Section
Explainers
6 articles
Foundational pieces for readers who want the mechanism rather than the headline. Each one takes a claim that gets made loosely and asks what holds it up: what keeps a stablecoin at its peg, what a token's supply schedule actually binds, what is left under a meme coin's price, whether a mining contract or a phone app can pay, whether a transfer on a public ledger can be traced to a name. The common one-line answer to each quietly drops the part that matters, and these pieces set it out. The mechanisms move slowly, so where a fact does change, the piece carries a review date and says what it was true of.
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Cloud mining and mobile mining apps: what the claims rest on
Renting hashrate you cannot see, or tapping a button said to mine on a phone, both rest on an economic claim. The arithmetic, and how each model fails.
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Can governments track crypto? What the chain shows and what KYC adds
Public ledgers are pseudonymous, not anonymous. Clustering, exchange KYC, the Travel Rule and tax reporting close most of the gap. How each one works.
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Where stablecoin supply lives: by mechanism and by chain
Every stablecoin above $100M read as one table: how concentrated supply is, how much is fiat-backed, which chains carry it, and what moved in the last month.
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Tokenomics: what a supply schedule actually commits to
Caps, emissions and unlock schedules are promises with different enforcement. What each one binds, where to verify it, and what deflationary hides.
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Pepe coin, and what a meme coin actually is
PEPE says outright that it has no intrinsic value or expectation of return. What that leaves holding the price up, and what the 2023 multisig theft showed.
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What is a stablecoin, and what holds the peg
A stablecoin targets a value rather than guaranteeing one. What holds each kind of peg, what a depeg is, and who EU rules bar from paying interest on one.