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.


Chainlink, what is an oracle

9 Jul 2025 3 minute read 11 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   Way back in the bear market after a lot of research time I tried to get a portfolio together that was mainly Bitcoin, had a decent L1, something with a really good use case, something to farm points, something earning/staking...

Midnight Network

29 Jun 2025 2 minute read 3 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   I have recently heard about an airdrop of something called NIGHT which is the token from Midnight Network so I thought I would take a look at it. It looks like you can get the token if you hold a variety of tokens, but only i...

Phase 1

26 Jun 2025 2 minute read 6 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   I am sometimes amazed at the rabbit hole that Bitcoin and crypto has taken me down. It is not just learning about crypto, trading and charts, sometimes that includes paying attention to politics and macro events. Not long ago...

To DAO or not to DAO

23 Jun 2025 3 minute read 9 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening.   So if you have read my ramblings about Helium back in the old days, you may have read about me calling it a 'dictator DAO' but what is a DAO and what is it supposed to do? I am in another project that is currently asking f...

Crypto is boring

15 Jun 2025 4 minute read 9 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/ evening   Crypto is boring is a sentence I never expect anyone to say but will it be, now that we are getting more and more institutional investors?   So I have been thinking lately about regulation and volatility in the crypto market...

So you are your own bank now

10 Jun 2025 4 minute read 19 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   It seems that not a day goes by without hearing about a scam or hack or someone you know has had their wallet drained and with the Coinbase data leak, I am sure more people will have issues in the near future. We have had t...

Twenty one

1 Jun 2025 3 minute read 6 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/ evening   No it is not my birthday and most definitely not my 21st but I am taking a look at Twenty One, a Bitcoin company that will follow in Michael Saylors footsteps by launching a company that offers a yield for Bitcoin.     Wh...

Solanas big plan

21 May 2025 3 minute read 6 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...