It's spectacular - but also a bit gaudy and over the top.

There are definitely some bargains starting to show up. Research before you buy though, because some coins won't recover. If you look at the top coins at the 2017 peak, about half never regained their

The French have started growing Malbec again - probably because they've seen how successful the Argentines have been.

Everywhere I turn I read about a different stablecoin - this time DEC. Does the crypto space need so many?

Suppose you lend me 1 bitcoin and I abscond with it. "But it's in the digital ledger", you cry. I say, "So? You can't prove the pseudonymous address you sent the coins to belongs to me,

What if Elon Musk (if he ends up doing it) says he will buy Twitter, but will pay the 44 billion dollars for it in the equivalent Bitcoin. He'd have trouble getting his hands on the bitcoin. Though bitcoin

Bankers do one thing that the decentralized blockchain struggles with, which is lending. In the early days of bitcoin there were some experiments with lending bitcoin, but they failed because people absconded

the peg can be maintained as long as the price of HIVE stays above $0.2 That's a useful benchmark to know. What happens to Hive's internal market. Does it still operate as though HBD is a dollar when Hive

I think the big financial institutions are focused on risk. And they are not wrong that crypto is risky.

The redemptions have already started. Fingers crossed that Tether has the funds. Crypto doesn't need another disaster.

So by using the Lightning address you can buy Hive with bitcoin without using an exchange, and it goes straight to your Hive account? Does it work in reverse? Say you send Hive to the Lightning node and

I should have started two months earlier. Still better late than never.

Off-ramp liquidity is a double-edged sword. Part of the reason HBD was untouched by yesterday's madess is because of the lack of off-ramp liquidity. HBD is not listed on Binance for example, so the shorters

Blurt's model is different from Hive's and Steem's. Transaction fees are a fairer way to support the site, especially as they get burned.

Who was the whale who dumped Blurt? You can't leave us hanging like this!

This is a clever way to brn Neoxag and reduce supply.

I've just realised I already have a Blurt account from the fork. I've done an intro post:

The verifyyourbrain community was set up to deal with this. Please use the vyb tag on all your hive posts. That way when we upvote, we can deliver vyb tokens to you (which you can power-down and sell on

Well luckily it's getting warmer and most of my garden plants are sporting tiny new leaves.

I have the exciting task of cleaning the kitchen this weekend (including cleaning the oven and microwave).