It took me a Google search and a YouTube video to find out how to withdraw my USD from Coinbase into my bank account. Did anyone else find this unnecessarily burdensome? Gemini makes it so much easier and clearer. I feel that Coinbase intentionally makes it difficult to withdraw funds to keep users locked into the account.

The reddit founder, Alexis Ohanian, recently changed his Twitter handle to reflect a pretty cool .eth web address.

You can register your own .eth domain too, but the gas fee right now is over $200 for a $5/year domain name. 

This seems either the beginning of the .com domain names or the AOL keywords fad. What do you think this will be in 5 years? 10 years?

I use a variety of ways to track my crypto portfolio, including using the built-in tools from CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko. I tend to find the latter a bit more accurate since it includes the transaction fee in your total returns, whereas CoinMarketCap does not.

Separately, I keep track (and ensure the accuracy of the online portfolios) using Excel. I recently created my own Excel spreadsheet tracker which I intend to share in the near future once I have all the features built. It's quite a low maintenance tracker and all I need to do is enter my transactions manually (e.g., buy or sell) and the spreadsheet handles all the updating and tracking for me, including calculating my gains and losses versus the market price. This is accomplished by accessing the CoinMarketCap API (free for personal use). 

There's an excellent HOWTO guide on linking the API to Excel here. 

How do you track your portfolio? Let me know in the comments below.

I've been a firm HODLer believer since I got started with crypto (which is only a few months), but with the quick rise in BAT, I feel it's time for me to temporarily unload my holdings. This is my first time transferring an ERC-20 token to Gemini so I had to spend gas on the Ethereum network. A few takeaways:

• Gas is used to fuel all ERC-20 transfers
• You pay Gas in ETH, despite transferring ERC-20 tokens
• Gas prices fluctuate every single minute, so what you saw as "normal gas prices" when sending your transfer may change by the time it reaches the Ethereum network
• Failed transfers consume gas, but you still get to keep your ERC-20 (those don't leave your wallet)

Some helpful resources to find out how much gas to spend based on real world tracking:

https://etherscan.io/gastracker

https://www.ethgasstation.info/index.php

Jack Dorsey just tweeted a link to monitor the adoption rate of Taproot (a new protocol that is supposedly privacy oriented):

🟩 https://t.co/U8rJyyPED5

— jack (@jack) May 2, 2021