Knowledge base

What is cryptocurrency?

Learn what cryptocurrency is, what you can do with it & why it has value. Learn about Bitcoin & sound money.

Bitcoin, scarcity & trust in money

Learn why scarcity and trust are crucial to money having value; discover why modern money isn’t scarce and how Bitcoin is.

How Bitcoin works

Learn how Bitcoin achieves sound money and trust, through a combination of cryptography and economic incentive. Find out what bitcoin mining is, and how it works,

Bitcoin's limitations

Learn how Bitcoin's design compromises speed for decentralisation creating limitations on low value transactions. Find out how layer two solutions can solve this issue.

A fork in the road

Learn what a ‘fork’ is; how they occur when people disagree about the ways to develop and improve cryptocurrencies.

Building on top of Bitcoin

Learn how building a second layer on top of Bitcoin is the key to its use for everyday money. Find out how layer two solutions like the Lightning Network function.

What is Ethereum

What does Ethereum do, how it differs from Bitcoin & the new crypto economies it has enabled.

What is a Stablecoin?

Learn what a Stablecoin is, the problem they solve & how governments are now trying to create their own versions.

What is a Blockchain

What are the unique characteristics of a blockchain? What are the problems they solve & how do they do it?

What are Soulbound Tokens? SBT explained

Learn what soulbound tokens SBT are, the concept of soul in crypto, web3, and decentralised society, and the possible uses of soulbound tokens.

What is a seed phrase? Why recovery phrases are secure

Seed phrases seem deceptively simple and yet are a highly secure way to recover a crypto wallet. Learn what it is, how it works, and why it's so secure.

AMM Explained: Automated Market Makers & How They Work

Learn about automated market makers or AMMs that let you trade crypto without intermediaries, combining Smart Contracts and incentives for liquidity provision.

What Are Wrapped Crypto Tokens?

Learn about wrapped crypto tokens and how they work, and the risks associated with using them.

What are Bitcoin Ordinals? Bitcoin NFTs Explained

A new idea is taking Bitcoin by storm. Introduced in January 2023, these ‘digital artefacts’ resemble Ethereum NFTs at first glance. Because of several key differences from NFTs and instant popularity, Bitcoin Ordinals might be the first sign of the next Bitcoin bull market.

What Is POAP? Proof of Attendance Protocol Explained

If scrapbooks are a way to conserve a lifetime of memories, then POAP, or Proof of Attendance Protocol, can be seen as a new way of digitally recording a person’s experiences. Learn about POAP and POAP NFTs, how they work, how you can get some and why you should.

What is Layer 2 and how does it work?

What is Layer 2 in crypto, why is it important to Bitcoin and Ethereum? Learn about how Layer 2 tackles Layer 1 crypto's scalability concerns.

What Are Decentralised Crypto Exchanges? DEX Explained

Learn about a decentralised exchange (DEX) and how it works, the advantages and disadvantages over a centralised exchange (CEX) and why DEXs are important

Measuring crypto adoption

If crypto is so great how can you measure its success? Learn the key metrics for measuring crypto usage and adoption along a framework for assessing them.

What are Tokenomics?

Learn the standard set of metrics that Tokenomics uses to interpret cryptocurrency supply schedules and coin distribution to help determine value.

What are Wrapped Tokens & how do they work?

Learn about wrapped Bitcoin, why it has a very similar but not identical value to Bitcoin, and why the concept of tokenisation so important.

Crypto's new frontiers

What is the next big thing in crypto? Discover the new crypto economies that are emerging & how they might impact your life.

What are Blockchain Bridges & how do they work?

Learn about Block Bridges, what role they play in the crypto data storage, and why they're important.

What are token standards?

What role do token standards play in offering value different cryptocurrencies? And how has this concept been used even before cryptocurrency was around?

What is an Oracle in Blockchain?

Learn about oracles in crypto, how they work, oracle smart contract applications and the blockchain oracle problem.

Earning crypto - risk vs reward

Learn how the crypto economy works, the different types of earning opportunities & how to decide which is right for you but measuring risk vs reward.

Faucets & the free crypto myth

Learn what a bitcoin faucet is, their history, how bitcoin faucet's work & why crypto is never really free.

Learning & earning

How you can earn crypto through watching educational videos? Why crypto uses the 'learn & earn' model.

Earning by promoting crypto

Learn how crypto has its own gig economy. An introduction to referral, bounty & affiliate schemes.

Working for crypto

Discover the opportunities to earn crypto from micro-tasking, freelance & full time employment. What skills are in demand.

Stacking Sats: DCA & hodling

How to earn crypto from prudent investment strategies. Learn what the term stacking sats mean, how to dollar cost average and the meaning of hodl.

Earning passive interest

Learn how you can earn interest on your crypto. Understand the difference between CEFI & DEFI.

Earning from owning

How just by being a crypto user you unlock earning opportunities. Introducing the concept of the Airdrop.

ICOs & early stage investment

What is an ICO, how they work & have evolved? What are the other ways to invest in crypto start-ups.

