What Are BRC-20 Tokens?
If ordinals and inscriptions weren’t enough to get a bitcoin maximalist hot under the collar, then the latest use case for the ordinals protocol is sure to trigger a few rage tweets simply by hearing the name alone. For the last few weeks, monkey and punk jpeg minting has taken up headlines and block space […]
What Is Orange Washing?
As a newcomer to the world of bitcoin, you are facing an uphill battle to hold on to your sanity and any bitcoin you acquire. Since there is no central authority regulating the market, there are plenty of online scammers and opportunists looking to take advantage of novice investors and unsuspecting buyers. If you choose […]
12 Tips For Making A P2P Bitcoin Trade
Acquiring bitcoin with cash comes in two distinct flavours; you can choose to purchase it from a company such as a centralised exchange or fintech trading company, or you can purchase it from another bitcoin holder. When using an exchange, you’ll have to give up a host of information about yourself to acquire an account, […]
What Are Bitcoin Romance Scams?
In today’s high-time preference world, where is seemingly an app or website for everything, it’s not hard to see why so many people are trying to outsource parts of their daily life. If you can order your clothes and food or even do your work online, why can’t you find a partner online? Now, this […]
What Is Shitcoin Exit Liquidity?
We’ve all heard of or even participated in the standard ‘pump-and-dump’ scheme. The premise is simple, ‘dumpers’ create or hold a particular asset, in this case, a token, and use their influence or purchase influence through other personalities or institutions to hype up demand before aggressively. As people hear about the token and the false […]
The 12-Step Shitcoin Recovery Program
So you got into shitcoining because you heard you could make a lot of money in a short period of time, but it was not a get-rich-quick scheme. Let me guess the person that told you this also told you to invest in some of those coins told you it wasn’t financial advice. You decided […]
What Creates The Crypto Contagion?
It’s been a wild ride these last few years, even for the most seasoned bitcoiner. If this is your first bull and bear cycle, I am sure you feel like you’ve experienced a decade’s worth of drama in this last year alone. Bitcoin is infamous for being highly speculative and volatile. When you tack on […]
How Altcoin Exchanges Carry Liquidity Risk
Once you venture into the world of bitcoin and plan to acquire some, you’re faced with the reality that centralised exchanges are the easiest, cheapest and simplest way to get exposure to bitcoin. These on-ramps have market demand, and these fintech services function similarly to banks. You deposit fiat currency with them, and these exchanges […]
DAO’s Don’t Make Sense
Although the next era of the internet hasn’t been defined, pioneers in the bitcoin space are hard at work, building a set of self-sovereign tools for individuals and businesses to operate across borders with either no trust or certain trust assumptions. Even with bitcoin’s immutable layer underpinning these solutions, there are still many hurdles to […]
The Soulbound Token Turns Alts Into CBDCs
Bitcoins‘ introduction on the world stage has started the reshape the way we view money, as we now have a decentralised network of programmable money that has a global reach and no single entity to control it. Naturally, this would be a highly disruptive technology due to its vast improvements over the current options and […]