Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This is for anyone who’s traded crypto on Coinbase or Kraken and keeps hearing that “real” crypto people use decentralized exchanges instead. Both are legitimate ways to trade — they just trade off convenience, cost, and custody in […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The fee on the pricing page is almost never the fee you actually pay. Between maker/taker tiers, spread markup on “simple” buy screens, network withdrawal fees, and payment-method surcharges, two exchanges advertising similar headline rates can cost you […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Crypto Exchange Insurance: Who’s Actually Insured? Bitcoin, Ether, and stablecoins held on a crypto exchange are generally not FDIC-insured. The exchange may carry a commercial crime or cybersecurity policy, but that policy belongs to the company and covers […]
FTX collapsed in November 2022 with an $8.9 billion hole in customer funds, and the mechanism was almost boring in hindsight: the exchange quietly funneled customer deposits to its affiliated trading firm, Alameda Research, and there was no independent way for a depositor to check that the coins showing up in their account actually existed […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. If you own any cryptocurrency at all, you’ve already made this decision whether you realized it or not. The coins sitting in your Coinbase or Binance account are custodial. The coins sitting in a MetaMask, Exodus, or Ledger […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Every crypto holder eventually has to answer the same question: how much should live in a wallet connected to the internet, and how much should sit offline where no remote attacker can ever touch it? Get this split […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Most “diversify your crypto portfolio” content is a thinly-veiled list of whatever the author is currently bagholding. This isn’t that. Diversification in crypto works differently from diversification in stocks and bonds, and understanding why matters more than memorizing […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Dollar-Cost Averaging Crypto: A Practical Guide to Recurring Buys Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) means investing the same dollar amount on a fixed schedule, regardless of the asset’s price. A $100 Bitcoin purchase every Friday buys more BTC after a […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Glossary: 100 Crypto Terms Explained Crypto uses familiar financial words in unfamiliar ways and invents new ones at protocol speed. These 100 definitions explain what the terms mean in practice, including the risks hidden behind the shorthand. Networks, […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Every DeFi trader eventually gets sandwiched, and most don’t realize it happened until they check the transaction on Etherscan and see two strangers’ trades wrapped around their own. Slippage and MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) are two different problems […]