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.


My first minted NFT

26 Aug 2023 1 minute read 11 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   I have been very lax with my personal goal of at least 1 post per week on PublishOx but in my defence I was very busy working in the UK and had very little time. My objective was to top up the savings and buy more BTC. I would have a...

How I repurposed a Helium miner. Defli

25 Jul 2023 3 minute read 8 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   As you may be aware my love affair with Helium is well and truly over. I really don't follow the HIPs (Helium Improvement Proposals.)I hardly check with the still awful wallet how many tokens I have earnt and only once collected my st...

Spot token

19 Jul 2023 1 minute read 16 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   Well after looking at our AMPL token this month I thought this would be a good time to write about my plans for SPOT.     I have read the SPOT 'playbook' and understand it is a newly designed type of stable coin that they are calling...

Silly season is upon us.

9 Jul 2023 1 minute read 10 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   So things are looking good in the land of crypto, I see green charts but with the excitement around things going well then there are the Shillers, the pump and dumpers and the You tube influencers.   I know this as once upon a time I...

Proud to be a shrimp.

4 Jul 2023 1 minute read 12 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   Yes that is correct, I am proud to be a BTC shrimp. Some people still have no idea about Bitcoin and I am glad I am not one of them, hence proud to be a shrimp.  With all of the crazy things that have been going on recently in crypto...

The Gensler effect

11 Jun 2023 2 minute read 11 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   Well it is hard to not know what is going on at the moment with all the SEC news (although there are a few on Reddit!) but it has made me wonder if it has made you change your opinion on crypto at all? Are you going to ride the storm?...

A year of free crypto. How did I do?

5 Jun 2023 2 minute read 16 comments crypto newbie mom

Good afternoon.   This is it, 12 months of free crypto. Was it worth it and how did I do?    PublishOx    I cashed out to my Kucoin 0.00590345 ETH or $11.05 up from $10.59  I cashed out  to Kucoin 7.81653791 AMPL or $8.67 up from $7.96    Since then...

BULB Write to earn, read to earn and more.

31 May 2023 1 minute read 11 comments crypto newbie mom

Good morning.   I would like to tell you today about BULB, a read and write to earn blogging site on the Solana blockchain. It was founded in September 2021 and  the official  launch for the public to join was April 2023.   Now I love PublishOx and I...

The bank has finally found my money.

28 May 2023 2 minute read 26 comments crypto newbie mom

Good afternoon.   Some of you may have read my post uk-bank back in November 2022 where I wrote that the bank had 'lost' an ISA I had with them, I also wrote back in March how they still had not found my money the-bank-has-lost-my-money-part-2. Well...

Withdrawing Helium IOT tokens .......Or not.

15 May 2023 3 minute read 3 comments crypto newbie mom

Good afternoon.   As you may be aware my love for Helium has been on a downward scale, almost as steep a drop as the price scale but I was hoping that the move to Solana may make me like Helium a bit more.   I spent last night researching the new IOT...