You’ve heard it over and over (and over) again: spend less, save more. It’s one of the most basic pieces of personal finance advice, and for two very good reasons. First, some things in life cost more than what you can make in a month. For example, when you buy a house, you need to…
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The Importance of Incorporating Your Retirement Accounts in Your Estate Plan
You know you need to do some estate planning to properly protect yourself, your assets, and your loved ones. But is your plan complete, or did you leave a few key assets out of those documents by mistake? Most people are unaware that retirement accounts are an important estate plan component. Fewer still understand the…
4 Steps to Buying Your First Home
Buying your first home is a big step. It’s probably one of the biggest assets you’ll ever purchase, and one of the largest debts you’ll ever carry. Yes, there is a lot of paperwork. Yes, there are a lot of details to work out during the home-buying process. But it doesn’t have to be overwhelming….
How Oracles Make Smart Contracts Work
“Oracle” has long described a person through whom a deity speaks, or a person known for giving wise or authoritative decisions or opinions. In the cryptoverse, oracles are code connecting a blockchain with the real world. They provide the data that smart contracts need in order to execute successfully. Oracles are, ironically, an intermediary in…
4 Things to do to Ease Your Financial Worries
We all have them: financial worries that keep us up at night and leave us feeling uneasy about whether we’ll have enough money to do what we want. The things you might worry about most are the things that feel out of your control. Maybe you feel concerned about your job security, or you wish…
How Web 3.0 & Blockchain Will Disrupt the Disruptors
Remember when companies like Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook were huge disruptors in their industries? They upended their competitors in online search, book sales, reselling, and social networking. Now, these Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 companies are on the verge of being disrupted themselves by the emergence of Web 3.0. The Evolution of the Web Web…
What is Cryptoeconomics?
The word “cryptoeconomics” is a portmanteau of cryptography and economics, and the concept is key to making a functional blockchain. How do you get strangers to work together to create a trustworthy, decentralized network for transmitting and storing encrypted information? How do you get that distributed ledger system to function reliably without a central authority…
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