and of course crypto

and of course crypto

Just can’t help myself


Crypto buybacks, burns, staking, DATs, ETF and organic demand

12 Sep 2026 3 minute read 1 comment LiaRio $0.09

Crypto buybacks seem to be trending lately. The general idea of buybacks, burning and staking is to reduce the circulating (market) supply and/or total supply which affects the supply/demand equilibrium of the crypto market. This in turn shapes marke...

Hunter needs your support. Please give generously

10 Sep 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LiaRio $0.09

Just had to find some way to share this Hunter Biden meme. So saved it for later. The next day found out what it was all about. So got the perfect excuse to use the meme. As we all know coke and prostitutes are expensive hobbies. And he probably nee...

12 early Bitcoin addresses awaken after 16 years

7 Sep 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LiaRio $0.12

Satoshi Nakamoto released the original Bitcoin software in 2009 with the wxWidgets interface. This was replaced by Bitcoin-Qt. A Qt-based graphical interface that arrived with version 0.5.0 in November 2011. Subsequently renamed to Bitcoin Core from...

Fixed vs Dynamic rewards and other useless information

6 Sep 2026 2 minute read 6 comments LiaRio $0.04

Most crypto sites use the Dynamic model for determining their reward system. That is the amount of crypto you earn goes up when the market price goes down. And when the market reverses you get less crypto as the market price goes up. The underlying v...

Crypto Alchemy - turning that dust into gold

3 Sep 2026 4 minute read 4 comments LiaRio $0.45

Every one should have heard of Gavin Andresen’s bitcoin faucet (2010). When 5 bitcoin was still considered dust. Maybe not in the modern sense but dust all the same. That dust is now worth more than gold. Alchemy and the Philosophers Stone Medieval...

Test driving the Crypto Dust vacuum cleaners - WEEX vs LBank

31 Aug 2026 2 minute read 2 comments LiaRio $0.09

After MexC went all mandatory KYC, we lost the services of MexC’s Dust Convertor feature. The hunt was on to fill the void. As previously posted the candidates were narrowed down to WEEX and LBank. So far so good.  Note: one reader reported not being...

Base Protocol has no native token!!!

20 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LiaRio $0.05

Coinbase developed Base Network as a L2 on the Ethereum network. It uses ETH to pay transaction fees instead of having it own native Base token. Note: Native tokens are normally used for transaction fees, network security (staking/mining), and govern...

Who reckons $1 million Bitcoin by 2030?

16 Aug 2026 4 minute read 17 comments LiaRio $0.27

There has been a long list of $1 million Bitcoin price predictions. It is great way to garner media attention for yourself or your organisation. Bitcoin Willy Wonka Stacey Herbert of the Max and Stacey Show fame, first mentioned Bitcoin in 2010 when...

Can COINON be withdrawn to self cutody?

5 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments LiaRio $0.14

COINON is the Ondo Finance tokenised Coinbase stock. In the previous post we were looking at the 3 ways of getting exposure to Coinbase. As Coinbase literally owns the AI Agent payment rails. The Crypto Bro owns the AI Agent payment rails The 3 ways...

The Crypto Bro owns the AI Agent payment rails

1 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments LiaRio $0.16

Not quite the Milk Road headline but it does allow a more interesting header image. It was the 3 metrics that were in the Q2 report, that got my attention and got me thinking about possibly getting some exposure. While not exactly hidden, more buried...