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EthereumWhat is Ethereum (ETH)?
Ethereum runs programs (“smart contracts”) that anyone can call if they pay a fee. Ether is native. Most of what a wallet lists is not.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
ReviewBlockchain.com
Score 3.3 of 5. 3.3The explorer is a public lookup tool. The wallet and exchange are company products. Use the name carefully, enable real two-factor authentication, and do not treat a web login as cold storage.EasyCryptoGuides ·
BitcoinBitcoin block halving, explained without the countdown clock
The 2020 halving was 11 May. Another happened in 2024. Halvings are how Bitcoin’s issuance slows. They are not a strategy.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
Crypto BasicsRipple, XRP, and RippleNet — three names, two kinds of thing
XRP can move without Ripple’s permission. Ripple the company still holds a lot of XRP and sells software. Those facts can be true at the same time.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
ReviewCoinbase
Score 3.6 of 5. 3.6A reasonable on-ramp if you enable app-based two-factor authentication, read the freeze/withdrawal rules, and do not leave more on the platform than you would leave with any other private company. It is not a wallet you control.EasyCryptoGuides ·
MarketsBlack Thursday was weather with a liquidation engine
Global deleveraging, then venue engines that sell into the hole. A thin book plus 100× is how a macro day becomes a crypto autopsy. It is not a strategy, and it is not FTX.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
Crypto BasicsCryptocurrency terminology you will actually meet
Wallet, seed phrase, gas, token, stablecoin, market cap. Plain meanings, plus the traps each word usually hides.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
RegulationThe SEC’s Telegram case is about a token sale, not a chat app
About 2.9 billion Grams sold to 171 buyers, including more than a billion to US purchasers, the complaint says — unregistered, with delivery tied to a late-October chain launch. An ICO can be a securities case.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readCompaniesBakkt’s bitcoin futures are an exchange product, not a new bitcoin
Daily and monthly contracts, cleared at ICE Clear US, delivering bitcoin held at Bakkt Trust. CME’s 2017 cash-settled futures are a different wrapper. Institutional plumbing is still a company.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationFacebook’s Libra taught regulators to write faster
A social network with billions of users proposed a payment token governed in Geneva, backed by bank deposits and short-term government paper. That is a company product aimed at scale. It is not bitcoin.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
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