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Onchain: It's giving Bull

This week, it's all about number go up, which hints at a bigger trend: the bull market making a comeback. Story One MetaMask nears record users  While Bitcoin has already passed it's all-time high in countless countries with weak national currencies, such as Japan, MetaMask is

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Offchain: Four Big Trends For 2024

A quick tour through four areas that could really give this bull run something to holler about. Last issue I was writing about the arch-cynic’s take on the coming bull run. The basic argument was that crypto tech and culture hasn’t sufficiently advanced since the last cycle, leaving

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Onchain: Laser eyes, Sysiphus, and Pandora's box

Story One Laser eyes Laser eye's making a comeback wasn't exactly on my 2024 bingo card. Life is full of surprises, and so is Joe Biden. On February 11th, he posted a picture of himself featuring laser eyes referencing a conspiracy theory that stated the Super

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Offchain: The No Expectations Bull Run

The next bull run is taking shape. All it’s missing is a reason to actually happen. Last week crypto fund manager Travis Kling kicked off a furious conversation with his provocatively titled thesis for the coming bull market: A Lack of Pretense That Any of This Shit Does Anything

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Onchain: Diversity crisis, frames, and a vampire/atacc

Story One Diversity Crisis  Ethereum has a diversity crisis. You, dear reader, probably also fall under the "bro" category (crypto, VC, trader, finance bro... there are nuances, I know). Relax, this isn't about sending some Karen from the diversity department your way and telling you to

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Offchain: 4 Things I Want Less Of Next Bull Market

The Bitcoin ETF has arrived and we’re working out what comes next. While we wait, I’m gonna yell at the clouds for a bit.

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Onchain: Sell the news, Happy Bears, and RPGF going brrr

Story One Sell the news Now that 11 ETFs are approved, issuers have started engaging in a fee war, slashing their usual costs, with Blackrock charging 0.25%  and Bitwise setting its fee at just 0.2%. Then Franklin Templeton entered the scene, placing its fees at 0.19%. The

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Offchain: In The Big Leagues

The Bitcoin ETF is a watershed moment – and one that brings with it a whole host of new opportunities and risks. For the last few weeks, the question of whether the SEC is going to approve this god damn Bitcoin ETF has become a black hole for the industry’s

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Onchain: The future is Cypherpunk, maybe

Story One Vitalik advocates a return to OG values Wake up babe, new Vitalik blog post dropped. The Ethereum founder is trying to kick off a mindset shift with his blog that highlights that we should all become Cypherpunk again. He highlights that as the sole focus has become number

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Offchain: 5 Big Crypto Themes For 2024

I think it’s safe to say that 2023 was not as bad as expected. Will 2024 continue crypto’s winning form?

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Ten top CoinJar blog reads in 2023

As we bid farewell to another year in crypto, here are ten headlines from your most read posts on the CoinJar blog. Not limited to company announcements and notable awards, there have been newsworthy reads that shaped the crypto narrative as the industry matured. At CoinJar, we've certainly

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Onchain: Inscriptions claim a new victim, points everywhere, and a dog coin

Story One Inscriptions claim a new victim Remember Ordinals, also called inscriptions, an NFT standard that arose on Bitcoin, allowing users to attach data to tokens? Well, it turns out this standard can easily be transferred to other chains, and it has spread like wildfire, wreaking havoc outside of Bitcoin.

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Offchain: It’s Ecosystem Season!

The idea of an ETH killer has always been faintly ridiculous. But as SOL and AVAX surge and surge, this could be the cycle where the balance finally shifts. When SBF’s criminal empire came crumbling down last year, it seemed to put a bullet in the prospects of Solana,

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Top 3 Answers that CoinJar Customers Got Wrong in the Scam Awareness Quiz

For the end of Scams Awareness Week, we're reviewing the quiz results and the top 3 questions on the quiz that tripped up even the most scam-savvy of participants. But first, congrats to Wayne from Madeley for winning the iPad! What were the quiz results? Here's

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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