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B18 Crypto Consultancy Services. Helping no-coiners get into crypto since Feb 2021. Using Task Based Learning.


Our Psychological Threshold

4 Jul 2024 5 minute read 6 comments B18

"Psychological Threshold" is a term I coined to describe our resistance, aversion, threshold or upper limit when buying Bitcoin. Or any crypto for that matter. It has nothing to do with the accepted definition. Only just looked it up now. Thought I b...

"You bought or sold crypto. Do you know what to do next?"

1 Jul 2024 4 minute read 2 comments B18

Yes it is that time of the year again. When our friendly taxman sends out their gentle annual reminder to the Crypto Bros. "Hi B18 Our records show you transacted in crypto this year.  If you held your crypto as an investment, you need to report your...

Julian The Cypherpunk Is A Free Bird

25 Jun 2024 3 minute read 9 comments B18

News Flash: This morning in my twitter feed, was the news that Julian Assange was released on bail and immediately flew the coop. Thought it was fake to start with but on checking there was photos of the man boarding a plane. Amazing that after spend...

“The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets, even if it is is your own.”

19 Jun 2024 4 minute read 13 comments B18

This post has been inspired by the recent post by @Astroboy13 on contrarian investing. Even though @Astroboy13 didn’t use that exact term in the post but it did sort of touch on the subject, as he explained: “….red is back everywhere in our crypto po...

Finally Somewhere To Send the Publish0x Tips - Ledger Has Added OP Mainnet Accounts.

18 Jun 2024 4 minute read 12 comments B18

What to do with the Publish0x OP and ETH tips? More ramblings from your friendly neighbourhood psychopath.  Solution One Was just leaving them sitting on Publish0x and waiting till they change the tipping tokens. Then they will just get swapped to th...

The Mt. Gox Bitcoins On The Move? When Will We Get Our Money Back?

6 Jun 2024 4 minute read 2 comments B18

Mt. Gox was once the worlds largest Bitcoin exchange, handling 70% of the Bitcoin trading volume. Users have been waiting since 2014 to get their money back. In the early hours of 28 May 2024 the world became aware that Mt Gox had consolidated 141,68...

The Eternal Search For A Non KYC P2P On/Off Ramp

1 Jun 2024 3 minute read 14 comments B18

As one door closes, another door magically opens. One of the Kenyan's we had been buying XMR from, reached out this morning on the LocalMonero chat to advise that he is still trading on a couple of other platforms. And the kicker is that the P2P mark...

The Search Continues For P2P Fait On/Off Ramp

26 May 2024 4 minute read 9 comments B18

As the search continues, one door closes and another opens. The crypto journey has been a long journey with many detours. But if you keep searching the answer always seems to present itself. You just never know what is going to be around the corner....

Our Favourite “Money Laundering” Platform Is Closing.

17 May 2024 7 minute read 10 comments B18

Yesterday LocalMonero announced that after “7 years of operation, due to a combination of internal and external factors, we have made the difficult decision to close our platform.” Damn, damn, damn. The search continues. No prizes for guessing what t...

3.125 #HappyHalveningDay

20 Apr 2024 5 minute read 6 comments B18

50, 50 divided by 2 = 25, 25 divided by 2 = 12.5, 12.5 divided by = 6.25, 6.25 divided by = 3.125, #HappyHalvening2024. #HappyHalvening2024 I had gone early to the Kyalla Farmers Market to get a growler of Dragonfruit Kombucha from Hippie Kombucha. O...