Opinion
Your weekly dose of crypto news & opinion.
Onchain: Bullishness indicators
August 13, 2025Wherever you look, as long as you avoid checking what's happening to privacy in the UK, and maybe soon in the US... Story One CT unites For once, people on Crypto Twitter...Read more
Onchain: OOO all of summer
July 30, 2025That's the joke about us Europeans. I'm living proof that not everyone is like that, so here's another dose of crypto stories instead of an OOO email. Story One BAM Or...Read more
Onchain: No summer break in sight
July 16, 2025Things in crypto just keep happening. Story One Pump.fun token sale On July 12th, Solana’s prime memecoin launchpad went through its public sale, raising $500 million in...Read more
Onchain: A Midsummer Night's Crypto Happenings
July 2, 2025If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be the perfect person to write a comedy about crypto. Story One One digital identity isn't enough Perhaps the question we should ask...Read more
Onchain: What happened to the future of Finance?
June 18, 2025I ask myself as I follow the crypto news. It seems we’re not really chasing the idea of providing an alternative to current systems, but rather embracing them, such as a certain...Read more
Onchain: A new hack, new money, and a new threat
June 5, 2025Story One A hack with a twist On May 22nd, the leading DEX on the SUI blockchain tweeted that it had detected an incident leading to the loss of $223 million in user funds....Read more
Onchain: Coming back to life
May 21, 2025Returning to life has been a theme for crypto recently in many ways. Story One New exit strategy just dropped Imagine you're the founder of an AI crypto project that...Read more
Onchain: Everything is coin
April 24, 2025That's, in essence, what a certain part of crypto identified as the next trend that'll finally bring mass adoption. Or at least a mass influx of wealth in select wallets (not...Read more
Onchain: Red sea
April 9, 2025Finally we have something to bond over with normal people: we're all in the same boat sailing the red seas that are our portfolios. Story One There's things still going up...Read more
Onchain: Rise and Shine
March 27, 2025It's official now. Sparkling water isn't just part of assimilating to German culture anymore but has become an integral part of the alpha male morning routine, alongside dipping...Read more
Onchain: Is Nature healing?
March 12, 2025Prices are down, X was down (and for a little moment I had hope of being free), and people in crypto are realizing that they might have to re-think their priorities. Story...Read more
Onchain: Another week in the trenches
February 27, 2025We're all down bad, but some, not just in financial terms but also morally. Story One Another presidential meme disaster You'll be relieved that this is not about Trump....Read more
Onchain: Laughing matters
February 12, 2025The best you can do in these crazy times is to learn to take it all with humor. Story One Market crashing - again Epictetus once said: "He who laughs at himself never runs...Read more
Onchain: Rough Seas
January 29, 2025These days, navigating crypto without significant loss of morals or wealth is like trying to get by on a ship navigating rough waters without feeding the fish (a euphemism for...Read more
Onchain: New Year, new me
January 16, 2025Who am I kidding? I just saved myself the ritual of making resolutions. If you’re still sticking with the gym, I applaud you. I, for one, am busy enough trying to maintain moral...Read more
Onchain: Comeback season
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...Read more
Onchain: Stranger
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...Read more
Onchain: A dissonant symphony
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...Read more
Onchain: Greed is good
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...Read more
Onchain: Is this accelerationism?
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...Read more
Onchain: Crypto Realism
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...Read more
Onchain: Back to Basics
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...Read more
Onchain: Delulu
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...Read more
Onchain: All PR is not good
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...Read more
Onchain: Power and Progress
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...Read more
Onchain: Penguins, Politics, and Pickups
August 1, 2024Warning: this may contain traces of sarcasm and cynicism. Story One Penguins There's a clear hierarchy in NFTs. The squiggles are for edgy art appreciators, while Bored Ape...Read more
Onchain: Blinking Red
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. Story...Read more
Onchain: Another Moon Landing, Unethical Auditors, and Blinks
July 3, 2024Dive into our latest newsletter covering groundbreaking space ventures, blockchain security scandals, and Solana's innovative tech strides. Plus, discover a fascinating...Read more
Onchain: ZK Airdrop, Tap-to-Earn, and Crypto's first Emmy?
