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Opinion
Your weekly dose of crypto news & opinion.
December 19, 2024"Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of [memes]" - Nietzsche, slightly adjusted.
As the German philosopher knew, things come back more often than...
December 4, 2024That's the path crypto seems to be going down. It's also the name of a novel by Camus, published in 1942. In it, he wrote, “After a while, you could get used to anything.”
I am...
November 20, 2024Or maybe it's just me feeling the cognitive dissonance in crypto is becoming too much to handle. We hype stuff up that isn't worth hyping, we put our chains' keys in other...
November 6, 2024This is how many would characterize Adam Smith's theory about why the invisible hand of the market makes us all better off. Those who break Smith down like that forget he wrote...
October 23, 2024I ask myself, being in crypto these days - where presidential candidates advertise tokens with ludicrous claims, a bot gets rich shilling memes, and blockchains launch...
October 9, 2024In his essay Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher establishes that we've canceled the future and are just recycling the old instead. And what's old in crypto? Discussing who Satoshi...
September 25, 2024In 2006, I, a teenage girl, was really into Christina Aguilera. So much so, I listened to her latest album on repeat, to the detriment of my family's sanity.
Anyway, it was...
September 11, 2024Even outside of crypto, Gen Z has adopted being delusional as a coping mechanism, delulu denoting someone who, despite evidence to the contrary, holds on to idealistic...
August 28, 2024Another whistleblower wrote a book about how corrupted crypto is, and Pavel Durov, the CEO of everyone's darling messaging app Telegram, got arrested in France—where he went to...
August 14, 2024Also the title of a great book I took the liberty to borrow. It tries to answer the question of why tech often benefits the elites and what can be done about that. More people...
August 1, 2024Warning: this may contain traces of sarcasm and cynicism.
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Penguins
There's a clear hierarchy in NFTs. The squiggles are for edgy art appreciators, while Bored Ape...
July 17, 2024Red has always been used as a warning sign, as we're wired to pay attention to it. The colour is also a theme for what's happened in crypto in the past few days.
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July 3, 2024Dive into our latest newsletter covering groundbreaking space ventures, blockchain security scandals, and Solana's innovative tech strides. Plus, discover a fascinating...
June 19, 2024Story One
ZK Airdrop
Is this the start of ZK summer or just a Midsummer Night's Dream where we're all manipulated by the magic airdrop fairy? It remains to be seen, but with...
May 23, 2024Dare I say, such a thing does not exist. While another exploit and another outage aren't big news to us anymore, the first story at least led to some hated arguments. And what...
May 9, 2024These past few days, the crypto news suggests it might be time to play a requiem and lay our long-held dream of life-changing airdrop wealth to rest.
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Kyrie (Lord...
April 24, 2024Whenever prices go up, we're seeing a renaissance of everything that makes crypto such an aspirational, deeply respected industry. From new token standards no one asked for...
April 18, 2024So, here we are again. The Bitcoin block reward is about to halve, reducing the amount of new BTC entering the system each block from 6.25 to 3.125.
Let me say upfront that the...
April 10, 2024Story One
Solana Eclipse
Millions gathered across the US, Mexico, and Canada to watch the Solar eclipse. Meanwhile, all the manlets transacting on Solana experienced their...
April 4, 2024SBF has been sentenced, bringing to an end one of crypto’s most shameful story arcs. What can we take from it for the future?
The end, when it came, felt like an anticlimax. 25...
March 27, 2024That's if all you care about are numbers and cheap engagement.
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EU banning anonymous wallets?!
At least, that was the tenor from Crypto Twitter over the weekend...
March 21, 2024Crypto is having its memecoin moment. Is it a tribute to crypto’s fundamental emptiness or a celebration of its enduring community?
Yo brah, don’t know if you’ve noticed but...
March 13, 2024But as they say, one should always deliver the bad news first, so here we go.
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Wormhole's W airdrop more of an L?
If there were an Oscar for giving free money to...
February 28, 2024This week, it's all about number go up, which hints at a bigger trend: the bull market making a comeback.
