What Are Bitcoin Prediction Markets?
We’ve all sat around the dinner table with friends and family before, predicting everything from sporting events and political outcomes to movie box office performances, or even something as simple as “I bet 10 bucks I can flip this bottle over and have it land upright”? It’s in our nature to love placing little bets […]
Memecoin Mania, The Jokes On You
2024 is the comeback year; stocks are surging, gold has hit all-time highs, and so has its counterpart in digital gold; Bitcoin has set new all-time highs, and we’re safely in NGU territory. Whenever Bitcoin makes new highs, it’s a newsworthy moment, and it’s time for the legacy media and social media to punt it […]
Why Bitcoin Faces Resistance with $100K
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been calling $100k for the last 5 years or more and laughed out of the room; that’s been the default response from the nocoiners and fiat maxis. You’re crazy; $ 100,000 for one coin of magic internet money? Don’t be daft! Sure, it got 69% of the way there […]
What Are BTC Bull Market Pull Backs?
It’s that time of the cycle again, where Bitcoin captures the imagination of the general public; after a long 3-year slumber and crab market, 2024 was the comeback year, and we’re up BIGLY! 163.0% gains, and we’re still going strong, is like a bat signal to every Bitcoin tourist opening up a Coinbase or Binance […]
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 […]