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.


This is the end of this cycle

17 May 2021 2 minute read 30 comments ScreenTag

As we predicted back in January, the (previous) bull market cycle would be over when helicopter money would stop flowing - and that would be around April to May of this year (see https://www.publish0x.com/the-other-side/its-time-for-you-to-ask-the-to...

Do not blame Elon Musk

13 May 2021 1 minute read 6 comments ScreenTag

Elon Musk did what any CEO of a publicly traded company would do: he warned Tesla's current and future customers on an upcoming major change in the company policy. That's perfectly normal. The reasoning behind this decision though, is not at all norm...

How Uniswap is 'confiscating' tokens from LPs

12 May 2021 2 minute read 7 comments ScreenTag

So, you decided to become a liquidity provider on Uniswap and earn some interest for your dust-gathering tokens. You are promised a proportional share of the 0.3% fee Uniswap charges its users (although in reality it's much more than that), but as wi...

Publish0x withdrawal limit just went up to $2

3 Feb 2021 1 minute read 67 comments ScreenTag

Just a quick note that if you were ready to ask for a withdrawal at $1, you are about to get an unpleasant surprise: you cannot get that payout - and obviously, it's all about withdrawals in Ether, since it makes no sense to ask for a withdrawal in A...

The myth of liquidity provider fees

22 Jan 2021 2 minute read 11 comments ScreenTag

We all know that decentralized exchanges are promising liquidity providers a proportional share of the fees generated within each pair. If you go to Uniswap, for instance, you will see not only fees generated, but all recent transactions that generat...

What Black-Jack can teach you about crypto

5 Jan 2021 2 minute read 50 comments ScreenTag

No, it's not the profound observation that crypto-markets are modern casinos - although they are. Black-Jack can teach you a lot more than just that. You only need to pay attention, and understand how things work. If you can understand Black-Jack, yo...

It's time for you to ask the tough questions

3 Jan 2021 2 minute read 19 comments ScreenTag

Let's start with a simple question. Was Bitcoin expensive at $12,000 but cheap at $34,800? Was Ethereum expensive at $400, but cheap at $980? Why those who are buying today like there is no tomorrow, didn’t buy a week ago? The answer is equally simpl...

Deregulation preachers: Freedom defenders or authoritarian fascists?

29 Dec 2020 1 minute read 12 comments ScreenTag

You might have read some of the posts written by government-obsessed @Alucardlife. In case you have not, everything in those posts is about freedom from the (US) government-imposed regulations. He even goes to say, he is on a mission to set us free f...

Almost $10 Billion of value lost due to XRP deep dive

23 Dec 2020 1 minute read 17 comments ScreenTag

Ten billion US Dollars is no pocket money. That's how much holders of XRP have (virtually) lost in just two days, upon arrival of the news of Ripple being sued by the SEC. The thing is how crypto-gamblers (or crypto-investors, as they like to call th...

Ripple is being sued by the SEC

22 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ScreenTag

As mentioned in a post several weeks ago, SEC may take some time to take action against those who are not compliant to public offering regulations, but eventually it does. Ripple is the latest crypto-company that is expecting to face a lawsuit, for t...