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MetaMask nears record users
While Bitcoin has already...
February 22, 2024A quick tour through four areas that could really give this bull run something to holler about.
Last issue I was writing about the arch-cynic’s take on the coming bull run. The...
February 14, 2024Story One
Laser eyes
Laser eye's making a comeback wasn't exactly on my 2024 bingo card. Life is full of surprises, and so is Joe Biden.
On February 11th, he posted a...
February 8, 2024The next bull run is taking shape. All it’s missing is a reason to actually happen.
Last week crypto fund manager Travis Kling kicked off a furious conversation with his...
January 31, 2024Story One
Diversity Crisis
Ethereum has a diversity crisis. You, dear reader, probably also fall under the "bro" category (crypto, VC, trader, finance bro... there are...
January 24, 2024The Bitcoin ETF has arrived and we’re working out what comes next. While we wait, I’m gonna yell at the clouds for a bit.
January 17, 2024Story One
Sell the news
Now that 11 ETFs are approved, issuers have started engaging in a fee war, slashing their usual costs, with Blackrock charging 0.25% and Bitwise...
January 10, 2024The Bitcoin ETF is a watershed moment – and one that brings with it a whole host of new opportunities and risks.
For the last few weeks, the question of whether the SEC is...
January 3, 2024Story One
Vitalik advocates a return to OG values
Wake up babe, new Vitalik blog post dropped. The Ethereum founder is trying to kick off a mindset shift with his blog that...
December 28, 2023I think it’s safe to say that 2023 was not as bad as expected. Will 2024 continue crypto’s winning form?
December 19, 2023Story One
Inscriptions claim a new victim
Remember Ordinals, also called inscriptions, an NFT standard that arose on Bitcoin, allowing users to attach data to tokens? Well,...
December 13, 2023The idea of an ETH killer has always been faintly ridiculous. But as SOL and AVAX surge and surge, this could be the cycle where the balance finally shifts.
When SBF’s criminal...
December 6, 2023Story One
Drama in Cosmos
My theory is that some people are just in crypto because their friends would make fun of them if they watched the Kardashians or Selling Sunset for...
November 30, 2023CZ is gone and with him the last remnants of crypto’s gluttonous age. Now we can finally build again.
I’m not going to pretend I wasn’t surprised by the sudden fall of CZ, the...
November 22, 2023Story One
Another highly profitable trading strategy
Chances are you spent last weekend monitoring the situation around Sam Altman, the AI Sam who was fired as CEO of OpenAI...
November 16, 2023The Halving is less than six months away. It’s all uphill from here, right?
Alright, cards on the table. I legitimately thought there was a 50/50 chance that we would never see...
November 8, 2023Story One
SBF guilty
Sam Bankman Fried, also known as the guy who ruined the reputation of Effective Altruism for the foreseeable future, has been found guilty on seven...
November 1, 2023Crypto is surging and Bitcoin is leading the charge. It’s a reminder not to forget who the boss really is.
Do you hear that, friends? That faint popping noise, echoing over the...
October 26, 2023Story One
Reddit Rug
Bad times for the people who were bullish on Big web2 social platforms integrating web3 elements. After Meta shut down its NFTs on Instagram initiative a...
October 18, 2023The Sam Bankman-Fried trial sounds the long overdue death rattle of crypto 1.0
Perception is a magical thing. Little more than a year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was crypto’s wonder...
October 11, 2023Story One
In the arena
When people on crypto Twitter are not thinking about the Roman Empire or tokenizing Uranium, they spend their time on SocialFi these days. The...
October 5, 2023Meta’s photorealistic avatars reminded the world that the metaverse still exists. But will it ever actually come to fruition?
One thing crypto could never be accused of lacking...
September 27, 2023Story One
A DAO forking around
Nouns is a DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization with a simple business model: make their IP great. Nouns IP is based around a set of...
September 21, 2023Despite a horror year, Binance remains the undisputed champ of the crypto space. But how long can they defy gravity?
Looking back, it’s still hard to believe exactly how fast...
