A week ago rock metal band Metallica dropped their new song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-7rWKnVVo It’s not my vibe (I got to about 33secs before I had to switch back to my DnB) but what did catch my eye was how quickly the crypto criminals jumped on this announcement and created a giveaway…

Back in 2017 one of the first LinkedIn articles I wrote was on Quantum Computing and the potential impacts for the finance industry (I know, I’ve been a nerd for a while 🤓 ). Whilst a LOT has happened across the quantum field in the 5 years, it’s still…

At first pass the below message might feel legit, after all (at the time of writing) TRX, the native token of the Tron blockchain, had indeed exceeded $4billion — it stood at $5,023,453,540, and it promises that funds will remain in my own wallet. So how did I know by…

Whilst it’s still early days for the concept of the metaverse (heck, we still don’t have an agreed upon definition!) there’s plenty of individuals, brands and organisations exploring how they can build experiences in and utilise the benefits of the metaverse. …

IMHO the FTX collapse isn’t a failure of crypto/blockchain/web3, it’s crypto failing to shake off the practices of TradFi. So what TradFi things did FTX do? They failed to ring fence client deposits and instead siphoned them off to proprietary (prop) trade with but ended up doing it very badly…

With the move online during the 4th industrial revolution a whole host of ‘internet’ jobs were created that the previous generations of workers could only have dreamed of. Creatives moved their IRL design skills to the web with user interface design roles, software development of all types boomed, and digital…

In a recent Blockworks newsletter, Byron Gilliam, raised a really important discussion point around the narrative for all the DeFi hacks we’ve been seeing and it resonated with me because I often struggle to decide whether something really is a malicious ‘hack’ where we should demonise the perpetrator, or if…

If you haven’t had a chance to read my previous post on the case study of a typical instagram crypto scammer then I’d recommend taking a read first: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-study-typical-instagram-crypto-scammer-tara-annison/ In this I detailed how I had come across a finflunecer (financial influencer) called sharon__mentorship who was trying to swindle people…

From block 15,537,393 on September 15th 2022 (when the Total Terminal Difficulty was hit) all Ethereum blocks have been created by validators staking their ether as opposed to miners in a hashrate competition to solve a cryptographic puzzle 🐼🚀. It was reported that this would reduce Ethereum’s environmental impact by…