Travel & Nomad
Moving abroad to study means arriving before you have a local bank account, a local number, or a clue where the phone shop is. Here is the connectivity setup that works from day one.
eSIM
Written for the fortnight that runs Hanoi, Ha Long, Sapa, then Ho Chi Minh City. Which Vietnamese network you land on, what it costs per gigabyte, and the two places the signal genuinely disappears.
eSIM
Two adults, two kids, fourteen days, one van with a tablet in the back seat. Here is what that actually costs in data, which Thai network you land on, and when the airport SIM is the better buy.
Travel & Nomad
Landing in Japan and want to know if your phone will work? Here is how the networks compare, what data really costs, and the setup most travellers end up using.
Crypto News
BlackRock is moving funds onto Solana. Wintermute is spending a billion dollars to go trade equities. The traffic runs both ways now, and the wall in the middle is getting thin.
Crypto News
The unsettling part of the quantum warning is not that wallets break. It is that you would not be able to tell the difference from a normal hack.
Travel & Nomad
The honest, been-there guide to data in Turkey: whether an eSIM works, the gotchas nobody warns you about, and the one I use now (from $4).
Crypto News
The Senate blocked the CLARITY Act 49-50, 11 votes short of 60. Who voted no, the procedural path that is still open, and what it does and does not change for people holding stablecoins outside the US.
Crypto News
Attackers emptied Lightning nodes belonging to merchants running BTCPay Server, in some cases before the public warning went out. Update to 2.4.2 or take the node offline.
Crypto News
More than $1 billion gone in six months, across more separate incidents than the whole of last year. The pattern behind the number matters more than the number.
Crypto News
Self-custody means nobody can seize your crypto. It also means nobody can recover it. A quiet subject the industry avoids, and what the people who think about it do differently.
Crypto News
A record $759 million went through crypto cards last month, in nine million purchases averaging $86 each. That average is the real story, and USDT is the fastest riser.