September 13, 2023Story One
CFTC chooses violence
Someone at the CFTC must have had a bad flight home from vacation. Why else would they end the holiday season by bringing enforcement against...
September 6, 2023As regulators around the world scramble to work crypto out, some familiar divides are re-emerging.
CoinJar UK customers this week received an email informing them that...
August 30, 2023Story One
Pepe members go rogue
Pepecoin, a memecoin that surged to fame earlier this year when everything was trading flat, now faces allegations of being a rug. Or at least...
August 23, 2023Crypto’s latest hype train lets you buy and sell shares in, well, people. Here’s a few ways of thinking about Friend.tech.
So, it’s come to this. Some enterprising crypto...
August 16, 2023Story One
PayPal enters the stablecoin game
On August 6th, the payments giant PayPal announced the launch of its own stablecoin with the creative name PUSD. It's the first...
August 10, 2023Crypto is doing its best to bore the true believers into bailing out. The equation is simple: we need more cash.
Nothing like taking a month away from newsletter duties to...
August 2, 2023Story One
The new Samcoin
On July 24th, Worldcoin, the iris-scanning startup, launched its token with the ticker $WLD.
Sam Altman's side project has already faced a lot of...
July 26, 2023Real-World-Assets are the latest and greatest in crypto, as they promise to usher in the age of financial institutions adopting crypto for real.
It's ironic to think back to...
July 19, 2023Story One
XRP, not a security
For a while, the most consistent thing in crypto wasn't the value of stablecoins nor the laser eyes on Bitcoin Maxis profile pics (both didn't...
July 13, 2023The much-derided NFT market has taken yet another nosedive. Is the end of the suffering in sight?
It’s been almost two years since someone paid US$1.3 million (400 ETH at the...
July 6, 2023Story One
Still no Bitcoin ETF
Even though major banks now offer digital asset solutions, what's missing so far in the US is a Bitcoin Spot ETF. Exchange Traded Funds are a...
June 29, 2023While crypto smoulders, some of the world’s biggest asset managers make their move.
You have to hand it to the bear market: it has a perverse sense of humour.
Here we are,...
June 22, 2023Three Arrows Capital, who previously managed an estimated $10 billion collapsed, triggered by the Luna crash, and left behind $3.5 billion in unpaid claims and a collection of...
June 15, 2023The SEC has launched definitive action against Binance and Coinbase. Welcome to the endgame of Crypto 1.0.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a crypto watcher who was necessarily...
June 8, 2023Story One
Nike and EA bringing NFTs to games
While things are rather dire in NFT land, companies outside of the space seem to lead the way regarding retail adoption.
EA, the...
June 1, 2023Memecoins reign and in-jokes are the currency of the realm. Is crypto fundamentally dumb? Is that the whole point?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the past 12 months have...
May 25, 2023Story One
Ledger Drama
The hardware wallet producer has never been one to shy away from funny ideas. After producing a wallet with a necklace so you can keep your crypto...
May 18, 2023Learn about the key differences in these trading venues and which one might suit your needs.
Chances are that you didn't get into crypto because someone magically appeared in...
May 10, 2023Story One
Bitcoin's luxury problems
Recently, Bitcoin has run into a luxury problem: too much use. The Bitcoin network has seen its transactions and fees hit near all-time...
May 3, 2023Is the future full of appchains, or is this just a phase?
As for another week, a frog meme coin called Pepe continues outperforming all the real builders in crypto; one can't...
April 27, 2023
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Mysterious 5000 ETH hack
As so often in crypto, alpha isn't televised but comes straight to your timeline - delivered by e-girl accounts on Twitter. This time...
April 19, 2023What ReFi is all about, and how regens want to make the world a better place.
Maybe you spent the Easter holidays talking to your non-web3 friends about crypto. Chances are...
April 13, 2023Story One
Arbitrum Governance on fire 🔥
But when we say fire, it's not the good kind. Arbitrum, an Ethereum Layer-2, recently airdropped over 1 billion of its native token to...
April 5, 2023Move-to-Earn is so 2022, how to earn in 2023. Not all earn programs are created equally - here's what you need to know.
