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What a week it has been. I don’t think many of us expected such a hard hit to come so quickly, and even with the bounce from $6k, are we really out of the woods yet? I have been Tweeting out some stuff

I need to apologise for the lack of blog updates recently. So much has happened in the last few months with the launch of my podcast, the building of my mining rigs and starting a crypto company with my

I am an accidental Bitcoin and Crypto trader. I fell into this at the start of the year and am now trading full time. My portfolio is +3,983% (as of 27th Dec ’17) this year against just holding Bitcoin

Episode 3 of The What Bitcoin Did Podcast is out featuring Cypherpunk and BitGo engineer Jameson Lopp aka @lopp. We discuss both the philosophical and technical aspects of Bitcoin, the scaling debates,

The market is bullish right now, and many things are happening to give investors confidence: Coinbase adding custodian accounts for those with +$10m to invest (implying more institutional money is coming

The What Bitcoin Did podcast is now live and available to download: Episode 1: Luke Martin aka @venturecoinist Episode 2: @daytradernik You can access the podcast here: iTunes Android Soundcloud Please

For the second time in my Crypto trading career, I don’t own any Bitcoin. The last time I sold out was when I got sucked into the Ethereum narrative during the ‘flippening’, where the scaling arguments

With the upcoming Bitcoin2x (B2X) fork, estimated around November 16th, I thought it might be useful to share how I am going to be trading leading up to the fork, during and after it. Note: my experience

With the Segwit2x hard fork approaching, I have been working on an article explaining the background to this fork, why I don’t support it and how I am going to trade it. The article is currently in draft

I finally sold off my Bitcoin Cash last week and used the returns to buy back into four coins I had previously sold off. I have been vocal in my support of Bitcoin Cash as I didn’t fully understand the

I made two more investments this week from my fiat holdings, into EOS and 0x and liquidated half my Ethereum position to take out a second and significant position in EOS. This is a perfect example of

A solid Crypto trading strategy can generate significant profits, but it is easy to get lost chasing 10x returns, overtrading or making panic moves which are financially and emotionally expensive. I based

I have written before about whether we are in a Crypto bubble, we are, and I used the NASDAQ definition to highlight how clear it is: NASDAQ definition: A market phenomenon characterized by surges in asset

Sometimes I may be too cautious for my own good. Regular readers will probably recognise my pessimistic strategy where I expect the worst to happen. This is just how I choose to trade a volatile market

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of the repeatedly convicted fraudulent banking and financial services organisation, JP Morgan, came out this week to publicly call Bitcoin a fraud, stating that: "The currency

So it has finally happened, China has banned Bitcoin, or maybe they have temporarily banned it, or maybe they have brought in new rules to make it difficult for the exchanges. Whatever, BTCC has announced

The market is now clearly in a correction, the GMC (Global Market Cap) has dropped from a peak of $179.3bn, reached on September 2nd to a month low of $121.4bn now, a fall of 32.3%. The GMC is now threating

Market Performance (Global Market Cap): 24-hour gains: -13.6% September gains: -18.2% Year to date gains: +701.1% Portfolio Performance: 24-hour gains: -10.4% September gains: -14.3% Year to date gains:

I wrote before about the stupid things Crypto traders say and why you should ignore them. One of these things which always comes up is ‘Buy the Dip”. Nothing moves up in a straight line and therefore with

Market Performance (Global Market Cap): 24-hour gains: +6.2% September gains: -6% Year to date gains: +817.5% Portfolio Performance: 24-hour gains: +3.8% September gains: -4.4% Year to date gains: +1,463.8%