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...Read more
Onchain: Just another normal week in crypto
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...Read more
Onchain: Requiem for a Dream
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. Story One Kyrie (Lord...Read more
Offchain: Follow the Users
May 2, 2024Crypto has always claimed it’s about more than just speculation. Could this be the cycle where we find out what crypto is actually for? A look back at crypto’s history can...Read more
Onchain: The Future of France
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...Read more
Offchain: A Half of the Whole
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...Read more
Onchain: Solana eclipse, another fee switch, and PTSD
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...Read more
Offchain: An Exchange of Value
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...Read more
Onchain: Things are going just great
March 27, 2024That's if all you care about are numbers and cheap engagement. Story One EU banning anonymous wallets?! At least, that was the tenor from Crypto Twitter over the weekend...Read more
Offchain: You Say Meme, I Say Community
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...Read more
Onchain: A W, an L, and something in between
March 13, 2024But as they say, one should always deliver the bad news first, so here we go. Story One Wormhole's W airdrop more of an L? If there were an Oscar for giving free money to...Read more
Offchain: Can We Get Much Higher?
March 7, 2024A new Bitcoin ATH has arrived, way ahead of schedule. So, what’s going on? Normally, in these newsletters, when I’m admonishing you to remember that “history doesn’t repeat”...Read more
Onchain: It's giving Bull
February 28, 2024This week, it's all about number go up, which hints at a bigger trend: the bull market making a comeback. Story One MetaMask nears record users While Bitcoin has already...Read more
Offchain: Four Big Trends For 2024
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...Read more
Onchain: Laser eyes, Sysiphus, and Pandora's box
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...Read more
Offchain: The No Expectations Bull Run
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...Read more
Onchain: Diversity crisis, frames, and a vampire/atacc
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...Read more
Offchain: 4 Things I Want Less Of Next Bull Market
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.Read more
Onchain: Sell the news, Happy Bears, and RPGF going brrr
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...Read more
Offchain: In The Big Leagues
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...Read more
Onchain: The future is Cypherpunk, maybe
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...Read more
Offchain: 5 Big Crypto Themes For 2024
December 28, 2023I think it’s safe to say that 2023 was not as bad as expected. Will 2024 continue crypto’s winning form?Read more
Onchain: Inscriptions claim a new victim, points everywhere, and a dog coin
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,...Read more
Offchain: It’s Ecosystem Season!
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...Read more
Onchain: Drama in Cosmos, an unhinged hacker, and a controversial L2
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...Read more
Offchain: The Last Domino
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...Read more
Onchain: Another highly profitable trading strategy, Plasma comeback, and Disney doing NFTs again
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...Read more
Offchain: Half a Chance
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...Read more
Onchain: SBF guilty, Aragon DAOn, and an L2 boom and bust
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...Read more
Offchain: Return of the king
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...Read more
Onchain: Reddit Rug, Interface Rent, and a media-induced Pump and Dump
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...Read more
Offchain: The King Is Dead
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...Read more
Onchain: In the arena, Bitcoin Mining gone volcano, and Optimism Fraud Proofs
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...Read more
Offchain: Meta? I Hardly Knew Her!