For a while, all crypto founders had to do to attract...
March 29, 2023
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Crypto punk burns
Losing money – NFT investors are great at it. One of them has set a new record for self-goxxing by accidentally destroying an asset worth...
March 23, 2023What crypto airdrops are all about, and why it's not just free money
While Crypto Twitter is still waiting for a MetaMask airdrop, this month brought us an Arbitrum airdrop....
March 8, 2023
How the latest hyped concept could make crypto accessible to everyone and their mum
Once again, an acronym is all the rage in the crypto world. Don't be misled. AA does not...
March 1, 2023
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Exploiting the exploiter
Remember last year when Solana DeFi flourished despite the chain being down sometimes? Back then, a savvy hacker exploited Wormhole, a...
February 22, 2023Zero-knowledge, zero problem: all you need to know about this crypto narrative.
It's been a tough week for anyone following crypto regulations closely. But instead of focusing...
February 15, 2023
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SEC is forcing Kraken to shut down its staking service
The SEC's new year resolution must have been going down hard on crypto. The latest company being called out...
February 8, 2023The Ordinals protocol brought good old community fights back to Bitcoin. Are you on team meme?
If you've been on crypto Twitter recently, chances are that you have come across...
February 1, 2023
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Avi's highly profitable trading strategy might end him in jail
Avraham Eisenberg's "highly profitable trading strategy" might come with some unexpected losses,...
January 25, 2023Liquid staking derivatives are all the rage on Crypto Twitter, but how high can they really go?
The dominant narrative going into 2023 in the world of crypto has been LSDs. And...
January 19, 2023Story One
After F comes G...TX
What comes next after months of laying low in a country which offers no extradition to the US? You make a comeback. An investment deck...
January 11, 2023
Last year saw few positive cryptocurrency headlines. Was there even a glimmer of hope?
The end of 2021 felt like a hangover after all time highs. We soberly asked ourselves...
November 17, 2022Story One
How Sam Bankman-Fried killed the world’s greatest money printer
Hands up if you had “amphetamine addicted sex nerd rug pulls the international crypto market” on...
November 10, 2022I regret to inform you that crypto has been cancelled.
There are savage falls from grace. And then there is whatever the %#&@ just happened to FTX founder and CEO Sam...
November 3, 2022Story One
Elon buys Twitter, Binance tosses in half-a-billion
Unless you’ve been clinically dead for the past week, you’re probably aware that Elon Musk now owns Twitter.
An...
October 27, 2022The decentralised web is crypto’s latest and greatest crusade. Could a web 2.0 giant show us the way forward?
When web3 roared into the crypto vernacular last year it felt like...
October 20, 2022Story One
Mastercard, Google and BNY Mellon make the crypto leap
Classify this news package under “If it happened during a bull market we’d all be drinking martinis in...
October 13, 2022The world is in a right state. Is financial catastrophe inevitable? And what might it mean for crypto?
If you’ve spent any time listening to the financial punditry of late,...
October 6, 2022Story One
The SEC goes after big Kimmy
Of all the on-the-nose celebrity crypto endorsements of the 2020/21 bull cycle, surely the most grotesque was Kim Kardashian putting...
September 29, 2022As the US dollar pulverises the world’s fiat currencies, could stablecoins give crypto the utility it’s been seeking?
It’s been a hell of a week for the world’s forex traders....
September 21, 2022Story One
Catch me if you Kwon
I will not apologise for that headline.
Anyway, Terra founder Do Kwon’s very bad year continues with South Korean prosecutors issuing a...
September 15, 2022The Merge is done and dusted. Now what are we going to talk about?
By the time you read this, the Ethereum Merge will be complete. If it went well then basically nothing will...
September 8, 2022Story One
Stable Wars: Binance comes for the king
The world’s largest exchange kicked up no small amount of ruckus this week when it announced that it was removing all...
September 1, 2022So, here we are. More than three years behind schedule and with approximately one thousand deadlines left burning in the rearview mirror: the Merge has finally arrived. (The...
