Dale Kowalski
Dale Kowalski — spent a decade testing tow ratings and torque curves before trading diesel specs for gas fees. Writes about crypto the way he used to write about trucks: strip out the marketing, show you what actually works.
About the author
Name's Dale Kowalski. For about eleven years I covered trucks and SUVs — towing capacities, bed-liner shootouts, which half-ton actually pulls what the sticker says versus what it pulls once you load a camper and three kids. Grew up around Toledo, Ohio, where half the family worked the assembly lines and the other half worked on what came off them. Never finished the automotive engineering degree — dropped out two semesters short to take a job road-testing trucks for a regional publication, and that turned into a career.
The shift to crypto wasn't some grand pivot I planned. Around 2021 I started noticing how many readers in the trucking and overlanding community were getting paid in crypto for hauling jobs, or mining on rigs parked next to their garage builds, and the comment sections turned into crypto arguments more than tow-rating arguments. I got curious, did what I always do — pulled the thing apart and tested whether the claims held up. Three years later, that's basically the whole job now.
I still think like a gear reviewer. A blockchain project claiming “infinite scalability” gets the same treatment I used to give a truck claiming towing numbers nobody could replicate: show me the test, show me the conditions, and I'll tell you what's real.
Coverage areas
Crypto fundamentals, no jargon left unexplained:
- Wallets, custody, and the mistakes that cost people money
- Exchange reviews — fees, security track record, what the fine print actually says
- Hardware wallets tested the way I used to test tow hitches: used wrong, on purpose, to see what breaks
Mining & infrastructure:
- Home and small-scale mining rig builds, power costs, real ROI math
- Hardware comparisons — ASICs, GPUs, what's worth the money in 2026
Market reality checks:
- Project claims vs. on-chain data
- Scam and rug-pull patterns, explained plainly
- Where this site's old trucking audience actually overlaps with crypto (hauling payments, fleet tokenization, more than you'd think)
Background
- Automotive journalism, towing and gear reviews (2011–2022)
- ASE-adjacent technical writing certification, vehicle systems (2013)
- Self-taught in blockchain infrastructure and mining operations since 2021; built and run two personal mining rigs
My take
“I spent a decade telling people not to trust a spec sheet. Crypto's no different — half of what gets published is a sales pitch wearing a whitepaper. I just check the math now instead of the dyno.”