What is Maximal Extractable Value? MEV Explained

Uncover crypto's hidden goldmine in the concept of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV), which has raked in over $1 billion in profit so far.

What is a flash loan?

Learn Crypto explains what a Flash Loan is, relating them to traditional finance, assessing their use cases and the risks they present to DeFi applications.

Earning from DEFI

What exactly is DEFI, what are the opportunities to earn crypto & what are the risks?

What Are the Best Crypto Staking Sites? A Comparison of 6 Popular Places to Stake Your Crypto

Learn about how staking crypto at exchanges is easier than direct crypto staking and 6 popular exchanges where you can stake crypto assets.

What Is a Liquidity Provider in Cryptocurrency?

Learn about how Liquidity Providers provide digital assets to DEXs allow people to trade without an intermediary as a way to earn passive income. Discover how this works, the risks associated, and some popular DEXs for Liquidity Providers

What is Staking? Earning Rewards and Minimising Risks of Staking

Learn about how people are earning rewards from staking cryptocurrency, its role in securing blockchains, and the risks associated with staking.

What is DEFI automated borrowing & lending?

Learn about how people are using decentralised finance or DEFI to automate borrowing crypto at attractive rates or to lend crypto for interest.

Unwrapping NFTs

What is an NFT, how do they work & do they represent a good opportunity to earn crypto?

Earning from mining crypto

How crypto mining works, the rewards & restrictions. Is DIY mining a viable option? What are the alternatives.

Earning from Trading

Understand what is involved in trading cryptocurrency. Different strategies & the associated risks.

How to earn from Contango

How to earn a premium on bitcoin from hedging spot prices against futures.

What is Yield Farming?

What opportunities within DEFI does Yield Farming provide for generating a return on cryptocurrency investments?

What are the risks of DEFI?

DEFI makes financial services easy to access than ever before. but what the drawbacks?

What is cryptocurrency trading?

Learn what cryptocurrency trading involves & the concept of risk. Understand the difference between Technical & Fundamental Analysis and the level of commitment required.

Where do crypto prices come from?

Learn how exchanges work, how price is formed, the idea of price discovery & the influence of volatility.

What are crypto price charts?

Understand the information crypto price charts provide &. how to interpret it. Learn about Candlesticks.

Understanding crypto trading volume

Learn what the volume of trading can tell you about crypto price. Find out about some of the popular volume based technical indicators.

What is Technical Analysis?

Understand what Technical Analysis means & learn about some of the most common Technical Indicators.

Leading & lagging indicators

Understand the difference between Leading & Lagging indicators, what they tell you & common examples of each.

What is Fundamental Analysis?

Understand what Fundamental Analysis is, how it relates to investing rather than trading; Learn some common approaches.

Simple trading strategies

Learn about the simple trading strategies suitable for beginners, including Dollar Cost Averaging aka DCA.

Safe Haven Assets: Trading on Gold, Bonds and Crypto

Looking for safe haven assets that aren’t as difficult to get as gold, bonds, and foreign currencies? Here’s why crypto could be the new safe haven asset.

When CeFi Meets DeFi: Basic Finance Terms

Did DeFi steal terms from CeFi? Explore the synergy between CeFi and DeFi, demystifying basic financial terms to better understand decentralised finance.

What are the risks of using a decentralised exchange (DEX) vs a centralised exchange (CEX)?

DeFi Meets CeFi: Markets and Phases in Decentralised and Centralised Finance

Drawing connections between DeFi and CeFi: Discover how principles of traditional finance resonate within the crypto sphere.

Active trading strategies

Understand the common types of active trading strategy. Learn how to structure a potential trade.

How to place a trade?

Understand the process for placing your first trade and the trade-off between simplicity, precision and commission.

How to read crypto trading charts & patterns

Learn how to read crypto price charts & interpret common patterns.

Trading with Leverage

Understand what trading with leverage means & why it should only be considered by experienced traders.

What are Smart Contracts?

Discover the world of Smart Contracts, how they work, their benefits and drawbacks and how they can shape the future.

Security, Wallets & Keys

Learn how to store crypto securely and understand wallets & private keys.

Sending & Receiving Crypto

Learn how to set up a crypto wallet & the process for sending/receiving crypto.

Where you buy crypto

An introduction to crypto exchanges & how crypto is bought and sold.

How to buy crypto

Walking through the process of buying crypto for the first time.

Selling & Converting Crypto

Walking through the process of selling crypto for fiat, or converting to another cryptocurrency.

Exploring Transactions

Explore the anatomy of a Bitcoin transaction; understand exactly what information it contains & its relevance.

Security best practice

Understanding the responsibilities and risks of owning crypto. Learn the best practices for crypto security.

How & where to spend crypto

Discover where you can spend your crypto. Understand the process for buying goods and services with crypto and how to get a crypto backed debit or credit card.

Crypto banking - Get started with CEFI

Introduction to crypto banking & CEFI. How to earn interest on your crypto or take out a crypto loan.

