The First Big Bitcoin Landlord of Western Canada Goes Public

The real money in real estate isn’t flipping houses but being a landlord. DMG Blockchain Solutions (TSXV: DMGI) has begun trading on the Toronto Venture Exchange. DMG has several business models but their first attention-grabber for the public markets is being a huge mining-as-a-service bitcoin provider. Their mining facilities across Canada have a current capacity of 40 megawatts and they… Read More »

A Great Migration: The Ultimate Guide to Public Bitcoin Mining Companies in North America (Part One)

For the last 40 years, North American industries have flocked to China—now a multi-billion-dollar industry is moving from China to North America. It’s cryptocurrency “mining”—a $US 6 billion industry. Why are the miners leaving China? In a move last October, the Chinese government banned ALL forms of cryptocurrency, including China. Just last week, the Chinese government update their… Read More »

After The Bloodbath, It’s Time to Go Shopping

Today I bought Bitcoin futures on the Bitmex exchange (the largest Bitcoin futures exchange in the world). The order was a small percentage of my portfolio. It’s a risky trade and I don’t wait to lose too much sleep over it if Bitcoin heads south again I believe we will see more turbulence and weakness in the market… Read More »

The Real Reason Why Bitcoin Crashed

Bitcoin had a nasty 25% drop last week on news that US regulators want to subpoena Bitfinex over the issuing of Tether, a digital coin that is (supposed to be) backed by the US dollar. After a bounce back Friday, Bitcoin tanked again on the weekend. Yesterday, it continued to drop before bouncing back on “Turnaround Tuesday.” What’s the cause? Many… Read More »

Will Customers Line Up Now that Blockchain is no Longer Vapourware?

When I research blockchain stocks, the first thing I ask for is a finished product—because that’s rare. Having a finished product is actually The Gold Standard at this early stage of the Blockchain industry, which is just getting adopted into many verticals. If your company or start up has a real product, you move up my food chain dramatically.… Read More »

Game of Crypto-Chicken: Now Playing at the Venture Exchange

Canadian brokerage firm GMP Equity Research has placed a “speculative buy” on HIVE Blockchain Technologies (HIVE-TSXv) with a target price of $5.35 CAD. (current price is $2.99). After wading through the 22-page report for most of this morning, I found a chart that, IMHO, really illustrates what is going to happen to the stock in the short term.… Read More »