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Onchain: Drama in Cosmos, an unhinged hacker, and a controversial L2

Story One Drama in Cosmos My theory is that some people are just in crypto because their friends would make fun of them if they watched the Kardashians or Selling Sunset for their dose of drama. Fortunately, crypto never fails to deliver reality TV-type cringe or entertainment. This time, things

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Impersonation Scam – “Delivery Failed” Deep Dive

It's Scam Awareness Week, and CoinJar is an official partner. Today, we've jumped off the deep end straight into a live impersonation scam, so you don't have to. This blog post will help you spot and identify the common themes of these types of scams and understand the risks that

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New tokens alert: SUI, GALA, MANA, RPL & RNDR have arrived for Australian customers

We’re thrilled to welcome Sui, Decentraland, Gala, Render and Rocket Pool to the CoinJar lineup. From today, you’ll be able to buy and sell all of these cryptos on CoinJar, joining the more than 60 other cryptocurrencies that our Australian customers can already trade, store, send and spend.

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Offchain: The Last Domino

CZ is gone and with him the last remnants of crypto’s gluttonous age. Now we can finally build again. I’m not going to pretend I wasn’t surprised by the sudden fall of CZ, the once-untouchable overlord of crypto, but it did have an air of inevitability to

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Spot the Scam Quiz for a chance to win an iPad

The theme for Scams Awareness Week 2023 is impersonation scams and to mark the occasion we’re giving Australian customers the chance to win a 9th Generation iPad (Silver, WiFi, 64GB) valued at $549 AUD. Simply complete the quiz below to go in the running. Entries close Sunday Dec 3

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Unmasking Impersonation Scams

As part of Scam Awareness Week, we're joining Scamwatch and the ACCC as an official partner to delve into the shadowy realm of impersonation scams. We focus on uncovering the essential tactics for identifying scams in your daily digital life, verifying authenticity and real-life examples. Impersonation scams are the wolves

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Onchain: Another highly profitable trading strategy, Plasma comeback, and Disney doing NFTs again

Story One Another highly profitable trading strategy Chances are you spent last weekend monitoring the situation around Sam Altman, the AI Sam who was fired as CEO of OpenAI and re-hired by Microsoft. If you did, you missed yet another highly profitable trading strategy, or as non-crypto people would call

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CoinJar won the 2023 Digital Currency Exchange of the Year Award at The Blockies presented by Blockchain Australia

We're pleased to share that CoinJar has been honoured with The Blockies Award, a significant acknowledgment in the digital currency exchange sector. This award is given to an exchange that successfully provides a user-friendly, secure, and innovative platform, aligning with our continuous efforts to enhance our services. Over the past

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Offchain: Half a Chance

The Halving is less than six months away. It’s all uphill from here, right? Alright, cards on the table. I legitimately thought there was a 50/50 chance that we would never see a crypto-wide upswing again. That the damage wrought by the endless scandals, macroeconomic headwinds, confidence-sapping hacks

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Onchain: SBF guilty, Aragon DAOn, and an L2 boom and bust

Story One SBF guilty Sam Bankman Fried, also known as the guy who ruined the reputation of Effective Altruism for the foreseeable future, has been found guilty on seven criminal counts, including wire fraud, commodities fraud, and money laundering. This verdict probably doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who's

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Changes to CoinJar Exchange fees from 31/10/23

We are thrilled to announce a fee reduction for Stablecoin-to-Fiat and Stablecoin-to-Stablecoin trading pairs on CoinJar Exchange! NEW MAKER FEES Makers add liquidity to a market by placing limit orders above or below the current price. From October 31st, all Stablecoin-to-Fiat (AUD, USD, GBP & EUR) and Stablecoin-to-Stablecoin maker orders have

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Offchain: Return of the king

Crypto is surging and Bitcoin is leading the charge. It’s a reminder not to forget who the boss really is. Do you hear that, friends? That faint popping noise, echoing over the hills, sounding ever so much like someone opening a bottle of Veuve while riding a mighty stallion?