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...Read more
Onchain: A DAO forking around, a new wallet, and yet another attack
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...Read more
Offchain: Dance Dance Binance
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...Read more
Onchain: CFTC chooses violence, Visa lands on Solana and Vitalik gets hacked
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...Read more
Offchain: East v West
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...Read more
Onchain: Pepe members go rogue, Farcaster goes Optimism, and Balancer finds vulnerability
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...Read more
Offchain: With Friends Like These
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...Read more
Onchain: PayPal enters the stablecoin game, Base goes live and buy your friends
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...Read more
Offchain: Show Me The Money
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...Read more
Onchain: The new Samcoin, $50 million for real stuff, and yet another exploit
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...Read more
Offchain: RWAs, or how crypto is coming full circle
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...Read more
Onchain: XRP not a security, Rolex as collateral and Snitch-to-Earn
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...Read more
Offchain: NFTs All The Way Down
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...Read more
Onchain July: Still no Bitcoin ETF, Azuki enraging its holders, and Poly Network hacked again
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...Read more
Offchain: Attack of the Titans
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,...Read more
Onchain: 3AC's NFT collection sold, Tether de-peg, and Polygon 2.0
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...Read more
Offchain: The Tower Trembles
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...Read more
Onchain: Nike & EA bringing NFTs to games, Asia rising, and an eye-watering Series C
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...Read more
A Laughing Matter
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...Read more
Onchain: Ledger Drama, Tethers' Bitcoin purchase, and Ben's coins
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...Read more
Offchain: Trading your magic Internet money: Brokers & Exchanges
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...Read more
Onchain: Bitcoin's luxury problems, Sui taking an L, and memecoin mania meets reality
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...Read more
Offchain: Into the Cosmos of appchains
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...Read more
Onchain: 5000 ETH hack, Memecoins slaying, and error 404 on clarity
April 27, 2023 Story One 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...Read more
Offchain: Stop being a Degen; become a Regen
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...Read more
Onchain: Arbitrum Governance on fire, the Euler hacker returns nearly $200 million, and NFTs ready for take-off
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...Read more
Offchain: Move-to-Earn is so 2022, how to earn in 2023
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...Read more
Onchain: Crypto punk burns, Banking rugs, and Euler hacker returns some funds
March 29, 2023 Story One 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...Read more
Offchain: Drop it like it's hot
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....Read more
Offchain: Account abstraction or making crypto user-friendly
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...Read more
Onchain: Exploiting the exploiter, new L2 in town, and token-gating on Spotify
March 1, 2023 Story One Exploiting the exploiter Remember last year when Solana DeFi flourished despite the chain being down sometimes? Back then, a savvy hacker exploited Wormhole, a...Read more
Offchain: ZK-this, ZK-that, ZK-everything
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...Read more
Onchain: SEC Krak-down, 3AC founders back at it, and NFT Super Bowl ad confusion
February 15, 2023 Story One 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...Read more
Offchain: Bitcoin's never-anticipated utility is JPEGs - the maxis are not amused
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...Read more
Onchain: Highly profitable trading strategy, Tezos cars, and Aptos' insane valuation
February 1, 2023 Story One Avi's highly profitable trading strategy might end him in jail Avraham Eisenberg's "highly profitable trading strategy" might come with some unexpected losses,...Read more
Offchain: Ethereum's LSD trip
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...Read more
Onchain: OMFGTX, Fed's Poker face, and a found fortune?
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...Read more
Offchain: Crypto's Biggest Moments of 2022
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...Read more
Onchain: FTX collapse mega-edition
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...Read more
Offchain: Welcome to Hades
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...Read more
Onchain: Binance backs Musk, Twitter & Insta’s NFT push, Arbitrum takes over
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...Read more
Offchain: In web3 We Trust
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...Read more
Onchain: Institutional free-for-all, Ethereum censors, more like Craptos
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...Read more
Offchain: Make Mine a Macro
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,...Read more
Onchain: The SEC v Kim K, Celsius endgame, Credit Suisse teeters
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...Read more
Offchain: Ready and Stable
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....Read more
Onchain: Do Kwon on the run, US crypto regs, the Merge wash-up
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...Read more
Offchain: After the Merge
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...Read more
Onchain: Binance v Tether, Saylor gets sued, ETH counts down
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...Read more
Offchain: Urge to Merge
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...Read more
Onchain: Tornado Cash sanctions, BlackRock x Coinbase, ETH’s hardfork chaos
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...Read more
Offchain: Bridge to Nowhere
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...Read more
Onchain: Tesla sells, Coinbase v SEC, Vitalik’s 5-step vision
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...Read more
Offchain: A Matter of Speculation
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...Read more
Onchain: Miner capitulation, stablecoin tango, CeFi contagion continues
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...Read more
Offchain: Lessons from the GFC
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...Read more
Onchain: CeFi meltdown, Grayscale rejected, Bored Ape lawsuit
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...Read more
Offchain: Contagion
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...Read more
Onchain: Celsius wobbles, 3AC in strife, the trillion dollar club no more
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...Read more
Offchain: Goodbye to the Wild West
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...Read more
Onchain: LUNA 2.0, Commonwealth Bank backdown, new VC funding record
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?...Read more
Offchain: This Time is Different
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...Read more
Onchain: Terra collapses, Tether withdrawals, terror reigns
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...Read more
Offchain: When The Frost Thaws
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...Read more
Onchain: Bitcoin tops $100, Mt Gox gets sued, the real Satoshi? (Yes, it's May 2013)
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...Read more
Onchain: Australia gets an ETF, North Korea hacks, Merge delays
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...Read more
Offchain: Green with Envy
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...Read more
Onchain: Apple rumours, crypto’s biggest hack, the UK’s NFT play
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...Read more
Wide-eyed Terra
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...Read more
Onchain: Going $APE, Australia takes charge, Luna’s $10bn Bitcoin bet
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...Read more
What to do when the crypto is bad
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...Read more
Onchain: Biden’s executive order, crypto war and DeFi loses a legend
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...Read more
Crypto at War
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...Read more
The Crypto Bowl
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...Read more
Crypto Culture Wars
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...Read more
The 5 Biggest Stories of 2021
December 23, 20212021 may have served up its fair share of crap, but for crypto it was the year we finally came of age.Read more
Human After All
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...Read more
Ethereum Under Fire
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...Read more
ETF Incoming
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....Read more
Building the Decentralised Web
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...Read more
Welcome to the Metaverse
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...Read more
Into the Ether
August 18, 2021Ethereum has flipped Bitcoin in almost every metric that matters. Is market cap next? Last week Coinbase revealed its second quarter earnings, and its first set of earnings as...Read more
Premier League hero Hermann Hreidarsson on Brentford’s strength, Arsenal’s weakness and 21st century football success.
