I’ve been running this site for almost 10 years, and I can’t believe we never had a “what is bitcoin” guide. Let’s be honest about the search side. This page will never rank for that term in Google or any AI engine. That’s fine, because it isn’t...
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I Helped Build a Poker Bot in 2015. It Barely Broke Even
In 2015, five poker players and one developer tried to build a winning poker bot. We had solver source code, ten servers, and more than a year of work. The bot never got past break even on the $1 games. This is the story of my most fun failed...
Poloniex Lending: The First Time My Bitcoin Went to Work
In 2015 and 2016, holding Bitcoin was a quiet hobby. You bought, you stored, you waited. Then I found Poloniex lending, and my coins got their first job. Poloniex lending was a peer-to-peer loan market inside the Poloniex exchange. Holders lent...
Jared Tendler: The $300-an-Hour Mental Coach Who Multiplied My Poker Income
It's Sunday again, which means throwback time. Last week I told you about the Dogecoin miners and the wallet I still can't open. Today I'm paying off an older debt. In the story of why I quit poker, I mentioned working with a mental coach and...
My Dogecoin Miners and the 400K DOGE Wallet I Still Can’t Open
It's Sunday, so it's throwback time again. A few weeks ago, in the story of my first Bitcoin buy, I mentioned that one of the four skeptics from that weekend in Italy ended up building my Dogecoin miners. Today I'm paying off that line. This one...
Why I Quit Poker to Farm Airdrops – The Untold Story
It's Sunday again, which means throwback time. A few weeks back, I told you the first half of my poker story — the rakeback grind, the volume trap, break-even poker with bonus income keeping me alive, and the move to Italy. Today I'm telling you...
My First Bitcoin Buy: $44, a Stranger on Skype, and a Handshake
It's Sunday again, which means throwback time. In the poker throwback a few weeks ago, I ended on a cliffhanger: my roommate mentioning some magic internet money called Bitcoin, back in 2012. Today I'm paying that story off — how the tip reached...
Exclusive Airdrops: The Quest Platform We Built Before Quest Platforms Existed
It's Sunday again, so it's time for another throwback. Some of these stories I barely remember myself — I had to dig through the Wayback Machine and my own old blog posts to get specific answers this week. That's exactly why I'm writing them down....
Crypto Lessons From Poker: My Decade of Grinding Before Bitcoin
It's Sunday again, which means it's time for another throwback. Today we're going further back than usual — before AirdropAlert, before crypto, before the world trip. This one is about the decade I spent playing poker. Why tell a poker story on an...
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