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10 Years of CoinJar

Today, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of CoinJar, an event that marks a decade of innovation, growth, and educating the community. When CoinJar was founded in 2013, Bitcoin was still a relatively unknown concept. There were very few platforms around the world available for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. While our

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Onchain: 5000 ETH hack, Memecoins slaying, and error 404 on clarity

Story One Mysterious 5000 ETH hack As so often in crypto, alpha isn't televised but comes straight to your timeline - delivered by e-girl accounts on Twitter. This time around, it was Taylor Monahan, CEO and Founder of MyCrypto, who found that over 5000 ETH had been drained

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Offchain: Stop being a Degen; become a Regen

What ReFi is all about, and how regens want to make the world a better place. Maybe you spent the Easter holidays talking to your non-web3 friends about crypto. Chances are they: * told you to stop talking about it * asked why it was that their acquaintance lost a lot of

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Onchain: Arbitrum Governance on fire, the Euler hacker returns nearly $200 million, and NFTs ready for take-off

Story One Arbitrum Governance on fire 🔥 But when we say fire, it's not the good kind. Arbitrum, an Ethereum Layer-2, recently airdropped over 1 billion of its native token to nearly 300,000 wallets to kickstart the Arbitrum DAO. In addition to the DAO, they set up the

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CoinJar Bundles just got better!

Rebalancing, Instant Buy and New Asset Allocations are here! CoinJar Bundles are a great way to diversify your crypto portfolio quickly and conveniently, all from inside the CoinJar app. Perhaps you want to invest 50/50 in Bitcoin and Ethereum, or maybe you want exposure to our DeFi tokens, or

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Offchain: Move-to-Earn is so 2022, how to earn in 2023

Move-to-Earn is so 2022, how to earn in 2023. Not all earn programs are created equally - here's what you need to know. For a while, all crypto founders had to do to attract an audience looking for quick money was to create (any activity)-to earn projects.

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CoinJar wins Best for Value in Finder's Crypto Trading Platform Awards for the second year in a row

This year CoinJar was named the Best Exchange for Value in the UK as part of Finder's Crypto Trading Platform Awards. It picked up a Highly Commended for the same category in Australia. When deciding which cryptocurrency exchange to use, low fees are typically high on the priority

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Onchain: Crypto punk burns, Banking rugs, and Euler hacker returns some funds

Story One Crypto punk burns Losing money – NFT investors are great at it. One of them has set a new record for self-goxxing by accidentally destroying an asset worth $153,000. Self-goxxing is the term the Japanese use to describe someone losing crypto assets because they acted stupidly or recklessly.

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Offchain: Drop it like it's hot

What crypto airdrops are all about, and why it's not just free money While Crypto Twitter is still waiting for a MetaMask airdrop, this month brought us an Arbitrum airdrop. Good enough reason to talk about airdrops, because what else should we do when there is a looming

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Offchain: Account abstraction or making crypto user-friendly

How the latest hyped concept could make crypto accessible to everyone and their mum Once again, an acronym is all the rage in the crypto world. Don't be misled. AA does not stand for anonymous alcoholics, even though crypto has a solid anon culture. It's short

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Onchain: Exploiting the exploiter, new L2 in town, and token-gating on Spotify

Story One Exploiting the exploiter Remember last year when Solana DeFi flourished despite the chain being down sometimes? Back then, a savvy hacker exploited Wormhole, a bridge between Ethereum and Solana, getting away with $120,000 ETH worth $325 million at the time. Despite being offered a $10 million bounty,

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Offchain: ZK-this, ZK-that, ZK-everything

Zero-knowledge, zero problem: all you need to know about this crypto narrative. It's been a tough week for anyone following crypto regulations closely. But instead of focusing on the attempts of the SEC's Gary Gensler trying to explain to us that staking has nothing to do

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Onchain: SEC Krak-down, 3AC founders back at it, and NFT Super Bowl ad confusion

Story One SEC is forcing Kraken to shut down its staking service The SEC's new year resolution must have been going down hard on crypto. The latest company being called out is the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. This time it's all about their staking service. Staking, the

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Offchain: Bitcoin's never-anticipated utility is JPEGs - the maxis are not amused

The Ordinals protocol brought good old community fights back to Bitcoin. Are you on team meme? If you've been on crypto Twitter recently, chances are that you have come across some angry Bitcoin maxi not condoning JPEGs while others are having fun exploring what Bitcoin can do outside

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Onchain: Highly profitable trading strategy, Tezos cars, and Aptos' insane valuation

Story One Avi's highly profitable trading strategy might end him in jail Avraham Eisenberg's "highly profitable trading strategy" might come with some unexpected losses, namely his freedom. Avi had found a vulnerability in the DeFi lending protocol Mango market and exploited it to borrow

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Offchain: Ethereum's LSD trip

Liquid staking derivatives are all the rage on Crypto Twitter, but how high can they really go? The dominant narrative going into 2023 in the world of crypto has been LSDs. And you're forgiven if your first association are those colourful tabs party animals probably pop in Berlin

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Onchain: OMFGTX, Fed's Poker face, and a found fortune?

Story One After F comes G...TX What comes next after months of laying low in a country which offers no extradition to the US? You make a comeback. An investment deck outlining "cross-asset trading on a public marketplace" which was widely distributed earlier this week caused quite

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Offchain: Crypto's Biggest Moments of 2022

Last year saw few positive cryptocurrency headlines. Was there even a glimmer of hope? The end of 2021 felt like a hangover after all time highs. We soberly asked ourselves back in January last year: everyone’s lining up to dunk on crypto. Are we the bad guys? As early

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Onchain: FTX collapse mega-edition

Story One How Sam Bankman-Fried killed the world’s greatest money printer Hands up if you had “amphetamine addicted sex nerd rug pulls the international crypto market” on your 2022 bingo card. Anyone? Anyone? Hell, where do you even start? Over the past week the Twitter hive mind has done

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Secure your crypto

How to protect yourself from scams – and how CoinJar can help. It’s Scams Awareness Week and CoinJar is an official partner. While scams are an unfortunate fact of the crypto landscape, there are a few simple ways that you can protect yourself. (And a few things that CoinJar does

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Offchain: Welcome to Hades

I regret to inform you that crypto has been cancelled. There are savage falls from grace. And then there is whatever the %#&@ just happened to FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. My god. I mean, my GOD. A few months ago SBF was being hailed as the saviour of

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Spot the Scam Quiz

The theme for Scams Awareness Week 2022 is Spot the Scam and to mark the occasion we’re giving you the chance to win a Ledger Nano S, the world’s most popular hardware crypto wallet. Simply complete the quiz below to go in the running. Entries close Thursday Nov

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Spotting a crypto scam

Scams are on the rise. In 2022 it’s expected that more than 1 million Australians will lose a collective $4 billion to scams, an increase of 100% on the previous year. CoinJar has partnered with Scams Awareness Week and ACCC to shed some light on the who, what and

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Onchain: Binance backs Musk, Twitter & Insta’s NFT push, Arbitrum takes over

Story One Elon buys Twitter, Binance tosses in half-a-billion Unless you’ve been clinically dead for the past week, you’re probably aware that Elon Musk now owns Twitter. An interesting footnote to the whole saga is that Binance, indisputably the world’s biggest crypto exchange, contributed US$500 million

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Offchain: In web3 We Trust

The decentralised web is crypto’s latest and greatest crusade. Could a web 2.0 giant show us the way forward? When web3 roared into the crypto vernacular last year it felt like a direct response to Facebook’s hamfisted attempts to co-opt and privatise the metaverse. A technology that