Crypto Uncovered

Howdoo is setting itself up to take on the world of social media.  It seems from looking over the available information that it wants to do a little bit of everything.  It seems at first glance to want to be facebook, and instagram and youtube and anyone else that publishes media or content of, well, any kind.  They are taking a big swing, so let's try and dig into what's going on here and how they plan to do it. Their website, which you can check out  here , claims that "Howdoo combines every type of content: streams, posts, messaging, image and video sharing, blogs, community interaction and eShops. Want a total social experience? You got it."  Howdoo users will experience "a fairer, clearer, higher-quality social media experience where you’re always in control."  But what does that mean, and how will they put it all together?   Well, the angle they are taking is that content creators and influencers have to manage a host of different products to get their

If you don't know yet about Blockchain Heroes you are missing out on a very cool thing.  BC Heroes is an upcoming NFT card set that is paying homage to the personalities that have built the crypto world.  They had their community meeting for the upcoming roll-out in August and they put up some community challenges to win some free NFTs and I thought I would pass those along to me readers, however few of them I might have.  So below you will find links to the challenges.  Some of these are referrals so you will also be helping me out with my referrals and helping my chances at some sweet NFTs.  So go check out the website then follow the links below to possibly win some awesome NFTs. The first one is a partnership with Grow Your Base .  This is a site where you do tasks to earn tokens and you redeem those tokens for NFTs.  Go check it out, sign up for NFT related mailing lists, and earn some GYB tokens to win this NFT.  The screen grab doesn't do it justice as it's actually

I have been turned onto WAX blockchain through a promotion done within the Upland team and the upcoming release of Blockchain Heroes cards that will be launching as NFTs on the WAX chain.  The cards are being launched by the guys from the Bad Crypto Podcast .  This promotion has gotten a number of people not previously into crypto really interested in WAX and NFTs.  So I am really talking to those people for this article.  If you are already familiar with fiat onramps, crypto wallets, high liquidity crypto exchanges, etc you already know how to do all of this. I will also freely admit there ARE paths with less fees for those that are crypto saavy.  But for some, a little extra fee to remove the friction and pain points isn't really a bad thing. So for this write-up I will be discussing one path that I believe is relatively straightforward (for crypto) and will get the job done.  There are certainly other ways to do it but this one can be done without significant waiting periods

I know I teased this coming a short while back, but stick with me, this isn't a tease, it's real.  I know that all the Brave and BAT boards have been plastered with the news that much like Binance before it, Gemini is now going to have a trading widget right on Brave new tab page.  This is exciting enough for some people because Gemini is a legal exchange in almost the whole of the US.  It can even be used in the elusive state of New York.  The thing is that's were some people stopped reading or stopped paying attention.  Yeah, I get it, another trading widget, whatever.  If you did stop there you missed the pay off.  Read the first line of the article posted on the Brave website closely:   We are excited to announce that Gemini and Brave have partnered to make it easier for users to buy, sell, store, and earn crypto when using the Brave browser.   I highlighted the important bit for you there, that's right, earn.  You have to keep reading further down the article to

Halo Platform announced a community proposal to move from the native Halo chain to become a member of the Ethereum community as an ERC token project.  The announcement (see below) cited the impending move by Ethereum to ETH 2.0 and it's scaling solutions which Halo was initially trying to address with their chain.  Being that Halo is a second degree fork of ETH (by way of Quorum) the migration will not require extensive work.  All addresses and private keys will be able to migrate as all Halo addresses have a mirror address on ETH.     Halo Update Time! I've written and rewritten this one multiple times as it's a little different then our normal updates. Instead of talking about development progress and other items, I want to open up a discussion with you, the Halo Community, about the path forward for Halo. Which makes it more difficult to write up. We have done some awesome things with Halo. The products we've created are outstanding and will continue to improve. Loo

So many people new to crypto that start out going the route of crypto faucets.  They are websites that make you do some task and get rewarded with some small amount of crypto.  Almost always the effort these take compared to the amount you receive make them not at all worthwhile.  If that's the only downside you are doing ok.  Others use the faucet as a leadloss to get you into a gambling platform or some other way to lose your crypto back to the house.  Still others have withdrawal requirements that are so high compared to what you earn that it might take years of daily faucet work to get a withdrawal.  There are not many that are either honest, or are worth the time.  I poke at these faucets occasionally just to see what's out there and usually they reaffirm my prior experiences.  Recently I happened across one that breaks the mold and is actually very straightforward and honest in it's approach.  These are not large sums of crypto and probably still won't amount to m