During the 2017-2018 Bitcoin bull run, which is by now known as the ICO bull run, there were many more corrections and falls for Bitcoin than there are during the 2020-2021 rise so far. However, this time round its different, as analysts claim that the seismic shift in the value of Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) […]
On the day of Coinbas’s IPO, Wednesday 14 April to be exact, someone tried to move an incredible amount of stolen Bitcoins from the 2016 Bitfinex Hack from one wallet to another, hoping to cash out. In summary, as Nick Mancini pointed out: Someone used the $COIN listing media hype as the exact moment they […]
Crypto saw another round of profit taking and downward pressure after several days and weeks of stellar gains. Nothing to be truly worried about of course, given the run of wins that we’ve seen so far in 2021. Bitcoin and Ether meanwhile were able to stem the losses to only a few percentage points while […]
It was to be expected that after a week of positive news for crypto, one or another person of some state institution would be screaming regulation at some point and try to scare the markets. After Christine Lagarde (head of the European Central Bank), Janet Yellen (US Treasury Secretary) and Nouriel Roubini (Economics professor of […]
Wall Street is normally a very masculine world with male CEO’s trying to outsmart each other, think Jamie Dimon over at JP Morgan or Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman Sachs. In 2020 the leading role on Wall Street was for a woman though, by the name of Cathie Wood. Her ARK Investment fund was the big […]
One of the draft stories I threw into the trashcan last week was a Reddit post of a crypto enthusiast who had made charts showing all the Bloody Sundays over the years. Seeing this past weekend’s action I now regret not having written it of course. The chart that he had come up with referred […]
With the White House of President Joe Biden riding high in the opinion polls and even his relief packages sailing through Congress for approval, the opposition republicans are fresh out of enemies to please their base. Given that President Biden has been (at least when it comes to his rhetoric) thus far much tougher on […]
The flamboyant CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong knows how to sell a good media story. Not only was he in the headlines this week for a successful IPO of his company, he also hid an Easter Egg in the Bitcoin blockchain, just as the illustrious crypto creator Satoshi Nakamoto once did. As those of us […]
The parabolic rises of the past week finally came to a halt this Sunday when the markets stared back at us with a double digit drop in all major coins. Bitcoin and Ethereum fell to respectively $54,000 (-12%) and $2,100 (-14%). Other altcoins suffered more, with XRP dropping 25%, Litecoin 23% and Chainlink 20%. The […]
The almost 10 million strong degenerates (or degens as they call themselves) of WallStreetBets briefly allowed crypto discussions this week, but then reinstated their earlier ban when some moderators were surprised at the MSM claiming their group had bowed down to crypto.GameStopWallStreetBets, the group of retail traders that rose to fame in January of this […]
