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People never learn

20 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

In 2017, a guy called Billy McFarland and Ja Rule, a rapper most people only remember for the 50 Cent feud at this point, organised a music festival called Fyre Festival. Except, it was all the scam. Put simply, the festival was cancelled after tic...

Why do we keep using this terminology?

9 Apr 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted

Every time the market goes down, which it does every ten minutes, media outlets across the board (and the globe) use terms like "lose" or "burn" or "wipe out", but why? When the stock market goes up, the value of stock goes up, when the stock market...

I'm afraid Bankman-Fried might be next

29 Mar 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

If you're here, you probably follow crypto, and if you follow crypto, you probably noticed what's been going on with all these pardons. Donald Trump has been on a bit of a pardoning frenzy, pardoning people left and right. The problem is that the r...

There's an upcoming Solana event, but the ticket price is insane

26 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Solana is organising two events in New York City, both called Accelerate. On May 19-20, 2025, Solana will host the Accelerate: Scale or Die event, an "application-only, workshop-driven event for developers, engineers and validators". Two days later...

Revolut's newest card is a perfect example of how marketing works

26 Mar 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted

Revolut just launched a new card called 'Chrome'. It is apparently available for everyone (I think, it's unclear) and it does nothing different to the other cards. It just looks nicer. Finished in a fluorescent and iridescent combination of blue,...

Solflare has a new face

26 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

One of the biggest problems with crypto is that the UX sucks. It is often clunky and ugly, and so companies are trying to do something about it. The latest company to do something about it is Solflare. The second most popular Solana wallet (after...

Earn ZETA on Coinbase

26 Mar 2025 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted

New day, new Coinbase quest, this time for Zetachain (ZETA). You can earn $9 in total. The first three quests are simple, you just to have to learn about Zetachain, which is apparently designed to "connect fragmented blockchains" and "simplify cryp...

Justin Sun just staked ETH worth 9 figures

22 Mar 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

Justin Sun, founder of Tron and a guy who absolutely wants you to know he's got money, just staked ETH worth nine figures. Specifically, Sun just staked $100 million worth of ETH, which means, at today's rate, he'd be earning between $3M and $4M a y...

Solflare is looking for an UX designer

19 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

My ex partner, whom I spent around 2.5 years of my life with, is an UX designer. Before my partner, we shall call this person UX Designer, I had no idea what UX even meant. It stands for User Experience. I learnt that. I also learnt that a UX desig...

More Aleo available with Coinbase quests

19 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

You can get free Aleo with a new Coinbase quest and, unless I'm mistaken, this is the second Coinbase quest with which you can win ALEO. The quest mostly revolves around Puzzle Wallet, one of the main Aleo wallets for zero-knowledge games. The ques...