One man's FIRE journey by opening up passive income streams from side hustles
richard
So much has happened over the last week that a lot of it has just been a blur to be honest. Let’s take a moment to digest all of the things. Lunar New Year of the Metal Ox So we rang in the year of the metal ox on 23 February, 2021. It was not … Read more
Editor’s note: As we welcome the year of the Ox, let’s take a look at which Chinese Zodiac has the best outlook from a financial perspective for 2021. This is a contributed article from Value Champion. Whether you take this seriously or not, I think it’s always fun to consult the stars and see how … Read more
Another day, another positive news for the mainstream adoption for Bitcoin. 2 days after Tesla announced it had bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin and will accept bitcoin as payment for Teslas, MasterCard has announced that it will incorporate crypto onto its network. Bitcoin is seeing stable prices after shooting up to $48K on the Tesla … Read more
Today, you get a special glimpse into what’s in my bag. My crypto bag. I’m not going to go into actual numbers, but I will do, is show you my crypto portfolio, as well as their respective allocations that make up my crypto investment. What’s in the bag? As you can see, I’m heavy on … Read more
The world woke up to a shocking piece of news as Tesla announced Monday morning US time that it has bought US$1.5B worth of Bitcoin. There was no indication of how many bitcoins they currently hold, but as of now, they are second only to MicroStrategy in terms of BTC held by a company. The … Read more
Long time readers of my site will know that I previously got the Ruby Steel Crypto VISA card from crypto.com. That was the 2nd lowest tier of cards from them, which offered free (or rather, a 100% rebate) Spotify. I got the card in October of 2019, and after more than a year of free … Read more
Value investors like Warren Buffet likes to do a huge amount of diligence on a stock, analyse their lifetime potential, and when they’re decided, they more or less buy the stock and hold for life (or at least a decade). That’s why he’s so old now. It’s a proven concept. Buy and hold. Buy and … Read more
2020 has been an absolute cracker of a year for Crypto. Led by the King of crypto, Bitcoin, which dug up all the way from a bottom of $3,800 back in March to scale new heights in December 2020, it started 2021 in the best possible way. By shooting all the way to a new … Read more
Phooo… you’re gonna want to strap in for this one. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would have heard of the turmoil in Wallstreet, getting their asses handed over to them for extreme naked shorts on video game retailer Gamestop, by a ragtag group of retail investors in Reddit, no less. If you … Read more
In any debate, you will find people on both sides of the argument. Even for something as ridiculous as the idea of a flat earth, you will find people unwavering in their beliefs. So, when it comes to Bitcoin, the debate is raging. What is it? Is it a speculative asset? A bubble? A store … Read more
I have been talking alot about bitcoin recently, and has neglected the number 2 in the crypto world: Ethereum. Over the bear market in the last 3 years, Ethereum has been battered badly. But in bull runs, it tends to outperform bitcoin rather easily. This can be seen as well in 2020, where Ethereum rose … Read more
So, immediately after I published my Crypto YouTube channel, bitcoin crashed to levels not seen since 2 weeks ago! Bitcoin started January strong and rallied to $42K, before commencing a sharp pull back to $30K. It sort of recovered and was hovering around $35K when it began falling again, this time to around $29K. The … Read more
I bet you didn’t roll out of bed today thinking “you know what’s lacking in this world? ANOTHER YouTuber talking about crypto!”. Yet here we are. Yeap, I’m a YouTuber now. So the channel will be featuring content very similar to what this site does, just coming at you from a different medium, and hopefully … Read more
“Some guys have all the luck”, croons Rod Stewart. But do you believe that? Is luck really just a random chance that fall upon some people and not others? Is there something you can do to maximise your potential to “be lucky”? I think so, and Professor Richard (not me) Wiseman (a real person) has … Read more
As you can see on my Twitter profile, I’ve been on Twitter since 2007. However, I didn’t gain a lot of value from the platform in the beginning, and was kind of posting pretty random stuff, much like Facebook statuses in their initial days. I also posted sporadically, and didn’t have any specific voice or … Read more
When people talk about investing, they usually say to leave as little cash in the bank as possible, especially in times of low to zero interest rates, and a rapidly evolving certainty of escalating inflation. With stimulus money flooding the economy, where’s a good place to stash our cash? Most people live in a world … Read more
Everyone’s talking about bitcoin these days, it seems. If you’re starting to feel that FOMO, but not sure how to get your hands on some coins, you can consider getting $MSTR stock as an indirect exposure to bitcoin. If you don’t know MicroStrategy, they are a business intelligence firm that recently converted their entire treasure … Read more
This blog is fast evolving from being a blog about side hustles and FIRE to bitcoin, although they are still tangentially related. After all, with the price action that we’re witnessing on a weekly level, how can we not keep writing about it? Bitcoin started December 2020 riding off a new ATH since December 2017, … Read more
I started this blog in November of 2018 on a whim, to document my trials and tribulations into various side hustles I was doing, and will try out, as well as an overall peek into my journey as I strive for FI as a family man. A small part of the blog also evolved into … Read more
Who is Cathie Wood? Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, first burst onto Wall Street’s radar with her $4,000 Tesla call back in Feb 2018, when the EV maker’s stock price was around $200. When she first came out with that price target, she was laughed out of town. But, since her call, Tesla has … Read more