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!
10 Feb 2021 2 minute read 6 comments MarkHelfman
(Continued from Altseason Playbook, Part 1 of 6) Altcoins are zooming but don’t forget about your boy bitcoin. You might not want to keep all your eggs in the altcoin basket, because once altseason ends, you know who’ll still be standing. In my last...
9 Feb 2021 2 minute read 2 comments MarkHelfman
Does it seem odd that a bitcoin guy would dabble in altcoins? Contrary to popular belief, I’m not all about bitcoin. Some of these altcoins will do amazing things, in time. With altseason picking up steam, I’m sharing six strategies I used to build m...
3 Feb 2021 5 minute read 5 comments MarkHelfman
Do you know my biggest pet peeve about people’s understanding of bitcoin? They think of it only as money. This narrow scope keeps people from appreciating the bigger picture: bitcoin is the unit of account for a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. E...
23 Jan 2021 3 minute read 14 comments MarkHelfman
I wrote this article two days ago, when bitcoin’s price was $36,000, in the middle of a parabolic move that started at $9,800. At that time, the total cryptocurrency market cap had just crossed $1 trillion dollars. Everybody was talking about a $100...
13 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MarkHelfman
Did you see the CNN headline? “Bitcoin plunges more than 20% in three days. It’s now in a bear market“ Uh huh. Chalk it up to an editor mistaking “bear” for “bull.” At least I hope so. People have started shouting “bull market” for only the past few...
10 Jan 2021 4 minute read 11 comments MarkHelfman
In October, I published “Why Bitcoin Matters to Millennials.” @wickedthewolf, Thomas Wolf, responded with his post, “Bitcoin & Millennials – Why It May or May Not Matter.” In that post, he said bitcoin is weak and governments will crush it. People ha...
7 Jan 2021 6 minute read 3 comments MarkHelfman
With the price of bitcoin shooting up, you may have started hearing a new round of hype about “digital gold,” as Wall Street calls it. Are you skeptical? Do you buy into the hype? Does the parabolic price arc scare you? Like it or not, bitcoin deserv...
29 Dec 2020 4 minute read 2 comments MarkHelfman
With bitcoin hitting all-time highs for the first time in years, you may think it’s getting big. Huge, even. Wall Street luminaries like Paul Tudor Jones and Jamie Dimon are telling people to buy it. Long-time skeptics like Nouriel Roubini begrudging...
4 Dec 2020 3 minute read 2 comments MarkHelfman
I know a few people in finance. None of them fear cryptocurrency, even though the technology will make them obsolete. Some plan to get out with what they can before cryptos take over. Most want to hop on the train before it leaves the station. More a...
29 Nov 2020 3 minute read 23 comments MarkHelfman
You may think the U.S. presidential election is under dispute. It’s not. The president’s team claims fraud and tweets all sorts of evidence, but they don’t present any of that evidence in court. Even their “independent advisors” found no fraud. I sus...
