Perspective, opinion, and commentary on bitcoin, altcoins, and cryptocurrency for people who want to focus on the big picture. Don't sweat the day-to-day. It's cryptocurrency - relax and enjoy the ride!
27 Oct 2021 2 minute read 4 comments MarkHelfman
Everybody says bitcoin’s about to explode and altcoins will soon go on a face-melting run. Usually, when “everybody” expects something to happen, it doesn't happen. This time, we have a lot of signals that suggest "everybody" is right. I’ve covered t...
30 Sep 2021 3 minute read 4 comments MarkHelfman
On September 22, 2021, US regulator Gary Gensler told college kids that passive investments can consistently earn a safe 8% return over the next 45 years. Ok, boomer. I remember when they told me to buy a house so I’d have financial security. One ye...
21 Sep 2021 4 minute read 4 comments MarkHelfman
Bitcoin’s price dropped 24% in the past two weeks, including 19% in one day. It dropped 50% over the course of one week in May. It’s in the middle of a drop right now, as I post this article. Crashes are nothing new, nothing special, just bitcoin bei...
15 Sep 2021 2 minute read 2 comments MarkHelfman
Yesterday, Crypto Twitter passed along a bizarre anti-bitcoin op-ed and US Senators took turns bashing crypto at a Congressional hearing. Nothing new. Over the past several months, we’ve seen headlines about China’s miners, US crypto laws, Coinbase L...
12 Sep 2021 1 minute read 7 comments MarkHelfman
Within days, bitcoin’s trading chart will print a golden cross. It may have already happened by the time you read this article. What’s a golden cross? A golden cross happens when bitcoin’s 50-day moving average goes above its 200-day moving average o...
8 Sep 2021 3 minute read 6 comments MarkHelfman
Seems like the price of almost everything keeps going up. That’s nothing new. Today’s governments try their damndest to make it so. Usually, they do a pretty good job and people generally carry on without a fuss. Until recently. In Europe, prices are...
4 Sep 2021 3 minute read 10 comments MarkHelfman
Looks like US regulators started to investigate Uniswap. What for? Not sure. As best I can tell, US regulators asked Uniswap to tell them how it works, how they market it, and what people do with it. While that’s a good place to start an enforcement...
3 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments MarkHelfman
This week I caught up with Robert Forster, co-founder and CTO of Armor.Fi, a decentralized insurance platform. We talked about how insurance for DeFi is different from traditional insurance, how Armor handles the nuances of insurance, and what that m...
25 Jul 2021 4 minute read 1 comment MarkHelfman
Lots of people say bitcoin’s dead. In some ways, they have a point. Its price chart looks like shit, everybody expects the bottom to fall out, and its on-chain data has only just started to shift in our favor (but not much). At the same time, the onl...
10 Jul 2021 4 minute read 11 comments MarkHelfman
Some people keep talking about a bitcoin bear market. I don’t. Not just because the definitions of “bear market” change from person to person and depend on arbitrary charting patterns and semantic contortions, but also because we have not seen a mark...
