Over the last year or more the focus of the cryptocurrency world has been on the collapse of crypto businesses, the plunge of crypto token values, and cases of fraud at the heart of major decentralized finance businesses. Regulation of everything crypto has gone from something the crypto world hated…

The fundamentals that underly the stock market have been changing. That set of changes may make prolonged bull markets less likely going forward. As noted in an MSN article, the perfect bull market cocktail that we have experienced for four decades is ending. Historically low interest rates that drove much…

Smart investors commonly take a part of what they gain in any given investment as profit and then reinvest in something different. They are diversifying. This is not a strategy that we have generally heard from advocates of crypto investing where “all in” has been the most common advice. Investors…

When the issue of regulation in the world of cryptocurrencies came up years ago nobody in the crypto world was interested. The idea behind cryptocurrencies was to have a financial system free of middlemen taking their cut and governments simply making it hard for the system to work. Now that…

Even since the crypto peak at the end of 2021 not only have cryptocurrencies had a bad time of it but decentralized finance businesses have been going bankrupt. The most recent is Genesis which is having trouble financing its debts and may soon be looking for protection by the bankruptcy…

The most populous nation on earth announced a population decrease over the last year. China has 1.4 billion people. Thus, one might ask just what difference does it make if China’s growth levels off or even falls a bit? The issues for China and the investment implications of a shrinking…

The chorus of voices calling for regulation of all businesses involving cryptocurrencies keeps growing with officials from Japan now urging both the US and EU to treat crypto like banks according to Bloomberg. Crypto regulation has been discussed for quite some time and ten months ago President Biden signed an…

Folks who have held onto their Bitcoin as the crypto winter got worse and worse have been pleasantly surprised as Bitcoin has jumped up from the $16,000 range to more than $20,000. This jump up looks like a reverse of the previous set of downward steps to each new Bitcoin…

The vast majority of people who invest in or trade cryptocurrencies are not interested in the details of how the system works. They are interested only in profits. To a large degree the same applies to folks putting their money into , DeFi, the Metaverse or other blockchain driven entities…