This article is reprinted from my paid newsletter Crypto News Over Nonsense. Do you subscribe yet? It’s great actionable information. Here’s the article. The conversation between the SEC and the crypto-economy continues. The SEC released a presentation from Bitwise that addressed some of the SEC questions and concerns from the Bitwise ETF submission request in … Read more SEC Releases Bitwise ETF Research
Use Paxful to Generate Income from Your Bitcoin Many Bitcoiners, especially non-US residents, trade a little bit of their Bitcoin to generate extra income from time to time. While LocalBitcoins (affiliate link if you want to join) is by far the most popular p2p trading exchange, it is not the only one. This post is … Read more How to Create a Successful Trade in Paxful Part 1
This is a reprint from my Crypto News Over Nonsense newsletter going out today. Which Exchange You Use Matters…..A LOT Unless you are a miner, most of us use exchanges to buy our cryptocurrency whether we HODL or trade or sell. But where you buy your Bitcoin matters, and not just because of price. This … Read more Coinbase Lawsuit Continues
With the growth of my crypto newsletter, Crypto News Over Nonsense, I thought I’d pick out a couple of highlights from the last couple of weekly editions. The summer has been a busy in crypto thanks mainly to Facebook. In case you haven’t seen it, you can get 1 weekly email with actionable news for … Read more Crypto News Over Nonsense Highlights
The long crypto winter and the bear market look like it’s over. Since the spring, a bullish turn in the market now leads the pace. Can we learn why and try to apply this to other market cycles? One of my favorite resources (and where I am one of their community analysts), Messari outlined 4 … Read more 4 Possible Explanations of the Bitcoin Rally
A Litecoin halving is coming soon, within 2 months. Should you care? Is it a buying signal? Selling signal? Let’s take a look at what this means for Litecoin. Halving=Cut in Coin Supply A halving is when a block reward is cut in half. That means the number of Bitcoin (or Litecoin) released to the … Read more Is the Litecoin Halving a Buying Signal?
RiverNorth started its Marketplace Lending Fund (RMPLX) in September 2016 as an interval closed-end fund. This means that shares are not bought or sold on any secondary market. For this reason, and because I found plenty of loans I liked for my own account, I have mostly watched this fund from a distance. However….. RiverNorth … Read more Should You Buy the RiverNorth Marketplace Lending Fund?
There was a LOT of news this week in the cryptocurrency and marketplace lending world so this week I’m going to hit on 5 of the more important stories of the week. Many involve enterprise size businesses. Here they are… Binance Hack Binance is the largest crypto exchange out there. They got hacked for $40 … Read more Fintech & Crypto News in the Enterprise
When I started investing in marketplace loans in 2013, it was still called peer to peer lending or p2p lending. There were also only 2 options. Professional and accredited investors have many more options for investment. Banks have gotten on board since then offering platforms of their own. For retail investors we now have more … Read more Which Type of Marketplace Lending Investor Are You? I’m #3
There are lots of scammers and bullshit artists in Bitcoin and the crypto-economy. There are also many great people, brilliant people, and deep thinkers. One that’s in this latter category is Tuur Demeester, a Belgian long-time Bitcoiner and founder of Adamant Capital. Tuur is @TuurDemeester on Twitter. His firm Adamant came out with a research … Read more Research from Adamant Capital: Bitcoin in Heavy Accumulation