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The Amateur Investor’s New Way to Save: PINTO
This version has been translated from the original Turkish, pasted underneath. Inflation, devaluation, the growing impossibility of saving money, manipulated investment tools, ever-changing bureaucratic rules… The challenges of investing are endless, and even thinking about just a few of them is enough to feel overwhelmed. Since the early 1970s, when countries abandoned the gold standard, governments have been printing money to cover rising expenses. This has inevitably led to inflation. In e...
The Amateur Investor’s New Way to Save: PINTO
This version has been translated from the original Turkish, pasted underneath. Inflation, devaluation, the growing impossibility of saving money, manipulated investment tools, ever-changing bureaucratic rules… The challenges of investing are endless, and even thinking about just a few of them is enough to feel overwhelmed. Since the early 1970s, when countries abandoned the gold standard, governments have been printing money to cover rising expenses. This has inevitably led to inflation. In e...
Crypto Casino to Sustainable Farming
To build something that lasts, I'm prepared for the long haul. It was December 2017—I was studying for my calculus final at the university library when I ran into a close friend. He said, "Bro, this thing called Bitcoin just hit $19k. My bags are fat right now. You gotta get in this crypto thing." Easy money? Say less. I registered for a Binance account on the spot, skipped the "overpriced" BTC and bought XRP, XLM, and TRON. Well, you know how the rest of the story goes. $19k was the pea...
Crypto Casino to Sustainable Farming
To build something that lasts, I'm prepared for the long haul. It was December 2017—I was studying for my calculus final at the university library when I ran into a close friend. He said, "Bro, this thing called Bitcoin just hit $19k. My bags are fat right now. You gotta get in this crypto thing." Easy money? Say less. I registered for a Binance account on the spot, skipped the "overpriced" BTC and bought XRP, XLM, and TRON. Well, you know how the rest of the story goes. $19k was the pea...
Treading into the DeFi Dark
I pursued software because I believed I could build incredible things. I won’t give up now. I was looking into the optimization of integrated circuits as part of an undergrad research program. Three years of my hardware engineering degree had been completed and I was exploring what I would do after completing my studies. One of my responsibilities within the research team was to tweak some simple bash scripts we were going to use for the data pipeline. At the time, I had minimal experience an...
Treading into the DeFi Dark
I pursued software because I believed I could build incredible things. I won’t give up now. I was looking into the optimization of integrated circuits as part of an undergrad research program. Three years of my hardware engineering degree had been completed and I was exploring what I would do after completing my studies. One of my responsibilities within the research team was to tweak some simple bash scripts we were going to use for the data pipeline. At the time, I had minimal experience an...
Bug Hunting, Number Crunching
I use data analytics to guide the Pinto experiment and have fun doing it. The year was 2022. Someone close introduced me to a “decentralized credit-based stablecoin protocol on Ethereum.” At the time, I did not know what any of these words meant, but the person described the Beanstalk project to me with great passion and excitement, having a strong confidence in the fundamentals of its economic model. Plus, I saw the field was offering a 50x return, so I was enticed to participate. Initially ...
Bug Hunting, Number Crunching
I use data analytics to guide the Pinto experiment and have fun doing it. The year was 2022. Someone close introduced me to a “decentralized credit-based stablecoin protocol on Ethereum.” At the time, I did not know what any of these words meant, but the person described the Beanstalk project to me with great passion and excitement, having a strong confidence in the fundamentals of its economic model. Plus, I saw the field was offering a 50x return, so I was enticed to participate. Initially ...
Failing Fast, Growing Slowly
There are 5 days left in Q1, and it’s time to face the music: I have utterly failed to reach my Q1 goals. On one hand, there is not much to say. We set the bar quite high and I fell well short. This is nothing to celebrate. On another hand, however, what transpired is beautiful, informative and inspiring. In theory, with a second growth cycle from Pinto, it should be relatively easy to reach these goals. Given that Beanstalk went through its second major growth cycle within 4 months of deploy...
Failing Fast, Growing Slowly
There are 5 days left in Q1, and it’s time to face the music: I have utterly failed to reach my Q1 goals. On one hand, there is not much to say. We set the bar quite high and I fell well short. This is nothing to celebrate. On another hand, however, what transpired is beautiful, informative and inspiring. In theory, with a second growth cycle from Pinto, it should be relatively easy to reach these goals. Given that Beanstalk went through its second major growth cycle within 4 months of deploy...
