Author: WebDesk
It’s Sunday again, so it’s time for another throwback. Some of these stories I barely remember myself — I had to dig through the Wayback Machine and my own old blog posts to get specific answers this week. That’s exactly why I’m writing them down. We were on the edges of an evolving field — crypto, blockchain, airdrops — and these stories deserve to live on the internet somewhere. So in 20 years, someone can go back and read what actually happened in the early days.Every quest platform you use today runs on the same playbook. Follow on X, join…
Two and a half weeks ago I told you I was holding $PONS from a $23 million entry. The market cap is now above $280 million, $PONS is the largest token on Robinhood Chain as of yesterday, and the fee numbers coming out of the launchpad have started to look like a genuine challenge to the biggest name in the category.That name is Pump.fun. So today’s update does two things. First, it puts Pons vs Pump.fun side by side on current stats, because a lot of the numbers flying around on X are half right. Second, it lays out every…
Most crypto influencers become famous for one persona. Murad became famous twice, for two personas that directly contradict each other. First as one of Bitcoin’s most hardcore maximalists, then as the prophet of the memecoin supercycle. Understanding that transformation explains half of what happened in meme coin markets since 2024.New traders keep asking the same question: who is Murad, and why does one man’s coin list move billions in market cap? Here is the full story.Who Is Murad?Murad Mahmudov is a crypto investor and analyst who posts as @MustStopMurad on X. He is the creator of the “memecoin supercycle” thesis…
The bear market feels like it is running out of steam. And if history repeats, the next bull run will pull in a fresh wave of people discovering crypto for the first time.That is why we are revisiting a few beginner terms in the coming weeks. Every cycle, newcomers dive into airdrops and tokens while guessing at half the vocabulary. You should know the terminology from day one, not learn it the expensive way.Few terms cause more confusion than TGE. You see it in every airdrop listing: “rewards at TGE,” “50% unlocked at TGE,” “points convert after TGE.” So let’s…
My timeline spent all of yesterday screaming that Ledger got hacked. Screenshots of a tweet from a rival wallet CEO, panicked replies asking whether to move funds, the usual chorus of “hardware wallets are dead.” After the Coldcard summer, people are jumpy, and I get it.So I did what I always do before touching my own device: read the actual disclosure, read the actual claim, and compared the two. Here’s the short version. A competitor reproduced a real bug in a lab, two weeks after Ledger patched it, and nobody lost any money. The long version is worth your five…
India taxes crypto harder than almost anywhere else. A flat 30% on every gain, 1% skimmed off nearly every trade before you even see a profit, and no relief in sight for 2026-27. That combination shapes which exchange makes sense here more than fees or coin selection ever could.We went to India with the family last October — a little “the bull market’s over, let’s enjoy some of the profits” trip. We met up with our dev there too, who works out of India full-time, for some incredible food and a lot of cold Kingfishers. He’s the one who first…
Tornado Cash might be the most controversial piece of code in crypto history. Governments sanctioned it. Developers went to prison over it. Hackers laundered billions through it. Meanwhile, privacy advocates defend it as essential infrastructure for a free internet.So what is it actually? And how do crypto mixers work under the hood? In this guide, we break down the technology in plain English, explain who uses mixers and why, and give you an honest answer on whether you should ever touch one.No agenda, just the full picture. Let’s dive in.What Is Tornado Cash?Tornado Cash is a decentralized crypto mixer that…
Justin Sun says he scored a major victory in federal court. World Liberty Financial says the court made no rulings at all. Both statements describe the same hearing, held on the same day, in the same San Francisco courtroom.Someone is spinning you. Probably both of them.I’ve covered the Sun vs WLFI fight since the token freeze in September, and this week delivered the most surreal chapter yet: two contradictory accounts of a court hearing, posted hours apart, each presented as fact. So instead of picking a side, I did something no crypto outlet bothered to do. I made a PACER…
A college dropout starts posting NFT threads from his parents’ basement. Four years later, he runs the biggest daily markets stream on the internet, interviews mainstream celebrities, and survives one of crypto’s ugliest controversies. That is the Threadguy story in one paragraph.Full disclosure before we start: I had some interactions with him on X back in early 2022, when he was still rocking a Mutant Ape PFP. He seemed like a funny kid finding his lane. Watching that kid become one of the most influential voices in crypto has been strange, impressive, and occasionally uncomfortable. More on that later.First, the…
Rollbit is not a normal crypto casino, and this is not a normal Rollbit review. Most reviews of this platform are written by people who signed up last week. We, by contrast, have run an account since May 2022. Over that time, we farmed its NFT deposit promos, cleared close to $50k in bonuses, stacked RLB airdrops that sold for close to six figures, and even operated our own revenue-sharing lootbox in the NFT era. Our account shows over $1.4 million in lifetime wagering volume. Therefore, consider this the rare casino review backed by receipts. This piece is part of…
