Stock Trading - Entry 45

Here's the story of how I became increasingly impressed with blockchains as a micro-investor along with what sparked me to actually start investing in blockchain tokens in 2025. The last big blockchain scam I wrote about was in entry 13 with Libra, but a look at blockchain mining really got me to wondering and after some research, things started falling into place for me. With all of the recanting I am about to do, I am not dispensing financial advice.

When I learned what blockchain mining computers do (generally speaking, not technically speaking) it didn't make all that much practical or financial sense to me. Combined with the wonky basis for the blockchains I had written about much earlier, I decided to setup a mental filter of sorts to separate the chaff from any potential wheat in my investment decisions. The result was thirteen questions I could use to analyse a blockchain from my micro-investor perspective, which is all laid out in entry 16.

Not long after, my research led me to the Helium blockchain and I became quite enamoured with it as I stacked it against my thirteen questions. I dove into the technical aspects in entry 17, the profiteers/players in entry 18, and then the regulators and society in entry 19.

Although I could not bring myself to invest in Helium at that time (for reasons I discussed in those articles), something started percolating in the back of my mind. What bubbled to the surface was entry 21 where I laid out an idea for a blockchain application where a city could give some of its residents free water! Personally, I consider it genius, but my municipality disagrees. What do I know?

My research in blockchain mining continued and led to entry 23. I discovered a country harnessing a volcano to produce electricity, using that electricity to mine bitcoin (since it's one of the most expensive aspects of blockchain mining), and then using the funds from selling bitcoin tokens to build a futuristic city. Of course its citizens remain impoverished at the moment...unfortunately.

Then, I switched gears and delved into staking, the blockchain equivalent of dividends. By February 2025, I learned that the blockchain sphere had become tiered, which meant newer blockchains were now relying on pre-existing ones - meaning the pre-existing blockchains now have value in a more stable way according to my micro-investor's point-of-view. I mean, if numbers are stacked upon and require letters, then those letters will always have some kind of value - as opposed to being, simply, the wild west. In effect, entry 34 was my rationale for becoming a blockchain investor in early 2025.

My first hurdle in becoming a blockchain micro-investor was picking an exchange to buy tokens. In entry 35 I settled on using two exchanges and even found a way to earn free bitcoin tokens! (Sadly, that program was cancelled in summer 2025.)

The next five entries on blockchains centered on explanations of my selection of blockchains to invest in, on which exchanged I bought them, and other important considerations. Entry 36 was about Polkadot. Entry 37 was about Cosmos. Entry 38 was about Cardano. Entry 40 was about Bitcoin. Entry 41 was about XRP and SUI. (I wasn't able to buy SUI at the time and, as of the date of publishing this article, I still haven't.)

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