Bitcoin is the the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is a form of money that relies on cryptography and computer technology to secure its payments and usually the currency’s generation, maintenance and control is not controlled by a central authority as opposed to the “money” we see everywhere. How is Bitcoin Controlled and Recorded? Bitcoin is controlled and maintained in
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I read an article recently from 2013. CNN Money reported “… A British man threw a hard drive containing more than $9 million in bitcoin into the trash. The device is now buried under a mountain of garbage at a landfill site in Wales. It will be almost impossible to find. James Howells got rid of the drive, which holds
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A friend of mine visited his late father’s wife at a retirement community in Portland, Oregon. As he was preparing to leave, he noticed a newspaper, the Northwest Boomer & Senior News. In the paper was a column by Sam Friedenberg called Elder Law. He learned some very useful information from Friedenberg, an attorney who has been practicing law for
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Will the reverse mortgage surge in the coming years? We think so. Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge wrote yesterday, “Nearly eight years into an economic recovery, nearly half of Americans didn’t have enough cash available to cover a $400 emergency. Specifically, the survey found that, in line with what the Fed had disclosed in previous years. Forty-four percent of respondents
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There’s been a lot of talk about the low level of VIX lately. Just this past week Zero Hedge commented on VIX saying, “As Nasdaq melts up faster than Bitcoin, perceived equity market risk has utterly collapsed. VIX just hit 9.92 as NASDAQ hit 6,100 (note the most recent low is 9.39 from 12/15/06 and all-time low at 8.89 on 12/27/93) What is
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By Mike Landfair When you get to be my dad’s age, it is easy to look back on a well-lived life and have some regrets regarding these 7 financial decisions. His biggest regret is embodied in the saying, “I earned lots of money when I was young and burned it all on wine, women, and song. The rest I just wasted.”
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It is very common for spouses to own property together as joint tenants with right of survivorship. When one passes, the other owns the property outright. It’s simple, easy, and automatic. But once in a blue moon when the other joint owner isn’t your spouse, it gets messy. When you co-own an asset with another individual, you can still have
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