Welcome to the Solid State

By Ryan Hendricks in Building Stuff on

Instructions This is a step-by-step guide to upgrading a computer to a solid state drive (SSD). For computers with a standard mechanical hard drive (HDD; spinning platters) this is by far the most effective upgrade in terms of performance gained and out-of-pocket costs. 1. Purchase an SSD Ideally with storage…

Making Sense of Market Madness

By Ryan Hendricks in Trading on

Pension fund driven EOY/EOQ rebalancing? makes sense. Plunge protection team operations? Let's hope not. Algorithmically-driven predatory price discovery targeting protections put on by the retiree turned gambler? You betcha!…

ICO Aftermath

By Ryan Hendricks in Crypto on

Discussion of the WSJ article that uncovers a silver lining to the current "crypto winter" which is the decimation of scam and fraud within the industry.…

Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return for Staking Tokens

By Ryan Hendricks in Blockchain on

The Risk-Adjusted rate of return for staking a token is a far more important metric than simply using reward percentage when it comes to analyzing staking tokens. There are countless profit calculators that will gladly tell you how much you will earn based on how much you stake.…

Fix Pending Ethereum Transactions

By Ryan Hendricks in Blockchain on

An Ethereum transaction stuck in the pending state is fixable. By stuck I mean the transaction has been pending for more than an hour. The Fix The remedy is to send another transaction with the same nonce as the currently pending transaction. Sending a tiny amount of ETH to yourself…