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.


From blindly entering crypto to novice trader.

6 Jan 2024 5 minute read 26 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning/evening.   Sometimes in crypto it feels like the husband and I have learnt so much, then it feels like so little, so this post is a summary really of going from, what is 'fiat'? to  crypto holder and trader (in training).    My/our crypt...

Don't panic, just buy!

3 Jan 2024 1 minute read 6 comments crypto newbie mom

Good afternoon.   So what do you do when the phone starts pinging like crazy and everything drops by 15%? Well if you're me  went on a  shopping spree. Network errors everywhere, Kucoin has come to a grinding halt, Mexc not so busy so managed 1 buy o...

Defli Shenanigans

2 Jan 2024 4 minute read 10 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning/evening.   If you were not aware I converted one of my Helium miners to a new progect called Defli. The project sounded good to me, we were collecting data about planes using an SDR, a raspberry pie and an antenna, then also being able t...

The free stuff portfolio is over $300.

28 Dec 2023 2 minute read 4 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening.   Today's post is my 'free stuff' portfolio and has cost me nothing apart from some time.   Also I did a very important bit of wallet housekeeping, we all have it, the odd random wallet with some crypto in it, well I went thro...

Bitcoin Christmas Price 2023

26 Dec 2023 1 minute read 7 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   I do hope everyone had a great day and is enjoying the holiday festivities.    We have what is going to be a new tradition in our house which is to guess the price of BTC at midday on Christmas day. We all wrote down what price we tho...

The portfolio upgraded I hope!

5 Dec 2023 2 minute read 15 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   Today's post is an update on the portfolio. I was not joking when I said I have been busy, what with the trading, the Kaspa mining and researching and buying ALTs, there really have not been enough hours in the day. I know I am slow w...

Kaspa mining on old devices.

2 Dec 2023 1 minute read 13 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning/evening.   My latest experiment along with trading, is to mine the Kaspa token.      The reason for this is many people say you can mine Kaspa with old pc's, laptops and even phones. We have many old laptops that were sitting idle so we...

The trading experiment

26 Nov 2023 3 minute read 11 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning   I have not posted in a while, but that is not to say I have not been busy. I have been using the time to learn new trading skills and get back to good old research.   I felt I needed to do more, to buy and hold BTC is easy. I was excit...

Helium staking rewards after 6 months.

4 Nov 2023 1 minute read 24 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   Well it has been 6 months since I staked my Helium HNT tokens and so how did I do?   Firstly let me say I did only stake 25 HNT (because that was what I had in my wallet at the time) so I was not expecting much in rewards.    The voti...

BANNED already!

12 Oct 2023 2 minute read 18 comments crypto newbie mom

Good evening.   Well I have finally got around to installing Discord (well sort of anyway, I have not verified yet!). I was starting to find it quite annoying that most of the info on certain things was always on Discord and using David's was sometim...