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14 Nov 2021 4 minute read 1 comment simplyrangel
I created a large cap crypto fund for myself based on Coinbase Pro's markets in early September -- read about the setup and historical analysis in Part 1 and Part 2 of the series. Weekly buy-ins split equally among my Large Cap Crypto Fund's coins r...
5 Nov 2021 2 minute read 2 comments simplyrangel
Coinbase Pro's IOTX price briefly exceeded 3.5x its market price Thursday, Nov. 4 before the exchange paused trading on its IOTX-USDT and IOTX-BTC pairs. The announcement -- made by Vishal Gupta, Coinbase and Coinbase Pro's Head of Exchange -- came...
26 Sep 2021 3 minute read 12 comments simplyrangel
I created a large cap crypto fund for myself and published it's simulated dollar-cost-averaging 2021 returns in an earlier post -- read it here. I received a lot of fantastic feedback in the post's comments section and from discussions within my pro...
19 Sep 2021 4 minute read 22 comments simplyrangel
I created a large cap crypto fund for myself on Coinbase Pro -- here's how. Motivation and constraints The way I see it an amateur crypto investor needs at least one of three things to profit -- more research time, smarter trades, or luck. I have a...
12 Sep 2021 1 minute read 2 comments simplyrangel
Cardano successfully executed its "Alonzo" hard fork combinator Sunday evening, ushering smart contracts and decentralized app capabilities onto the coin's ecosystem. The IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong) leadership live-streamed the transition on YouTu...
10 Sep 2021 1 minute read 2 comments simplyrangel
Coinbase Pro announced SHIB trading was open the morning of Sept. 9, and didn't take long for things to go completely off the rails. SHIB opened on Coinbase Pro at $0.00001, or $1e-5, in scientific notation -- a value that was an order of magnitude...
6 Sep 2021 3 minute read 2 comments simplyrangel
Coinbase doesn't offer a portfolio tracker — so I'm developing my own. Coinbase and Coinbase Pro display the bare minimum portfolio information in their web portals: The portfolio's current total USD value The number, price, and USD value of each c...
30 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments simplyrangel
Solana's coin price exceeded $100 in the wee hours of August 30 just after 0300 UTC. It's about to be 11pm here in Houston but I couldn't help throwing together some quick charts in celebration. Solana traded at just over $98 when I published this a...
29 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments simplyrangel
Cardano's stakeholders agreed ADA's infrastructure is ready to enter its final preparations before the Alonzo upgrade. ADA also remains on track to execute the Alonzo hard-fork on September 12. Charles Hoskinson, ADA's founder, provided these and se...
22 Aug 2021 2 minute read 2 comments simplyrangel
Cardano didn't cause cryptocurrency's July 20 market crash -- but it's sure acting like it can fix it. ADA bullied Binance Coin out to become the third most valuable cryptocurrency by market cap on August 20. The newest member of the Top-3 outstripp...
