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Say a friend texts you: “I bought some crypto. Now where do I keep it?” And you realize you don’t really know. Is it in the app? On a thumb drive? Floating somewhere in the cloud? Honestly, it’s a fair...

An Ohio man lost $40,000 worth of bitcoin last year. Not due to hacking. Not due to any kind of scam. Rather due to a dropped phone into a lake, where his only copy of his recovery phrase was stored...

You open your exchange app, pull up Bitcoin, and there it is. A wall of tiny green and red candles, some high, some low, some with tiny little spikes protruding from both ends like antennas. It is no surprise that...

Bitcoin jumped two thousand dollars overnight, and I found out from my neighbor. Not my phone. He caught me at the mailbox. Didn’t even say hi, just “Did you see Bitcoin?” That’s crypto right now. Somebody’s always talking about it,...

A guy in my building started staking Ethereum last year, saw the rewards rolling in every week, and got genuinely excited about it, kept showing me the app like it was a garden growing on its own.Then tax season hit,...

A coworker of mine picked an exchange because his cousin liked it at a barbecue. Two summers ago. He never checked the fees. He never checked if it was even legal in his state.Then he tried to pull his money...

Last month, a coworker of mine put $40 into Bitcoin using nothing but her phone and her lunch break. She didn’t study charts. She didn’t know what a “wallet seed phrase” was. She just wanted to try it, the same...