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Onchain: Reddit Rug, Interface Rent, and a media-induced Pump and Dump

Story One Reddit Rug Bad times for the people who were bullish on Big web2 social platforms integrating web3 elements. After Meta shut down its NFTs on Instagram initiative a while back, the next one to kick the curb to web3 is Reddit. Reddit recently announced the wind-down of its

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Offchain: The King Is Dead

The Sam Bankman-Fried trial sounds the long overdue death rattle of crypto 1.0 Perception is a magical thing. Little more than a year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was crypto’s wonder kid, the clarion voice of where the industry went next. The cargo shorts and shambolic hair and WGAF attitude

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Onchain: In the arena, Bitcoin Mining gone volcano, and Optimism Fraud Proofs

Story One In the arena When people on crypto Twitter are not thinking about the Roman Empire or tokenizing Uranium, they spend their time on SocialFi these days. The combination of finance and social has become popular ever since the launch of Friend.Tech. And as usual, when one thing

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Join us at the Australian Crypto Convention in Melbourne

We're excited to partner for the 2nd year in a row with the Australian Crypto Convention (ACC) at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre this November 11-12. Featuring two days of panels, presentations, parties and the very best of the Australian and international crypto industry. With thousands of tickets already sold, the

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CoinJar's Continued Commitment to the UK's FCA Compliance: Key Updates

As of the 8th of October, 2023, the UK government-mandated new crypto regulations, often called the "Financial Promotions," have taken effect. They are essential in reducing and preventing harm to consumers from investing in cryptoassets. UK consumers now have much greater protection as cryptoasset firms' marketing must be 'clear, fair

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Offchain: Meta? I Hardly Knew Her!

Meta’s photorealistic avatars reminded the world that the metaverse still exists. But will it ever actually come to fruition? One thing crypto could never be accused of lacking is hubris. Founders never simply launched a protocol or coin: they launched an entirely new way of understanding money. They launched

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Onchain: A DAO forking around, a new wallet, and yet another attack

Story One A DAO forking around Nouns is a DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization with a simple business model: make their IP great. Nouns IP is based around a set of red goggles called noggles. The more popular the IP, the higher the value of the NFTs that people buy

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Offchain: Dance Dance Binance

Despite a horror year, Binance remains the undisputed champ of the crypto space. But how long can they defy gravity? Looking back, it’s still hard to believe exactly how fast Binance’s rise to the top actually was. The exchange traded its first Bitcoin in June 2017 and by

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Onchain: CFTC chooses violence, Visa lands on Solana and Vitalik gets hacked

Story One CFTC chooses violence Someone at the CFTC must have had a bad flight home from vacation. Why else would they end the holiday season by bringing enforcement against 3 DeFi companies? The Commission for Futures Trading figured it'd be a good idea to accuse Opyn, 0x (ZeroEx), and

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Offchain: East v West

As regulators around the world scramble to work crypto out, some familiar divides are re-emerging. CoinJar UK customers this week received an email informing them that something called the Travel Rule now applied to all crypto transactions in the UK. In a nutshell, this means that all crypto transactions must

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New crypto regulations in the UK and how will they impact you

At CoinJar, we must maintain regulatory compliance standards in line with our FCA money laundering registrations and the upcoming FATF & UK Travel Rule for crypto transfers. As of September 1, 2023, the UK government-mandated new crypto regulations, often called the "Travel Rule," are taking effect. They have been designed to

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Onchain: Pepe members go rogue, Farcaster goes Optimism, and Balancer finds vulnerability

Story One Pepe members go rogue Pepecoin, a memecoin that surged to fame earlier this year when everything was trading flat, now faces allegations of being a rug. Or at least of founders enriching themselves, which, at this stage, is as common in crypto as drunk people in the trains

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Offchain: With Friends Like These

Crypto’s latest hype train lets you buy and sell shares in, well, people. Here’s a few ways of thinking about Friend.tech. So, it’s come to this. Some enterprising crypto enthusiasts have designed a platform that lets you render yourself as a tradeable commodity. Welcome to Friend.