When Exchanges Crash: Coinbase’s 17-hour outage

When Exchanges Crash: Coinbase’s 17-hour outage

Coinbase, the U.S. exchange for Bitcoin ($BTC), Bitcoin Cash ($BCH), Ethereum ($ETH), Ethereum Classic ($ETC) and Litecoin ($LTC), crashed on the evening of Thursday, August 9, 2018 at about 5:37 p.m. PDT and stayed down for 17 hours. Irk was, of course, mid-trade....
How to remove emotion and avoid the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

How to remove emotion and avoid the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

Originally posted August 9, 2018. Last updated January 12, 2021. Don’t Get Emotional If you want to become a good investor, you need to take emotion entirely out of the equation. No one likes to lose money, so the concept of buying an investment and feeling bad...
What does HODL mean?

What does HODL mean?

Originally posted August 8, 2018. Last Updated May 22, 2021 What does HODL mean? In December 2013, early in Bitcoin’s trading life, a very excited (some say inebriated) Bitcoin trader made the typo “HODL” instead of “HOLD” when exclaiming...
What is a Bitcoin?

What is a Bitcoin?

Originally posted August 8, 2018. Last Updated July 4, 2023. What is a Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency allegedly created by someone named Satoshi Nakamoto (no one actually knows who this person is). S/he created an incredibly complicated formula (or...