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The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Avalanche (AVAX)

Avalanche is an open-source, programmable smart contracts platform for decentralized applications. It’s proprietary token is called AVAX, and it’s used for transaction fees and staking. Oddly enough, you don’t hear too much about Avalanche as an “ethereum-killer” but it’s got just as much claim to the odd little title as any other. It does much… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Avalanche (AVAX)

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If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition

If I had a billion dollars the first thing I’d do is buy a monkey. Not a howler monkey or a languor monkey, or one of those that gets creative with how they say hello, but a regular capuchin monkey—one that hasn’t reached puberty yet so he doesn’t get aggressive. His name would be Jocko,… Read More »If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition

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The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Polkadot (DOT)

Polkadot is a blockchain-based distributed computing platform that lets the blockchains built on top of it, which are called parachains and something we’ll get into indepth in a bit, conduct transactions between themselves. This creates what they call a interconnected internet of blockchains. It comes with two goals: providing shared security among all of their… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Polkadot (DOT)

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The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Solana (SOL)

Solana is a public blockchain in the same vein as Ethereum. It doesn’t have as much history going for it as do some of the other coins, only having been around since April 2019, which given the sordid histories of some of its predecessors may actually work on its favour. At present, it is the… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Solana (SOL)

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A cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Ethereum

When people talk about cryptos, it’s generally either about Bitcoin, with its volatility and value storage capabilities, or it’s about Ethereum. It’s not just because it’s the second biggest coin by market cap, although it presently is, but because it offers much more options to its users than just acting as a potential reserve currency… Read More »A cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Ethereum

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A cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Ethereum

When people talk about cryptos, it’s generally either about Bitcoin, with its volatility and value storage capabilities, or it’s about Ethereum. It’s not just because it’s the second biggest coin by market cap, although it presently is, but because it offers much more options to its users than just acting as a potential reserve currency… Read More »A cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Ethereum

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A cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Ethereum

When people talk about cryptos, it’s generally either about Bitcoin, with its volatility and value storage capabilities, or it’s about Ethereum. It’s not just because it’s the second biggest coin by market cap, although it presently is, but because it offers much more options to its users than just acting as a potential reserve currency… Read More »A cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Ethereum

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