tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431002201289897372024-03-05T00:17:32.336-08:00My BlogTed Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.comBlogger225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-43131527686542638842020-09-20T04:56:00.005-07:002020-09-20T04:56:40.836-07:00Rent or buy a residential property?
Usually you can save more by renting rather than by buying. To buy a house you have an effective drop of 20% or more just in purchasing costs and taxes. Its effectively the same as a lump sum investing into stocks and having a 20% drop the next day, just your expected return is much lower. You also hold illiquid goods. In most developed countries the break-even point with rental is 6 to 20 Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-47603675933481617892020-08-17T03:48:00.003-07:002020-09-05T09:00:29.530-07:00Google does not index my article about Intermittant fasting, but parts of it are using on indexed spam sites When I search some phrases from my article they appear on spam sites:The original article: Does intermittent fasting really facilitate more effective weight loss?Edit: Now it's indexed, but the website copying my content is on top:Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-39563244463611555562020-07-19T12:10:00.002-07:002020-07-19T12:13:02.443-07:00Closed schools may trigger another wave of unemployment, because many parents will need to stay home with their children
United States is in for a serious wake up call when schools don't reopen, because spoiler alert. They're not reopening.
And guess what, there's really no alternative child care that will be available. This is fine for the wealthy and the upper middle class, they can afford it, but the middle and lower class are going to be absolutely destroyed. Having a child unable to return to school means Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-35565236433575041212020-03-11T05:24:00.000-07:002020-03-11T05:28:30.839-07:00Evolve Markets is requesting KYC documents for flagged accounts and is removing flagged accounts if not verified, US customers can't use their servicesThey also will transfer your data to US or may transfer it to other governments, according to their Terms and Conditions. The main problem is that the US regulators are threatening such companies if they accept US customers (look what happened to 1broker, company providing similar services to customers without KYC).
User Terms of Service Review -
Notice of Request for Additional Documentation
Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-45682812763834001152019-10-09T09:20:00.003-07:002019-10-18T13:29:13.800-07:00Human created passphrases and using key stretching not secure? Here is my opinion:
Human chosen passwords have poor entropy, and are easy to attack
Only for the same length. You can make bigger passphrases.
Human chosen passwords are hard to memorize
My experience tells otherwise. I can't remember easily random words.
It's more easy to remember a sentence and some rules how to change the
words (and modified words, not found in dictionary). It's easier to
remember if Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-57047422018432565412018-10-18T04:46:00.003-07:002018-10-18T04:46:52.370-07:00How the company beihng Tether is making money from the foolsThe company behind Tether is making a shitload of money by selling USDT
for $1 and buying it back for $0.95.
Why they should stop it? It's profitable!
And since there are many
people willing to sell their USDT for less than a $1 the show will
continue.Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-76328581079185054672018-09-03T09:15:00.001-07:002018-09-03T09:15:08.666-07:00Air gapped computer for signing transactions
Keeping the private keys only on a computer without Internet
connection (WiFi, modem, Ethernet hardware removed by hand) and without
USB interfaces (USB is not a secure interface, there are known exploits)
is better if you are worried about firmware malware inside the USB
devices (flash drives) and inside the UEFI and the Intel processors.
You can transfer the signed transactions using Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-42837041141084559632018-08-30T16:12:00.001-07:002018-08-30T16:33:56.503-07:00How Bitcoin is being manipulatedSEC is manipulating the price by delaying/denying/approving Bitcoin-related ETFs.
China is manipulating the price by "banning Bitcoin" again and again.
India is manipulating the price by "banning Bitcoin" again and again.
Every buyer, seller and hodler is manipulating the price by buying, selling and hodling.
Every person writing about Bitcoin on social media is manipulating the price.
EveryTed Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-25353854105188939882018-08-28T16:05:00.005-07:002020-09-08T13:06:07.632-07:00How to encrypt your secrets with the scrypt utility on Ubuntu, print them on paper and then read them againYour secrets are in the file secret.txt.
