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22 May 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz famously spent 10,000 BTC on pizzas in what is now celebrated every year as Bitcoin Pizza Day. At today's rate, those pizzas are basically worth $695 million. But what is really amazing is the fact that today, people...
21 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Coinbase has gradually been moving its learn-to-earn questa from Coinbase Exchange to Wallet. These quests use to be simple and quick, but they're now getting complicated. It's still 'free' money, but you have to earn it. The latest addition, which...
14 May 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
Coinbase suffered a major outage in the early hours of May 14, and it took the exchange three hours (!) to fix the issue. Three hours is an eon for an outage involving a platform that manages billions of dollars. Coinbase said they didn't know what...
14 May 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
PEPE hit a new all-time high of $ 0.00001106. This almost certainly happened because Keith Gill, the guy behind the GameStop stock saga, posted to his Roaring Kitty X account for the first time in three years. PEPE rallied as a result, not just i...
12 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
See what I did there with the headline? I was also tempted to go with this other option: "There is a new launchpool NOT" Anyway, there's a new launchpool on Binance, for a token called NOT. Notcoin (NOT), the 54th project on Binance Launchpool, is...
10 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Pyth Network (PYTH) is about to unlock a massive amount of tokens, and this will likely cause the price to dip. Per TokenUnlocks, a website that keeps track of crypto unlocks, Pyth will unlock 2.13 billion PYTH (worth $1.04 billion at the time of wr...
10 May 2024 1 minute read 6 comments LeftFooted
I still think crypto.com made every mistake in the book. The Matt Damon ad was cringey, and it was also timed so badly it's almost comical. They then proceeded to spend nearly 10 figures on more marketing malarkey, including acquiring the naming rig...
7 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Bitcoin, or more accurately the Bitcoin network, has reached a huge milestone 15 years after its creation. The network has now processed one billion transactions. Transaction no. 1,000,000,000 was processed in block 842,241 at 9:34 pm UTC on May 5....
6 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
I was bored, on the train, on my way to the second-largest city in the country I currently live in, when I bought $40 worth of Solana. It was over two years ago. I bought SOL because I actually wanted Bonk. People were talking about it back then an...
4 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Last night I received yet another weird airdrop. I got 800,000 X-Musk (XMUSK) on the Solana network. No idea why or what for. As ever, the token is unverified, and as ever, it looked dodgy. As ever, this is what I always do when I receive dodgy a...
