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Lazy Gardening Meets Lazy Crypto

13 Nov 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Exponential Crypto

Let me start by talking about my home garden. Every year around January I look outside at all the gray and brown, and daydream about the spring to come. I endlessly browse seed catalogs and fantasize about the small oasis I will cultivate in my backy...

Wednesday's Wheel of Bitcoin

11 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Exponential Crypto

What is the Wheel of Bitcoin? The Wheel of Bitcoin is a Twitter giveaway run by the Fold team, an app that lets you earn Bitcoin rewards for buying gift cards. Every Wednesday there is a giveaway where a number of teams are selected and win awesome p...

What do we know about Fold's new Bitcoin debit card?

9 Nov 2020 2 minute read 4 comments Exponential Crypto

What is Fold? Fold is a Bitcoin focused app that lets you earn Bitcoin rewards for buying gift cards through the app. The current gift cards include everything from Amazon and Starbucks to Chipotle and Doordash.  Even better, you have a chance to win...

My Uniswap Adventure - A story of failure, gas, and dumb luck

16 Oct 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Exponential Crypto

Picture for a moment a warm summer evening, with clear skies, a nice breeze, and a small amount of ETH in a crypto wallet. This is where my UNI story begins.   My First Transaction Sometime in July I experimented with some of my tokens I received fro...

How to Upgrade Your Wallet with CoinGecko Candy Rewards

14 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Exponential Crypto

Let me start by saying I am a big fan of CoinGecko. It is a fantastic site to keep track of the crypto market, with new and great features like data on yield farming, the ability to track your portfolio, and CoinGecko Candies. You receive candies dai...

Staking Klever Token at 16%

27 Sep 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Exponential Crypto

If you don't know what Klever is, you should check it out. It is a crypto wallet that originated on Tron but has emerged as a popular, growing multi-coin wallet with staking, dapp browsing, and an expanding list of features - they just recently added...

Splinterlands Fun #3 - I'm down but not out!

21 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Exponential Crypto

Splinterlands is a blockchain based card game running on the Hive network. You collect monster and summoner cards and battle it out against your opponents using different rule sets. I’ve been playing for several months now and I am still enjoying the...

Another update on an announcement about an announcement - Staking TRX for SUN

9 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Exponential Crypto

The word salad title is meant as a joke about yet another update on Tron’s SUN token distribution. It was teased that SUN might be released earlier than the original September 16th date and there are now more details about the distribution. The first...

Will the SUN be rising early? Quick Update

8 Sep 2020 1 minute read 5 comments Exponential Crypto

Changes might be coming to Tron’s Defi platform SUN. With billions of TRX staked at the time of writing, no one can deny there is interest and excitement for SUN. The Genesis Mining started on September 2nd and was supposed to run until September 16t...

What effect will SUN have on staking rewards?

3 Sep 2020 1 minute read 7 comments Exponential Crypto

If you've missed the news, yesterday was the first day of "Genesis Mining" for Tron's new SUN token, part of its continued push into Defi. Once you've safely found a chair and are far away from anything breakable that you might knock over, take a loo...