Recent content by yabz

One of the iron rules of software, if there is such a thing, is that open source systems work a lot better than closed systems. The only open source currency software are cryptocurrencies so if there is going to be a digital currency, which seems almost inevitable, it is probably going to be...

There used to be an old adage that if a company or organization built a lavish new headquarters it was a sign that its best days were over. This was not because having a fancy headquarters is a bad thing; it was more about what it said about the senior management. A company in an exciting growth...

Age could be a big factor. I went recently to a driving range with my son who is 20 and he can hit 250 carry easily, though not always straight, using the the same driver as me. We older folks should probably concentrate on hitting the ball straight and on putting and chip shots.

There is a big difference between being able to do something some of the time and not being able to do it at all. I can hit 200/220 yards (with roll) dead straight some of the time. Not as consistently as I would like but I can do it. I have NEVER hit 200 yards carry and that is a bit frustrating.

Drive distance is strongly correlated to handicap.Put simply: you can probably predict how low a player’s handicap is based on how far they hit it.

The average drive distance for an amateur golfer is about 200 yards. Is this the carry distance only or does it include roll? I have found it surprisingly difficult to find an definitive answer to this all important question...

What is the best month to buy if I want to go long a commodity for a short term speculation. I recently went long CL and bought the December futures as the October contract expires on the 23rd and I didn't want to roll over the contract. Is there any advantage in buying the near term contract?

I have accounts at both IB and FT. The support at FT is non-existent. That is my main complaint.

I looked for a reliable source of EOD futures data for a long time. It would seem to be fairly simple but in reality was anything but. There were never ending problems with every data provider and in the end I wrote my own little python program which is working very well for my purposes. I think...

I think government regulation is not as big a problem as some people think. China, one of the biggest crypto markets, banned bitcoin in Sept 2021. It had virtually no effect at all and over the next couple of month the price rose another 30%. China had already banned bitcoin in 2019 and it had...

What would happen if the developers stopped supporting the wallet and it no longer worked. Could one use the seed phrase to recover the coins using a different wallet?

At the moment I have some of my bitcoins on blockchain.com and some in an electrum wallet. I am thinking of putting them all in the electrum wallet. As a matter of principle I don't like putting all my eggs in one basket, but having cryto on an exchange doesn't seem a great idea and the electrum...