What is Web3? Understanding how the decentralised web could replace Web2

Web3, which encourages decentralised systems and which pushes for less reliance on giant monopolies, could change the way we interact online. Learn how.

Avatars in the Metaverse

From Mark Zuckerberg and Biggie Smalls to corporate branding opportunities, realistic Metaverse avatars can be hypnotic af.

Arbitrum v Optimism v zkSync v Polygon

Four of the biggest L2 crypto pitched side by side. Who wins the battle for the crown of scalability and Layer 2 cryptocurrency? Let's dive deep into their similarities and differences.

What are the Risks of buying NFTs?

Learn about the legal and security risks of buying NFTs, and the pros and cons to owning them.

A Beginner's Guide to Utility NFTs: What are they, how they work & real life examples

NFTs aren't just memes. Investors and artists are using NFTs for serious money business, while others are using ownership privileges to solve real problems. Find out how.

DeFi Tax 101: Everything You Need to Know about Tax on DeFi

Regulators have been setting out firm rules on taxing DeFi services. Taxes differ depending on where you live, but we'll provide a general overview here.

What is Arbitrum? ARB Explained

Can you really scale up your Ethereum game with Arbitrum, the super-fast Layer 2 solution with reduced gas fees? This article finds out.

BIP300 and BIP301: Will drivechains really help everyone use Bitcoin?

New Bitcoin tech called drivechains, promises accessibility eluding Bitcoin’s route to mass adoption. The missing usability link or another false dawn?

Getting started with DEFI

Learn how to use DEFI platforms to generate active yields from your crypto. Understand the potential rewards as well as the risks involved.

What are Algorithmic Stablecoins? The Economics of Algorithmic Stablecoins

Uncover the fusion of algorithmic stability and economic principles as you explore the dynamic world of algorithmic stablecoins.

How Do I Make My Own NFT?

Learn to make NFTs to sell for profit. Forget forking out cash to buy NFTs. Learn the best sites to mint art NFTs, music NFTs, and the best wallets to store NFTs.

How do I make a DAO? Creating a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation

Learn how to form a DAO in a few easy steps, including tokens and treasury. Know its components, tools for quick setup, and legal considerations.

How to Protect Your Artwork From NFT Theft

With billions of dollars coursing through NFT markets, NFT theft of millions are also on the rise. Learn how to protect your artwork from NFT theft.

CeFi vs DeFi: A Centralised and Decentralised Finance Comparison

The world of finance and banking is torn between traditional systems based on intermediaries and a new, trustless system based on code. Both are used in crypto but can DeFi knock out CeFi?

What is an NFT Marketplace?

NFT marketplaces work like any other online marketplaces with the distinction that only NFTs are being traded there.

DeFi meets CeFi: Compliance and Regulations

Discover the intersection of DeFi and CeFi through a comprehensive analysis of competition law: Where does competition law bridge the two realms?

Beyond Collectibles and Gaming: How Will NFTs Look Like in the Future?

As NFT popularity improves and profitability rises, Learn Crypto explores the future of NFTs. From art and gaming to real estate, to metaverse and Web3

Your crypto footprint

Learn more about the transparency of public blockchains & the implications of using crypto. Learn the difference between anonymous and pseudonymous.

Beyond Lightning: Bitcoin Layer 2 Mintlayer and Rootstock

Bitcoin isn’t dead, in case you were wondering, and Layer 2 Bitcoin solutions are resuming a push for relevance. Find out how.

What is Multi-signature? Multisig Wallets in Crypto Explained

Unleash the Fort Knox of digital asset security. Learn how multisig wallets use decentralised control to protect digital assets from hacks and thefts.

How to use the Lightning Network

Step-by-step guide for how to use the Lightning Network. Learn how to set up a wallet, create and fund payment channels, generate & pay lightning invoices.

How to use DEFI lending protocols

Understand what a Smart Contract is & how you interact with one. Learn about using Smart Contracts in DEFI.

A guide to paying tax on crypto

A guide to crypto taxation, looking at general guidelines & country-by-country crypto taxation rules.

How to run a node

Learn how to actively support a blockchain by running a node. Follow an example for how to run a Bitcoin Node and the software/hardware requirements.

How to use crypto tax services

How to use crypto tax services to help minimise the pain of accurately measuring potential tax liabilities from your crypto activities.

What is Bitcoin's architecture?

Understand Bitcoin's architecture as a monetary system and how it compares to fiat money. Learn its core functions, such as money creation and the role of different participants.

What role does a Bitcoin Full Node play

Learn the role that a Bitcoin Full Node plays in ensuring that the decentralised monetary system works and how you can run a Full Node.

What role does a Bitcoin Miner play

Learn the role that a Bitcoin Miner plays in ensuring that the decentralised monetary system works and how you can participate in Bitcoin mining.

What is Ethereum's architecture?

Learn the architecture of the Ethereum network, how it differs from Bitcoin, and why it is often described as the 'world's computer'.