Hi everyone. This is just a place for me to post some of my thoughts and analysis. I hope that someone finds them useful.
19 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments The Part Time Economist
Compound Finance is arguably one of the better-known decentralized finance protocols, and it was one of the first DeFi protocols that I used when I started to learn about lending crypto. But, did you know that Compound Finance also offers its “Compo...
18 Feb 2023 1 minute read 4 comments The Part Time Economist
As Splinterlands continuously nerfs player rewards in the name of fighting bots, my season rewards have hit a new low to the point that I can barely cover the cost of renting my cards. Indeed, removing liquid cards from the rewards chest means that...
11 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments The Part Time Economist
In this week's crypto news, SEC chair Gary Gensler strikes again by hitting the Kraken crypto exchange with a $30 million fine and forcing them to shut down all of their US staking services. In today's video, we're talking about what this means for...
4 Feb 2023 1 minute read 1 comment The Part Time Economist
Splinterforge is a revolutionary blockchain-based video game that allows players to use existing assets from another game (Splinterlands) to start playing and earning in Splinterforge. The ability to start earning without making any in-game purchase...
28 Jan 2023 1 minute read 1 comment The Part Time Economist
Liquid staking is a cryptocurrency innovation that is designed to give crypto investors the best of both worlds: the ability to earn passive income on their crypto while also retaining the ability to trade a liquid asset. Although there are advantag...
22 Jan 2023 1 minute read 1 comment The Part Time Economist
As the price of Bitcoin continues to recover, some people simply can't enjoy a good thing and have cautiously warned us all that the recent positive price action is a "Dead Cat Bounce". But what even is a dead cat bounce, and why do cryptocurrency t...
21 Jan 2023 1 minute read 2 comments The Part Time Economist
As Bitcoin continues its bullish rally and breaks past multi-month highs, almost everyone in the crypto world is celebrating the increase in Bitcoin price. Everyone except for the people who lost $300 Million as their short positions were liquidated...
14 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments The Part Time Economist
The Splinterlands blockchain-based video game has finally given players something that they have been clamoring for for ages.....the ability for individual players to submit game-changing proposals to a community vote. In contrast to many other vide...
8 Jan 2023 1 minute read 4 comments The Part Time Economist
Cryptocurrency is growing faster than the internet. Bitcoin will have one billion users by 2025, and the price of Bitcoin could be over $300k per coin.....or so we are told. As a cryptocurrency holder, the prospect of mass adoption of BTC in the nex...
3 Jan 2023 1 minute read 4 comments The Part Time Economist
Current NFTs work on a "pay once, receive value forever model" which means that once you purchase an NFT it can be used essentially forever with no additional cost. In many ways, this is good for consumers as their NFTs resist the wear and tear of p...