Install the scrypt utility:
$ sudo apt-get install scrypt
Encrypt the file with custom scrypt parameters (about 1G of RAM, 200 seconds; in reality it takes less than 200 seconds on my system, see this Github bug report):
$ scrypt enc -M 1073741824 -t 200 secret.txt encrypted.scrypt
Now, you got your encrypted data in the file encrypted.scrypt. YouTed Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-17802090146380907112018-08-24T13:04:00.003-07:002018-08-24T13:04:53.227-07:00Bitmex Futures Math - many people don't know how it works
Why people open long positions if their bet is asymmetrical in the bad way.
If you open long position with leverage 1:1 your position will be liquidated (100% loss) when the price decrease by 49%.
The price must increase by 100% in order to get only 50% profit.
The maximum profit if price get to infinity (or really big number) is 99%.
If the price increase 10% you will get profit of Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-11901351418955207852018-08-22T07:59:00.000-07:002018-08-22T08:54:50.337-07:00No conspiracy theory needed to explain the short squeeze during the scheduled maintenance of BitmexBitcoin is more resilient than stocks to technical glitches in the exchanges, because stocks are traded on 1-2 exchanges (sometimes only 1), but Bitcoin is traded on many exchanges, like fiat currencies (Forex).
I think that the Bitmex downtime had some role (when it was offline arbitrage bots was offline too, causing liquidity to decrease and make short squeeze more probable), but most Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-55751964664139300932018-08-21T13:51:00.002-07:002018-08-21T13:51:46.146-07:00Futures market impact the real marketFor every futures contract sold there is a futures contracts bought.
If we move the same buyers and sellers from futures to the real Bitcoins the effect would be the same.
Buying and selling futures make the exact same influence on the price of Bitcoin like buying or selling Bitcoin, because the futures markets are connected via arbitrage traders just like all Bitcoin exchanges are connected Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-37721283613683580192018-08-11T21:43:00.000-07:002018-08-11T21:52:38.904-07:00Fake SEC websites - sec.vote, sec.fund, sec.support - are collecting e-mail addresses for spam and phishingI gave my email address just to check the spam they will send. Looks like they beg for donations.
Dear community, we actively study and decide on the application - CBOE SolidX Bitcoin, we believe that this will give impetus to the beginning and development for the entire cryptocurrency market and investors who need to reduce Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-84546450443924229472018-07-23T12:00:00.003-07:002018-07-23T12:06:46.543-07:00Interest to "bitcoin etf" keyphrase goind down, it's possible price to follow the downtrend
Short it on Bitmex and make money from the crash! Or open long position to make more profit from you bitcoins if you think that the ETF will be approved.
Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-75092030884540231042018-07-21T07:56:00.001-07:002018-07-21T07:58:23.436-07:00Where is the Bitcoin's bottom?There is too much optimism. Therefore, the bottom is not yet reached. We need more "Bitcoin will go to $100", "Bitcoin will go to zero", "China/India/Wakanda) is banning Bitcoin", "North Korea is mining Bitcoin", "Russian hackers are using Bitcoin" posts in order to hit the bottom and start the spaceship to the moon.
Maybe it will go to about 2500 (the "pessimistic" forecast) before going to theTed Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-64559967126210944812018-07-06T14:51:00.002-07:002020-03-11T05:28:55.272-07:00Evolve.markets or 1Broker - which to choose?Update: 1broker is no longer working due to US regulators attack. Evolve Markets now is flagging suspicious accounts and asking for KYC. Evolve Markets is requesting KYC documents for flagged accounts and is removing flagged accounts if not verified, US customers can't use their services.
If you want to speculate with Forex/stocks/indices/commodities but don't want the risk of margin call Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-76941809175690815822018-07-06T14:31:00.000-07:002018-07-06T15:04:00.367-07:00What will happen with Bitcon when stock market crashes?The stock market crash is imminent. It's not about "if", it's about "when".
I expect also precious metals and cryptocurrencies to drop in value and their bottom to happen before the bottom of the stock prices.
