I'm not a financial advisor - I just play one on the internet. I write about crypto and crypto related things. Posts are cross posted from my blog at https://ninjawingnut.xyz
7 Aug 2021 6 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
For todays article, we are going to take a look at one of the darker parts of crypto, how they work, and what you can look for in order to help prevent yourself from falling victim to one of these scams. Please note I am on vacation the week of Augus...
6 Aug 2021 5 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
With all the hype around Ethereum (ETH) with the London hard fork being in place and the fee burn happening, I figured it was a good time to take a closer look at one of the Layer 2 Scaling solutions, rollups. These are a pretty good way to boost up...
5 Aug 2021 5 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
It’s time for my weekly look at the Bitcoin (BTC) price action for the week and try to make some sense of it all, and maybe make a prediction or two. It’s been another good week despite some red days, and I’m seeing a lot of reasons to be optimistic....
4 Aug 2021 7 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
Today I am going to take a look at the first version of the Yam protocol, which, due to some nasty software bugs, managed to have a meteoric rise and fall over a span of just a couple of days. It’s sometimes important to take a look at the failures i...
3 Aug 2021 6 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
For today’s article I am taking a look at the changes that Uniswap has made to it’s protocol when it launched V3 back a few months ago. They made some interesting changes to how the liquidity pools and automated market maker works, and I think it’s i...
31 Jul 2021 6 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
In yesterday’s article about Layer 2 Scaling, I eluded to the fact that Polygon uses it’s own flavor of the plasma framework, and today I am going to explore that a little deeper, because it’s becoming quite a large player, and I think it’s important...
30 Jul 2021 5 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
For today’s article, I am going to take a closer look at layer 2 scaling. I’ve mentioned it a number of times in previous articles, as one of the ways to help increase transaction speeds and lower costs, but I’ve never really dived into what it actua...
28 Jul 2021 6 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
It’s time for my weekly look at the Bitcoin (BTC) price action for the week and try to make some sense of it all, and maybe make a prediction or two. It’s been an interesting week so far, so we’ll see how accurate I can be. I also do a weekly video o...
28 Jul 2021 7 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
Today I am taking a look at Sushi, a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol that is more than just a DEX. It has a number of interested features kicking about the platform, and I think it’s worth taking a look at just what they have to offer. For the...
26 Jul 2021 6 minute read 4 comments CryptoWingnut
In a previous article, I talked about gas prices, I talked a little bit about what determines how much gas you pay for a transaction. Earlier today, I was talking to a friend, who was complaining about needing to pay $5 in gas to withdraw from a posi...
