Recently QuadrigaCX declared bankruptcy and filed for creditor protection. In the meantime their website is down and the exchange has ceased operating. What are the odds that depositors will receive anything within a year’s time? I’ve posted a fixed odds… Continue Reading
Transferring money back and forth from crypto to fiat can be annoying and expensive, not to mention attempting to follow anti-money laundering (AML) rules. A lot of the headaches can be avoided by using online vouchers. Click here to view… Continue Reading
What makes Deribit useful for investors? Even if you don’t trade futures/options, the information Deribit generates can be used in a variety of ways to help improve your crypto portfolio and understand what’s happening to the crypto economy. Deribit publishes… Continue Reading
Crypto-currencies are volatile, but the market is changing. The volatility of bitcoin has been steadily decreasing throughout 2018 trading, and I expect this trend to continue. This post will evaluate some easy ways to track volatility. When evaluating volatility, we… Continue Reading
Poloniex will disable margin lending and borrowing for US customers by the end of 2018. Part of dealing with a US regulated exchange such as Poloniex is they must be compliant, and this often means less access for customers. Poloniex… Continue Reading
What are “stable coins”? Stable coins are a weird part of the cryptocurrency world. These blockchain based currencies seek to anchor their value with some widely used money such as US dollars (USD). US Dollar Tether (USDT) and US Dollar… Continue Reading
Whether you love watching Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson giving high fives or if you care about which millionaire golfer has the best celebration dance, the Ryder Cup 2018 is upon us. The Ryder Cup is a golf team match… Continue Reading
This post will describe the Portfolio Margin system used at Deribit, a bitcoin derivatives exchange. Portfolio margin is a risk-based margin policy that aligns margin requirements with the overall risk of a portfolio. Portfolio margin usually results in significantly lower margin requirements… Continue Reading
The 2018 PGA Tour Championship is being held next week and I’m pretty excited to watch who wins the tournament, but also who wins the FedEx Cup $10 million bonus check! In this post I’ll describe how I created my… Continue Reading
A big spike in the rate of interest being paid to Ethereum and Litecoin lenders is being shown on Bitfinex this morning. At the time of writing, rates have jumped up to 0.05% per day on ETH and 0.0443% per… Continue Reading
