As Bitcoin price has climbed from $1k to $15k this year, I get asked quite a lot – how to actually buy it?
Speculating with Bitcoins and gambling with ICOs – Bancor, Status, Tezos
When I decided to buy some Bitcoins in 2013, it was like wild west – price of BTC was skyrocketing from $100 to $1000, everyone was writing about it and exchanges were crashing from lame code, high load and hacker attacks.
bitcoin-24.de
At that time the biggest exchange in Europe was bitcoin-24.de, so I opened an account there, bought some Bitcoins and did some trades. But then it started receiving DDoS attacks and at one point transactions were duplicating.
If I bought 1 BTC, suddenly I received 2 BTC. If I sold 2 BTC, I got money for 4 BTC, etc. I got lucky to withdraw some bitcoins, but of course the withdrawals stopped working very soon, and I was left with an account “worth” 60k EUR and 7.7 BTC.
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What happens when your app is featured on Google Play?
Prime Peaks is a fun racing game, available both on iOS and Android. On Sep 20th we released a new version, adding Dark Caves levels and Rock Crusher vehicle:
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Would I invest 127k EUR in P2P platforms like Bondora, Mintos, Twino?
Received an email from Mark, who asked for advice about investing in P2P platforms:
Basically, ~127k EUR is sitting around and not working. I do have Bondora and I was one of the early investors in 2012 when it was called Isepankur. Problem there is I don’t understand what’s going on there-it is displaying my ROI as 15% but everyone is saying that it’s not real because they don’t calculate defaults correctly and real returns are ridiculously low.
Considering all of the above, do you recommend investing in Mintos and/or Twino?How would you suggest getting enough math skills to be able to figure out what’s going on with my account at Bondora, how to calculate XIRR(not sure?) etc.
If not Mintos/Twino, what passive strategies would you recommend to put the capital I have sitting idle to work.
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Kur ņemt hipotekāro kredītu – DNB, Swedbank, SEB, Nordea vai Citadele?
Iepriekšējos 3 rakstos detalizēti apskatīju piecu banku piedāvājumus 50k EUR kredītam. Šoreiz apkopošu visu vienā rakstā ar dažiem secinājumiem. Zemāk saņemtie piedāvājumi:
| Fiksētie % | Papildus % | Komisija | |
| DNB | 1.89% | 3 mēn. EURIBOR + MFL | 1% |
| Swedbank | 2.40% | 6 mēn. EURIBOR | 1.5% |
| SEB | 2.40% | 12 mēn. EURIBOR | 1.2% |
| Citadele | 2.50% | ? | 2% |
| Nordea | 2.70% | 12 mēn. EURIBOR | 0.50% |
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Kur ņemt hipotekāro kredītu? 3. daļa – Citadele, Nordea, SEB
Šoreiz apskatīšu uzreiz 3 bankas un sākšu ar tām, kur līdz līguma izpētei nemaz netiku, jo piedāvātā % likme likās pārāk liela.
Citadele piedāvājums
| Fiksētie % | Papildus % | Komisija |
| 2.50% | ? | 2% |
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Kur ņemt hipotekāro kredītu? 2. daļa – Swedbank
Swedbank līgums ir garš, sarežģīts un pilns ar visādiem brīnumiem, piemēram – aizņēmējiem paredzēts arī pārbaudes laiks.
Swedbank piedāvājums
| Fiksētie % | Papildus % | Komisija |
| 2.40% | 6 mēn. EURIBOR | 1.5% |
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