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Take a look at the top 200 cryptocurrencies from late 2017 and it’s a completely different landscape from today. While the top ten are all still alive and kicking (even though some have taken unceremonious drops in price), many of the biggest cryptos of 2017 have now fallen into relative obscurity. Of the top 200… Continue reading What We Can Learn from Failed Cryptocurrencies

Technical analysis (abbreviated as TA) is the strategy of interpreting an asset’s past price movement to guess where price will be in the future. It is a way of distilling market information to make a better decision on purchasing or selling an asset. In its purest form, it involves looking at a chart, identifying price… Continue reading Altcoin Technical Analysis: How to Make Money Analyzing Crypto Charts

$500 million in free money? Sounds too good to be true. If you’ve followed altcoin news closely over the last week, you may have seen some buzz around a new token called $ENS. The high-level version: Ethereum, early in its existence, created a service called ENS (Ethereum Name Service) and finally launched a token representing… Continue reading Airdrops 101: Your Guide to Free Crypto (No, Really)

(This is a five-minute read) Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.” – W. Edwards Deming I write about investing in altcoins for a living, and as I see more and more new investors come to the space, I see more and more misconceptions about how altcoins work, grow, and behave. To help… Continue reading Five Underrated Metrics for Finding Explosive Altcoins

(This is a five-minute read) In the last few weeks, I’ve begun to realize how many of the sharpest and most successful minds in crypto have poker-playing backgrounds. Here’s a non-comprehensive list: CEO of Three Arrows Capital, investor Su Zhu​ Cofounder of Ethereum, Mihai Alisie​ Macro trader and game theorist Jordi Alexander​ Pseudonymous legendary prop trader Light​ Poker player-turned… Continue reading Poker Wisdom for Crypto Investors: Avoiding Traps and Finding an Edge

(This is a five-minute read) Or, at least, that’s what the internet says. After parabolic moves by Bitcoin, common wisdom tells us altcoins pump shortly after. On the heels of this latest Bitcoin all-time-high, will it happen again? We can never be sure, but we can use data from the past to better inform our… Continue reading Crypto Mythbusting: Do altcoins really pump after BTC moves? A data-backed analysis.

(This is a six-minute read) Knowledge Creates Wealth Cryptocurrencies produce high returns because they are not well understood. One of the biggest criticisms of cryptocurrency is the fact that the industry is ‘speculative.’ Skeptics say that crypto investors are only here to make money. And sure, many crypto bulls don’t really understand what they’re investing… Continue reading Altcoin Fundamental Analysis 101: How to Avoid Losers and Pick Winners

(This is a seven-minute read) The Flaws of Centralization Facebook’s outage on Monday is more than just an inconvenience: it’s a demonstration of the failures of centralized organizations. Blockchain technology is poised to solve these issues through decentralization, one issue at a time. This week, I took a look at four blockchain-based projects (all of… Continue reading Crypto’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: The Altcoins that Could Take Over Facebook

As an altcoin investor/newsletter writer, I sometimes get criticism for my altcoin-optimistic attitude. Sure small-cap cryptocurrencies can outperform Bitcoin in a bull market, but what about when the market tanks? What does altcoin investing look like when things are less-than-bullish? Let’s take a look!​ The Parameters This analysis is based on three points in time:… Continue reading How Bad is an Altcoin Bear Market?

(This is a seven-minute read) ​In many ways, it’s one of the biggest questions crypto faces. For altcoin investors, whose fate depends on the expansion of the industry as a whole, it might be the biggest one. If we’re gradually headed downhill, it’s just a matter of time until our holdings go to zero. But… Continue reading Are We Still Early to Cryptocurrency?