2026 5 minute read 9 comments crypto newbie mom $0.56

  Good morning/evening   The Helium journey is one that has, at times, made me happy, sad, annoyed and frustrated, but without that experience I would never have gotten into crypto. Even though I didn't understand at the time what an ERC 20 token was...