My take on crypto and how I go about trading and investing.
4 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ieatcrayons
I recently created a new cryptocurrency. In some ways, it was much easier and much harder than I expected. First, I created the token with a simple CLI tool. It was really easy and the fees weren't high at all. I didn't know what to call it, but even...
21 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ieatcrayons
Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with Monero mining. During my research, I stumbled across a site called "xmrbazaar". It looked pretty interesting, so I thought I'd give it a try. It's pretty much a marketplace where people can buy an...
20 Mar 2026 1 minute read 1 comment ieatcrayons
I've made a lot of improvements to my Monero miner and trading bot. First, I switched the network from the mini network to the nano network. On the mini network, a lot of my shares were falling out of the PPLNS window, so I wasn't getting as much Mon...
18 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ieatcrayons
I've recently been writing posts about mining and trading bots. So, I thought I'd try a little experiment where i mine crypto, and then send it directly to a bot to increase my profits. First, I set up xmrig to mine Monero. Since I don't have special...
14 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ieatcrayons
Following my recent foray into trading bots, I came across Hummingbot. It's a free and open source bot that lets you set up strategies on major exchanges. It was really easy to install and use. I just needed to import my wallet keys and api keys for...
13 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ieatcrayons
I've recently been trying to make profits using a grid bot. I coded it in Python and it's really simple. First, it fetches the price of whatever token it is trading. Then, as the price fluctuates over and under this "base price" it buys and sells in...
12 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ieatcrayons
I've recently started day trading. I'm just in it for fun, I probably won't be making profits so I'm using very small sums of money. I've been doing a bit of research about day trading, and it seems like it's all about bots now. In a 2025 study, stud...
10 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ieatcrayons
I think crypto mining is dying. First, profitability is dropping. Bitcoin's network hash rate recently hit 650 EH/s, but profitability has dropped 62% since 2023. Difficulty adjusts faster than hardware can keep up, making mining less and less profit...
9 Mar 2026 1 minute read 1 comment ieatcrayons
This has probably already been talked about many times, but I actually didn't know a lot about Monero until now. Monero was launched in 2014 as a fork of Bytecoin, and is one of the most sophisticated and privacy focused cryptos today. Its privacy in...
8 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ieatcrayons
When people think about Ethereum's gas costs they usually imagine the fee you pay to send a transaction or deploy a contract. But if we go a little bit deeper, we find another important use of gas: precompiles. Precompiles are hardcoded smart contrac...