August 11, 2022Story One
The Feds put Tornado Cash on their international sanctions list
If you haven’t heard of it before, Tornado Cash is DeFi’s version of a Bitcoin tumbling service. If...
August 4, 2022A major hack shows us how far crypto still has to go – and that the first step might have to be backwards.
On Tuesday, the Nomad bridge was hacked for US$190 million, making it...
July 28, 2022Story One
Elon got out while the getting was… OK
The US quarterly earnings season is upon us (like Christmas coming four times a year!) and Tesla’s wrap-up revealed the...
July 21, 2022The savage nature of the crypto crash offers a stark warning about the dangers of rampant speculation. But is it a necessary evil?
The details of the 3 Arrows Capital collapse...
July 14, 2022Story One
Bitcoin miners are the latest forced dumpers of the crypto crash
First they came for the shitcoins and NFTs. Then the CeFi lenders. Now it’s the Bitcoin miners who...
July 7, 2022Crypto firms are collapsing under the weight of bad bets, excess leverage and poor risk management. What can the GFC tell us about what comes next?
The implosion of the...
June 30, 2022Story One
The horrible, no-good, very bad story of CeFi continues.
Contagion was the theme of last week’s Offchain, but the news hasn’t gotten any better in the intervening...
June 23, 2022What DeFi giveth, DeFi taketh away AKA why unsustainable yield both started and killed the bull run.
Do you remember DeFi summer? That magical period in mid-2020 where people...
June 15, 2022Story One
It’s getting hot in here
You may or may not have heard of Celsius, the much heralded crypto unicorn that offered people “up to 18.63% APY” on their crypto...
June 9, 2022America has released its first comprehensive cryptocurrency legislation. Is this the beginning of the end for crypto’s Ludicrous Era?
For most of Bitcoin’s history, the OG...
June 2, 2022Story One
And in the third week, it rose again
Remember LUNA-UST, the so-called stablecoin whose US$45 billion collapse brought the crypto industry to its knees? You do?...
May 26, 2022As the chill of a new crypto winter sets in, the past offers itself as a flawed guide.
Last year, during the height of the mania, people started talking about cryptocurrency...
May 19, 2022Story One
The death spiral we had to have
I wrote my first story about Bitcoin in 2011. In the 11 years since, I’ve spent a lot of time reading, writing and thinking about...
May 11, 2022The much prophesied collapse of LUNA–UST has come to pass. Is this the beginning or the end of the crypto suffering?
The biggest story in crypto right now is undoubtedly the...
May 6, 2022Story One
Bitcoin breaks the magical US$100 mark
Can you believe it? I barely can and it’s my job to be optimistic about Bitcoin. Remember being at Christmas last year and...
April 21, 2022Story One
ASX greenlights the first Australian Bitcoin ETF
While all the focus is understandably on the prospects of a US Bitcoin ETF, Australia has gone and put itself in...
April 14, 2022After the Merge, Ethereum’s energy usage will drop by 99.95%. Is there any hope for Bitcoin?
Of all the things to look forward to in Ethereum’s upgrade to a Proof-of-Stake...
April 7, 2022Story One
More rumours about Apple’s entry into the crypto space
In what’s becoming the Groundhog Day of crypto rumours, we’re once again seeing chatter that Apple is going...
March 30, 2022Terra is buying billions in Bitcoin and the price is surging. Is it just a Ponzi primed to collapse?
In case you hadn’t noticed, the price of Bitcoin has started going up...
March 24, 2022Story One
Billionaire Ape Yacht Club
While the NFT market itself may be in the midst of a mini-bear, the energy and money pouring into the space shows little sign of slowing...
March 17, 2022With the crypto market in stasis, here are some ways to use your time in limbo productively.
In late 2018, the crypto market died. For literally months the price did nothing...
March 10, 2022Story One
Biden signs executive order on crypto
Joe Biden has just signed a long-awaited executive order on cryptocurrency. A wide-ranging document, the order discusses the...
March 3, 2022A horrendous conflict offers us insights into the best and worst parts of cryptocurrency.
