Author: Vin Narayanan

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Editor’s Note: This recommendation was co-authored by KingsCrowd Investment Research Manager Olivia Strobl. Mmmm, pizza. Much like Homer Simpson, I was born eating pizza. I’m also a vegetarian who dabbles in veganism.
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New Pick: A Crypto With a Proven Vision

By Vin Narayanan on May 25, 2023

This month’s crypto recommendation is highly unusual — at least for us. Today I’m recommending a coin that’s already part of the Crypto Asset Strategies portfolio. And it’s the first time we’ve ever done that. Background We recommend small cap altcoins to…

Going Down a Collectibles Rabbit Hole

By Vin Narayanan on May 19, 2023

There’s a group of about 10 people that I’ve been friends with since 1995. We were all young professionals back then, starting out in our first jobs and trying to navigate life as best we could. The fact that we’ve all stayed in touch and remained friends for…
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Timing the market is a fool’s errand. I’ve written and said that sentence often enough that if there’s ever a Comedy Central roast for me (not going to happen, but still fun to dream about), it will be used to make…

Get Your Investing Mojo Back

By Vin Narayanan on May 12, 2023

Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin is trading around $27,000 as of this writing and is down about 6.5% over the last seven days. Ethereum is trading around $1,800 and is down about 4.5% over the same time period. Welcome to crypto allergy season. Some weeks will be good. Some…
Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin is down around 0.7% over the last seven days. Ethereum is down about 0.4% over that same time period. And Monero is up about 1.8%. Conflicting macro narratives appear to be driving the market. Inflation is proving to be stubborn, and the…

The Kind of Regulatory Moment Crypto Needs

By Vin Narayanan on April 28, 2023

Crypto Market Musings As I write, bitcoin is trading around $29,000. Ethereum is trading close to $1,900. And the rest of the markets are a mess. Welcome to crypto allergy season, everyone. The bear market is over. The bull market hasn’t started. That means cryptos aren’t…
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I don’t think we’re in a crypto bull market yet. There’s too much near-term regulatory uncertainty with the SEC going after Coinbase and Bittrex and declaring Algorand (ALGO), Dash (DASH), OmiseGO (OMG), and others securities. That combined with economic uncertainty and inflation concerns means there is still significant…

The Only Criteria That Matters in Real Estate Investing

By Vin Narayanan on April 21, 2023

All real estate is local. Sure, you can compile data and try to see if there are any big picture trends. But if prices in your neighborhood are going down while prices in some city across the country (or state!) are going up, “national” numbers don’t matter. …
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It’s easy to think about crypto as a series of prices that go up and down. It’s even easier to think about crypto as a series of prices that go up when bitcoin goes up and go down when bitcoin goes down. But the reality is far more…
Crypto Market Musings It feels like the crypto markets are warming up. As I write this, bitcoin is trading above $30,000. Ethereum is trading around $2,000. Even Solana has managed to make big gains. It’s up almost 20% over the last seven days. Most of Ethereum’s…
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Editor’s Note: This recommendation was co-authored by KingsCrowd Senior Investment Research Analyst Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau. I take due diligence seriously. When I investigate a startup investment opportunity, I spend countless hours reading through the raise page and SEC filings. I…
Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin is having a year. In the midst of a banking crisis and regulatory upheaval, bitcoin quietly posted a 72% gain in the first quarter of this year. That’s bitcoin’s most popular quarter since the first quarter of 2021, when bitcoin’s price went up 102%.
Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin broke through the $28,000 barrier (and for one brief moment topped $29,000) on Wednesday after spending about a week trading in the $27,000 range. It’s currently trading at $28,460.27. Most cryptos rallied behind bitcoin’s big Wednesday surge (more than 5%). Ethereum jumped…
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Two Coins You Should Sell Right Now

By Vin Narayanan on March 24, 2023

Don’t let this recent bitcoin rally fool you. Even though bitcoin is up about 5% over the last seven days and up 20% over the last month, the markets are in a dangerous spot. Much of bitcoin’s rally can be attributed to a big bet placed by Balaji…