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To buy PENGU, create an account on a crypto exchange, complete verification, deposit money, and buy on the PENGU/USDT spot market. PENGU is the official coin of Pudgy Penguins, one of the best-known NFT brands in crypto. Since all the big exchanges list it, buying takes minutes. A trading app or a Solana wallet works too. No shill here. I am simply showing how to buy PENGU, along with a few memories from the NFT days.Pudgy Penguins and PENGU in ShortPudgy Penguins began in 2021 as a collection of 8,888 penguin NFTs on Ethereum. A year later, Luca Netz bought…

Robinhood vs Coinbase comes down to one question. Do you want a broker that added crypto, or a crypto exchange that added stocks? Robinhood is cheaper for simple buys and keeps stocks and coins in one app. Coinbase, however, lists far more coins and has the stronger pro trading tier. Both are public US companies, so neither is a reckless pick. Below, we compare fees, coins, staking, safety and each company’s own blockchain.Quick verdict: Pick Robinhood for cheap, simple buys of major coins next to your stocks. Choose Coinbase for altcoin range, USDC rewards and Advanced Trade.Robinhood vs Coinbase at…

A Solana airdrop checker scans a Solana wallet address and lists the airdrops it qualified for. It shows what you can still claim, what you already claimed and what you missed. Solana addresses work differently from Ethereum ones, so the checker has to support Solana. Our airdrop eligibility checker scans Solana addresses alongside Ethereum and other networks.Why bother? Solana has handed out some of the biggest retroactive airdrops in crypto. Many people who qualified never noticed. Others noticed too late, after the claim window had closed.This guide shows you how to check a Solana wallet and why so many people…

In 2015, five poker players and one developer tried to build a winning poker bot. We had solver source code, ten servers, and more than a year of work. The bot never got past break even on the $1 games.This is the story of my most fun failed project.Costa Rica and the year of the solverIn 2015 I lived in Costa Rica with three poker friends. Poker was my whole focus. My game was improving, and I was moving up in stakes.That year, poker solvers came on the scene. A solver is software that calculates the mathematically best play for…

A crypto pump and dump is a scheme where a group buys a token cheaply, inflates the price with coordinated hype, and then sells to the buyers they attracted. Once the organizers exit, the price collapses. Late buyers absorb the losses.The trick is far older than crypto. Stock promoters ran it a century ago. However, thin liquidity and anonymous wallets make meme coins the perfect playground. You can find the short definition in our meme coin glossary, and the full picture below.How a Pump and Dump WorksEvery scheme moves through three phases.Accumulation. The organizers buy quietly while the price is…

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the founders of the Gemini exchange, the first Bitcoin billionaires, and the twins who sued Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook. They put their $65 million settlement into Bitcoin in 2013, filed the first Bitcoin ETF the same year, built the most regulated exchange in the US, bought the NFT platform Nifty Gateway, and took Gemini public in September 2025. A year later the stock is down more than 80% and they have put $100 million of their own Bitcoin back in to keep the plan alive.This profile covers the whole arc, from Harvard rowing to Nasdaq…

Which DEX is safe? After the Binance hack, that’s the question every trader is asking. Here’s the short answer: of the four biggest perp DEXs, only Lighter lets you withdraw your funds without the team’s help. On Hyperliquid, Aster and Variational, your money depends on keys and systems the team controls, just like on a centralized exchange.This post builds on an excellent research thread by 0xJaehaerys on X. He went through the verified contracts, on-chain balances and L2BEAT data of all four platforms. Full credit to him for the digging. We’ve rewritten his findings for our readers and added our…

StonkFun’s website was hit by a frontend attack overnight on October 31, 2026. Security firm Blockaid found the Step Drainer kit on stonkfun.xyz and 11 other crypto sites. However, the attack never reached StonkFun’s smart contracts, and the team says no users are known to be affected. The site is back online now after a move to new infrastructure.It caps a wild few days in crypto. First came the Polymarket hack. On the same day, the Binance hack turned into the biggest exchange hack in history. Yesterday, Trezor then warned buyers about a tampered device sold through CryptoBilis. Now a…

A SIM swap attack is when a scammer takes over your phone number by convincing your mobile carrier to move it to a SIM card they control. From that moment, your calls and text messages go to them. That includes every SMS login code and password reset link. In crypto, that is often all it takes to empty an exchange account. Someone tried it on me once, and I’ll share how that went below.SIM swaps are back on everyone’s mind this week. On Tuesday, contact data for Coinbase customers leaked through an analytics vendor, and phone numbers are exactly what…

Kraken vs Binance is now the clearest security matchup in crypto. Kraken has run since 2011 without ever losing customer funds to a hack. Binance, the world’s biggest exchange, just lost about $6.3 billion from its hot wallets on October 29, 2026.Quick verdict: Kraken wins on security, transparency and regulation, making it the safer home for anyone who values sleep over fees. Binance still wins on trading costs, coin selection, liquidity and reward programs. If you trade actively and live outside the EU, Binance remains hard to replace. For everything else, Kraken is the calmer choice this week.For the full…