A blog focused on ongoing government regulation for crypto or consumer issues with crypto with wide range of topics from pitfalls to avoid to opportunities to grab.
26 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
I'll make this short and sweet. There's nothing more frustrating than loading up a new OS only to find at the end of the install it doesn't work on your machine. Github has made things a lot easier with Windows 11. If you're thinking about upgrading,...
17 Jun 2021 2 minute read 1 comment WinterYeti
A funny thing happened on the way to getting an explanation on how a hard fork would be taxed versus an airdrop. When the question went to the IRS (yes, those folks at the Internal Revenue Service), as to how either even should be treated for tax rep...
17 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
Based on an upcoming hardfork from UNI, UNIO will be produced with a total airdrop of 50,000. Great, where do I sign up? So, on the UNIO page there is an entry for two things: the presale and the airdrop. It's important not to be confused by them. Th...
15 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
Few things are more irritating than an upset stomach, and given how the crypto markets have been churning the last few weeks, there's plenty of indigestion going around. However, there are ways to get through the discomfort, with some of them being f...
14 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
I had heard about the Brave Browser a couple months earlier, around the December time-frame, and I did look at it then, but for some reason the software was blocked from earning in California so I dropped it. In any case, since then whatever was the...
7 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
I'm going to make a rough guess and posit that more than 97% of the world with computing use a GUI (graphical user interface) type operating system to understand what they digitally. Whether it's email, social media, movies, saving files, communicati...
6 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
I tend to try out lots of different faucets to see which ones maximize my take per day. Generally, anything that is giving me $0.30/day or more is a pretty good candidate, especially if it involves very little work or effort. Most faucets fall into t...
5 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
So if you some of you recall I wrote up a bit last week about an odd Discord notice I got about winning an airdrop for a new exchange site and, when submitting the winning code netted me a nifty 9.5 ETH. "Wowie!" I say, sounds too good to be true! It...
28 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
So today I got this direct message in Discord from a user named Automatic telling me I was part of a crypto giveaway. Yay, great! It's worded just right to get my attention: So, I'm thinking my way through this going "PHISHING ALERT, SCAM ALERT, BS...
21 May 2021 3 minute read 1 comment WinterYeti
Back in the fall of 2008, well before crypto even was well-known, the U.S. stock market decided to go down the path of what later was known as the Great Recession or real estate bubble pop. In that fall, much of it happening in November 2008 and ulti...
