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Tech Shortcuts for Life is a weekly column from Thomas Smith on Debugger exploring the apps, automations, gadgets, and other tech tricks that can make your life more efficient.
After more than a decade spent in the field, I can tell you that breaking into photography isn’t easy. I’m a professional photographer, and the owner of a news photography agency. I get to work with a wide variety of photographers and historical archives, and my own work routinely appears in publications like the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and many others. I also sit on the board of…
Three years of trading with a scrappy bitcoin bot
A few years ago I wrote a computer program to buy and sell bitcoin. I called it BitBot.
Pretty soon, I began to refer to it as “him.” Naming him turned him into a little person. “BitBot made £500 today,” I’d say, or “BitBot had a bad day; he lost £900.”
Cost per bitcoin: $2,000
More often than not, BitBot made money, rendering him (and, indirectly, me) a digital Warren Buffett. BitBuffet. Unconsciously, I started to invent a little personality for BitBot. I imagined him coming home after a hard day of digital trading, his arms piled high with coins and pieces of treasure…
Tech Shortcuts for Life
How to experiment with Bitcoin without the risk of losing your house
Tech Shortcuts for Life is a weekly column from Thomas Smith on Debugger exploring the apps, automations, gadgets, and other tech tricks that can make your life more efficient.
Cryptocurrencies have been on a wild ride over the last few years. The price of Bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency, surged from a low of around $4,000 in March of 2020 to over $40,000 in early January (it’s since fallen dramatically). We’ve seen stories of Bitcoin millionaires and Bitcoin Maseratis as well as Bitcoin drug lords and average people who have lost fortunes trading the virtual coins.
