A colleague from the insurance industry once told me about a conference that changed her life. Only it wasn’t a conference; it was an UNCONFERENCE. What is an Unconference? “Imagine all these executives from the insurance industry,” she said, and I tried to picture the wild parties that must ensue. […]
Let me tell you a story about Wally Whale. Wally bought 125 bitcoin back in the day, when the price was just $125. Those 125 bitcoin are now worth $1 million and Wally can’t handle the stress. He’s tired of HODLing a million dollars of bitcoin, which might be worth […]
What a time in history! Whether it is the United States House talking about Satoshi Nakamoto or seeing the President tweeting about cryptocurrency, it feels like blockchain has finally gone mainstream. If we were surfers, it’s like we’ve all been on our surfboards for the past few years, just waiting […]
Shortly after I published my book BLOCKCHAIN FOR EVERYONE, I received a sales call from a financial advisor. Instead of listening to his pitch, however, I decided to tell about the multitude of investment opportunities in the blockchain space. Here’s what happened! When Old Finance Calls “New Finance” “Hello John. […]
When I finished writing my book BLOCKCHAIN FOR EVERYONE last fall, I started a little experiment. The experiment was to see if the book would come true. In the book, I suggested that if everyday investors held a small percentage of bitcoin and altcoins in their portfolio (between 2 and […]
My uncle, now in his 80’s, has been a lifelong value investor. In the style of Warren Buffet (whom he greatly admires), he invests for the long term, in good-quality companies whose stock is trading at a fair price. Once we were talking about how to build personal wealth, and […]
“I bought some bitcoin, then I fell down the rabbit hole.” Has that been your experience too? In this article, you will learn how to navigate the bitcoin rabbit hole so that you can make sense of the opportunities that blockchain technology has to offer. Navigating the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole […]
I don’t usually make predictions. (There’s a reason fortune tellers only charge five bucks.) But in this case, it was fairly obvious: the New York Times reported that Facebook was launching its own alternative to bitcoin. In our Bitcoin Market Journal newsletter, I suggested that you might want to look […]
One of the things that attracted me to the blockchain revolution was its principles. I’m writing this article so we don’t forget them. It’s important for us to return to these principles, because they represent independence. On January 3rd, 2009, Satoshi Nakomoto hardcoded this message into the Genesis Block of […]
A few months ago, we introduced our Blockchain Believers Portfolio, an easy-to-use investment strategy that combines the security of the stock market with the bullishness of blockchain. I’m happy to announce that in just eight months, our blockchain portfolio is outperforming the stock market. Big returns are easy if you […]
