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Crypto: What is Kusama, a lesser known blockchain with a specific goal in mind

15 Jan 2024 1 minute read 7 comments LeftFooted

Kusama was developed by the same people who founded Polkadot (DOT) back in 2016. Kusama (KSM) runs on its own blockchain and it currently has a price of $41.55, down from its all time high of nearly $600. Kusama was developed as a Web 3.0 platform,...

Exploring Revolut's Premium plan - wish me luck

13 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

I'm exploring different options for my debit cards, after trying Wirex's Premium plan and Curve's premium plan (dubbed 'Black), I'm trying yet another premium plan. Revolut's Premium, free for three months, than €9.99 per month. This is what I get...

This is a great example of what the 'BUY THE RUMOUR, SELL THE NEWS' mantra stands for

13 Jan 2024 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted

What just happened is a good example of why people say you should buy the rumour and sell the news. Everything was going well when rumour of an ETF approval was spreading, and now that the ETF was actually approved, the price went down. That is exa...

The developer complex favours a project everyone's obsessed with at the moment

10 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

It seems to me developers are like footballers. At least in certain markets. They want to be overpaid. But that's not enough. They want to be overpaid, and cuddled, and complimented, and flattered. And they want to believe in the 'project'. It's...

Curve VS Wirex card subscription - same price, totally different features

10 Jan 2024 2 minute read 15 comments LeftFooted

I don't use credit cards anymore, only debit, and I'm exploring different options. I am not really anti-subscription plans in principle, although I feel like, for the most part, they're not worth my pennies. At the moment, I'm trying out two differ...

A fool and his money...

10 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I'm sorry, I know we should always sympathise with the scammed and blame the scammer, and I do. But, at the same time, I'm beginning to be a little annoyed when I see the sheer number of people who fall for the airdropped NFT scam. I'm part of a fe...

Cryptos I plan to buy (and sell) in 2024

8 Jan 2024 1 minute read 6 comments LeftFooted

I've been in crypto since 2016 and there are only four cryptos I've held the entire time, and those are XRP, LTC, BTC and ETH. Two of these cryptos, XRP and LTC, are, in my opinion, no longer relevant to the point where it makes sense to hold on to...

Crypto: Who is Silvio Micali, the man behind Algorand?

8 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Silvio Micali is an Italian native, winner of the 2012 Turing Prize (which is like an Oscar but for the cryptography) and the founder of Algorand. Micali was born in Palermo, in Sicily, in 1954 and moved to the US after graduation in order to get a...

2024 is the year I fix my instant gratification issue

8 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

I'm a watch guy. Whenever I'm not watching videos about crypto, I'm watching videos about watches. Watches is the only thing non essential thing I regularly spend money on (other than beer, but I think beer IS indeed essential). The problem with 'c...

Binance user sent a good amount of Bitcoin to none other than

8 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Apologies for the truncated and slightly clickbait-y headline but this was a bit weird. Earlier today, a Binance user sent 26.916 BTC to one of Satoshi's addresses, the one that contains the unspendable 50 BTC as part of Bitcoin's genesis block. I'...