It's Sunday again, which means throwback time. A few weeks back, I told you the first half of my poker story — the rakeback grind, the volume trap, break-even poker with bonus income keeping me alive, and the move to Italy. Today I'm telling you...
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My First Bitcoin Buy: $44, a Stranger on Skype, and a Handshake
It's Sunday again, which means throwback time. In the poker throwback a few weeks ago, I ended on a cliffhanger: my roommate mentioning some magic internet money called Bitcoin, back in 2012. Today I'm paying that story off — how the tip reached...
Exclusive Airdrops: The Quest Platform We Built Before Quest Platforms Existed
It's Sunday again, so it's time for another throwback. Some of these stories I barely remember myself — I had to dig through the Wayback Machine and my own old blog posts to get specific answers this week. That's exactly why I'm writing them down....
Crypto Lessons From Poker: My Decade of Grinding Before Bitcoin
It's Sunday again, which means it's time for another throwback. Today we're going further back than usual — before AirdropAlert, before crypto, before the world trip. This one is about the decade I spent playing poker. Why tell a poker story on an...
Crypto Airdrop Definition: How We Lost the War for the Word
Ask ten people for a crypto airdrop definition today, and you will get ten different answers. Free tokens for wallet holders. Points programs that take six months of grinding. Retroactive rewards for early users. Raffles. Testnet campaigns....
The Years That Didn’t Go as Planned: AirdropAlert in the First Airdrop Bear Market
It's Sunday again. We just celebrated 9 years of AirdropAlert this summer, so while I'm floating in the pool with a nice lemonade, I'm thinking back on the good old days. But also on the first airdrop bear market, and the days that didn't go as...
The Nijmegen Bitcoin Story: How One Poker Scene Became an Early Hub
It's Sunday, and sometimes we like to go into story mode on Sundays. Light reads for those of you who are interested in the journey behind the platform. Last time we covered the AirdropAlert origin story. Today we go back even further, to the...
NVIDIA Tokenized Stock: The Forced Sale That Cost Me a 180x
Last year, an old friend sent me a message that I've been thinking about ever since. The NVIDIA reminder He's a good sport about it. What he doesn't know is the part of the story I've never told anyone: I didn't just recommend NVIDIA. I bought it....
The AirdropAlert Origin Story: How We Accidentally Built an Industry
It's a bear market. The World Cup is nearly over. And I'm on a solo trip in Iceland, staring at waterfalls with no charts open for once. Funny detail: Iceland is where airdrop history began. Back in March 2014, Auroracoin distributed tokens to...
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