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It's CoinJar's 8th Birthday!

Bottoms up - it’s CoinJar’s 8th Birthday! We’ve been in the game longer than most - we’re arguably considered a dinosaur by crypto standards - so we’d like to take a look back on CoinJar’s history and how far the overall cryptocurrency industry has

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How Melbourne meme artist Lushsux made half-a-million bucks from NFTs

Lushsux is Australian street art royalty. One of the country’s most prolific street artists and founder of the meme art movement, his work is both instantly recognisable and bitingly funny, taking the most familiar parts of internet culture, giving them an otherworldly gloss and pasting them all over Melbourne’

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Ethereum withdrawal fees have been lowered

You spoke, we listened. We’ve changed how we process Ethereum transactions to reduce the gas prices involved in sending Ethereum from CoinJar to external Ethereum addresses. Thanks to these changes, you should expect up to an 80% reduction in transaction fees for outgoing Ethereum transfers that are equal to

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CoinJar Bundles are improving! New tokens and changes to asset allocations.

Following the announcement of 9 new cryptocurrencies to the CoinJar lineup, we’re thrilled to introduce these new cryptos as well as ZRX to CoinJar Bundles. CoinJar Universe, ERC-20, DeFi and CoinJar Stable Bundles are welcoming new crypto additions to the team! We are also improving CoinJar bundles by changing

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Crypto has arrived.

If there was any doubt in your mind, Coinbase listing on the NASDAQ with a US$85 billion valuation should put them firmly to bed. At around 3am AEST this morning (after some inexplicable delays), shares in US cryptocurrency behemoth Coinbase started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The

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A Question of Scale

If blockchain wants to take over the world, it’s going to have to get a lot faster. We’re adding some of the tokens trying to make it happen. With news this week that Ethereum’s latest scaling solution – the unfortunately named Optimism – has been delayed until July, focus

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Nonsensical NFTs

What the latest crypto craze can tell us about the good, the bad and the weird of the blockchain world. Chances are that unless you’re being kept in some sort of subterranean dungeon and/or have been pronounced clinically dead, you’ve read something about NFTs over the last

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The Hard Sell

The prices are low and the panic is high. Is this the time to sell? If you’ve been around crypto for longer than a couple of months, you’re probably familiar with the feelings that come with your average market-wide correction. Euphoria fizzling away as that first red candle

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Elon-gated FOMO

Tesla owns $1.5 billion bitcoin. Let the corporate FOMO begin Look, I don’t need to tell you what happened: it was covered in pretty much every single news and news-adjacent outlet in the world. But let’s not mince words here. The richest person on Earth announcing that

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DeFi Revisited

It was a brutal spring for crypto’s darling, but now it looks like DeFi might be ready for primetime. When I wrote about the DeFi phenomenon last August, it was still a space of chaos and enchantment, where new projects were launching and exit scamming on a daily basis

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The Trillion Dollar Club

Did you see that coming? Because I did not see that coming. Last time we talked I was in absolute disbelief that bitcoin had smashed through its 2017 all-time high, posting a new record at US$23k. Well, if that was absolute disbelief, then you can imagine my response to

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We Be Moonin’

Bitcoin blasted through US$20k like it was tissue paper. When moon? Now. Now moon. So, where were you on the night of December 17, 2020? Were you out celebrating the festive season with your friends and loved ones? Or were you staring at a screen in utter disbelief as

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Making the Trade

Crypto has brought trading to the masses. But is that actually a good thing? The language of trading has become so commonplace in the cryptosphere that it’s easy to forget how utterly bizarre it is that regular schmoes like you and me are being given access to such sophisticated

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Can We Get Much Higher?

Bitcoin’s market cap is at an all-time high. Think the ride is over? Nah, we’re just getting started. I mean, what is there to even say at this point? Bitcoin, as an asset class, has never been worth more – US$340 billion and counting. The price of one

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The Second Coming

Ethereum 2.0 is launching in December. Is bitcoin’s little sibling about to take charge? One of the things that first attracted me to Ethereum – back in the almost inconceivably primitive year of 2016 – was how certain the project was about what it wanted to achieve. At a time

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Bitcoin Dominant

PayPal has announced that it’s going to start selling crypto. Let’s not mince words here: this is freaking huge. Over the nine years that I’ve been watching, talking about and trading bitcoin, I’ve seen the outside dialogue around it evolve from “wacky monetary experiment” to “ludicrous

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Learn how CoinJar is improving liquidity to bring you better prices

Now with 289 trading pairs available on CoinJar and 49 on CoinJar Exchange, and with new cryptocurrencies recently being listed including LINK, COMP, MKR and XLM, it’s more important than ever to provide deep liquidity and better buy/sell prices. In September 2020, CoinJar launched an implied matching system

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On the Margins

The founders of BitMEX have been charged with money laundering. Here’s what that says about the state of the crypto market. If crypto during the 2017 bull run was the Wild West of finance, then Bitmex was Deadwood’s Gem Saloon – a place filled with trolls and gamblers, where

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Buying the Bitcoin Bubble

We’ve always been told to stay away from bubbles. But in crypto a good bubble is just part of the process. When I first got into crypto, the one thing skeptics loved to throw at our feet was the Dutch tulip mania of 1637. Put simply, this was a

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All Bundled Up

Variety is the spice of life. In crypto, it’s also a handy way of ensuring that you don’t get rekt. As a field, crypto can be remarkably tribal. Bitcoin maximalists, the XRP Army, LINK Marines – talk to any of them and they’ll likely say the same thing:

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Introducing CoinJar Bundles

We’re pleased to announce the launch of CoinJar Bundles – a feature designed to help in diversifying your cryptocurrency investments. What are CoinJar Bundles? CoinJar Bundles are collections of popular digital currencies you can purchase as a group, making them a convenient option to diversify your portfolio. Your bundles are

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Beyond DeFi

The DeFi frenzy shows no sign of slowing. But when the hype finally dies down, what will take its place? I last wrote about the DeFi supernova a month ago, but the space is moving at such an absurd velocity that the article already reads like something out of the

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Bull in a Crypto Shop

Markets are soaring, coins are putting in 50% days and the Lambo memes are back. Is this 2017 all over again? I don’t normally do this, but let’s start with the caveats. This might not be the start of the next bull market. Even after a few good

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DeFi-ing Gravity

It’s the summer of DeFi! (AKA decentralised finance). But is something revolutionary happening or is it just another crypto bubble? People have been proclaiming alt season from the rooftops recently, but it’s probably more accurate to call it DeFi season instead. From a relatively fringe pursuit whose products

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Craig Jones x CoinJar

He’s an innovator, a fighter and one of Australia’s most exciting exports – yet BJJ champion (and new CoinJar ambassador) Craig Jones is only now getting the recognition he deserves. Right now, Craig Jones could be one of the most important figures in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ). In a sport