Let’s not mince words here: what’s happening in Ukraine is absolutely awful. A...
February 17, 2022The Super Bowl was crypto’s intro to prime time. But is crypto ready for the big stage?
I don’t know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the line advertising ate the...
January 19, 2022From tech legends to furries to the editors of Wikipedia, everyone’s lining up to dunk on crypto. Are we the bad guys?
Of all the digital communities one might expect to come...
December 23, 20212021 may have served up its fair share of crap, but for crypto it was the year we finally came of age.
December 8, 2021Omicron is here, inflation is spiking and markets all over the world are struggling. Shouldn’t this be crypto’s moment?
When the WHO decided to name the latest coronavirus...
November 25, 2021For the first time, people are saying the unsayable: Ethereum may be beyond saving. Is it actually true?
The fact that Ethereum is painfully slow and cripplingly expensive to...
October 14, 2021After eight years the first Bitcoin ETF could almost be here. Will it be everything we’ve been waiting for?
You gotta hand it to the Winklevii: they were ahead of the curve....
September 30, 2021Crypto has been growing for a decade and we’re finally starting to see what it’s all about: building the next internet.
By any metric you might choose to measure, the five...
September 2, 2021According to Zuck, the metaverse is coming. And crypto wants to be the gateway drug.
A month ago, Mark Zuckerberg emerged from his nutrient-replenishment coffin to conduct a...
August 12, 2021CoinJar, the new official Cryptocurrency partner of Premier League newcomers Brentford, teamed up with former Bees defender and Premier League cult hero Hermann Hreidarsson to...
July 29, 2021From Binance to BlockFi, from Britain to the banks, regulators are finally moving on crypto. Is that a good thing?
Regulation has always been coming for crypto. Together with...
July 14, 2021After the sheer, record-breaking insanity of early 2021, crypto is currently doing, well, nothing. And that’s not the worst thing.
Undeniably, one of cryptocurrency’s biggest...
June 30, 2021China’s been “banning” Bitcoin for years. But this time they’ve actually done it – and the consequences are profound.
For most of its history, Bitcoin has been a Chinese...
June 17, 2021While El Salvador steals the spotlight, Bitcoin has quietly been finalising its first proper upgrade in four years.
Yeah, yeah. I get it. The President of El Salvador declaring...
June 2, 2021Elon shone a spotlight on bitcoin’s prodigious energy use. Is it possible to be a carbon conscious crypto investor?
Major market moves are always so painfully obvious in...
May 6, 2021One Ether now costs more than US$3000. Did you ever think you’d see the day?
You gotta hand it to the crypto markets: in some ways they’re comically predictable. A month ago,...
April 23, 2021Lushsux is Australian street art royalty. One of the country’s most prolific street artists and founder of the meme art movement, his work is both instantly recognisable and...
April 15, 2021If there was any doubt in your mind, Coinbase listing on the NASDAQ with a US$85 billion valuation should put them firmly to bed.
At around 3am AEST this morning (after some...
March 31, 2021If blockchain wants to take over the world, it’s going to have to get a lot faster. We’re adding some of the tokens trying to make it happen.
With news this week that...
March 17, 2021What the latest crypto craze can tell us about the good, the bad and the weird of the blockchain world.
Chances are that unless you’re being kept in some sort of subterranean...
March 3, 2021The prices are low and the panic is high. Is this the time to sell?
If you’ve been around crypto for longer than a couple of months, you’re probably familiar with the feelings...
February 18, 2021Tesla owns $1.5 billion bitcoin. Let the corporate FOMO begin
Look, I don’t need to tell you what happened: it was covered in pretty much every single news and news-adjacent...
February 3, 2021It was a brutal spring for crypto’s darling, but now it looks like DeFi might be ready for primetime.
When I wrote about the DeFi phenomenon last August, it was still a space...
January 13, 2021Did you see that coming? Because I did not see that coming.
Last time we talked I was in absolute disbelief that bitcoin had smashed through its 2017 all-time high, posting a...
