To celebrate our recent working relationship with AAX, we have released an easy to follow walkthrough on how to buy one of our favourite cryptocurrencies, Chainlink. Enjoy. So you have seen the headlines, you’re sick of hearing about it from your friends and you can’t...
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What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin or BTC is a permissionless and decentralised peer-to-peer digital currency that allows trustless transactions without the need for an intermediary. Well, that sentence doesn’t help anybody, and here at blocmates, we try to remove the jargon and make it...
How and when to take profit in crypto.
When things are great like they currently are and the majority of your coins are flying high, it is easy to get swept away with all the euphoria and forget why you are here in the first place. To make that cheddar. It’s all well and good that you are in it for the...
How to read a crypto chart.
Charts are perceived as confusing, but they really aren’t. They are excellent for monitoring trends and spotting potential entry and exit points. That being said, they are never 100% predictable and can often leave you thinking - “What the hell just happened? This...
The very basics of cryptocurrency.
The whole reason behind blocmates is to knock down the barrier to entry for newbies getting into cryptocurrency. So we have taken it upon ourselves to go back to basics and think from the mind of a complete stranger to all things crypto. A lot of this article will be...
What is Ocean Protocol?
Ocean Protocol is a data marketplace built on the blockchain. Sounds pretty vague, doesn’t it? If you dig a little deeper, you will uncover a cryptocurrency giant with so much potential it is hard to comprehend. Big data, AI and machine learning aren’t exactly the...
How to trade crypto with little risk.
Nothing in this article should be taken as investment advice. Please always do your own research and never invest more than you can afford to lose. We are literally, idiots so don’t listen to us. Timing is a virtue and how we see it you have to be in it to win it - I...
How to yield farm on Beefy Finance using MetaMask and Pancake Swap.
Following on from our Beefy Finance article, this will be a quick walkthrough of how to provide liquidity to their high-interest vaults. If you haven’t read that article yet you can read it HERE. The beauty of Beefy and their vaults is that the daily interest is you...
What is Beefy Finance? How and where to buy?
In the new age of decentralised finance (DeFi), there are new and inventive ways to use the blockchain as opposed to dinosaur/legacy financial instruments that are clunky, slow and yield non-existent returns. Cryptocurrency and in particular the DeFi revolution that...
How to use Pancake Swap and MetaMask.
This post will go hand-in-hand with our How to find a 100X gem post if you haven’t already read that, you can access it HERE. The 2020/2021 bull market is in full swing and a lot of new folks are coming to the crypto arena looking to get in on the digital gold rush. A...
blogmates. weekly post – 12 February 2021.
Blogmates. weekly post - 12 February 2021 What a week! Again... There is nothing that surprises me in the crypto world anymore. It really is the wild west of the financial industry. This week saw Ethereum futures being traded on the CME. What that means in basic human...
Why you haven’t missed the boat.
Why you haven’t missed the boat. If thinking you are late to the party is stopping you from investing in cryptocurrency then you are wrong. You may have not made it to the equivalent of the Wednesday at Glastonbury festival but you still have the rest of the weekend...