Ask HN: What are some small-scale investments where having coding skills helps?

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I recently began investing in Bitcoin, and find that knowing something about programming, and information security in general, helps you handle your Bitcoin securely.

What are some other investments where a person who knows how to code will be much more likely to maintain and grow their assets than a person who doesn't?

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Having dabbled in a bit of computer vision for a personal project, I saw how powerful it was and knew how important GPUs would be to cv/machine learning/AI at scale. Invested in NVIDIA late 2015, more than doubled the money so far.

If I didn't know programming, I would be clueless as to what computer vision could achieve, and thus its potential impact on society.

Not exactly the type of speculative high-risk investment you're talking about, but I've been thinking about a script to automatically re-balance my ETF portfolio. This can potentially decrease the time I spent thinking about my investments from the current ~4 hours a year. I can still benefit from a long-term 7% ROI.

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