Thoughts on economics - systemic, investments, and cryptocurrencies
14 Nov 2020 4 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
I estimated a couple of weeks ago (here) that moving to Portugal would enable me to reduce my total monthly expenditure by around 40%, and now I've got the data, I'm very pleased to announce that my estimate was spot on! I've just used a 1-1 EU to £...
14 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Earth Elemental, from (unsurprisingly!) the Earth Splinter. The Earth Elemental is a classic Beta card - Price optimum level is 6/8 where he gets his max 3 damage, with 6 health and...
11 Nov 2020 3 minute read 2 comments RealSociology
A few days ago I bought my first ever bottle of Rubis butane gas from a small gas station just a few metres down the hill on the N18 from the main junction with the MI079. I thought it was a handy location to get gas as it's only about a 5 minut...
9 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
I downloaded the Pi app to my iPad a few days ago and started mining Pi. Pi is a new (ish - from 2019) cryptocurrency developed by a core team of three Stanford PhDs, which you can mine for free on your phone and which uses next to no energy. Referr...
8 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Screaming Banshee from the Death Splinter. Death is one of my favourite Splinters, and the Banshee is a pretty unusual Death card for her lack of hexing power - rather this is a low...
7 Nov 2020 1 minute read 1 comment RealSociology
@cryptobrewmaster recently introduced some new nano resource packs, available for 0.49 HBDs. The pack guarantees you at least 4 good ingredients, and 1 excellent ingredient, and you get all the 5 different ingredients necessary to brew one beer, but...
5 Nov 2020 3 minute read 3 comments RealSociology
I picked up a portable gas heater a few days ago, which is pretty much my only heating option for the winter, My preferred option of getting a wood burner installed looks like it's out of the question - the cabin's owner is very open to the idea but...
4 Nov 2020 4 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
My own personal vision for my future is to buy 3-5 acres of land here in East Central Portugal and work with it to meet most of my basic needs in water, food and energy, and also to try and build up the soil and water supplies to make said land as fe...
3 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
My main shares fund, Fundsmith, established in 2010 by Terry Smith turned 10 years last month. I bought in from the very start of the fund - by taking advantage of their regular direct debit pay-in offer and since October 2010 I've been paying in fro...
1 Nov 2020 2 minute read 1 comment RealSociology
You may have heard the news a few weeks back about the UK Financial Conduct Authority banning the sale of Crypto Derivatives. In fairness like many checking their feeds through blurry eyes first thing in the morning most of that alarm came from just...
