chronicles of an English teacher
4 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Crypto Country Spotlight: Singapore 🇸🇬 In October 2022, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) gave In-Principle Approval for a Major Payment Institution License to Coinbase and Blockchain.com to launch digital payment token services in Singapor...
3 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
5 things I learnt about Uniswap • Uniswap is the world’s largest decentralised exchange. People use it to buy coins that are not available on CEXes yet. • It’s the OG. It developed smart contracts (v2 and v3) and interfaces and got them audited and...
3 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
My regular readers would know that my birthday was last week. So this year, I did something new. I joined r/ethtrader. You see, r/cryptocurrency isn’t the only place that gives out free crypto. R/ethtrader does as well - it issues a crypto called Do...
30 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Which exchange has brought about most benefits to the world? Crypto (dot) com and Kraken have listed moons; Binance and Coinbase haven’t. But the fact that these four exchanges are salient in our collective minds goes to show the pivotal role they pl...
29 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Bridges. Thanks to our time here, many of us have had first hand experience making use of Orbiter Finance. It’s great for swapping assets on one blockchain to another. Its fast speed and low fees are other advantages. However, on the flip side, bridg...
28 Aug 2023 1 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei
Crypto Country Spotlight: Germany 🇩🇪 1. Known to be the most crypto-friendly nation in the world. This is partly due to the readiness of local financial institutions to offer crypto services. For example, Sparkasse aims to provide crypto services to...
28 Aug 2023 1 minute read 5 comments cryotosensei
Previously, I shared about how you could use Orbiter Finance to convert OP on the Optimism blockchain to Ethereum Mainnet. But what if you hope to use your earnings to make more money? There’s a way. Right now, I am torn between swapping all my OP fo...
23 Aug 2023 1 minute read 4 comments cryotosensei
Reading how Srettha Thavisin was appointed as Thailand’s next Prime Minister and pledged to give each Thai citizen an airdrop of 10k Baht reminded me of pro-crypto politicians. Earlier this year, former U.S. presidential candidate and House of Repres...
23 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
What % of your portfolio is staked? Many crypto exchanges, including FTX and Celsius, collapsed last year. Even the Gemini Earn program was exterminated. We learnt the lesson “not your keys not your coins” the painful way. Sales of cold wallets Ledge...
22 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Yes, I know it’s such a pain to collect candies on CoinGecko. But early this year, it allowed us to redeem our candies for an Access Protocol Airdrop. Given that Coinbase Wallet subsequently published a Learn and Earn quest on Access Protocol, I thi...
