New York Real Estate Stories #2 Mrs. P was a New York City landlady I met early in my real estate career. One day while chatting with a Hispanic landlord outside his Upper West Side townhouse a disheveled woman shuffled by us. He whispered “She’s loaded, you really need to get to know her”. She looked…

When Covid hit my business contracted and I went fishing for other income streams. That’s when I stumbled on DAO’s. High on hopium I plunged into Olympus, Time Wonderland, Hector, Nemesis, Spartacus, MetaVerse Pro, Rome, Ring Nodes, Titano, Elephant et.al All promised crazy good returns that sounded too good to…

Wrapping my head around Wrapped Memo In my daily quest to stave off penury I've jumped into multiple get rich quick DeFi DApps. DAO’s, Nodes, Yields, you name it I’ve tokenized it, locked it, staked it, wrapped it, bridged it, rebased it, dripped it, rolled it, claimed it and spun it back out again. …

My top crypto income streams When I heard about Helium crypto miners in early 2021 I was immediately intrigued. The concept of helium as a “people’s network” resonated, so I ordered a miner for $429. Unfortunately so did a gazillion others and it’s been on backorder since then. When I first started hearing about it…

My early days in New York City real estate In August 2005 I became a New York City real estate agent. By December I was doubting my new career path. In 5 months I had made roughly $0.00. It was also winter, the hours were long, clients were ‘challenging’ and I was living off the smell of an oil…

My crypto journey began 25 years ago My journey into going all in on crypto began 25 years ago in Australia. My buddy Brian in Sydney sold me his clunker IBM PC he wasn’t using for $50. He used to play primitive MS DOS games on it and it had a 8" floppy disk and a 2.5"…

My journey to a crypto funded future — Growing up in Australia I had a psychopathic primary school teacher named Mr. Caley. He enjoyed slamming a wooden T-square on your desk if you got an answer wrong in math. He scared not only the bejesus out of me but any aptitude I may’ve had for math. In those…

My helter-skelter approach to a crypto retirement — In Silicon Valley speak I’m a boomR. Last year I got my first US Social Security check and a small British pension from a working holiday in the UK way back in the 1970’s. Although I’m still working in Manhattan my business has taken a covid hit. Gazing into a…