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The network effects of volatility and liquidity, Bitcoin vs other payment coins

Altcoin volatility proportional to bubble size 2016 has been a bull year for privacy coins. Earlier this year we saw mooning of Monero which saw subsequent pumps in other dark-coins including ShadowCash and Navcoin. Then we witnessed a mega-hyped launch of ZCash which peaked

Bitcoin's dilution-adjusted price

This chart is the Bitcoin historically adjusted price taking into account lost coins and inflation effects of new coins mined into existence, if you were to treat bitcoin like a company. (Yes we are very close to an all time high.) I thought it

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Estimating return potential for altcoins and Bitcoin

I personally think very few people grasp how to gauge the long term return potential of Bitcoin vs altcoins. I often hear people say that Bitcoin is no longer cheap and that altcoins have more return potential being in their earlier stages, while they

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Does ViaBTC have veto power over Segwit activation?

Segregated Witness or Bitcoin Core release 13.1 has been released! This update promises to end a 2 year civil war within Bitcoin’s community over scaling, which unresolved, poses a systemic risk to the network. To the investor, the war has almost certainly

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Startup investment analogies applied to altcoins

I can’t help but apply startup investment learnings onto the landscape of crypto-currency investments. Any startup investor will tell you very few startups make it to success. The path to success looks something like this: Build a team, experiment with an idea, build

Data Viz

Data visualisation: altcoins that achieved $5m market cap vs bitcoin

By popular demand from my last data visualisation for 118 coins, here’s the performance of bitcoin vs altcoins over time**. Further details: The coins plotted are: XRP, LTC, OMNI, NXT, PPC, NMC, QRK, DOGE, XPY, BTS, AUR, DASH, MAID, XCP, XLM, BLK, ETH

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Data visualisation: 118 coins plotted over time this is why HODL altcoin indexes don't work

Do you like my canvas art? I’m calling it “shit runs downhill“. I’m thinking about mounting it on my wall to remind me of the perils of HODLing altcoins. After finding out that altcoin index funds don’t really work, I put

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Bitcoin volatility will match major fiat currencies by 2019

Bitcoin was created in 2009 by a mysterious character who claimed it to be a payments network. But unlike most other payment networks like PayPal and Visa, it screwed with our minds by having its own token. A token that had a price that

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An economic comparison of payment coins, who is winning the race?

Last week I created the Commerce Index as a means to measure a coin’s suitability for general commerce. In a nutshell it tracks the property of liquidity and low volatility. Both consumers and merchants want a currency that is stable and has high

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Crypto-currency Index Funds, the simulations have surprising results

This year, the idea of managed portfolios and index fund portfolios has been on the rise, you can bet on many hitting the market in 2017. It’s a popular idea borrowed from Wall Street. For stocks 99% of index funds, namely a fund

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The Commerce Index

I’ve decided to come up with a new index to measure how suitable a coin is for generable purpose commerce. For a consumer to hold a coin in their wallet, they want good liquidity and low volatility. Similarly the merchant on the other

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The Shitcoin Pattern

Seen this price pattern? Yes? Here’s another one… The first graph is XRP/Ripple, while the second one LTC/Litecoin. But really it could have been any altcoin through to 2014 so you should be familiar with it. It’s what I call

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Historical performance snapshots of the top 10 coins

I ran some charts on the top 10 coins by marketcap, to see how they individually performed had you invested 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30 months ago. Here’s my results. The conclusions are unclear but some thoughts come to mind: Over the

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Exodus Wallet Roadmap

LAST UPDATE 7 JAN 2018 Investors in this space will need a good solution for storing your various crypto-assets, so I thought I’d make mention of Exodus Wallet. It’s beautiful to use, reliable, and in fast development. The document addresses the most

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Bitcoin Market Cap should be $40b according to Metcalfe's law

Metcalfe’s Law states the value of a network is proportional to the number of members squared. I thought it’d be fun to run the numbers on the Bitcoin Network. Since we don’t have solid figures on the number of active users

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Analysis of Dash's valuation as a function of transaction volume

Dash’s focus is a payment network so transaction turnover will be key. Let’s run some numbers to figure out transaction turnover and market cap valuations… This is Bitcoin’s transaction turnover as a function of their market cap: Source Source Data For

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Historical Bitcoin returns vs Altcoins

In my pursuit to analyse Altcoin returns if you had bought the entire market like an index fund, I just ran some numbers: Period Bitcoins Altcoins Sep 2013-2016 470% 1970% Sep 2015-2016 170% 268% Sep 2014-2015 -47% 20% Sep 2013-2014 300% 369% I’ve

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Altcoins are where the investment opportunity is

Out of curiosity, I put together a graph to analyse the market cap growth of altcoins compare to Bitcoin. Very interesting… For investors, it seems 2016 is the year of the altcoin. Bitcoin has long dominated the investment space with over 90% of the

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Block size debate : Increasing block size for capacity won't work

Bitcoin’s blockchain is like a telephone party line, it’ll work for a village but it won’t when it scales to the world. Pundits are debating whether we should increase the block size indefinitely to allow more capacity on the network. Well

Humour

Scaling Bitcoin. It'll breakout soon! Humour, not really.

Just for kicks, I thought I’d apply some trading technical analysis to the Bitcoin Network transactions per second graph. Turns out we’re in a flag pattern and she’s gonna breakout sometime before May 2017. Behind all this are some more serious

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Who will win the anonymous altcoin battle?

Since the recent explosion of Monero, it seems privacy-centric coins are all the rage right now. So I’ve been thinking a lot about anonymous coins of late… Dash and Monero are the leading contenders with healthy communities, liquidity and market caps. Monero has

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Filtering out suspect market valuations in the altcoin space : Ripple, Steem and NEM seem suspect

I ran the numbers on 24hr traded volume (liquidity) vs market cap for the top 40 altcoins to highlight any suspect valuations. You could say it’s a shitcoin detector, LOL. The idea being that an altcoin that has a low ratio of traded

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The 3 golden rules of coinage

When I look at crypto-currency projects, and I mean really, they pop up every other day, I apply my 3 golden rules to filter potential success from, well… a shitcoin. Healthy community Liquidity The tech is legit That’s all. End of post 🙂

Infographic

Crypto-currencies that did better than 10x return by year [infographic]

Okay folks, time to try my hand on making an infographic… Below is a infographic of the top performing crypto-currencies achieving above 10x had you invested for up to one year and exited in any particular year. This analysis assumes the profile of an

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Bitcoin long term price repeating?

Anyone one who studies the patterns of crypto-currencies will notice fractal-like patterns that repeat… I couldn't help but notice this long term repeating pattern for Bitcoin. History never repeats, but will it rhyme? Disclaimer: This isn't a proper technical analysis on future price, just

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