Today Bitcoin (BTC) hit all time high $20,000.00 (USD) January 2018. Sadly it didn’t last long before falling like a rock back down to $2,200.00
I must say during this time, my portfolio was about $2.5Million, and I did sold some and yes I paid tax, lots of tax, like $40,000 in tax back in 2018. During this time I remember telling my wife that we have nothing to worry about our future finance as long as we maintain the same living cost and my wife doesn’t have to work. However sadly it didn’t last long before BTC went from $20k down to $2k within a month or two then stuck there for a great while. Off course I was a little depressed but I didn’t loose faith, I know that one day it will go back up again, and probably the same thing will happen, up big time then down big time, so you know what to do then? yes sell and pay your tax.read more
I quit working for Applied Materials Inc.back in early 2017 after working there for 20 years. I became semi-retired. I was 40 years old when I left. It was a good company to work with considering the benefit, but as the company reorg and move around (relocate) too much with new management people I don’t feel I can fit in much as the pressure pushing me to work long hours and also I had enough money to retire so I decided to call it quit.
I had about $350,000.00 worth of stocks and 401k at the time, which is not enough to retire nicely, but I had side business for a very long time now which can sustain me for a while. I was doing multiple things on the side, selling on the internet and provide services related to computers, basically 99% telecommute. The biggest risk I took was spending all of my free time into the Cryptocurrencies research and investments.read more
I am blessed that I discovered Bitcoin in late 2011. Back in late 2011 Bitcoin price was about $2 and I was doing research about Bitcoin where I can use my powerful super computers to mine it. I can then exchange the Bitcoin to money, I still don’t get it, how can something be virtual and worth something like cash money?
End of 2011 beginning of 2012 I decided to switch my computer power to mine Bitcoin. Sadly I had to end Folding@Home, but I think I contribute a lot of work for Folding@Home. So in 2011 Bitcoin price was $2, and then in 2012 Bitcoin hit $10 and mid 2013 it hit $100, that is when I decided to keep my Bitcoin instead of donating it or give it out.read more
Back in early 2011 I got involved with Folding@Home. It was introduced to me from SBinh from vietnzb also know as vcdz where most Vietnamese communities shares Asian movies series drama like Napster but in this was newsgroup using software like newsleechers to upload/download.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. The project uses the idle processing resources of thousands of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems.read more
After I broke up with my second girl friend, I was living lonely for a great while enjoying life doing business travel for my company until I met my third girl friend Huyen Pham, she is my wife as of today and the mother of my 2 girls Dahlia and Nyla.
I met my second girl friend back in 1998 I believe, here name was Phuong Vo, she was living in San Jose, CA. We met when I stopped on the road to help out with a car accident. We broke up also a year later. She was also older than me. Although I had many girls that I hang out with, but there wasn’t really any intimate relationship, this girl I consider as my second girl friend.
Before this second job, I was working at Resound Corporation for a while then quit and work at another pharmaceutical company assembling hospital equipments for a short period of time then move on to my permanent job which I work for about 20 years and left.
The company was Applied Materials Inc. I work there since 1997 to 2017, that’s about 20 years then I left permanently and semi retired.
