Investing articles
5 articles in Investing, newest first, with the mechanism behind each one shown in full.
- Investing35 min read
Mining a Zcash coin costs $639, and $476 of that is the machine
Electricity is the small half of mining Zcash, and the discount against the $1,129 market price is 8% to 43%, not the 93% it looks like. Also: why that price already assumes most of the success Zcash needs, and what the 2026 Orchard flaw revealed about auditing a fixed supply.
- Investing12 min read
What crypto to buy in September 2026: the boring half and the lottery half
Bitcoin at $78,300, Ethereum at $2,470, and Zcash up more than twentyfold on the year after the first US spot ETF for a privacy coin. What belongs in the boring half of a crypto allocation, what belongs in the lottery half, and how much of each before three catalysts land in one week.
- Investing8 min read
Which crypto benefits from the CLARITY Act? Not Bitcoin
The CLARITY Act faces its Senate test on 15 September. It answers "is this a security" with a four-part maturity test and a 20% control threshold — so the assets it helps most are the contested middle, not Bitcoin.
- Investing10 min read
Nike stock at $38.40 is a speculative turnaround, not a value bargain
Nike is a speculative turnaround at $38.40. Follow the tariff refund, the dividend's cash cover and three recovery scenarios to see why an entry near $34 offers more room for error.
- Investing5 min read
The lump sum ends 35% ahead of dollar-cost averaging
Spreading money in over time is worse than investing it all at once, in most markets, most of the time. Here is the arithmetic, the size of the gap, and why the comparison is usually the wrong one anyway — plus what a 0.5% fee and 2.5% inflation actually take out.