🥵 Heat your house with a bitcoin miner?

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Good morning Reader?

As 2025 draws to a close, you only have a few weeks left to do all those "year end money moves" people talk about it. If you aren't sure what I mean, here are a few ideas of what you can do before January 1st.

These are things like harvest capital gains or losses, accelerate deductions, etc. Better to start them now than scramble December 30th!

Happy holidays!

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🥵 Can you heat your house with a bitcoin miner?

Every winter, I get ads for space heaters that also mine bitcoin.

As you'd expect, what they promise is unreasonable. You can get a space heater that mines bitcoin but you don't get "free heat."

You get slightly subsidized heat... but is it worth it?

👉 Can You Use a Bitcoin Miner to Heat Your Home?

🖥️ Farmer's Insurance Data Breach

Earlier this year, Farmers Insurance had a data breach and it took them three months to notify customers.

I talked about it in this Instagram video.

If you were affected, law firm Emery Reddy is putting together a class action and you can get a free case review to learn about your rights.

👉 Learn more about the data breach lawsuit

🧑‍🎓 Tom Brokow's 2005 Emory Commencement Speech?

I enjoy listening to good commencement speeches and 2005 must have been a banner year (it's the same year as Steve Jobs' famous Stanford speech), but I enjoyed Tom Brokow's because he says what we all inherently know - real life is a lot like junior high school.

It's full of pettiness, rivalries, insecurities, and false bravado.

The speech is good because it doesn't take itself or life too seriously and in doing so, offers up sage and practical advice. The transcript is included but I recommend listening to it.

👉 Tom Brokow's 2005 Emory Commencement Speech

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Jim

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