Joybites: crypto education for moms, by a mom.
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Day 41: What Are Options (The Insurance, Like Side of Crypto Trading)
The quieter cousin of perpetual futures, and the one that teaches you patience. In Day 40, we talked about perpetual futures, the “no-expiry” contracts that let you bet on price without owning the coin. Perps are loud, fast, emotional, and sometimes overwhelming, especially when leverage enters the picture. Today, we step into something a little…
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Day 40: What Are Perpetual Futures (The No-Expiry Trades Traders Love)
The “forever contract” that lets you bet on price without owning the coin. By now, we’ve talked about wallets, DEXs, staking, liquidity pools, yield farming, real yield, bridging, and gas tokens.All of those live in the spot world, you buy something, you own it, you hold it. Today, we step into a different room: the…
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Day 39: What Are Gas Tokens (And Why Some People Hoard Them)
The tiny coins that quietly control everything you do on-chain. Back in Day 15–17, we talked about gas fees, those little costs you pay every time you send, swap, or stake crypto. We said gas is like the “service fee” for using a blockchain, paid to the network so your transaction can be processed. But…
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Day 38: What Is Bridging (And Why It Feels Like an Airport Transfer)
How your crypto “flies” from one blockchain to another. By now, we’ve walked through wallets, DEXs, staking, liquidity pools, yield farming, and even real yield. One pattern keeps showing up: crypto doesn’t live in just one place anymore. There’s Ethereum.There’s Base.There’s Solana, Arbitrum, Polygon, BSC… Each one is like its own country with its own…
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Day 37: What is Real Yield?
When your earnings come from real activity, not magic numbers. Yesterday (Day 36), we learned about yield and yield farming: It was fun and exciting, but as we saw, not all yield is created equal. That’s why today we’re talking about real yield, the type of earnings that’s actually grounded in reality. Real Yield Starts…
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Day 36: What Is Yield Farming (and Why It Sounds More Complicated Than It Is)
Turning your liquidity into a working machine, and why patience matters. In Day 35, we talked about liquidity pools, the quiet engines that power decentralized exchanges. You learned how users deposit pairs of tokens so others can trade smoothly, earning a share of the fees in return. But then DeFi asked a tempting question: what…
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Day 35: What Are Liquidity Pools (and LP Tokens)
The quiet power behind every crypto swap. When we talked about DEXs back in Day 33, we said they let people trade crypto without banks, brokers, or middlemen. But that freedom raises a big question: if there’s no middleman, then who provides the money to make those swaps possible? Enter liquidity pools, the invisible engines…
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Day 34: What Is Staking (Earning While You Sleep)
How your crypto earns rewards while helping blockchains stay alive. In Day 33, we explored DEXs, the open markets of crypto where your wallet (remember our friend from Day 32) finally comes alive. That was your first taste of what it means to use your crypto, not just hold it. Now we move to something…
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Day 33: What Are DEXs and Why They Matter
Where your MetaMask finally comes to life. In Day 32, we talked about wallets, especially MetaMask, and how they act as your passport into the blockchain world. But if your wallet is the passport, then today’s topic, DEXs, or decentralized exchanges, is the country you finally get to visit. It’s where your wallet steps off…
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Day 32: Beyond MetaMask, Choosing the Right Crypto Wallet
Your key to the blockchain world, and what happens after MetaMask. Back in Day 10, I wrote about crypto wallets for the first time, the mysterious little apps that hold your keys, your coins, and, in a way, your courage. That post was about understanding what a wallet is. Today, we go deeper. Because after…
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