Making sense of what was happening over the weekend — The legacy financial system is beginning to crack. Over the weekend, people panicked over Silicon Valley Bank's inability to honor withdrawal. Money/fiat is funny. It is never really, fully yours if you hold it in a bank. When you entrust the bank to save your deposit, they are entitled to…

Another day, another layer 1 — Why do people keep popping up new layer 1 blockchains? It’s not like the existing ones lack improvements to make. Some weeks ago, I wrote this article about projects that recently raises funding. One of those projects particularly caught my attention. Not only that due to some famous names backing…

One of the ways to keep up with crypto is by tracking VC funding and raises. In this bear market, despite high-interest rates, capital doesn’t seem to stop flowing to the industry. The rate of it is much slower compared to the previous year, but regardless, a handful of teams…

One can only guess — The recent banning on staking was just the tip of the iceberg. We can expect those discriminatory attitudes toward crypto to come relentlessly in the near future. Sometimes it’s really weird to see how antagonistic the US government is toward this industry. Perhaps the most antagonistic on earth, only surpassed…

Recently I noticed in myself how I got increasingly embarrassed — and get much condescending towards — the short-term speculation part of crypto. Partly it’s a feeling of “I am better than those ‘degens’” kind of stuff. …

Comparing LSD yield and opportunities — Liquid staking is not really a new thing in crypto. POS blockchains have already had it for some time now. I remember farming stFTM pairs on Fantom and stONE pairs on Harmony a while back. But now that Ethereum has joined the party after they go full POS with the…

Crypto winter is not all dark and depressing — People like to think that crypto winter is akin to a Scandinavian winter, that it’s long and bleak, and depressing. Well, maybe. But like the north with its northern light, a crypto winter has some really interesting stuff, if not a lot. All the gut-wrenching drama, the volatility. It’s never…

In 2008, US debts were ‘only’ $10 trillion. Nowadays it’s basically hit $31 trillion, surpassing the debt ceiling, a limit that has been set by congress previously on how much money the US could ever borrow. Phew. To think that these debt payments will be the responsibility of the future…

I found more reasons why, in my eyes, Bitcoin is such an unattractive asset. Previously, in Bitcoin Is Finished, I laid out a conclusion — a list of pros and cons — someone should expect if they decided to buy Bitcoin. In that article, my tone ended somewhat neutral, despite…