A walk down crypto trench memory lane

1. The Poloniex Trollbox

Pre-Binance, Poloniex (aka "Polo") was one of the OG exchanges that listed all the Bitcoin forks and PoW sh*tcoins. The live Trollbox provided a great read of the market, you just had to accept being called a r****d every other msg.

2. Etherdelta

With a UI that was Winamp x Bloomberg, EtherDelta is without a doubt the OG Decentralized Exchange. Liquidity was so bad and bid-offers so wide you could drive a truck through them. But it was the only venue where you could trade a lot of the ERC-20 ICO coins in 2017, so everyone used it. 

RIP OG

Head of Business Development @nexusmutual

3. Shapeshift

imo an incredibly underrated part of crypto history. Erik Voorhees' p2p exchange, where you could swap any of the top 50 (or so) cryptocurrencies. No account needed, no KYC, just transfer BTC to address Y and receive ETH on address X. 

This techcrunch article about a $1.6M fundraise in 2016 is also amazing (https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/08/shapeshift-a-cool-cryptocurrency-converter-clinches-1-6-million-in-cash/)

4. Parity Client

Back in 2016/17 there were not a lot of decent ETH wallet solutions out there. Metamask, MyEtherWallet and the Parity client were pretty much the only solutions in order of feature set. The Parity client was most advanced but also a total nightmare to sync. One cool feature is that you could time transactions or contract calls to be executed at specific block numbers, to if you wanted to get lucky with an ICO this is what you used.

Polo was great entertainment, best. Watching the trades while talking shit was the peak of the shitcoin market. I miss the troll box.

Cryptsy - I have no idea why I traded on Cryptsy, so shady