December 23, 2020Bitcoin blasted through US$20k like it was tissue paper. When moon? Now. Now moon.
So, where were you on the night of December 17, 2020? Were you out celebrating the festive...
December 9, 2020Crypto has brought trading to the masses. But is that actually a good thing?
The language of trading has become so commonplace in the cryptosphere that it’s easy to forget how...
November 25, 2020Bitcoin’s market cap is at an all-time high. Think the ride is over? Nah, we’re just getting started.
I mean, what is there to even say at this point? Bitcoin, as an asset...
November 11, 2020Ethereum 2.0 is launching in December. Is bitcoin’s little sibling about to take charge?
One of the things that first attracted me to Ethereum – back in the almost...
October 28, 2020PayPal has announced that it’s going to start selling crypto. Let’s not mince words here: this is freaking huge.
Over the nine years that I’ve been watching, talking about and...
October 14, 2020The founders of BitMEX have been charged with money laundering. Here’s what that says about the state of the crypto market.
If crypto during the 2017 bull run was the Wild West...
October 6, 2020We’ve always been told to stay away from bubbles. But in crypto a good bubble is just part of the process.
When I first got into crypto, the one thing skeptics loved to throw...
September 25, 2020Variety is the spice of life. In crypto, it’s also a handy way of ensuring that you don’t get rekt.
As a field, crypto can be remarkably tribal. Bitcoin maximalists, the XRP...
September 2, 2020The DeFi frenzy shows no sign of slowing. But when the hype finally dies down, what will take its place?
I last wrote about the DeFi supernova a month ago, but the space is...
August 19, 2020Markets are soaring, coins are putting in 50% days and the Lambo memes are back. Is this 2017 all over again?
I don’t normally do this, but let’s start with the caveats. This...
August 3, 2020It’s the summer of DeFi! (AKA decentralised finance). But is something revolutionary happening or is it just another crypto bubble?
People have been proclaiming alt season from...
June 29, 2020Penny stocks going 5x, bankrupt companies pumping 700% – why is the share market acting like crypto in 2017?
For the better part of two months now, bitcoin has been stalled. At...
June 29, 2020Remember when your friends used to ask you about bitcoin? Those days might be back sooner than you think.
If you were around during the 2017 crypto bubble, you probably...
May 12, 2020The bitcoin halvening is HERE. We take you through the ins and outs of bitcoin’s biggest event.
At 5.23 am (AEST) this morning a seismic shift occurred: the amount of bitcoin...
April 29, 2020Oil prices are literally through the floor and it’s making crypto look like an oasis of stability.
On April 20 you could, for a brief moment, get paid US$40 for buying a barrel...
April 16, 2020On May 12 the bitcoin mining reward rate will halve. The only guarantee is that turbulence is on its way.
In the crypto universe, no event comes saddled with more unhinged...
April 2, 2020The coronavirus is pushing the global financial system to the absolute brink. Will this be Bitcoin’s moment?
I think it’s fair to say that we’ll always remember March 2020. It...
March 19, 2020In the space of 24 shocking hours, bitcoin’s price plunged by 50% – and then rebounded by 50%. The black swan has well and truly arrived.
When I finished the last newsletter by...
March 4, 2020Corona is spreading and the markets are freaking out. What does it mean for bitcoin?
February 20, 2020Coins soaring 50% in a single hour. Tokens going 3x. Could it actually be *gasp* alt season?
Say the words “alt season” in front of anyone who’s been trading crypto since 2017...
February 6, 2020Hacks, exit scams and insolvency, oh my. So, how safe is your crypto?
Even by the sometimes surreal standards of crypto, the news this week that creditors for bankrupt Canadian...
January 23, 2020Is Dollar Cost Averaging the solution to all your trading woes?
There are times when bitcoin’s daily price gyrations feel like they’ve been specifically designed to induce a...
December 12, 2019Beer, barbie and a captive audience – there’s no better time of year to get chatting about crypto. Here’s how to broach the subject.
You know it’s coming. There you are,...
November 28, 2019Prices are going down, down, down. Are we witnessing the effects of miner capitulation?
