You Can’t Save Money Because You’re Fat and Lazy

Type Two Nation - Fat and Lazy

I suppose I could be nicer about it, but at your age, a lot of people have already been nice about it. Where has that gotten you? You continue to take more time spending money than you do saving it, and your investments and pensions are a shambles. Worse, you spend enough money on binge [...]

Bitcoin Vanity Addresses Hacked

Instant Idiot

The leading Bitcoin Vanity address site, known as Bitcoin Vanity, has just admitted to being hacked. Of course, that hack was on December 31, 2013, but they aren’t sure what the hack was, just that all your Bitcoins are belong to me now. This has caused many to suspect Bitcoin fraud (the first post has a [...]

MtGox and Bitcoin Explained

Bitcoins

A Secure Currency Bitcoin is impossible to counterfeit, and has no flaw in the way it is processed. MtGox has not observed proper security protocols, and their internal transactions have been compromised. MtGox is the largest and most well known Bitcoin exchange in the world – or at least, historically, they were. In actuality, they [...]

8 Ways to Spend Bitcoins

Bitcoins - Digital Gold

Bitcoins Continue to Gain Traction For those of you not sleeping at the wheel, Bitcoin has been shaking the foundations of the financial world the same way the internet shook the foundations of traditional copyright laws. An interesting phenomenon that started out much like the internet, few even considered the currency as more than a [...]

Take Control of Your Retirement

Take Control of Your Retirement

Retirement accounts are touted as the greatest thing to have for security once you stop working. Since many of them are guaranteed, or at least provide relatively stable returns, the money is guaranteed to be there when you need it. Unfortunately they all aren’t created equal, and many times you’re not getting what you think. [...]

The Hidden Cost of Savings

Calculating the Savings

Financial Lessons Aren’t Cheap Most of the time, the firsts we have in life aren’t that great. Our first kisses, jobs, and apartments are usually stepping stones for us to learn what we want, and later how to get it. Sadly, finance isn’t part of the usual learning process. Generally it’s a lot like religion, [...]