Exchanges
Reading Your Exchange Statement
An exchange statement is a record of what the venue did with your money, not a record of what your money is worth. Those…
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Articles
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DeFi
Withdrawal Limits in DeFi: Design or Distress
A DeFi withdrawal limit is a rule that decides how much of a pool can leave, and how fast, when demand to exit exceeds…
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DeFi
Liquidity Mining: When the Yield Is the Token
Liquidity mining pays depositors in a protocol's own token for supplying capital to it. The headline rate is quoted in dollars but settled in…
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Wallets
Same Wallet on Three Devices: Sync and Risk
Running one wallet on multiple devices is normal, and it changes the risk profile more than most people expect. The balance is the same…
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Wallets
Sizing a Hot Wallet by Loss Tolerance
How much to keep in a hot wallet is a loss-tolerance question, not a security question. The security answer is always zero; the practical…
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Staking
Delegation vs Running a Node
Delegation vs running a node comes down to which resource you spend: capital or attention. Delegating turns your tokens into a claim on someone…
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Security
Job Offer Scams Aimed at Crypto Holders
A crypto job scam borrows the shape of a real hiring process: a recruiter, a role that matches your skills, an interview, an offer.…
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Regulation
Crypto Inheritance: The Practical Problem
Crypto inheritance fails before it reaches a lawyer. The usual problem is not a disputed will but a set of keys that nobody living…
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Regulation
What Exchanges Report About You
Exchange tax reporting is the flow of account data from a trading venue to a tax authority, and it is narrower than most people…
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Markets
On-Chain Flows: Following the Money
On-chain flows track the movement of tokens between addresses that can be identified as belonging to a particular kind of holder. The most common…
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