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.


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...

Ethereum vs Solana, is there a winner

29 Apr 2025 3 minute read 9 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   So for the sake of my son's second largest asset in his portfolio I thought I had better at least take a look at ETH, my bad.....perhaps I should have done this sooner! Firstly I had to go through the history to check when th...

Altcoins and narratives

21 Apr 2025 4 minute read 5 comments crypto newbie mom

  Good morning/evening   If you read my post about my portfolio update, you may think it was a bit 'chaotic' well it was to some degree but let me tell you why. portfolio-looks....   Narrative     I am learning all the time, but I try things to see...

What are Tarifs

14 Apr 2025 3 minute read 6 comments crypto newbie mom

  Also posted onn Bulb.   Good morning/evening   The current word on everyone's lips at the moment is tariffs, some people seem to think that tariffs are a new thing but they are not the first was way back in 1789 when the USA urgently needed revenue...

What Benidorm was really like

7 Apr 2025 3 minute read 0 comments crypto newbie mom

    Good morning/evening   As some of you may recall from my post Bitcoin hits 100K now I have to go away, my husband and I were asked to go on a surprise birthday trip for my mum to Benidorm, we said well  OK if BTC goes to 100K we will do it, and y...