In this blog I cover major public blockchain developments, cryptocurrency shifting from speculation to utility, and personal opinions as to how the space will develop going forward.
17 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments CPix
Market Update By the end of last week at least 80 million Americans received their “stimulus” payment per the CARES Act. According to The Washington Post the majority of the money is being used to buy fast food, gas, and pharmacy items, with over hal...
8 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments CPix
Getting Crypto Back in the early days buying Bitcoin wasn’t easy for the everyday person. Since 2013 several “exchanges” have been created to facilitate trading US dollars for Bitcoin and essentially any other cryptocurrency like Ether, XRP, and Teth...
6 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments CPix
COVID-19 surpasses 1 million confirmed cases globally with over 350k of them being in the US. Jobless claims in the United States rose to 6.6 million last Thursday, far surpassing numbers from the 2008 Financial Crisis. Even with all things considere...
1 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CPix
Recently Metal Pay and Lynx have released details pertaining to their much anticipated new blockchain which will connect retail user's bank accounts with blockchain infrastructure. This will enable seamless payments of fiat currency and cryptocurrenc...
22 Mar 2020 2 minute read 1 comment CPix
March has been a crazy month for almost every market in the world, crypto has been no different. Whereas traditional exchanges have halted trading during normal hours and Future’s hitting 5% limits on both sides, crypto trades 24/7 globally with no d...
19 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CPix
Over the next year or so I’ll be on the lookout for a uncoupling of Bitcoin and traditional equities. Bitcoin was designed to be a hedge against FIAT monetary policy not the risk of a global recession and liquidity crunches like we’ve seen this pas...
18 Mar 2020 1 minute read 1 comment CPix
Saying these markets are crazy would be an understatement. It doesn’t matter what assets you hold, a lot of people are feeling pain right now. The only safe haven seems to be cash. Just the other day The Fed held an emergency meeting to cut interes...
24 Feb 2020 2 minute read 1 comment CPix
Until the last year or so it hasn’t been very easy neither compelling for someone to USE blockchain applications or cryptocurrency beyond value speculation, trading, and “frowned upon” activities. Now with the access to a few super cool apps both i...
11 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments CPix
If you've been following crypto since 2017 you remember the madness and hype around new ICO projects. Thousands were created in the 2016-2018 stretch and ICO's still happen but just at much slower of a rate. Now hype is more focused on shipping usabl...
7 Feb 2020 1 minute read 1 comment CPix
Ethereum's DeFi sink has officially hit the $1 billion mark for crypto locked in smart contracts. If you take a look at defipulse.com you can see for yourself the exponential growth the space has seen over the past year alone. Ether locked up is an i...
