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Solana, why?

29 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Solana announced they'll start shipping Seeker, their new phone, on August 4. Great, but now they've announced a new watch made in partnership with Franck Muller. Two things I want to point out. First, this isn't the first crypto watch. A while b...

Tell me who you're hiring and I'll tell you who you are

28 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

The Apple car never happened. Apple never officially confirmed it or announced, which means they never officially cancelled it. They didn't have to. But it's not in our imagination. Apple did spend about a decade and over a billion dollars on thi...

Elon Musk's xAI announced a $300 million partnership with Telegram

28 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, just announced a $300 million partnership with Telegram to integrate its chatbot, Grok, into the messaging platform. The idea is to do more or less what Meta has already done with Instagram and WhatsApp. Interestingly,...

93 percent of the total supply of Bitcoin has been mined

28 May 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

We've reached a significant milestone. As of May 2025, 93.3 percent of of the total supply has been mined, namely, 19.6 million Bitcoin have been mined. Due to the halving, the mining rate is designed to gradually slow down through time. It took a...

Come on now, this is silly

27 May 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

Look, I like cars and I like crypto, but this is dumb. DMC, as in DeLorean Motor Company, brought back the new DMC-12 (even though they call it Alpha5), a homage to the original car used in the Back to the Future trilogy, in electric form. It looks...

"There are only three things the US won't sell," according to Michael Saylor

27 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

In a recent Ted Talk-style panel, Michael Saylor pointed out that there are only three things the U.S. government isn't selling. The list is probably longer, but it's an interesting point to point out - pardon the pun. In the clip, around minute 55...

Solana announces shipping date for Seeker phone and new token

22 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

We finally have an ETA on Solana Seeker, the second Solana smartphone after Saga. First teased well over a year ago as Saga Chapter Two, Seeker has been available for pre-order since early 2024 and it came with a bunch of free airdrops. Now, we fin...

Here's how much Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong spends on security every year

20 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Everyone knows, or assumes, that celebrities and high-profile CEOs spend money on yachts (Bezos, Zuckerberg), space race fetishes (Bezos, Musk), private jets (all of them) and so on. But the amount of money they spend on personal security is sometim...

Donald Trump's crypto company just bought $3+ million worth of a crypto project we all thought was dead

19 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

World Liberty Financial, a crypto company associated with US President Donald Trump, is regularly buying crypto and enriching its portfolio. There's nothing strange about that, but what is strange is what they're actually buying. As of May 16, WLF...

These tokens are no longer available on Coinbase

17 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I haven't made that many mistakes in crypto, but I have made some. The biggest mistake I made was not being careful enough in 2016. The amount of BTC I lost was close to $500 back then, but it would be worth a lot more (like, really a lot) now. St...