Whilst on instagram, catching up on some Love Island gossip, I stumbled across a number of comments with “testimonials” about how much money people had made from crypto investing and all tagging the same lady, sharon_mentorship. I took a look at her profile and saw that she’s got an impressive…

When Bitcoin was created by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2008 they decided to put a hard cap on the number of bitcoin which would enter existence. This value was 21 million and comes about by the fact that there is a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain every…

With $1.5billion of illicit crypto laundered through Tornado Cash, and $462.3m of that being linked to sanctioned individuals, it’s no wonder that regulators view mixers as a hotspot of criminal activity. …

If you want a long read answer on this then you can check out the piece I wrote a few months ago https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethereum-scaling-roadmap-tara-annison/?trk=pulse-article_more-articles_related-content-card However the TL;DR is that Ethereum wants to be able to scale to handle more activity but reduce the resource requirement on validators in order to help…

I was recently browsing Etherscan to get some examples of OtherDeeds metadata for a presentation when I noticed that Ethereum accounts holding these NFTs had received an ERC721 token from the “Primates” Collection. Taking a further look into the collection showed an enticing image which seems to fit with the…

A bridge is a way of moving cryptoassets and data across blockchains. It can be a one way bridge e.g the Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) bridge which allows you to send your bitcoin to Ethereum but not ether to Bitcoin, or a two way/bidirectional bridge e.g …

Did you know that Litecoin and Bitcoin don’t just support their respective native assets? 🤯 🤯 🤯 You might think that the Bitcoin blockchain only supports bitcoin (BTC) or that Litecoin is only able to transfer value for litecoins (LTC) but actually both networks have the ability for you to…

Grab a cup of tea or a coffee, the world of miner revenue takes a bit of explaining … ☕ ☕ ☕ Bitcoin Bitcoin is nice and simple; for every block the successful miner gets 6.25 newly created bitcoin and collects all transaction fees from the transaction in the block. Or…

Depending on your position, Ethereum’s move to proof of stake is either just around the corner, on the distant horizon or less likely than hell freezing over. However, instead of just asking “wen merge?” let’s look at some important information about this industry milestone and break some misconceptions. Whilst hitting…