Let’s talk crypto 💎💠
8 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
It is no accident that bitcoin was created in the aftermath of 2008 financial crisis. We’ve gradually been trained to distrust governments and banks. We haven’t been trained to do that by fanatics or as part of our education, nope, it was everyday l...
7 Aug 2023 1 minute read 7 comments LeftFooted
Back in December I finally caved in and upgraded to Mac from Windows. My Macbook Air is heaps lighter than my old Lenovo, and about a thousand times faster. It is also made by Apple, a company that famously operates with a "my way or the highway" m...
6 Aug 2023 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
For the last few months, I've regularly been receiving email updates from FTX and BlockFi. FTX went belly-up because SBF and his team / boyfriends and girlfriends were doing dodgy s**t under the sun and no one noticed. BlockFi went down because of...
3 Aug 2023 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted
I've been collecting diamonds on CoinMarketCap for a while now and I did grab a couple of vouchers. However, the quality (and quantity) of rewards has been going down the drain for the best of a year now. There are fewer rewards, and they're quite...
2 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
A while ago we heard that Reddit was going to launch its own cryptocurrency. Some people speculated the platform would tokenise Karma points. Reddit has been at the centre of some controversy due to the unique way it's run. In essence, Reddit did th...
1 Aug 2023 1 minute read 13 comments LeftFooted
I apologize, don't wanna come across as rude, but it seems to me that SPOT is quite, how can put it nicely, UNuseful. I set it up on Metamask, and now that it's there, there's nothing I can do with it. It appears that no DEX or CEX support SPOT wit...
1 Aug 2023 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted
The AI hype hasn't fully died down yet, although it seems people are talking about it a bit less, but AI crypto prices are down the drain. Fetch.AI (FET), one of the few AI cryptos that literally has 'AI' in the name, is no longer in the top 100 lis...
31 Jul 2023 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted
A few weeks ago, right after surgery to reconstruct my face, I texted my supervisor (ie, my boss, but supervisor sounds better) and said I would return to work as soon as I was discharged from the hospital. I did, and I'm fairly convinced having som...
31 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
The second-largest cryptocurrency in the world turns 8. Ethereum was conceived in 2013, developed in 2014 and the network went live on July 30, 2015. On that day, the genesis block was created. It contained 8,893 transactions sending various amount...
28 Jul 2023 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
The other day I got an email notification. "Good news", said the email. "You can now buy Worldcoin." To which my natural reaction was, "the fcuk is Worldcoin?" Worldcoin, as it turns out, is a token launched by Sam Altman, the blue-eyed, probably s...
