Too Busy For Crypto

The Crypto Cycle is based primarily on Bitcoin "halvening", which occurs roughly every 4 years, and is hard coded into Bitcoin via block heights. The phrase "crypto cycle" has taken on secondary meanings, like the bull and bear market cycles in crypto. It is helpful to understand the Bitcoin inflation model and why it results in secondary effects, whether one is a crypto participant or not. In ear...

What was meant to be a 1-2 minute housekeeping note turned into a 17+ minute episode. I discuss getting Internet Money Wallet to connect effectively to HEX Mining front end version 1.0.8. I also discuss loading the PulseChain Dashboard in Linux OS Ubuntu. If the most recent official front end for HEX Mining (version 1.0.8) is not loading lightning fast, and you are using an Internet Money Wallet,...

A talkthrough of downloading and using the PulseChain Dashboard, which is an unofficial community-created tool to that can operate locally, private and encrypted on your computer. View PulseChain information and run apps locally like the PulseChain Explorer, PulseChain Bridge, HEX Mining, and PulseX (Decentralized Exchange). Link: https://gitlab.com/pulsechain-lunagray/pulsechain-dashboard No Affi...

A quick talkthrough of what I see on the community-run site HEXscout. I also mention the browser extension wallet called Internet Money. The purpose of this episode is to point out a site that is a resource regarding HEX that is made by community members. I have no affiliation with anything I mention. I want people who are too busy for crypto to find useful information and then become more interes...

The purpose of this episode is to explain some aspects and benefits of the Pulsechain Network and also HEX, which exists on Pulsechain and Ethereum. Pulsechain is a faster, cheaper fork of Ethereum. A question-answer format like this is an approach to evaluate an opportunity. Cryptocurrency participation is inherently personal and should be considered from the vantage point of one person evaluatin...

Why Crypto 2025? Learning about and using real crypto benefits you. None of us were first but we don't have to be last. Crypto can change the world, and you can be a part of it. Don't get left behind! BTC has started a slow bull run. ETH is starting a bull run. HEX and PulseChain may be starting a bull run this year. The last crypto cycle top was in 2021. Historically, each cycle top is higher tha...

We are programmed to think law in America is something other than it is. The basis of our system of law is The Common Law, which America's founders carried over from the British Isles. The Common Law is like an organism. The philosophical basis of law grows from places and times and situations which may seem alien to us in 2024. The objective of this episode is to illuminate law as an aspect of so...

Discussion of some websites where you can look at on-chain data for HEX that is presented in a user-friendly way. That is, user-friendly for crypto. Websites described in this episode are: hexstats.today , apphex.win , hex.vision , gopulse.com, go.hex.com , etherscan.io , hexfire.io Anything that is real cryptocurrency should have this level of public and verifiable detailed information. Blockchai...

Crypto participants should study the basics. A book titled "Mastering Ethereum" is an introductory user manual for the Ethereum Network. Much of the book is written for developers who know computer science, but there is plenty of general knowledge that a common participant of crypto can find useful. Whether conducting common operations, or evaluating new things, or understanding privacy and censor...

A 10 minute tutorial mixed in 1 hour of commentary. Imitate this tutorial at your own risk. Assume this information is obsolete. This is a teaching method. Learn or get left behind. Take responsibility for yourself and your actions.   A late 2023 innovation for cryptocurrency allows participants to run code without middlemen. Until now, most crypto participants have relied on websites to host a us...

Price insurance includes products like futures and options. Traditional finance requires middlemen to administer price insurance products. The asset delivery mechanism is the key feature to pay attention to when comparing cryptocurrency to price insurance. This episode provides a introduction into this topic, because it is not necessary for the common person to deeply understand futures or options...

It is easy to not understand why a person would choose to stake a cryptocurrency for years. HEX is a time monetization system that rewards delayed gratification by rewarding time in the system. Certain mindsets and perspectives are common among those who chose to stake HEX in order to mine more HEX. These perspectives are different from traders, holders of various coins, and even from those who ho...