The crypto markets have a way of making us feel foolish. A month ago we were soaring...
November 14, 2019They won’t make you rich, but stablecoins are crypto’s hottest property. Here’s why they matter.
On November 1, CoinJar added trading support for USD Coin (USDC), a US-dollar...
October 31, 2019After months of brutal downtrend, bitcoin just had its best day since 2011 – and you can thank Xi Jinping.
So, let’s recap. In the three months to June, bitcoin, seemingly...
October 29, 2019In early 2019, a report by Bitwise to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission put forward a bold statement which at the same time failed to surprise anyone, “95% of all...
October 17, 2019Despite our best efforts, cryptocurrency remains a fringe pursuit. Could a new film help spread the love?
Sometimes blockchain can feel like a Magic Eye picture: the kind of...
October 3, 2019Mining Bitcoin uses more electricity than the entire country of Switzerland. Is cryptocurrency an unmitigated eco-disaster?
The recent announcement that bitcoin mining is...
August 29, 2019Bitcoin has had a hell of a year. So, why are the altcoins being absolutely obliterated?
During the 2017 crypto bull run people noticed that the market had started following a...
August 16, 2019It’s official: America and China are in a full-blown currency war. Could this be the best thing that’s ever happened to bitcoin?
Even by the standards of the Trump...
August 15, 2019Forget ICOs. The Initial Exchange Offering is here to take your money and do whatever the hell they want with it.
Back in 2015, a 21-year-old named Vitalik Buterin needed...
August 15, 2019Institutional money has finally arrived! Or has it? Does it even matter?
If there was one meme that kept us all warm during the crypto winter of 2018, it was the prospect that...
August 15, 2019Bitcoin promised to do to money what email did to communication. Is it any closer to achieving the dream?
I still remember the strange thrill I felt when I first read about...
August 15, 2019Would you trust Mark Zuckerberg with your money? Soon you may not have a choice.
Well, it’s happened. Facebook, the world’s sixth most valuable company, with a customer base of...
July 1, 2019So, the rumours were true. Facebook is releasing a cryptocurrency. Named Libra, it could potentially be the most significant event in the cryptocurrency world since Satoshi...
June 18, 2019Decentralisation is truly the greatest trend that has affected all of us since the turn of the 21st century. The biggest industries in the world have been transformed by...
June 11, 2019One of the biggest strengths of cryptocurrencies is the ability to provide alternative financial systems. As legacy systems continue to cater to yesterday’s world, friction in...
September 14, 2018This is a guest blog post by Rowan Crosby. Rowan is an Australian based financial journalist focused on Australian and US equity and commodity markets.
As the world of...
February 6, 2018This is a guest blog post by Chris Brycki, Founder and CEO of Stockspot, an Australian online investment adviser and fund manager. Previous to this, Chris was a Portfolio...
November 21, 2017Given the year Bitcoin has had, it’s no surprise there’s been a whole lot more interest since it first started. Eight years ago, no one even really knew what cryptocurrency was....
April 23, 2015In March, the UK government formally announced plans to welcome and regulate digital currency activity in the UK. The promise of research funding, police training, and pragmatic...
April 16, 2015I’ve bought a lot of stuff with bitcoin. Coffee, groceries, clothes… all very necessary but also quite ordinary. Last week, I signed up for a membership at Hubud, a co-working...
February 4, 2015Basic financial services are more expensive and exclusive than they need to be. If we can strip digital finance down into a lightweight, near-free service, we can offer it to...
September 26, 2014Our resident marketing lead Sam breaks down our #bitcoinisbetter campaign.
At CoinJar we like to have fun. So when we discovered Distroprint, a poster distribution group that...
September 10, 2014On Saturday we partnered with Grumpy’s Green and Touch Records to launch The Broken Needle’s Vinyl, “Holy Coast”, for bitcoin. It was a massive night for all involved, and we...
January 16, 2014The Bitcoin protocol is amazing. Not just because you can move millions of dollars for 10c, but because its very open source nature means smart folk all over the world can come...
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