How To Destroy Your Portfolio By Trading Bitcoin With Leverage
The market looks somewhat frothy these days; the semblance of a banana zone is forming, which usually turns into a come-and-get-the-bag plea to all the Bitcoin tourists. Everyone and their hairdresser is starting to talk about Bitcoin, and it’s deeply concerning for me as a humble pleb who has been around for a few cycles. […]
SEC Greenlights BTC Spot ETF Options Trading
In an inevitable development for tradFi Bitcoin enthusiasts and investors, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved options trading on BlackRock’s Spot Bitcoin ETF, officially known as IBIT. This decision marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing integration of Bitcoin into traditional financial markets and presents a myriad of implications for traders and […]
Fair Mints: The Mexican StandoffÂ
Altcoins have often painted themselves with a coat of decentralisation, claiming to democratise finance. It’s a “free market bro”. Anyone can create their own currency and participate in a revolution against traditional financial institutions. A movement that started with Bitcoin has seen a faction split off and devolve into a paragon of Ponzis, playing out […]
The Benefits Of Runes
Let me make this clear: I am an ordinal disrespector. I run Knots on my node, and I am proud of that; yes, Maxi brain doesn’t allow anything other than Bitcoin to fit in this blockhead. Now that you know my bias, let’s get down to the latest Tamagotchi craze hitting the blockchain. Ah, the […]
What Are Local Flash Crashes?
For all its innovation, the Bitcoin market can be prone to dramatic price swings. While a healthy market experiences fluctuations, “flash crashes” stand out for their sudden and often inexplicable plunges. Flash crashes were commonplace in the early days of Bitcoin. Still, as markets matured, exchanges became robust platforms offering deep pools of liquidity and, […]
What Are Bitcoin Perpetual Futures?
As Bitcoin matures as an asset class, it has migrated from the shady corners of the internet and P2P markets into shady crypto exchanges and now into shady public companies and shady regulated entities. It’s all still shady; the only thing that changes is the clientele using various onramps and the amount of capital they […]
What Is Bitcoin Wash Trading?
When you first get into Bitcoin, you might think that it’s all about trading; you’ll see charts posted on social media, and you’ll get slammed with technical analysis mumbo jumbo; you’ll get ushered into trading groups or encouraged to purchase signal packages and trade on certain exchanges. As a newbie in Bitcoin, you are likely […]
Ordinals Continue To Drive Increased Speculation With Inscription-Backed Loans
If there’s one critique of Bitcoin, I thought was a feature, not a bug; it was the claim that it was a boomer coin; it wasn’t Turing complete, so it couldn’t hold all sorts of token standards and non-native blockchain data stuffed on it. All you can do with Bitcoin is buy it, store it, […]
What Is An Automatic Market Maker?
To purchase your first bitcoin, you opt to sign up for the drama that is the bitcoin market; you have to deal with pricing volatility, traders blowing up their accounts, exchanges going bust, and everything in between. It truly is the wild west, and It can take a while to understand how everything works in […]
What Are The Tax Implications of Bitcoin?
With the staggering rise and fall of bitcoin, we’ve seen the network settle billions in transactions each year, be that from paying salaries, trading, donations and gifting. As more value flows into bitcoin and value is exchanged on the network and adjacent networks like exchanges, bitcoin holders, investors, and traders may have serious tax questions […]