Arrr, I'm R3dbeard the Pirate, and I specialize on research & financial analysis of higher-growth foreign companies. As an historian, I have spent my life looking into the past, so that I may have a better understanding of the future. I have enthusiastically followed the public markets since 2003, and with 11 years of personal investing experience, I have a pulse on the global equities markets. My introduction to cryptocurrency came during the 2017 Bitcoin bullrun, and I have been an enthusiast since!
16 Jan 2021 3 minute read 4 comments Fireside DeFi
I will be the first to admit that I am a skeptic when it comes to many of the claims made by the maximalists and early cypher-punk hype machines when it comes to all the potential of Bitcoin. I first heard about Bitcoin back around 2014, my brother's...
14 Aug 2020 6 minute read 0 comments Fireside DeFi
Who is MercadoLibre? Why are they special? Where do they operate their logistics & e-commerce network? MercadoLibre means "free market" in Spanish, and that is exactly what they are trying to accomplish south of the [US] border. Established in 1999...
