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
24 Jul 2021 5 minute read 8 comments CryptoWingnut
The topic of today’s post is the Ampleforth (AMPL) token, a very interesting algorithmic stablecoin. It uses an interesting elastic supply mechanic as it’s method of rebasing to maintain it’s peg. There is even community governance, so it’s a pretty...
23 Jul 2021 7 minute read 1 comment CryptoWingnut
This post is special from the others that you generally see from me in that it's the first time I'm posting exclusively to Publish0x, but also my first time entering one of the contests on here. I'm going to be talking about SwapSpace, a fairly new p...
23 Jul 2021 6 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
Today I am going to take a look at how money markets work in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). These are the places you can borrow and lend crypto and either make returns or pay interest, depending on which side of that line you find yourself. For the us...
21 Jul 2021 4 minute read 1 comment 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...
21 Jul 2021 7 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
For today’s article I am going to take a look at what derivatives are and how they handled in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) world. These are relatively the same as their centralized counterparts, but of course with all of the perks of being decent...
20 Jul 2021 5 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
Today I am going to explore Chainlink, a blockchain service that allows a Decentralized Application (DApp) to get real world data from a decentralized oracle service, instead of needing to rely on a centralized solution in order to get access to that...
17 Jul 2021 8 minute read 0 comments CryptoWingnut
Today we are going to take a look at what happened with Iron Finance, and why the events that played out mirror a bank run in the traditional finance world. For the usual disclosure, I am not a financial advisor, I don’t even work in finance at all....
16 Jul 2021 6 minute read 1 comment CryptoWingnut
Today I am taking a look at a flash loans, a feature in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) that lets people borrow very large sums of crypto, for very short periods of time. For the usual disclosure, I am not a financial advisor, I don’t even work in finan...
14 Jul 2021 4 minute read 1 comment 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...
14 Jul 2021 5 minute read 1 comment CryptoWingnut
For today’s post I am going to take a look at the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), a smart contract enabled blockchain that is modelled after Ethereum’s. It offers greater transaction throughput, and cheaper gas prices, but does sacrifice some things like...