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...Read more
Regulators Mount Up
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...Read more
The Eye of the Storm
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...Read more
China Bows Out
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...Read more
Bitcoin’s Biggest Upgrade
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...Read more
Crypto Energy Wars
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...Read more
All Eyes on Ethereum
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,...Read more
How Melbourne meme artist Lushsux made half-a-million bucks from NFTs
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...Read more
Crypto has arrived.
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...Read more
A Question of Scale
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...Read more
Nonsensical NFTs
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...Read more
The Hard Sell
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...Read more
Elon-gated FOMO
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...Read more
DeFi Revisited
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...Read more
The Trillion Dollar Club
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...Read more
We Be Moonin’
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...Read more
Making the Trade
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...Read more
Can We Get Much Higher?
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...Read more
The Second Coming
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...Read more
Bitcoin Dominant
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...Read more
On the Margins
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...Read more
Buying the Bitcoin Bubble
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...Read more
All Bundled Up
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...Read more
Beyond DeFi
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...Read more
Bull in a Crypto Shop
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...Read more
DeFi-ing Gravity
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...Read more
It’s… Stock Season?
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...Read more
Bitcoin for the People
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...Read more
The Sacrificial Half
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...Read more
Oils Ain’t Oils
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...Read more
May the Half Be With You
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...Read more
The Decoupling
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...Read more
Coronal Mass Ejection
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...Read more
A Case of Corona
March 4, 2020Corona is spreading and the markets are freaking out. What does it mean for bitcoin?Read more
It’s Alt Season?
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...Read more
A Cautionary Tale
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...Read more
Here’s to Being Average
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...Read more
A Very Crypto Christmas
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,...Read more
A Miner Key
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...Read more
Island of Stability
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...Read more
BlockCha̶ina: China Says "Get in the Car"
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...Read more
Defence against the dark arts: how to spot fake volume on cryptocurrency exchanges
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...Read more
Adoption Blues
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...Read more
All the alts are dying
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...Read more
Currency wars are good and easy to win
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...Read more
Institutional activity
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...Read more
It’s a small, small world
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...Read more
In the balance
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...Read more
What you need to know (and why you need to care) about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency
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...Read more
How cryptocurrency breaks down the barriers for a borderless world
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...Read more
3 ways cryptocurrency makes the world a smaller place
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...Read more
The case for selective indexing in digital assets
February 13, 2019‘It’s the thing that makes the most sense practically over time’. Warren Buffett, the prince of value investing, has said of low-cost index funds. As the research will show,...Read more
9 factors to consider when deciding which cryptocurrency coins and tokens to invest 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...Read more
An investment adviser's take on trading bitcoin
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...Read more
Five commandments for those new to Bitcoin
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....Read more
The return of monetary politics
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...Read more
The best bitcoin I've ever spent
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...Read more
How digital money will include the unbanked
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...Read more
Safer than a Stark Wedding
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...Read more
Beers, Bitcoins and Bands
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...Read more
Stealth Addresses – What are they and do I need one?
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...Read more
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