Welcome to ByteTheBank: Where Tech Meets Money

So, what is ByteTheBank? It's not a bank (please don't send us your IBAN). It's also not a site with ten ways to save five euros on coffee. It's a publication about money for European tech workers: the people who read documentation for a living and would like their finances to make the same amount of sense.

Why this exists

Most finance writing has a default reader, and that reader lives in another tax system. The advice is often fine; the defaults are wrong. Different accounts, different pensions, different rules, and a quiet assumption that every payslip looks American. Meanwhile the questions that actually matter here go unanswered: how ETF investing works from Europe, what stock options are really worth, what "just one more subscription" costs over a career.

What you'll get

Two kinds of writing, on a schedule. Practical guides about decisions with real money attached: emergency funds, day rates, stock compensation, cash versus investing. And Loose Change, the Thursday light read: five entertaining minutes on how money actually behaves, checked like an audit and written for a bus ride.

Most articles ship with an audio version, so you can listen instead of read. Everything is made the way the how it's made page describes: AI-assisted, human-judged, every fact traced to a source or labeled as opinion.

What you won't get

Clickbait, hustle sermons, or advice that ignores how tech work actually functions. No urgency, no guru certainty, no pretending Europe is one country with one tax code.

If that sounds right, the newsletter sends one email when something worth your time ships. That's the whole pitch.

General information only. Not personal financial, tax, or legal advice.