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.


Regulations everywhere, not just crypto

8 Dec 2025 6 minute read 7 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   For those of you that don't know, I rent out the UK house, receive a regular income from this and have for years. At one point I was considering selling it so I could have a lump sum to invest in Bitcoin, amongst other thin...

Crypto, learning from my mistakes

1 Dec 2025 4 minute read 4 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening       If you’ve been in crypto for more than five minutes, you’ve already been emotionally, financially, and spiritually rugged at least once. Congrats this makes you qualified to learn from the mistakes of the past… or at leas...

Taking profits is not bad

24 Nov 2025 4 minute read 11 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   So yes the price of Bitcoin has been below the psychological 100K for a while now and all you hear on X or even You Tube is lettuce hands, sellers are weak or sellers don't understand the fundamentals blah blah blah.  So let’...

Lets talk manipulation

18 Nov 2025 4 minute read 4 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   Ok, let's start with the fact that manipulation of markets has been around forever and always will be, but what sort of manipulation do we find in the crypto market?   Wash trading   Exchanges or bots trade with themselves ov...

Solana after FTX

10 Nov 2025 3 minute read 3 comments crypto newbie mom

        15 Nov 2022, I wrote a post about Solana,    What seems like an eternity ago but was only last week (a lot has happened with the crypto space and FTX caused most if not all of it). We were looking at buying some SOL for our portfolio, I like...

Would you consider en ETF if you had loads of Bitcoin

3 Nov 2025 4 minute read 30 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening Following on from my last post about whether to sell the house and invest those funds into Bitcoin,  that also brings with it another question.  Do we trust someone else to hold our Bitcoin/Assets for us (via an ETF)? Or do w...

Sell the house, buy BItcoin, would you do it

27 Oct 2025 5 minute read 16 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   Some of you may be aware from previous posts that I am from the UK but live in Eastern Europe, (technically it is we/us) and have done now for over 16 years, this was made possible by selling some shares I had in the compan...

Stacks, earning Bitcoin or just hopium

20 Oct 2025 5 minute read 2 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   Stacks, should I sell, HODL or invest more. Yet again I am looking at another blockchain, mostly because I am trying to work out if the chain is actually doing anything? is there new adoption? Are these tokens worth holding...

How many blockchains do we really need

13 Oct 2025 4 minute read 10 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   So I have recently looked at Cronos chain to see if it has had much usage to make it worth investing in, then I looked at Celestia to see if there was anything there that would make me want to continue holding it and it has...

Is there a reason to keep holding TIA

6 Oct 2025 4 minute read 2 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   OK so you may have caught the odd grumble about the TIA  that I have my posts, I know it is my own fault, I FOMO'd in when you were getting airdrops left right and centre for holding TIA, so I DCA'd into it and by the time...