The cryptocurrency company Grayscale has launched a multi-million dollar marketing campaign imploring investors to drop gold and buy bitcoin. It is a slick video and the campaign is getting plenty of attention, but does it make any sense? The “Drop Gold” campaign kicked off Wednesday and features a 39-second commercial that shows a man and [...]
I read a critique on Litecoin recently. The basic premise was that Litecoin is just a testing ground or testnet for Bitcoin. The author seemed to insinuate that Litecoin had little value other than testing new technologies prior to Bitcoin implementing them and was not a valuable standalone cryptocurrency. Mike Novogratz also chimed in recently, [...]
As you may have heard, there has been mayhem in the crypto markets. For a while, it seemed like crypto markets were immune to the carnage in stock and bond markets around the world. In recent weeks, that has changed in a big way. After a period of sideways trading and low volatility, the crypto [...]
Cryptocurrency markets have received an incredible amount of bullish news over the past few months, yet the price has barely budged. We believe this is adding fuel to the eventual fire that will ignite under cryptocurrency prices. In this article, we cover the latest bullish news and present our case for much higher cryptocurrency prices [...]
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase just announced the addition the 0x protocol token to Coinbase Pro: In a blog post, the company commented: As of 10am PT on Thursday, October 11, we are now accepting deposits for ZRX on Coinbase Pro! We will accept deposits for at least 12 hours prior to enabling trading. Once sufficient liquidity [...]
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have grabbed headlines ever since their market prices began to see a spectacular rise last year. Governments, public agencies, financial institutions and large investors (including Warren Buffett) have spent a considerable amount of time commenting on cryptocurrencies during this entire period. But does crypto deserve so much prominence and attention (mostly [...]
When the first physical gold exchange-traded-fund (ETF) was launched in the United States in November of 2004, it had a huge impact on the gold market. The SPDR Gold Trust made it faster and easier for investors to get exposure to gold. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) give traders access to the incremental price movements of physical gold, [...]
Cryptocurrency prices slid again over the past week, with bitcoin dropping from $6,800 to $6,150, for a loss of around 10%. Bulls would like to see the price hold above $6,000 on this dip and then establish a higher low versus the previous day. The overall trend remains to the downside. If support around $6,150 [...]
When a new industry booms, it always has to face the most fundamental challenge of finding a feasible payments system. For the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s, that method turned out to be PayPal. PayPal is an easy, convenient, secure, and affordable way to pay online. Don’t get me wrong, PayPal is [...]
The past week has been eventful for the crypto investment community, to say the least. On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally declared that Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) cannot be considered securities. This sets an important precedent in the regulatory realm. The SEC ruling is also incredibly bullish for the price of BTC [...]
