Jeff D. Opdyke

“Every time you earn a nickel, someone takes a dime.”  That was my grandmother’s favorite way of complaining about the cost of living in …

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And the Growing Threat From Inflation Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the …

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An email prompted this.  Well, a few actually.  But one in particular. It was from a reader calling “BS” on the video I shared last …

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A Trip Down the Digital Nomad Rabbit Hole Maybe I’ve just huffed too much jet fuel…  But here I am, al frescoing again at one of …

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The waitress arrived with my second Aperol spritz—an Italian wine cocktail. We looked at each other and smiled.  I alight to this …

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Tell me you don’t understand cryptocurrency without telling me you don’t understand…  To wit, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s …

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Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global …

[Read more...] about Weekly Digest: Europe Moves Toward a Digital Currency

Every week it seems, a bureaucrat, a technocrat, or a lawmaking body somewhere does something or says something so boneheaded or frightening that it …

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Back in April, I send you a video showing you how I built a cryptocurrency mining rig in my apartment here in Prague. (If you missed that video, you …

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