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, […]
Bitcoin Spot ETF Fees Race Toward Zero
The recent launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US had been hyped up for several years now; we had heard the warnings: Wall Street is coming, the pensions are coming, the boomers are coming, and with this cohort would come a wave of liquidity and demand side support, the likes of which Bitcoin has never seen. […]
What Are Options On Bitcoin ETFs?
The arrival of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US in January 2024 was a big deal for many boomers, traditional investors, and those who feel the technical self-sufficiency aspect of Bitcoin is out of their league. The spot ETF offers mainstream investors a regulated way to gain exposure to the best-performing asset of the last decade; in […]
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 […]
What Are Taproot Swaps?
Bitcoin has become a victim of its success as more people regularly use the network to settle transactions. Bitcoin has a hard limit on the number of transactions it can settle per block, and as demand for the asset increases, the resulting network congestion drives up fees. Increased fees optimise blocks for the transactions that […]
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 Are CBRC-20 Tokens?
The fees on the Bitcoin blockchain have been absolutely ripping over 2023. Sure, that has something to do with the increased price action, but you don’t normally see a 3x gain over 12 months result in a 44x increase in fees, especially when we have layer twos helping offset transactions. As a Bitcoin user, you […]
A Guide To Essential Bitcoin Charts
Bitcoin might have introduced us to digital scarcity, but what isn’t scarce is the number of charts circulating the internet all about Bitcoin. These charts are used to stir up social media engagement to drive bullish or bearish sentiment in the market, and they do work. Have a look at some of the Bitcoin chartists […]
Why Are Exchanges Avoiding CoinJoined Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a pseudonymous payment network; if you only use the data that’s available on-chain, it doesn’t provide you with any personal information on transacting partners or who the user is that owns that specific Bitcoin. As the market matured and large trading platforms with ties to traditional financial rails like banks became the biggest […]
How South African Bitcoin Arbitrage Works
As a South African earning in Rands, you might have noticed over the past 25 years that your Rands aren’t going as far as they used to. We’ve all sat around the braai revealing stories of Oupa and Ouma buying, walking out with a trolly full of groceries using only a handful of Rands. Those […]