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Blindly Believing the Fed
By Adam Sharp on November 5, 2021
I came across an interesting opinion piece on CoinDesk today titled “Will Bitcoin Win When the Fed Stops Buying Bonds?” Beginning in November, the Fed will purchase $10 billion fewer Treasury bonds and $5 billion fewer mortgage-backed securities (MBS) each month until the $120 billion program is depleted sometime in mid-2022. The Fed left itself some wiggle room to pause or accelerate this “taper” depending on extenuating circumstances. It…
Bitcoin Poised for More All Time Highs
By Adam Sharp on October 22, 2021
Bitcoin has pulled back from the all-time-high of around $67,000 it reached earlier this week. But it’s still looking great at around $60,000. A pullback here is actually quite healthy. We don’t want it to go up vertically. Parabolic (near vertical) moves inevitably correct hard. Steady…
Crypto Insider: ProShares Launches a Futures-Based Bitcoin ETF
By Early Investing on October 18, 2021
It’s an exciting week to be a crypto investor. After years of waiting, we finally have a bitcoin ETF! At least… as close as we can get to a bitcoin ETF right now. ProShares will launch its Bitcoin Strategy ETF tomorrow. The ETF is…
Bitcoin Keeps Outperforming Altcoins
By Adam Sharp on October 15, 2021
Bitcoin continues to perform well against altcoins, after lagging significantly earlier in the year. It’s hard to say how altcoins will react if bitcoin goes above $100,000. They may soar higher right along with it. Or they may struggle for attention in the face of a…
Bitcoin Soars Past Altcoins
By Adam Sharp on October 8, 2021
Bitcoin has been beating altcoins over the last few weeks — which is something we haven’t seen in a long time. And I think this trend may continue for a while. We could even get a situation where bitcoin “sucks all the air out of the room,” which…
Why You Should Avoid Crypto Trading
By Adam Sharp on October 8, 2021
Almost everyone I know in the crypto community considers themselves a “trader.” Not an investor, a trader. They try to time the market, often using leverage. A lot of people assume that trading is the path to riches.
Crypto News Roundup: Bank of America Can’t Ignore Bitcoin
By Vin Narayanan on October 7, 2021
Much has happened in the crypto world since we spoke to you just last week! As I write this, bitcoin is trading for more than $51,000. Big banks are pushing hard to release crypto products. And the SEC is doing SEC things. Let’s take a look at the…
Bitcoin ETFs Are Almost Here
By Adam Sharp on October 1, 2021
This week Coinbase sponsored an article in the prestigious Institutional Investor publication titled “Expect Growth in Crypto Funds and SEC-Approved ETF Soon.” Here’s an interesting excerpt from the article. …Confidence remains high among…
Beware the Cardano Price Mirage
By Adam Sharp on September 24, 2021
This week I struck up a conversation with another parent at my kid’s tennis lesson. The topic of cryptocurrency came up. This gentleman — whom we’ll call Bill — told me that he likes Cardano (ADA) and Dogecoin (DOGE) because they’re so much cheaper than bitcoin…
China Bans Crypto Again
By Adam Sharp on September 24, 2021
China is banning crypto — again. And markets are selling off hard in response. It’s deja vu all over again. It reminds me of a great quote from venture capitalist…
$33 Billion Fintech Unicorn Uses Bitcoin for International Payments
By Adam Sharp on September 17, 2021
Revolut is a fast-growing e-bank in the U.K. that’s worth $33 billion. And this week we found out that it is using bitcoin to pay for its U.S. office rental space. Ryan Weeks of The Block did a nice…
Institutional Crypto Adoption Ramps Up
By Adam Sharp on September 3, 2021
In today’s Early Investing newsletter, I wrote about some very bullish rumors from Mike Alfred, a leading player in the institutional bitcoin world. In a pair of tweets, he revealed that a large number of institutions have bought into bitcoin — and more…
Institutional Bitcoin Investing Is Finally Happening
By Adam Sharp on September 3, 2021
Mike Alfred is one of the most influential players in the institutional bitcoin investment space. He founded a company called Digital Assets Data. His company — which sold institutional-grade crypto data feeds — was acquired by NYDIG, a leading…
Institutional Investors Likely to Grapple With Crypto FOMO
By Adam Sharp on August 20, 2021
Back in December 2020, I wrote the following in “Institutional Bitcoin Is Here to Stay:” Insurance giant MassMutual announced last week that it had purchased $100 million worth of BTC. It also took a $5 million equity stake in New York…
Crypto Insider: Crypto Portfolio Review
By Early Investing on August 16, 2021
It’s a good day for the crypto market. Bitcoin has gained 45% over the past month. But interpreting and understanding the crypto market is more of an art than a science. So in this episode of Crypto Insider, Vin Narayanan and Andy Gordon offer…
Inflation Pushes Bitcoin Higher
By Adam Sharp on August 13, 2021
It was a very nice week for crypto. Bitcoin is up 9% over the last week, while ethereum is up 12.9%, according to CoinMarketCap data. Ethereum jumped on its implementation of EIP-1559, a network upgrade that burns a portion…