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1 May 2024 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted
Tether, ie USDT, just invested $200 million in a neurotech company. This is telling. Neurotechnology is a field that's basically unexplored, and the only vaguely famous name in this domain is Elon Musk's Neuralink, which recently successfully implan...
29 Apr 2024 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted
Google says there's "no straight line" between AI and unemployment. What they probably mean by that is that the development and rise of AI does not, automatically and directly, lead to unemployment. Which sounds like bulls**t. But it's probably tru...
28 Apr 2024 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted
Without wishing to get political, the US is making a significant mistake when it comes to crypto. It's not a grave mistake, and it's fixable, but it's a mistake nonetheless. It seems several nation states still haven't grasped the importance of Bit...
28 Apr 2024 1 minute read 6 comments LeftFooted
This is one of those cases where you may have never heard of the company but you know the product. Yuga Labs, the company behind both the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and CryptoPunks, is apparently in trouble. Several rounds of lay-offs confirm that...
28 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
I was kind of getting worried, and frustrated, because as of yesterday I still had not received an airdrop that people who ordered Solaga Saga 2 before the end of March were supposed to receive (while many others had). But now I got, 5,199 Maneki, a...
27 Apr 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
I'm still waiting for Maneki, an airdrop for Solana Saga 2 buyers which I'm not sure why I didn't get. However, I hold Bonk, and I was therefore able to claim Wuffi. If held Bonk as of March 28, you may eligible for a $wuffi airdrop. Wuffi is a meme...
26 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Yesterday I received a weird and unexpected airdrop on my Coinbase Wallet. I received 0.69 Boomer Coin (BOOMER) on Base Network. It looks a bit dodgy, and it's only worth $0.02. So I'm gonna ignore it for now. And then there's Maneki, which I was s...
24 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
First of all, what the heck is a mempool. A mempool (memory+pool) is a crypto node's mechanism for storing information on unconfirmed transactions. Kinda like a waiting room for transactions before they're included in a block. Sui's mempool is call...
23 Apr 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
Miners are becoming efficient, and of course energy prices are a key factor, and that's why some of the big miners are located in country, or areas, with low energy costs. Through the years, miners have been getting more efficient, but then again th...
21 Apr 2024 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted
You'd be excused for not noticing but Toncoin (TON) is currently the 9th largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Toncoin, which is not available on Binance or Coinbase, by the way, is currently valued at $6.11, with a market cap of $21.19 billion. Ho...
