The Cryptoindex Guru has a partnership with Coincentral and we are pleased to reproduce this introductory article to answer the question “What is Bitcoin?” The Bitcoin world is abuzz with both excitement and curiosity… and the opportunity for upside potential to skyrocket. Everyone from everyday Joes to reputable experts are betting on Bitcoin’s success. It’s […]
In this post, https://medium.com/@cryptoeconomics/byzantine-political-economy-de25bf8f047e The authors identify that a key function of the state is to maintain public ledgers such as ownership and citizenship. The possibility and desirability of moving these to the public blockchain are well understood now but the authors note that in the past this concept was not available for debate. Therefore […]
Crypto20 have updated their blog and claim they want to the Vanguard for cryptocurrencies. Vanguard is the company who invented index investing in stocks and shares and has save ordinary investors billions in fees. Key points, Expect a new umbrella website and additional fund types by the end of the month. The new fund types […]
Although this article is about hardware wallets first we consider the simpler option, Holding your cryptocurrency on an Exchange This is considered undesirable because exchanges are poorly regulated and might steal or lose your money. However for novice users and small amounts a regulated exchange like Coinbase is a good choice because it is very […]
This website is about passive investment and this article discusses asset allocation for the cryptocurrency investor. In the normal markets for equities and bonds asset allocation for the passive investor is an easy task and I have previously blogged about it here. After your investment portfolio is sufficient for your needs you may wish to […]
The Cryptos Fund (website) tracks the CCI30 index. It is based in Switzerland and claims high security. Their website is very impressive and if I had $100k that I wanted to park in a well managed fund that with 1% management fee they would be on my list. Although based in Switzerland they are domiciled […]
CCI30 (website) was created and is maintained by a team of mathematicians, quants and fund managers lead by Igor Rivin, Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and Regius Professor of Mathematics at St. Andrews University, and Carlo Scevola, economist and director of Hermes Asset Management. Robert Davis is responsible for technology. How the CCI30 is calculated This index […]
Cryptocurrency investors woke up to a lot of red ink last week with the MVDA25 index down 20%. Now is a good time to ask whether Bitcoin is the new gold. A quick search on the topic finds many posts, a couple of interesting ones are, https://cointelegraph.com/news/gold-sales-spike-during-crypto-market-crash-highlighting-inverse-correlation https://medium.com/swlh/will-the-futures-market-do-to-bitcoin-what-it-did-to-gold-b7d35704641 but perhaps the most useful is the research […]
In a post earlier this week I highlighted the controversy around Tether and asked “How bad will it be?” After a bit of research I have concluded “not too bad” because, the cryptomarket is in free-fall now so it can’t get much worse Coinbase declared profits of over $1bn so Bitfinex must have plenty of […]
In an earlier post about the Blockport ICO I complained that there was no promise of liquidity in their Whitepaper. However their Admins in the Telegraph forum said that they token would be tradeable on some exchanges. I did not like their equivocation and decided not to invest. However they have now listed on two decentralised […]