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13 Feb 2024 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted
Over 100,000 people have placed their order for the Solana Saga Chapter Two. At $450 a pop, that means SolanaLabs has now racked up over $45 million in funding. It sounds good, it's a round number, it's an eight-figure number. But is it enough? I...
13 Feb 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
Yesterday, Bitcoin hit $50k for the first time in 770+ days. Since late December 2021. It's been a little over two years but the world looked different back then. Here's some things that changed since Dec 2021 vs Feb 2024. A lot of people probab...
12 Feb 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
The BRICS are an economic alliance of countries that are different, and countries that generally hate each other. India and China, for example, have daily border disputes. China is the largest economy in the BRICS and yet, the Chinese YUAN isn't eve...
9 Feb 2024 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted
The Oasis Network is a crypto privacy ecosystem launched in 2018. It is an L1 network, with a strong focus on privacy, running its own native currency called ROSE, which can be used for gas fees, staking, delegation and governance. The whole point...
8 Feb 2024 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted
Launchpools are an easy, low-maintenance way of receiving free tokens with something akin to an airdrops. I find Binance's launchpools to be pretty easy to join, and you can do it with BNB or FDUSD. Here's how you do it, you can either buy BNB or F...
7 Feb 2024 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted
There's a crypto hierarchy that essentially only applies to Bitcoin. Interestingly, even though most people have heard of the term crypto 'whale', a Bitcoin whale isn't the biggest possible fish in the hierarchy. That particular title belongs to th...
7 Feb 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
Phantom, one of the most popular Solana wallets, has just flipped Coinbase for daily uploads on the App Store. It sounds crazy but it's true. Over the past 24-odd hours, more Apple users have downloaded Phantom wallets than Coinbase. This, along w...
6 Feb 2024 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted
In my book, the hype around the second iteration of the Solana Saga smartphone has got 'smoke and mirrors' written all over it. What happened was, in my view, Solana made an overpriced smartphone that was okay, but not great, and it accidentally wen...
3 Feb 2024 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted
Tesla has sold around 70 percent of its Bitcoin portfolio but it seems the company isn't sure to do with the remaining 30 percent. And yes, this is a reminder that Tesla actually does hold Bitcoin on its balance sheet. We sort of forget about it fr...
1 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Chris Larsen, CEO of Ripple, has been hacked and lost about 213 million XRP, worth north of $110 million. Larsen made it clear Ripple was not affected as his personal accounts got hacked. The funds have apparently been laundered through various...
