I recently wrote up a long explainer on Bitcoin. Now I’ll try and add a bit more about the #2 cryptocurrency, Ethereum. As of this writing bitcoin is at $98k and $1.9 trillion market cap, and ethereum is at $3500 and a $421 billion market cap. Bitcoin was the first real internet money. Ethereum is … Continue reading What is Ethereum?
Lots of digital ink has been spilled explaining the question “what is Bitcoin?” As the price of bitcoin nears $100k, it’s a good time to explain it again. I find myself explaining it to a lot of people still, and find many people are still confused. It can be confusing! I wrote about bitcoin it … Continue reading What is Bitcoin?
Here I’m going to assume you know a few of the basic cryptocurrency terms and have a metamask wallet, and polygon on the polygon network. You can see how to set up metamask here. You can view the more detailed post here. We have created 10,000 randomly generated Karel NFTs on the polygon blockchain. If … Continue reading How to Mint a Karel NFT (short version)
I’m splitting a longer post into smaller more digestable posts on various topics. This post is how to set up a metamask wallet. How to set up a Metamask Wallet Now, we are going to create a Metamask account to set up a non-custodial wallet! Remember: back up your password! Using a password manager is … Continue reading How to set up a Metamask Wallet
How to mint a Karel NFT You may have heard of NFTs, but not know what they are. NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token, and in this post I’ll show you how you can mint your own Karel NFT. If you want to just skip and see what a Karel NFT looks like you can see … Continue reading How to mint a Karel NFT
So Twitter has launched a new tipping feature where you can send money to anyone on twitter. You can send it through cash app, venmo, and a few other sites, but the most interesting integration they have is with bitcoin and lightning. So I set up the tipping integration. Here’s what you need to do: … Continue reading How to set up tipping with Bitcoin and Lightning on Twitter
So right now Terra has interest rates of about 20% for UST (which is a dollar stable coin). Unfortunately is is pretty hard to get dollars into terra. If you already have crypto in various ecosystems it is easier, but it can also be expensive. Here are a few ways to get UST on Anchor. … Continue reading How to get dollars from a bank to UST on Anchor on Terra
So I’ve been very interested in crypto for a number of years and one of the major innovations and trends over the last year is yield farming. I’ve been trying to figure out what it is, so this post will be a bit of explaining it to myself. So, first: There is bitcoin. Bitcoin is … Continue reading Explaining Crypto Yield Farming to Myself
Payment methods around the world One thing I have randomly been quite interested in is how the payment methods work around the world. Cash is one way. Credit cards are another way. M-Pesa was a common method of mobile payments in Kenya. The Octopus Card was a common method of contactless payments in Hong Kong. It’s … Continue reading Payment methods around the world
International Payments are Stuck in the Stone Age International payments in the year 2019 do not work well. It costs an inordinate amount of money to just use your money. If you need to exchange currencies as a tourist you pay a massive fee, in the airport or other tourist exchanges the spread is massive over … Continue reading International Payments are Stuck in the Stone Age