Many regular people use mutual funds in their retirement account. Most people pay no attention to Funds like Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Mutual Funds. These financial instruments hold trillions of dollars combined. They are a major contact point between regular people and financial markets. Everything has tradeoffs. This episode explores structure, function, and impacts. Funds have not yet ha...

Passive income is what makes bonds interesting. This episode discusses general information about bonds and the bond market. Comparing traditional financial things like bonds to new financial things like cryptocurrency is part of the journey to seeing value in real cryptocurrency. Bonds are a such a fundamental part of finance that you can run into bond concepts many different crypto protocols. Und...

Comparing traditional financial things like stocks to new financial things like cryptocurrency is part of the journey to seeing value in real cryptocurrency. Most people do not understand stocks, except for maybe a few bullet points. A person who chooses to invest in one thing over another should understand both things. Understanding the value and limitations of a common asset class makes it much...

Accounting is both a science of balance and also an art of robust record keeping. A person who takes just one hour to learn about basic accounting concepts is going to understand far more about finance than the average person. Such concepts allow a person to reason better about things like business, banking, personal finance, and financial products. Cryptocurrency could be called a type of account...

Free yourself. Cryptocurrency is a tool that enables motivated individuals to reclaim power and dignity from a legacy financial system that extracts power and dignity from us. Author Simon Sinek talks a lot about answering the question of Why, in contexts like business, politics, and social movements. In his book "Start With Why", Sinek presents a pattern to answer the questions of Why, then How,...

People in the world of traditional finance are struggling to define cryptocurrency and put it in a box. The box determines the regulation and taxation associated with the interface between the world of financial middlemen and the world of crypto. One possible outcome is that some or all cryptocurrencies become classified as commodities. This episode, I discuss some definitions of commodities and h...

For any investment, all most people ultimately care about is price. A phrase that summarizes this mentality is 'Number Go Up'. This episode I frame positive HEX characteristics with respect to the phrase 'Number Go Up'. I make a case why HEX is structurally positive for unit price and unit count without making price predictions. In previous episodes, I have discussed basics about crypto, such as r...

This episode dicusses interest rates and the economy to promote financial literacy. My hope is that by listening, you may better understand or articulate the relationship between interest rates and cost of capital, which affects the entire economy, including asset prices. This podcast is for people who want to increase their financial literacy and cryptocurrency literacy. None of this is financial...

Most people have no idea what a DEX is or how it works. DEX is short for Decentralized Exchange. It is synonymous with AMM, or Automated Market Maker. Holders of Real Crypto can use a DEX to trade cryptocurrency with other holders of Real Crypto in a manner consistent with Decentralized Finance. A DEX is a key component of Real De-Fi (Decentralized Finance). Since most people who think they are in...

This episode continues the theme on inflation data. The St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED website publishes data such as the M2 Dollar Supply series. This chart shows how the supply of dollars available to the public has increased from 1980 to today (2023). Monetary inflation leads to price inflation. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS We must understand the problem of limitless inflation in or...

Did you know the modern dollar has depreciated 97% since it was created in 1913? Inflation is the silent threat to individual wealth in the modern world. Purchasing Power depreciates as a currency inflates. A common way to visualize dollar depreciation is through the Purchasing Power Index Chart published by the St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED website. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0...

When anyone is researching HEX, it is a magical time when they first ask the question: So, what IS a T-Share? T-Shares are HEX miners. T-Shares mine HEX inflation. Shares share the HEX inflation that is distributed to Shares. HEX has an systemic annualized supply inflation of 3.69%, and it has to go to someone. Instead of going to everyone, it goes to those with Shares. Shares may be acquired with...

What is Yield? This episode discusses yield in the context of financial literacy. I begin by discussing living yield, mineral yield, business and land. Then I discuss major classes of debt and equity financial products that include bonds and stocks. These ideas are foundational to be able to think about how yield works in cryptocurrency. For cryptocurrency, I only discuss the difference between cu...