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Upland is still alive, and apparently kicking

5 Jun 2026 1 minute read 9 comments LeftFooted

Remember the Metaverse? Remember Upland? It apparently still exists, and it still developing in-app games, still developing in-app cities. At the time of writing, Upland has over 4 million registered accounts, and players have collectively sold $2...

So CoinGecko has apparently built a DEX tracker?

5 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

CoinGecko has apparently built a real-time DEX tracker and price charting tool called GeckoTerminal. It aggregates data from over 1,800+ decentralised exchanges (didn't realise there were that many) across 260 blockchains (ditto). The list obviousl...

"Crypto-backed mortgage?"

30 Mar 2026 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

The Big Shortย is a great, great movie. It's technical but not impossible to understand, and it explains a major event in our lifetime - the 2008 financial crisis - in a way that's both humorous and serious. The Big Short tells the story of a few ou...

Don't forget to claim your SKR allocation (and you can only do it through your Seeker)

10 Mar 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

If you own Solana Seeker, don't forget to claim your SKR, which will only be available through April 21st. Nearly two billion SKR tokens - around 20 percent of the total 10-billion supply - are now being distributed to over 100,000 eligible users an...

Jack Dorsey just fired 4,000 with a tweet and - shocker - the stock market is loving it

27 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter/X and current CEO of Block, a fintech company, just fired 4,000 people with a single tweet. There are a few things worth noting. Most of those things will make people very unhappy and potentially frustrated. But...

Copy-paste

11 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

This is becoming so boring. We all could literally copy-paste the same exact articles we've written (or read) a thousand times before and just change dates and figures. "Bitcoin hits new ATH of XYZ, 100x by January 20XX?" Followed by, "Bitcoin cra...

If you're an EU/EEA user, you need to read this

12 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

The European Union is a massive bureaucratic apparatus that never truly understood or accepted what it actually is. And what it can do. The EU describes itself as the government of Europe but that's not what it is, and because it's run by busybodies...

Crypto is a rebranding opportunity

5 Jan 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

That headline sounds and reads like it was written by a marketing intern, but I'll stand by it. El Salvador is the perfect example, in my view. When I was growing up, which is not that long ago, El Salvador was a place that was only mentioned in co...

I bought my Ledger via CoinGecko, so now what?

18 Dec 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

There's ongoing quest/reward with CoinGecko Candies. You can buy a Ledger cold wallet and get up to $80 in BTC. I signed up, partly because I believe in diversification, and so holding crypto in different hot and cold wallets is a good strategy, in...

Goodbye Atom, it's been mildly useful

17 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

If I were a YouTuber who preaches 'transparency' I'd tell you I bought Atom Cosmos at XYZ, held it for XYZ years, made XYZ in staking rewards, and now sold at XYZ. But I'm not doing that because I can't be bothered. I'm just gonna cut to the chase,...