Last week’s contentious Bitcoin Cash hard fork was the likely reason for one of the biggest…
On September 5, 2018, the digital asset market experienced a major crash. Starting at 5:48 am ET, within 24h, Bitcoin had dropped by more than 13%, Ether by more than 20% and many altcoins suffered even higher losses.
Two popular uses of futures contracts are as a hedging instrument or as proxy for a long exposure. In this memo we examine how well bitcoin futures have served in these two capacities since their launch in December, 2017.
In 2012, while attending a birthday in Las Vegas, I heard the word Bitcoin for the first time in my life. At first sight I was skeptical, but being exposed to the famously known Patient-0 of Silicon Valley, I felt the contagion and bought my fist bitcoins on Mt-Gox. I…