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Willy Woo’s new metric shows when smaller miners are ‘capitulating’, typically in bear markets and after halvings.   Willy Woo is well known for developing chain-based indicators for Bitcoin, including NVT. Now he has released another: the Bitcoin Difficulty Ribbon.   You can read a full explanation here, but essentially the ribbon is a collection […]

…beating the long-awaited Bakkt to the punch. What effect will this have on the market?   LedgerX has managed to come in ahead of Bakkt, launching its physically-settled bitcoin futures product yesterday. The company received the required licence from the relevant US regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), back in June. Bitcoin futures will […]

The blockchain-based service uses the predictions market model to facilitate trading on the outcome of sports events, offering an alternative to traditional betting services. The idea of LIGA is to apply blockchain technology to sports, creating an opportunity to cash in on predicting the outcome of sporting events. This differs from classical betting, and is […]

Leading Trader Alessio Rastani explores alternative scenarios – knowing that when ‘everyone’ thinks something is going to happen, it rarely does.   There has been a lot of talk recently about where this corrective move for bitcoin might end, and what could happen next. Broadly, traders are in agreement. There has been lots of analysis […]

TL;DR A ‘gap’ in the CME Bitcoin Futures market points to a potential low for this corrective wave of the cycle, around $8,500.   Ever since Bitcoin futures launched in December 2017, there has been debate about how much they influence the crypto markets. Now, a peculiarity in the CME Bitcoin Futures market might give […]

21 percent of BTC haven’t moved in over 5 years – meaning their owners didn’t sell in either the epic bull market or the crushing bear cycle.   A report from Bitcoin analysis firm Coinmetrics shows that the number of coins that are ‘dormant’ has risen to an all-time high. In total, the report suggests […]

The world-renowned investor told the old man he had tummy trouble.   Warren Buffett has reacted with apathy to the news that Justin Sun has cancelled his steak lunch with him.   Sun, founder of the Tron blockchain project, paid millions of dollars in a charity auction for the chance to eat a meal with […]

Bakkt really is going live. Soon. And according to Fundstrat it looks like things could get very interesting.   It was supposed to launch last year: the great hope for slaying the bitcoin bear and catalysing a new uptrend, the likes of which crypto has never seen before. Bakkt’s physically-settled bitcoin futures were going to […]

TL;DR US politics took and even stranger spin this week as Congress acted like it knew what crypto was.   It’s a strange world. Just a few years back no one outside of a select circle of geeks and innovators knew what crypto was. Now it’s suddenly cool, and everybody in government wants to seem […]

TL;DR governments won’t give up control of money voluntarily, so we’re going to have to do it the sneaky way.   Anyone can make predictions about the future based on what they see around them, but it’s a rare mind that can take the temperature of the times and accurately understand the signs. Friedrich Hayek, […]