Investments

Starting July 2017, I've been a buy & hold investor for some of the largest crypto currency tokens as of 2017 - BTH, ETH, LTC and XRP. In fact, XRP (Ripple) was added because of FOMO already, see: Why I Rushed to Buy Ripple (XRP) Cryptocurrency at $0.19 Last few months have taught me a lot in the crypto currency investing, and I'm still learning new things every day. A few weeks ago I decided it would be cool, to learn how to short, and kind of started day trading altcoins, right now it…

Welcome to the fourth (#4) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and crypto currencies) in August 2017.  If you are new to these dividend income reports, where I'm sharing my progress towards financial freedom, here is a backstory in short - I started my wealth building adventure (portfolio) in January 2017 with a simple goal to invest $8,561 this year in several batches. First months of the year didn't generate me…

Originally I planed to start learning crypto currency day trading with the January 2018 (that's about 5 months from now), but then I realized - why wait? Let me explain - I've been in crypto currency investments for about 2 months now. I'm the one from buy and hold camp. I use averaging dollar cost approach to buy more crypto coins once in the month. So far my experience with crypto currencies have been like a roller coaster with a positive return. After my first month with crypto investments…

I've been investing on Mintos.com peer to peer lending marketplace already 6 months. In today's article, I'll share some of my key findings so far Before continuing, please see Review of Mintos Peer to Peer Lending After One Month of Investing and Mintos.com Review after 3 month investing in Peer to Peer loans. There is one reason I'm investing here on Mintos - option to invest in Georgian Lari currency, as I've been living in Georgia for a while, I like the idea of having some of my money in…

Welcome to the third (#3) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and crypto currencies) in July 2017.  I started my wealth building adventure (portfolio) in January 2017 with a simple goal to invest $8,561 this year in several batches. First months of the year didn't generated me nothing much, but starting May it has started slowly pick up. Make sure you check out my previous two dividend income reports: June 2017…

It was around the end of April 2017, when I started to diversify off from investments in peer to peer lending only. As at one stage my savings were heavily concentrated at mintos.com consumer loans only. Investments in dividend paying stocks at Nasdaq Baltics was my second thought. Now, after 3 months of investing there, I will share some brief recap and observations there. In general I look on savings in stocks as more stable and reliable source than peer to peer lending in long term, that's…

The further written applies to those btc.com wallet owners who moved their bitcoins to wallet prior to August 1 bitcoin fork. At least I did so.  Things you will need: BTC.com wallet and optional withdraw address at Kraken or any other exchange that support BCH (I ended up using hitbtc.com exchange for withdrawing BCH) As coinbase announced that they are not looking to support Bitcoin Cash (BCH) I moved my coins out of it (in fact I had some coins on Poloniex.com, I moved them also, as there…

Last July was the first full month I opted to invest in crypto currencies, the idea come after a brief conversation with a friend over Facebook, while I was enjoying mild Summer night in Crete, Greece. As I had already investments and even investment strategy, since the start of 2017. Desire or FOMO (fears of missing out) to acquire crypto currencies was so huge, that I quickly developed, so called,  Dollar Cost Averaging strategy to buy and hold crypto currencies. I plan to buy 3-5 crypto…

According to coinmarketcap.com website, the total crypto currency market cap in July 25, 2017 is $95 bln. Bitcoin leads the market taking almost half of that =  47.4% or $45 bln, followed by Ethereum with  $20 bln, Ripple $7,3 bln, Litecoin $2,,3 bln and Dash with $1,5 bln. In total there are 828 crypto currencies listed on coinmarket.com in July 2017 TOP 5 crypto currencies by market cap July 2017 As I've investments in 4 out of 5 top crypto currencies by market cap (I hold some BTC, ETH…

I've been a lot into crypto currencies lately, in fact it's not even a full month passed since I've started my investment adventures into crypto currencies. For crypto investments I've a verified coinbase.com account and right now coinbase offers to buy just following three crypto currencies by VISA card - bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin, unfortunately there is no support yet for ripple. To buy XRP at coinbase you will need at first buy BTC, then exchange it on Poloniex.com or some other…