The Other Side

The Other Side

Contrary to the popular perception, things are not always the way people see. Our journey in the crypto-world has revealed quite a few dark sides, that need to be uncovered.


Are your tokens worth the same on Polygon, Binance, and Ethereum Main-net?

11 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments ScreenTag

Polygon and Binance (along with some other entities), are trying to answer the high gas fees on the Ethereum main network, by setting up their own proprietary networks, running on the Ethereum protocol - with few modifications to match the scope of e...

How did Elon buy his 9% stake on Twitter?

7 Apr 2022 2 minute read 0 comments ScreenTag

Unless you live under a rock, you must have heard by now that Elon bought a 9% stake on Twitter. Such a move would have cost him (at around $30 per share), some $3-4 Billion (with a B). The thing is that from what we know, he didn't have several bill...

A take on the Russian invasion to Ukraine

6 Mar 2022 2 minute read 4 comments ScreenTag

A thing you won't find much about in the platform, is the Russian invasion to Ukraine - or as Emperor Putin prefers to call it, 'a special military operation'. Let's see if this 'operation' was even remotely justifiable. The 'suffering' Russian-speak...

How Publish0x controls what you read

15 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments ScreenTag

You think that all authors are only writing about NFTs, how their portfolio is doing, and a bunch of other crap. Yes, there are such low quality posts. But there are probably a lot more that never appear under the 'New' tab, that is supposed to prese...

Uniswap may be fined at least $540M for its airdrop by the IRS

14 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments ScreenTag

Uniswap may be be facing a huge tax bill for the airdrop took place from September 2020, until May 2021 - totaling at least $370M in withheld taxation, plus at least $170M in fines. This may come on top of the result of the SEC ongoing investigation....

BrownPay: The next OneCoin has just arrived - and it's going to scam thousands

7 Feb 2022 1 minute read 0 comments ScreenTag

Remember Dr. Ruja Ignatova and her notorious OneCoin, promising huge returns, only to have Ignatova disappearing along with several hundreds millions of dollars? Now, a new doctor, this time from... drumroll... Nigeria, under the name Sandra Bakare,...

Anatomy of a dump

5 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments ScreenTag

Jordan Belfort has once said: 'I know many Wall Street fraudsters, but in comparison to the crypto market, they are like kids in the kindergarten'. The recent Bitcoin dump provides evidence about how the cryptocurrencies markets are rigged. Let's tak...

Bitcoin vs. Inflation: The case of El Salvador

26 Oct 2021 2 minute read 13 comments ScreenTag

It's been said countless times that Bitcoin is the way to save your dollars from inflation - or hyper-inflation, as many call it (despite they have no idea about what hyper-inflation is). Is, however, inflation related in any way with currency valuat...

Tether: The time-ticking bomb

16 Oct 2021 2 minute read 22 comments ScreenTag

Last week Tether was fined $42.5 million for making misleading claims on the underlying value of funds under management, from 2016 to 2018. During the period, over 75% of the time, Tether was more or less short on funds - meaning your Tether dollars...

Publish0x stats for the year so far

13 Oct 2021 2 minute read 7 comments ScreenTag

Publish0x started with the ambition to be the crypto community publishing platform. But although the crypto market had a great first quarter, the publishing platform for the community didn't go that well. Last month was the worst of the past 12-month...