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,
Opinion On the Margins The founders of BitMEX have been charged with money laundering. Here’s what that says about the state of the crypto market.If crypto during the 2017 bull run was
Opinion Buying the Bitcoin Bubble We’ve always been told to stay away from bubbles. But in crypto a good bubble is just part of the process.When I first got into crypto, the one
Opinion All Bundled Up Variety is the spice of life. In crypto, it’s also a handy way of ensuring that you don’t get rekt.As a field, crypto can be remarkably tribal.
Opinion Beyond DeFi The DeFi frenzy shows no sign of slowing. But when the hype finally dies down, what will take its place?I last wrote about the DeFi supernova a month ago,
Opinion Bull in a Crypto Shop Markets are soaring, coins are putting in 50% days and the Lambo memes are back. Is this 2017 all over again?I don’t normally do this, but let’s
Opinion Into the Ether The crypto markets are soaring – but this time it’s Ethereum driving the market. What’s behind the new ascendancy of crypto’s second-in-command?Last week the crypto community got
Opinion DeFi-ing Gravity It’s the summer of DeFi! (AKA decentralised finance). But is something revolutionary happening or is it just another crypto bubble?People have been proclaiming alt season from the rooftops