It's known from the behavioral economics that low liquid assets react more fast to the panic selling (panic buying).
Here you can see how the bottom of the gold price occurred before theTed Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-80266563784586816862018-07-03T07:06:00.001-07:002018-07-03T07:06:59.822-07:00Why drug traffickin is good and we need more of it, not lessDrug trafficking is not a bad thing.
Because of drug trafficking (more trade, more competition) people can buy the drugs they need and pay a better price.
We need more drug trafficking, not less. If the trade is free, the prices would be low and the poor people addicted to drugs will obtain them without the need of committing crimes (stealing and killing other people in order to obtain money toTed Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-70779605303224784672018-07-02T09:35:00.000-07:002018-07-02T09:47:04.929-07:00Insider trading or not?I trust the timestamp of the Twitter post (tweet), however I don't have proof that their blog post timestamp is correct.
Why there is an 5 hours difference between the blog post and the tweet?
2018-07-02T09:01:01.105Z is UTC time, the NY time is 5:01.
Read how to margin buy or margin sell Bitcoin here.Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-66808943695267435892018-06-30T05:31:00.002-07:002018-06-30T05:34:02.896-07:00The elephant in the room about TetherEven an audit is not enough to convince all that they should trust the Tether's tokens.
Because there are many external risk factors. The elephant in the room are three-letter-agencies. They can do what they did to Liberty Reserve and BTC-E at any time. Maybe they are waiting it to grow more. Confiscating bank accounts is easy for them.
USDT tokens are backed with USD in bank accounts. There Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-46536842352375695422018-06-27T08:17:00.000-07:002018-06-27T08:17:25.254-07:00Cold storage adviceJust use Electrum (from electrum.org) on a safe computer (no Windows).
Or if you prefer the longer explanation.
My opinion is you should understand how computer security works before to do anything.
Some important things:
Your keys and passwords might get written in the swap file/partition on your hard drive. Don't use swap or encrypt it.
Your printer may have memory (hard drive).
Your Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-6813653078400653342018-06-16T08:14:00.000-07:002018-06-16T08:23:31.627-07:00Why I think that the alleged market manipulation by the owners of Bitfinex and Tether is not a bad thingAnyone have the right to participate in the market. Even the owners of major infrastructure.
The best practical way for the owners of Bitfinex/Tether is to use their own systems. It is pain in the ass to open account in another exchange.
They, in theory, can open account at Bitstamp or any other major exchange. And do the same - buy massive amounts of BTC, because they believe it will be Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-42534334581280693252018-06-16T07:36:00.002-07:002018-06-17T07:56:37.768-07:00Bitcoin market cycle forecast - optimistic and pessimistic
How to margin short and margin buy Bitcoin.
Another comparison between 2013/2014 and 2017/2018 bubbles:
How to margin short and margin buy Bitcoin.Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-788295239973482852018-06-15T14:51:00.003-07:002018-06-15T14:51:36.947-07:00Why Trump is increasing/introducing tariffs?He wants to remove tariffs, quotas and subsidies. These big tariffs are method of extortion: "Let's we all agree to free trade. If you don't agree I will increase the tariffs.".
It would be great if it works, however I am skeptical. The lobbyists (lobbying for tariffs) have deep pockets. Corruption is strong worldwide.Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143100220128989737.post-71630575653384822812018-06-14T14:49:00.001-07:002018-07-06T14:35:16.398-07:00How to short Bitcoin on leverage (or not) and trade forex/stocks/commodities/indices/cryptos with anonymous Bitcoin accountTo short Bitcoin I am recommending 1fox (BTCUSD only), Evolve markets (Forex, stocks, crypto, indices, commodities) and Bitmex (very high liquidity).
Accounts are anonymous, no KYC bullshit.
1fox is giving "financing" (on short positions about 0.1-0.3% every 12 hours) but there are "socialized losses" also. Net result is positive. Liquidity is bad (but this can be good because it's possible to Ted Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305893067894685647noreply@blogger.com0