2017 was the year that Initial Coin Offerings boomed. Founders who want to raise money to grow their product or simply to get rich have sold coins to the general public. Because an important function of government is to stop John Doe getting ripped off by con merchants there are lots of laws about who […]
Coinmarketcap (coinmarketcap.com) is the best known and most important of the index providers. It aggregates information from many markets to get the instantaneous price of any coin or token. In January 2018 it sparked a run on Ripple when it removed South Korean exchanges from its calculations because of market anomalies. Disciples of the CrytoIndex […]
When you open an account with an exchange you will be prompted to enable two factor authentication (2FA) and they usually suggest that you use Google Authenticator. 2FA increases the security of your account because logging in requires the user to have two things – your password and a magic number generated by your phone. […]
Crypto20 has announced that it is delaying launching its token on HitBTC until the 22nd January 2018. This is bad news for investors because liquidity adds a lot of value to a token and they cannot get their money out if they need it. They blame HITBTC for the delay and say that they are […]
This site is primarily for investors in cryptocurrency indexes but for most users Bitcoin is their gateway to investing. As a potential index investor you should have at least $1500 that your are able to lose completely (see disclaimers below). If the thought of this makes you lose sleep, it is not the asset class […]
This week’s update on the Crypto20 fund. Top performing coins were TRX and ICX they sit at 18 and 19 in the index by market cap. I have never heard of either of them but I made a lot of money on them this week. A great advantage of passive investing is an index is […]
Two Bit Idiot is one of my favourite writers on cryptocurrencies. In this article he makes a good attack on cryptocurrency index funds. Losing Alpha: Why Most New Crypto Funds Are a Sh*t Deal Cryptocurrency Index Funds are needed It is an excellent article but being an active investor he has rather missed the point. […]
Crypto20 have started publishing weekly reviews of their token performance. Changes to the Crypto20 index this week ZEC leaves the top 20 index ICX joins Top performing coins are XLM and TRX See more posts about Crypto20
TaiFu Indexes are calculated daily. (TaiFu posts)
The CRIX CRyptocurrency IndeX is a benchmark for the cryptocurrency market. It is dedicated to give everyone, who is interested, insight about the current and past movement of this young market. The CRIX is realtime computed by the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.