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BitcoinWhat Is Bitcoin? A Complete Guide for Beginners
Bitcoin is digital money that no company, bank or government runs. A network of independent computers keeps a shared record of every transaction, ownership is proved by a private key rather than an account, and the supply is capped at 21 million coins so no one can create more. It has run continuously since January 2009.
Toby CunninghamRegulation & Tax
Regulation & TaxCrypto Record Keeping: What to Track for Tax
Record seven things for every crypto transaction: date and time, type, asset and quantity, the fiat value at the time, fees, the venue, and the transaction ID. The fiat value is the field people skip and the hardest to reconstruct later. Export from every exchange quarterly and keep the raw files.
Toby CunninghamStablecoins
StablecoinsStablecoin Depegs: Why Pegs Break and What to Do
A stablecoin holds its peg through redemption plus arbitrage, so a depeg means that loop is blocked or doubted. Liquidity depegs usually recover within hours, collateral depegs depend on whether the assets are reachable, and design failures like Terra in 2022 rarely recover at all.
Toby CunninghamScams & Risk
Scams & RiskFake Crypto Support Scams: How the Con Works
Nobody in crypto has support that contacts you first. Fake support scams reach you after you ask for help publicly, then ask for one of four things: your recovery phrase, a two-factor code, remote access to your computer, or a transfer to a validation address. All four are the scam.
Heidi ChakosScams & Risk
Scams & RiskToken Approval Phishing: How Wallet Drainers Empty Wallets
Token approval phishing tricks you into granting a malicious contract permission to spend your tokens, then transfers them later. Your seed phrase is never exposed, and a hardware wallet will sign it if you confirm. The defences are bounded approvals, reading the device screen, and revoking old permissions periodically.
Heidi ChakosWallets & Custody
Wallets & CustodyCrypto Inheritance: How to Pass On Your Crypto Safely
A crypto inheritance plan needs three things: an access method that gets keys to your heir, plain-language instructions they can follow, and a will that establishes who is entitled to what. Never write a seed phrase in the will itself, because probate usually makes it a public document.
Heidi ChakosWallets & Custody
Wallets & CustodyMultisig Operational Playbook: A Guide to Secure Shared Crypto Custody
A multisig operational playbook is a written set of procedures for running a multi-signature wallet: who initiates, signs, audits and recovers; how signers are geographically spread and backed up on hardware wallets; a step-by-step signing ceremony with independent checks of address, amount and network; and scheduled audits and drills. The M-of-N threshold and separation of duties stop any one person controlling the funds.
Heidi ChakosAnalysis
AnalysisHow to Read a Crypto Whitepaper
Read a crypto whitepaper like a sceptic, not a fan: ask whether the problem is real, whether blockchain is actually needed, how tokens are distributed and vested, and whether the team is named and verifiable. Insider allocations above 30 to 40% with vesting under 12 months, plagiarised text, no working product and an anonymous team raising large sums are the main red flags.
13 min read/Heidi ChakosStablecoins
StablecoinsHow Yield-Bearing Stablecoins Work and Are They Safe?
Yield-bearing stablecoins are dollar-pegged tokens that pay returns simply for being held, unlike USDT or USDC where the issuer keeps the interest on reserves. Yield comes from Treasury bills (USDY, USDM), DeFi lending (sDAI, sUSDS) or delta-neutral derivatives (sUSDe), mostly 4% to 7% in 2026 with derivatives-based yields swinging wider. Not savings accounts: depegs, contract bugs, variable yield and US access limits are real.
11 min read/Heidi ChakosReading is the cheap part.
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