Editor’s Note: The following is an adapted excerpt from Stephen R. Foerster’s book Trailblazers, Heroes, and Crooks: Stories to Make You a Smarter Investor (Wiley 2024). Autopilots Gone Wrong Aeroflot 593 set off on March 22, 1994, for a 14-hour flight from Moscow to Hong Kong with 75 people on board. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2024
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There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain notwithstanding, perhaps the first major breakthrough after blinding and zero-knowledge proofs is fully homomorphic encryption, a technology which allows you to upload your data onto a server in an encrypted form so […]
In This Article As interest rates for rental properties finally start to fall after a couple of years of painful heights, many real estate investors are renewing their interest in interest rates again. With lower rates, especially on the popular DSCR loan product that allows qualification primarily based on the […]
Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell writes the following on Reddit: There is a design flaw in the Bitcoin protocol where its possible for a third party to take a valid transaction of yours and mutate it in a way which leaves it valid and functionally identical but with a different transaction […]
Does FIRE seem impossible while raising a family? We’re about to prove that you CAN have it all. Emily and Joel are financially independent while raising five kids and still have the money to travel the world, take plenty of vacations, and sleep in without worrying about a job. They […]
The Ethereum Project has had the incredible privilege to launch its PoC testnet and engage the crypto-currency community over the past two months. During our experiences, we’ve encountered a lot of passionate support and wonderful questions that have helped us refine our thoughts and goals including the process we will […]
In This Article The 2024 Baselane Real Estate Investor Survey reveals optimism among investors despite rising costs. Key takeaways include: 81% of investors plan to grow their portfolios within two years. Investors are less worried about vacancies, focusing on financing costs (35%) and home prices (33%). 22% faced rental insurance […]
Scalability is now at the forefront of the technical discussion in the cryptocurrency scene. The Bitcoin blockchain is currently over 12 GB in size, requiring a period of several days for a new bitcoind node to fully synchronize, the UTXO set that must be stored in RAM is approaching 500 […]
Want to work less, make more, and do it all by spending as little as five dollars per hour? Great! You’ll need to know how to hire a virtual assistant for real estate investing. Doing so can free up hours (or even days) of your time per week, letting someone […]
Many of the concepts that we promote over in Ethereum land may seem incredibly futuristic, and perhaps even frightening, at times. We talk about so-called “smart contracts” that execute themselves without any need, or any opportunity, for human intervention or involvement, people forming Skynet-like “decentralized autonomous organizations” that live entirely […]
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