This is the recipe for a successful crypto currency
In January 2026, it'll be seventeen years since Satoshi mined the Genesis block of Bitcoin. After lots of ups and downs, as well as lots of innovation and experimentation in the…
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The Dollar weakened against the Yen after Trump's China tweet - worsening the crypto sell-off
Here is the chart: source The carry trade (where people borrow at low interest rates in Yen and invest in dollar-denominated assets) is only…
Trump's GENIUS Act bans stablecoins from paying interest
The GENIUS Act was supposed to provide "clarity" for stablecoins and crypto in general. They've now clarified that stablecoins won't be able to pay interest to holders of…
Trump's Crypto reserve will have Ripple, Solana and Cardano
President Trump has just issued an Executive Order about setting up a Presidential Working Group to investigate setting up a Crypto Strategic Reserve. Here is what it…
The first indication that the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve won't happen
The new Crypto Czar David Sacks gave a press conference where he announced that he was setting up an "internal working group" to look at the "feasibility of a Bitcoin Reserve".…
Solana and Trump
By now everyone and their dog knows that Trump created a sh$tcoin called TRUMP which got instantly listed on Coinbase and got pumped into the multi billion market cap range.…
It's one year since Bitcoin ETFs were launched
Bitcoin ETFs started trading approximately one year ago on 11th January 2024. They started with $29 billion due to the GBTC (Greyscale BTC Trust) conversion into an ETF. Total…
What is causing the crypto crash?
Bitcoin is back down to about $94,000 and the major altcoins naturally crashed by about 10% to 15%. (Hive is an outlier in that it is mostly holding on to recent gains). I think…
Russia is using bitcoin to get around dollar restrictions
The Russian finance minister confirmed to Reuters that they were using bitcoin to settle payments in foreign trade: source Of course, some of us suspected…
The reason Hive attempted another pump
This is the fourth attempt to get lift-off since 13th November. Here is the chart: source I've been trying to work out why it's pumping…