Blog
2026
- When Boomers Were Young, the Young Came First. Now They Are Old, the Old Do. 1 Nov
- Hungary's Hidden Immigration Surge: 252,000 Foreign Nationals and Counting 15 Apr
- The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments 15 Apr
- Cómo dominar el contenido con IA (guía paso a paso) 13 Mar
- I Sued Revolut and Won. Here's What Happened. 28 Feb
- How I Built a Personal Screen Time Tracker for Mac and iPhone Using Claude 3 Feb
- Reading Las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 18 Jan
- BISQ smashes records as demand for financial privacy soars 14 Jan
- Lee Kuan Yew: De Tercer Mundo a Primero - La Historia de Singapur (Resumen en Español) 5 Jan
2025
- My Chess.com Journey: A Data Analysis of Years of Play 3 Aug
- Smoking, Lung Cancer, and Obesity Rates in the USA 3 Aug
- MoneroTalk Podcast - Keeping Bitcoin's Cypherpunk Dream Alive 20 Feb
- The Shiny New Object Podcast - Predictive Modeling of Conversion Events 30 Jan
2024
- Is 2024 the year Bitcoin obituaries died? 29 Dec
- What Bernie Sanders And Donald Trump Get Wrong About Credit Cards 22 Dec
- How Digital Collateral Is Revolutionising Credit In Emerging Markets 22 Dec
- How Stripe And Stablecoins Are Rewiring Remote Work 17 Dec
- Chinese Radicals (部首) Reference Guide 15 Dec
- Will Regulation Drive Consolidation For European Retail Brokers? 30 Nov
- Unleashing my inner AI Churchill 28 Oct
- Churchill's gift to Poland 28 Oct
- Central Banks Are Increasingly Studying Bitcoin 27 Oct
- Mines in the Air 26 Oct
- Crypto Banks Under Fire? Regulatory Crackdowns And Opportunities 20 Oct
- Stablecoin Volumes Reach $450 Billion Monthly While Bitcoin Rises 28 Sep
- Ads In Your Banking App? Why Fintechs Are Starting Ads Ventures 10 Sep
- Decentralised Bitcoin trading platform BISQ has hit record highs. 1 Apr
- Can payments networks solve the online ad attribution problem? 31 Mar
- A salaryman worth his salt 24 Mar
- The Tulip Craze Conspiracy 23 Mar
- Are we living in an advertising economy? 23 Feb
2023
- The Numbers Behind Small Loans 23 Sep
- A quick view at P2P trading volumes on BISQ 17 Sep
- The Blind Men and the Coin - Part I 20 Aug
- The Blind Men and the Coin - Part II 20 Aug
- Old Age Originations 16 Jul
- From subprime crisis to the newly prime crisis 17 Jun
- Pricing, Profit and Paternalism 12 May
- Donald Trump, Paul Le Roux and the Dutch East India Company - Part 2 23 Apr
- Donald Trump, Paul Le Roux and the Dutch East India Company - Part 1 17 Mar
- Mixpanel Live - Growth and Analytics 27 Jan
- Films watched in 2022 1 Jan
2022
- Crypto Critics Corner - An Argument for Tether in Cuba 1 Sep
- Arise TV - Cross Border Payments 20 Jul
- Crypto Should Disrupt Current Anti-Money Laundering Practices, Not Adopt Them 31 Mar
- GameFi’s Promise and Reality Are Still Worlds Apart 8 Mar
- Are Crypto Investors Savvy or Suckers? The UK’s Tax and Financial Regulators Don’t Agree 24 Feb
2021
- We All Need to Stop Only Seeing the Dark Side of Crypto 19 Dec
- The Quest for Perp AMMs 4 Oct
- On The Brink - On Bitcoin adoption trends in Cuba 4 Jun
- Bitcoin 2021 - What To Do When Your Country Bans Bitcoin 4 Jun
- Social Proof of Work 15 Jan
- Disrupting ransom payments 15 Jan
- Ugocsa Non Coronat - the Visegradation of the European Union 1 Jan
2020
- Why Cuba is primed for bitcoin adoption 11 Dec
- DeFi needs a Silk Road moment 11 Dec
- My thoughts on Cambridge Analytica 7 Nov
- A day using money in Cuba 22 May
- Restarting your sales after a coronavirus lockdown 20 Apr
2019
- Automating my business 12 Aug
- Where I was in 2018 13 Jan
2018
- Automating SMS & email 8 Nov
- Tale of two Johns 2 Sep
- How to generate a Bitcoin vanity address using a Mac 11 Aug
- Cuba’s short term property rental market 2017-2018 11 Aug
- My time in Utrecht 21 Jul
- Leaflet timeline in R 8 Feb
2017
- Time Series analysis for Facebook message volume 17 Dec
- Time Series analysis for Facebook message volume 1 Dec
- Raising money for friends hurt by Hurricane Irma 25 Oct
- Implementing a Kalman filter in R for Android GPS measurements 29 Aug
- Costa Rican Saints 18 Aug
- Bayesian Images 22 May
- Thirteen hours in Rotterdam 11 Jan
2016
- You are wasting your time with spreadsheets 13 Nov
- How to get your Facebook messages into R 29 Oct
- Alphabetically inspired anecdotes from Cuba: 58 years after 1958 12 Jun
- How I made this website - tutorial 20 Apr
- Boaz's Review of Books: Violence, elaborate lies and a literary journey through China and Africa 18 Apr
- Donald Trump and Zuckerberg's Matrix 29 Feb
- Boaz's Review of Books 17 Feb
2015
- What I read in 2015 27 Dec
- Where I slept in 2015 22 Dec
- The Migrant Crisis and Demography 5 Nov
- Using Google Maps API: Mol Bubi Competition 5 Nov
- Myanmar 2015 26 Oct
- Do stupid people make more spelling mistakes? An analysis with R. 20 Oct
2012
- Don't fear foreign education 20 Nov