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 a prototype, try and show there’s a market need....
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 and BCN 6 outperformed bitcoin, from 1.4x to 25x,...
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 together a data visualisation of altcoin price performance as further...
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 enough liquidity at the exchanges such that converting into and...
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 that buys the entire market passively, outperform actively managed funds....