Meet the new owner of an Unstoppable Domain

meet the new owner of an unstoppable domain

Please don’t read that wrongly. I am not the owner of Unstoppable Domains. Unstoppable Domains’ CEO and Co-founder is Matthew Gould. I am merely the owner of my own .crypto domain bought from Unstoppable Domains that lives on the Ethereum blockchain. Which means to say, I am the proud owner of richardtan.crypto. But, what does … Read more

Typewriter analogy of gold in a bitcoin world

gold vs bitcoin

So, I was watching the Pomp podcast, who had on his show Jim Cramer from CNBC’s Mad Money. The episode is roughly an hour long, but it’s a great episode to watch as Jim seeks guidance and education on the basics of bitcoin, and how to go about getting exposure to it. As the show … Read more

How to think about valuing Bitcoin

How to think about valuing bitcoin

Bitcoin. Everyone’s talking about it, some people want a lot of it, but nobody really knows how to value bitcoin. As of today, Bitcoin’s market cap is about USD$189 Billion. A single Bitcoin is currently at USD$10,210, down from the last 2 week high of about $12,000. If you think this is volatile, where were … Read more

State of Bitcoin, August 2020

State of Bitcoin - August 2020

It’s hard to believe we’re into Q3 of 2020, a year that will definitely go down in history, as the year Richard took a break from work and was a stay-home dad. Okay no, the year the real economy went to hell, while Wall Street partied like it was 1999. In the face of this … Read more

How does Ethereum Proof of Stake work?

how does eth 2.0 work?

Many of you know that I’m a crypto nut. And as the new uptrend of cryptocurrencies restart following Bitcoin’s recent halving in May, let’s take a look at the current Number 2 in the market. Ethereum itself is going through a major change, switching almost the entire infrastructure in its operations into what is known … Read more

Bitcoin Halving 2020

Bitcoin halving 2020

As we head into the final weekend before the bitcoin halving event happening roughly 12 May 2020, I wanted to see if there were any interesting trends surrounding it, and if markets were savvy about it in equal measures. I couldn’t find a bitcoin specific countdown, so I approximated the time based on other sites’ … Read more

3rd wave of Bitcoin price discovery imminent?

bitcoin price discovery coming soon

Over the last 24 hours, bitcoin has gained by almost 7%, from ~USD7,800 to about $8,300 as of the writing of this blog post. With the 3rd Bitcoin halving scheduled to occur in 13 days, you can feel the excitement blowing up on Crypto Twitter. The year following halving events have seen crazy things happen. … Read more

Send money to any Twitter handle with Dharma.io

Sending money on twitter via dharma

Social payments have become something of a norm these days, with folks in Singapore using Paylah as the most accessible solution for easily sending payments. On a global scale, we have things like PayPal. However, PayPal kinda requires you to know the person you’re paying, or at least their email address. A truly global solution … Read more

Ledger Nano S vs Ledger Nano X

ledger nano S vs X

When the USD goes into hyperinflation as a result of their freewheeling unlimited dollar printing machine, more and more (new) people will be flocking to cryptocurrencies. To help you securely store your crypto, and essentially be the bank of yourselves, you’ll want to start looking at hardware wallets. Ledger has proven itself to be one … Read more