Exchanges
Four Account Settings That Stop Most Takeovers
Most account takeovers are not clever. They are the result of a setting left at its default. Exchange security settings decide how much damage…
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Articles
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Wallets
Storing a Seed Phrase: Paper, Steel and What Fails
Most people treat seed phrase storage as a stationery problem: buy a pen, write twelve words on a card, put the card in a…
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Regulation
Stablecoin Rules: What Changed for Holders
A stablecoin is a promise, and stablecoin regulation is what decides how that promise is written down, who can enforce it, and who you…
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Staking
Slashing, Unbonding and the Cost of Changing Your Mind
An unbonding period is the wait between requesting to withdraw staked tokens and actually holding them. During that window the tokens still sit on…
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Guides
Recording Crypto Trades: A System That Survives Tax Season
Good crypto tax records are not a folder of exports. They are a running ledger you keep during the year, with a raw archive…
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Security
SIM Swap: How a Phone Number Becomes a Wallet Breach
A SIM swap is an attack on your phone number, not on your phone. In crypto, a sim swap crypto incident rarely stays a…
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Wallets
Crypto Addresses: Formats, Chains and Why One Is Not Another
A crypto address format is a promise about which ledger the string belongs to, and the promise is invisible when you look at it.…
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Guides
Limit Orders vs Market Orders: What Speed Costs
A market order buys certainty of execution and sells certainty of price. A limit order does the reverse. That is the entire limit order…
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Markets
When a Stablecoin Loses Its Peg: First 30 Minutes
A stablecoin depeg looks like a number moving on a screen. It is actually a promise being repriced. A stablecoin is a claim —…
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Security
Signs an Exchange Is in Trouble Before Withdrawals Freeze
Exchange insolvency is rarely an event you can timestamp. It arrives as a series of small administrative changes that each look like maintenance and…
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