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!
23 Jan 2023 4 minute read 5 comments MarkHelfman
Bitcoin’s price is up 35% in two months. Now, I’m hearing people talking about an “echo bubble,” a big crypto pump that peaks sooner and higher than everybody expects, then plummets the entire market to new lows. Are you hearing that, too? Seems a li...
17 Jan 2023 3 minute read 18 comments MarkHelfman
Imagine you found an investment opportunity that could realistically hand you a 1,000% return over just a few years. That’s a rare and special thing. Also, it’s the reason you’re getting into crypto. You want to find that next big altcoin. Maybe it’...
12 Jan 2023 3 minute read 3 comments MarkHelfman
Since May 2022, I have warned Crypto is Easy subscribers about bitcoin’s drop to $14,000. It’s the most realistic, sensible, natural technical price level in history. In the classic “anatomy of a bubble” model of markets, bubbles need to go back to w...
10 Jan 2023 3 minute read 5 comments MarkHelfman
As promised in my last post, “Time to Buy Altcoins?” here’s the first in a series of articles about altcoins. By now, you’ve probably heard about the “bitcoin dominance” chart. That chart shows bitcoin’s percentage of the total cryptocurrency market...
5 Jan 2023 3 minute read 2 comments MarkHelfman
I got another email from a guy who says he knows the five altcoins that will EXPLODE in 2023. Sounds tempting, but short-duration government bonds and cash deposits are giving you the best deal you’ve gotten in a generation (at least the last 15 yea...
30 Dec 2022 3 minute read 13 comments MarkHelfman
Earlier this week, the US government charged well-known crypto exploiter Avi Eisenberg with commodities fraud and market manipulation for his attack on Mango Markets, a DeFi platform. Maybe posting your crimes on Twitter is not the best idea? While I...
6 Dec 2022 2 minute read 1 comment MarkHelfman
Celsius, FTX, Genesis, insider hacks, and rug-pulls. People lost so much money with crypto this year. Nowhere near as much as the world lost in legacy financial markets, but it seems to hit harder with crypto. So much fraud and incompetence. So many...
2 Dec 2022 4 minute read 35 comments MarkHelfman
Once bitcoin’s price went below its 2017 peak, the naysayers came out of the woodworks. This cycle is different, the models are broken, the charts don’t work anymore, and a global depression will crush everything. Sure. “It can get worse” is always a...
18 Nov 2022 5 minute read 2 comments MarkHelfman
On the heels of FTX’s demise, in advance of the potential collapse of USDT Tether, amidst the tightest monetary environment in a generation, staring at a looming global recession, we brace ourselves for the end of the biggest pump-and-dump in history...
7 Nov 2022 2 minute read 1 comment MarkHelfman
For some people, it’s not enough that bitcoin’s price is at a historic low. They need a different reason to put money into this market. A key level on a trading chart. Some macro or technical signal. A leading indicator. A key milestone in some data...
