Opinion ETF Incoming After eight years the first Bitcoin ETF could almost be here. Will it be everything we’ve been waiting for?You gotta hand it to the Winklevii: they were ahead
Opinion Building the Decentralised Web Crypto has been growing for a decade and we’re finally starting to see what it’s all about: building the next internet. By any metric you might choose to
Opinion The Signal and the Noise In crypto land, rumour, innuendo and straight up hoaxes fill the news cycle – and their only purpose is to take your hard earned coins.Early on Tuesday morning, Australia time,
Opinion Welcome to the Metaverse According to Zuck, the metaverse is coming. And crypto wants to be the gateway drug.A month ago, Mark Zuckerberg emerged from his nutrient-replenishment coffin to conduct a typically dead-eyed
Opinion Into the Ether Ethereum has flipped Bitcoin in almost every metric that matters. Is market cap next?Last week Coinbase revealed its second quarter earnings, and its first set of earnings as a
Opinion Premier League hero Hermann Hreidarsson on Brentford’s strength, Arsenal’s weakness and 21st century football success. CoinJar, the new official Cryptocurrency partner of Premier League newcomers Brentford, teamed up with former Bees defender and Premier League cult hero Hermann Hreidarsson to launch the partnership this week.
Opinion Regulators Mount Up From Binance to BlockFi, from Britain to the banks, regulators are finally moving on crypto. Is that a good thing?Regulation has always been coming for crypto. Together with Chinese
Opinion China Bows Out China’s been “banning” Bitcoin for years. But this time they’ve actually done it – and the consequences are profound.For most of its history, Bitcoin has been a Chinese
Opinion Bitcoin’s Biggest Upgrade While El Salvador steals the spotlight, Bitcoin has quietly been finalising its first proper upgrade in four years.Yeah, yeah. I get it. The President of El Salvador declaring that
Opinion Crypto Energy Wars Elon shone a spotlight on bitcoin’s prodigious energy use. Is it possible to be a carbon conscious crypto investor?Major market moves are always so painfully obvious in retrospect.
Opinion The Crash We Had to Have Yeesh. That was unpleasant. Three takeaways from a night crypto won’t soon forget.Well, it dang gone and happened again. Much like March last year, an insistent correction became
Opinion All Eyes on Ethereum One Ether now costs more than US$3000. Did you ever think you’d see the day?You gotta hand it to the crypto markets: in some ways they’re
Opinion How Melbourne meme artist Lushsux made half-a-million bucks from NFTs Lushsux is Australian street art royalty. One of the country’s most prolific street artists and founder of the meme art movement, his work is both instantly recognisable and bitingly
Opinion Crypto has arrived. If there was any doubt in your mind, Coinbase listing on the NASDAQ with a US$85 billion valuation should put them firmly to bed.At around 3am AEST this
Opinion A Question of Scale If blockchain wants to take over the world, it’s going to have to get a lot faster. We’re adding some of the tokens trying to make it happen.
Opinion Nonsensical NFTs What the latest crypto craze can tell us about the good, the bad and the weird of the blockchain world.Chances are that unless you’re being kept in some
Opinion The Hard Sell The prices are low and the panic is high. Is this the time to sell? If you’ve been around crypto for longer than a couple of months, you’re
Opinion Elon-gated FOMO Tesla owns $1.5 billion bitcoin. Let the corporate FOMO begin Look, I don’t need to tell you what happened: it was covered in pretty much every single news
Opinion DeFi Revisited It was a brutal spring for crypto’s darling, but now it looks like DeFi might be ready for primetime.When I wrote about the DeFi phenomenon last August, it
Opinion The Trillion Dollar Club Did you see that coming? Because I did not see that coming.Last time we talked I was in absolute disbelief that bitcoin had smashed through its 2017 all-time high,
Opinion We Be Moonin’ Bitcoin blasted through US$20k like it was tissue paper. When moon? Now. Now moon.So, where were you on the night of December 17, 2020? Were you out celebrating
Opinion Making the Trade Crypto has brought trading to the masses. But is that actually a good thing?The language of trading has become so commonplace in the cryptosphere that it’s easy to
Opinion Can We Get Much Higher? Bitcoin’s market cap is at an all-time high. Think the ride is over? Nah, we’re just getting started.I mean, what is there to even say at this
Opinion The Second Coming Ethereum 2.0 is launching in December. Is bitcoin’s little sibling about to take charge?One of the things that first attracted me to Ethereum – back in the almost
Opinion Bitcoin Dominant PayPal has announced that it’s going to start selling crypto. Let’s not mince words here: this is freaking huge.Over the nine years that I’ve been watching,
