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Rant #14: Cryptoback seems flawed

15 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments zpaul_2020blu

I'm definitely old school when it comes to credit cards. Everyone's situation is different, but for me I aim to NNNNNEEEEEEVVVVVEEEEEEERRRRRR have a credit card. Not to fond of thinking about owing someone else an exorbitant amount of $. Who you owe...

Please Do Not PICKLE Your SUSHI!

14 Sep 2020 3 minute read 0 comments xyzashu

Okay, do as you wish but I won't recommned a full diet of pickle! 😀   PICKLE or SUSHI - What do you want?   Honestly, yesterday morning when 10x SUSHI block rewards came to an end, the thought of PICKLing my SUSHI did come to my mind for a mo...

Should I take out a bank loan to buy crypto?

14 Sep 2020 4 minute read 7 comments BrynnB

This is the question I often find myself asking. As someone without thousands to invest into potential DeFi moonshots or undervalued gems, I (more often than not) consider approaching the big bag financial behemoths to potentially secure myself some...

Weekly Briefing No. 70 | The Rise and Rise of SoFi

14 Sep 2020 6 minute read 0 comments FinRev

Snap’s IPO priced and its performance rose without hesitation. But other memorable things happened this week in the world of financial innovation: The FR’s exclusive conversations with SoFi’s top brass AI, the 80–20 rule and who gets paid in banking...

The Weekly Summary - Issue 23.0

13 Sep 2020 2 minute read 14 comments tvlachak

Issue 23.0 / September 13, 2020 Investing We can never learn enough from the Oracle of Omaha on the magic of compounding. Here’s a quote from Alice Schroeder's book The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life explaining his early conceptual...

Rant #11: Celo replace Currency Exchange?

13 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments zpaul_2020blu

Please let things like Celo replace the Currency Exchange. I've been back in my hometown for a little over a week or two, hence the absence, and there are more cash checking places here now then I last remember. But its understandable! Places like Ch...

Comparing the Cost of Off-Grid Shelter Options

11 Sep 2020 3 minute read 2 comments RealSociology

I’ve been thinking through a few shelter 1.0 options for when I get my land in Portugal. The plan is to put up a small scale budget option, enough to live in comfortably for a few months or even a year while I do land-things. The main reason I’m inte...

Financial Freedom #1

9 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments CryptoBlonde

After the previous posts on FINANCIAL EDUCATION (#1, #2, #3 and #4), CryptoBlonde is back to start a new series on finance.  I started my path to financial freedom at a young age with my parents' teachings, recently I discovered that it can be really...

The Weekly Summary - Issue 22.2 - Personal Finance Edition

9 Sep 2020 1 minute read 10 comments tvlachak

Issue 22.2 / September 9, 2020 Personal Finance Financial independence has a history and it goes back 2,500 years. Personal debt should not be considered normal. Since the lockdown, many Americans are calling themselves savers, while some people ev...

The Weekly Summary - Issue 22.0

6 Sep 2020 2 minute read 12 comments tvlachak

Issue 22.0 / September 6, 2020 Investing Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway fund is no longer an all-American portfolio. An enormous documentation vault of Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder letters and meeting transcripts. This includes a case...