This article is republished with permission from the Bitmex Blog. Arthur Hayes is co-founder of Bitmex, the largest bitcoin futures exchange on the planet (based in Hong Kong).Mr. Hayes and his research team put out some of the best articles on cryptocurrency that you can read anywhere. And it’s free! To sign up for their articles, please go here. Money… Read More »
Soon, New Currency Frontier is to become a paid subscription service. I will still write general interest articles for the public. But I what I am buying and selling, and the reasoning behind it all, will disappear go behind a paywall inside the Members Centre for our subscriber base. Most of my trades will be on publicly traded… Read More »
A triple-whammy crackdown is roiling the cryptocurrency markets with the altcoins tanking 20% (or more) and bitcoin down to $7500 from its monthly high of nearly $10k USD. Here is what’s happening around the world: US Government Opens Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation: The United States’ Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into possible market… Read More »
Note: This is the second part in a series on “stable” coins. Part I is here. The entire world’s supply of money (M2) is roughly $60 trillion. Market cap of all cryptocurrencies in the world: $350 billion. The total amount of US dollars in the world is $14 trillion (but would you believe for China it’s $25… Read More »
Bitcoin charts can drive you insane. They can be so volatile, (and oh, does the press ever like to remind you of that). But there is one quietly bullish chart nobody is telling you: This is a chart of the Bitcoin futures contract XBTU18 on Bitmex, the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. The XBTU18 expires on September… Read More »
It’s been a fantastic breakthrough in the last 12 months for Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies. Both prices and coverage by mainstream media have soared. It seems everybody is getting into cryptocurrency. So why can’t I buy coffee, or shoes, or even a dinner with Bitcoin? It’s not the case that merchant and business adoption it’s close to… Read More »
