Neal's Corner

Neal's Corner

My corner of the interwebs for all things crypto and markets related that aren't splinterlands.


Pooling is the New Selling. Pooling is the New Buying

28 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments nealmcspadden

If you listened to the most recent weekly LeoFinance/CubDefi AMA with khal, you'll have heard him talk about pooling as the new selling. It works like this: You want to sell your token, let's say BTC. You think the market is probably going higher, bu...

HIVE Market Manipulation - You Won't Believe Who's Behind It!

27 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments nealmcspadden

So this happened an hour or so ago. Someone(s) bought a massive amount of HIVE, which pumped the price from about 38 cents up to about 60 cents. Looking at the volumes, you can tell it was one or a few big buyers and then a lot of little sales bring...

Is Crypto Going to Zero?

27 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments nealmcspadden

So I dunno if you've noticed, but crypto prices are pretty volatile. BTC went from 63k to 30k in a fairly short amount of time. Personally, I've seen my portfolio value drop by a large number. It makes me sad. But then I remind myself, crypto is a b...

Why I'm All in on CUB Pools

25 May 2021 1 minute read 1 comment nealmcspadden

So if you are one of those people that watches the pools in detail, you may have noticed that the APR is down a little and the price of CUB is up a little. That was me. The gang got on the zoom today and we had ourselves an old-fashioned LEO Roundta...

[Splinterlands] The Flippening is Officially Here!

25 May 2021 1 minute read 2 comments nealmcspadden

    We've seen heavy sales volume on packs the last few days, so I decided to take a look at the card values to see if The Flippening had arrived. And sure enough, it has. At this point, if you get any kind of discount on potions...

5 Steps to Get PPP Money

30 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments nealmcspadden

What are PPP and What Changed? Back in 2020, the US government created the Paycheck Protection Program which was designed to help businesses pay employees through the COVID crisis. The way the rules were written made sense if you had a larger company...

Winning on LEO Speculation Without LEO

16 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments nealmcspadden

https://dublup.io/ is a great prediction market. A little while ago, @clayboyn created this market: And of course, I bought some YES shares. The odds were too juicy! 5 of those 10 are mine. So now I have 551 PAL coming my way. Stacking LEO without...

This is Why We Need #ProjectBlank

9 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments nealmcspadden

So I could be trolling you people who were waiting for the dip on $CUB more easily. Bunch of suckers!

Monster Maverick Show Starts in 5 Hours

9 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments nealmcspadden

Today we're going to have a special guest with @solominer. He will be sharing his results investing in Splinterlands and Hive more generally. If there's time, we'll also get to the new Wax Blockchain launch and more. Discord link: https://discord.gg...

Tax Sherpa Stories Starts in 24 Hours

1 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments nealmcspadden

The next live show of Tax Sherpa Stories is tomorrow, Monday, at 3 pm Eastern on MSPwaves.com. To join the live audience, go to https://tinyurl.com/taxstories at showtime. This week I'm thinking I'm going to tell you some 401k horror stories. See yo...