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Charlie Lee’s Advice From the Future
In an interview with CoinDesk, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee was asked what advice he would give his younger self from the future. His answer was simple: instead of creating Litecoin, he would rather have just bought Bitcoin, held it without selling, and stayed anonymous. That path, he said, would have brought him more money and far fewer headaches. Wise advice...
How a Simple Mistake Can Turn 1,000 USDC Into 1 XLM
One day, a user contacted rabbit.io support claiming that after an exchange he received 1 XLM instead of 1,000 USDC. It looked like a serious loss. One lumen is worth far less than a dollar: at the moment, XLM is trading at around $0.22. Losing almost the entire amount in such a way would be alarming for anyone. Naturally, we started investigating the...
The Losers No One Expected
On CoinGecko, there is a crypto losers ranking that shows which assets have fallen the most over a given period. Just look at who ends up at the top of that list if you select a one-year timeframe. On the left is a screenshot of the biggest losers among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. On the right - the same ranking...
Bitcoin and Online Gambling: Revisiting a 12-Year-Old Prediction
Exactly 12 years ago, Michael Saylor wrote on Twitter that Bitcoin's days were numbered and that it would suffer the same fate as online gambling. That view of Bitcoin's future has never surprised me. I personally believe that Bitcoin could indeed fade into obscurity if humanity invents a way to reliably store and freely transfer value that is clearly better than Bitcoin...
A Few Words About Forecasts
VanEck’s decision to drop its 2026 forecast lined up almost perfectly with the release of a Dune and Keyrock report on prediction markets. VanEck has a long-standing tradition of publishing bold annual crypto forecasts. This year, however, the company chose to treat that tradition with a bit of self-irony. Instead of the usual list of predictions for 2026, it simply...
Hyperliquid's Buybacks Turn Out to Be Permanent Token Burns
Hyper Foundation has proposed burning the HYPE tokens that were purchased using Hyperliquid's trading fees and are currently held in the "Assistance Fund". But the most interesting part of the announcement was something else: those tokens have effectively already been destroyed, because no one has - or can have - the private key to the Assistance Fund address. The buyback...
Visa and USDC: Reinventing Payments That Already Work
When I read the news that Visa is offering banks the ability to settle payments in USDC, a simple question comes to mind: do banks actually have that much USDC? Payment volumes flowing through Visa are enormous. If interbank settlements were really to be carried out in USDC, banks would need to hold a substantial amount of these tokens on their balance sheets. And which banks...
The SEC's Crypto Storage Advice Is Better Than You Might Expect
The SEC has released guidance on how retail investors should store crypto assets. You can joke as much as you want about the SEC teaching crypto users how to handle crypto, but the document turned out to be genuinely solid. I have been working with cryptocurrencies for many years, and even I found a few useful points in it. One example stood out to...
Where Do Crypto Bears Come From?
Can you imagine someone who owns cryptocurrency but is not interested in its price going up? At first glance, it sounds unlikely. Almost everyone who holds crypto wants it to rise. Which would mean that almost everyone in the market should be a bull. But the reality of late 2025 breaks this illusion. For several months now, bears have clearly dominated the...
When One CEX Moves the Market: The Risk of Liquidity Concentration
Kaiko, a provider of professional crypto market data and analytics, warns that the concentration of liquidity on Binance creates serious risks for all market participants. I read about this in an article on DLNews. According to Kaiko, the risk is that operational, legal, or technical issues at Binance could potentially trigger sharp price movements and broader market instability. We already saw...
