Investments

Welcome to the eighth (#8) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in December 2017.  As it was expected, already since the middle of the year, December was the record breaker and generated a dividend income in total of $173.64 See a complete list of things going on behind the scenes and my investment plans for 2018: 2017 in Review and Financial Goals for 2018 As usual, I was doing nothing much,…

Reading crypto related portals are fun and entertaining, recently I was reading an article published on CoinDesk Kodak Is Launching a Cryptocurrency for Photographers and as a hobby photographer with a massive photo library, running a digital photography school project I did find it very appealing ICO to most probably take part in. U.S. technology firm Kodak has announced that it will launch its own cryptocurrency, with plans to host an initial coin offering (ICO) at the end of January. In…

I first heard about bitcoin Visa cards back in the Summer of 2017, when opted into crypto craze (strong buy and hold here). Back then I discovered Bitpay VISA card and decided to order one at the start of 2018. Now, as January approached and my existing crypto holdings have grown more by 320%, I decided to take another quick look at Bitcoin Visa card offer before ordering Bitpay card. Soon I found an interesting article on Steemit: Best Bitcoin Debit Cards! Bitpay vs Wirex vs CryptoPay As…

About 5 months ago I decided to give it a try and start learning altcoin day/swing trading ( Starting To Learn Crypto Currency Day Trading With EUR 25)  The idea was simple enough - I will use hard cash once in a month and buy BTC on Coinbase.com for EUR 25 and then transfer them to Poloniex.com to exchange in altcoins. Due to the increased BTC transaction costs I switched from buying BTC to buying LTC (litecoin) Affiliate link here: If you are just planning to acquire your first bitcoin,…

I'm 32 now and I have a goal to save one million dollars by the time I will turn 60. That's 28 years to go. In today's article, I will review the past year and take a quick glimpse at the New Year.  For me, 2017 was a year of peer to peer lending, dividend-paying stocks and starting with the second part of the year - cryptocurrencies. Investment Portfolio 2017 At the start of 2017, I planned to invest about 31% of my annual net income, the planned amount for 2017 was $8,561, I made it up…

This is a quick follow up post after previous and initial I'm Making $0.98 Per Day By Mining Ethereum and Siacoin, and I want MORE!. It has been first 24 hours since my core mining rig have been set up and running. Well, more precisely, yesterday I finally received details ordered from Amazon at the start of December - motherboard, processor, power block, graphics card and other, see: Building a 12 GPU Ethereum Mining Rig From Scratch - Part 1: Ordering Details By now all mining operations…

The fans are spinning and graphics cards are heating, it has been 24 hours since I started mining Ethereum and Siacoin. And in these 24 hours, I've made $0.96. Ok, in fact, there is just one fan spinning and just one RadeonRX 560 card, which I bought a couple of days ago in Tbilisi, and decided to test the mining process at one of our spare office computers, before details for my 12 GPU mining rig arrives. I feel glad I was so impatient and rushed to perform a test, as while doing test setup…

Sia is a new approach to cloud storage platforms. Instead of all datacenters being owned and operated by a single company, Sia opens the floodgates and allows anyone to make money by renting out their hard drive. Data integrity is protected using redundancy and cryptography. Sia uses a cryptocurrency, Siacoin, to enable decentralized payments via file contracts. All payments on the network happen in Siacoin, which is a critical component of our cryptographic SLAs. Siacoin allows us to do…

Since the beginning of the second half of 2017, I call myself a proud crypto investor - currently investing in the 4 major cryptocurrencies - bitcoin, ethreum, litecoin and ripple. Starting July 2017, using dollar cost averaging I keep buying crypto coins once in the month. So far, the total crypto portfolio shows an awesome 132.98% year to date value growth. Update, lately I've been playing with bitcoin cloud mining contracts from HashFlare, see Should You Invest in Hashflare Ethereum Cloud…

Welcome to the seventh (#7) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in November 2017.  Surprisingly, but November, in terms of a passive income, turned out better, as I thought before, and generated me a dividend income of total $50.75. I didn't plan to make more than $40 this month, but increased lending rates and additional dividend payment helped to boost dividend earnings in November. Also, a…