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CZ's latest move has people asking questions

26 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao changed his X handle and, apparently, his account was temporarily restricted as a result. CZ even tried to get ahold of Elon Musk. "The X bot detection algo[rithm] also needs work, [Elon Musk]. It doesn't detect the bad bots, an...

The one issue we all have in common and no one knows how to fix it

26 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

There's one a minor but yet annoying problem that all crypto people have in common. It gets bigger if you've been in crypto for a long time, and it is less prominent if you're a hardcore Bitcoin maximalist and literally never touch anything else oth...

(Attempting) an unbiased, balanced take on Europe's worst best idea, the EURO

26 Nov 2023 2 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

I should preface this by saying that this isn't a technical analysis. I'm not going to crunch numbers, because I'd nod off while writing it, and you'd fall asleep while reading it. This is more like a take on a currency I've used for roughly 60 perc...

Somebody bought a supercar NFT for the same price as two Lambos

26 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

A plethora of car brands have decided they want a piece of the NFT pie and Bugatti is one of them. The German-owned French hypercar maker has sold an NFT based on the Bugatti La Voiture Noire, a one-off hypercar that the brand introduced at the 2...

This biggest red flag you shouldn't ignore before buying crypto

26 Nov 2023 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

I happened upon a study that I found quite compelling. A crypto magazine called CoinKickoff put together a list of cryptocurrencies by the number of whales that control the majority of the supply and, more importantly, the percentage of total supply...

User accidentally pays world's largest Bitcoin fee ever

25 Nov 2023 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted

A Bitcoin user accidentally paid the highest Bitcoin on-chain fee ever. The transaction was supposed to be for 139.42 BTC but because of this crazy mistake, the recipient only received 55.78 BTC, the remaining 83.64 BTC, ie roughly $3.1 million, was...

Small European town at the forefront of crypto adoption integrates Polygon

25 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Switzerland is divided into Cantons, each one of them is independent and on top of that, certain cities retain a further level of independence regardless of their Canton. That's the case with Lugano, the main city in the Italian-speaking part of Swi...

A timeline of what happened at OpenAI

25 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

OpenAI was launched as an open-source, non-profit organisation. Elon Musk was part of it at some point. OpenAI started out in 2015 as a non-profit as the goal was to develop AI rather than to make money, because if your main goal is profit you tend...

Prominent EU figure shares cringeworthy crypto story

25 Nov 2023 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted

  A prominent EU figure shared a cringeworthy story about her son 'losing' money in crypto and here's why this should not bother you except for the fact the story is so cringey. First of all, when it comes to crypto, politicians have no real power....

Terra's Do Kwon will be released from jail... but there's a reason why

24 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

We almost forgot about him amid the FTX collapse and the Binance chaos, but there's another crypto hero-turned-devil that's facing legal issues and that's Do Kwon. Do Kwon is deemed responsible for the collapse of the Terraform Labs ecosystem, which...