What Is A Bitcoin IRA?
Bitcoin’s meteoric rise from darknet settlement currency to a 1 trillion dollar asset class has broken many models and average investors’ brains along the way. While there is still no shortage of naysayers, a few are starting to pay attention, so much so that a cohort is eager to include it in their retirement portfolios. […]
What Is The Bitcoin Banana Zone?
If you’ve been anywhere near Bitcoin over the last decade, you’ve probably heard a lot about its price swings. It’s volatile, it’s risky, and let’s face it, it’s sometimes more dramatic than a reality TV show. Bitcoin has its own villains, heroes, damsels in distress and, of course, a plethora of morons that provide comic […]
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, […]
Why Bitcoin ETFs Are Sharing Public Addresses
The recent launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US has brought a new wave of excitement to the financial world. The approval saw ten different ETFs go live in January, and competition within the ETF space is heating up, with fees being the major differentiator between the various issuers. Competing on fees eventually reaches […]
Why BTC Prices Dropped After Spot ETF Approval
Bitcoin has matured as a global asset class, from nerd money held by hobbyists to a near Trillion dollar asset, settling Billions in value globally each day. As Bitcoin continues to show potential for price appreciation, traditional finance would demand products that provide exposure to it. Investors in the traditional markets care very little about […]
What Is A Bitcoin Spot ETF?
Bitcoin has come a long way since the days of P2P trades via forums and, later, the first “formal” exchange platform, Mt. Gox, in 2010. As the demand for Bitcoin grew globally, attracting hundreds of millions to the asset and network, on-ramps sprung up to meet this demand. Centralised exchanges sprung up and became the go-to […]
What Is Bitcoin Tax Loss Harvesting?
Bitcoin is synonymous with its four-year cycles and volatility, providing various trading opportunities. Depending on your timing, you could be in for feast or famine, and very few retail investors are ready for either, making plenty of unprofitable mistakes along the way. A bull market can encourage a lot of risk-taking, risks that can prove […]
5 Reasons Why Bitcoin Should NOT Be Taxed
Taxing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is a hot topic, but let’s face it, trying to tax something that was born to be rebellious is like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Primarily, Bitcoin, by its very nature as a decentralized digital currency, falls outside the traditional financial systems. It was designed […]
DEFI Are Underpants Stealing Gnomes Who Learned To Code
When I look at DEFI, every single pitch is entirely out of touch with reality, yet no one seems to question it. All of DEFI can be taken down with a simple question. Where does the profit come from? Ask any DEFI proponent, and they’ll come up with a long, convoluted answer that is a […]
How Crypto & Blockchain Technology Impacted My Personal Finance
TheyCallMeDan’s Initiative I’ve been seeing a few posts about this initiative recently and so thought I’d share my perspective in addition to the post I wrote last week. The initiative from @theycallmedan is fully outlined in here so feel free to get involved and if you have already written your post, let me know in […]