Fancy Chairs Can Explain Crypto
I spend several hours every day consuming crypto data and information. Only a fraction of that time is spent looking at prices though. I’m much more interested in bigger picture items like use cases, regulatory frameworks, inflation, monetary policy and other macro issues. As I was reading up on Ripple’s partial victory over…
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Cryptocurrency Markets
Bitcoin$ 26,179.011.5%
Ethereum$ 1,578.420.94%
Tether$ 1.000.03%
Solana$ 19.340.9%
USDC$ 0.9995390.04%
Cardano$ 0.2430351.13%
XRP$ 0.5015521.4%
Polkadot$ 3.990.98%
Dogecoin$ 0.0606671.2%
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Ripple Beats the SEC
By Vin Narayanan on July 14, 2023
The crypto industry needed a win. And it got one. A federal judge ruled Thursday that coins sold programmatically (typically on exchanges) or awarded as part of compensation packages were NOT unregistered securities. And that only coins sold directly to institutional investors constituted registered securities. “Therefore, having considered the economic…
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By Vin Narayanan on July 7, 2023
I’m going to write a book about crypto in the next couple of years. And one of the book’s chapters will be devoted to bitcoin ETFs. Since 2018, crypto investors have been hoping that an SEC-approved bitcoin (spot) ETF would lead to a tidal wave of institutional money entering the system. But the SEC hasn’t approved…
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By Vin Narayanan on June 30, 2023
The crypto markets have entered a highly unpredictable phase. There are so many contradictory market forces in play that it’s hard to make any short-term market predictions. The SEC is going after Coinbase. Coinbase is fighting back. Blackrock (among others) applied for a bitcoin spot ETF (with bitcoin as the underlying asset). The SEC said no in a matter of…
Crypto Monitor: The SEC’s Inconsistent Investor Protections
By Early Investing on June 9, 2023
It’s been a rough week. The SEC sued Coinbase and Binance. And a lot of coins have been called out by name in those lawsuits. The SEC declared that Solana, Cardano, Cosmos, Polygon, COTI, Decentraland, Algorand, Filecoin, The Sandbox, Axie Infinity, Chiliz, Flow, Internet Computer Protocol, NEAR Protocol, Voyager Token, Dash, and Nexo are all unregistered securities.
Crypto Monitor: A Victory for Crypto in China and Hong Kong
By Early Investing on June 2, 2023
China has a complicated relationship with crypto. The Chinese government continues to promote the use and development of blockchain, but crypto trading is still banned in mainland China. Recently, the crypto community had some hope that China may change its tune on crypto. The Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission published a 100-plus-page paper last week…