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Today bitcoin is bouncing back, trading near $54,000. Over the last week it fell from a high of near $60,000 to a low of about $51,000. This is nothing to worry about for long-term holders in my view. Actually, it would be good for things to cool down for a while. Bitcoin has practically gone vertical over the last year, and that’s always a little worrying. Honestly, I wouldn’t be disappointed if we hovered…
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Don’t Get Caught Up in the NFT Craze

By Adam Sharp on March 19, 2021

What an amazing year it’s been for crypto investors. A year ago we were down in the dumps, and today we’re flying high. One of the most remarkable recent phenomena has been the rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are digital collectibles that are…
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Goldman Sachs is on the Bullish Bitcoin Train

By Adam Sharp on March 12, 2021

This week we got a new podcast featuring Mathew McDermott, head of Digital Assets for Goldman Sachs’ Global Markets Division. He discussed booming crypto demand from clients and what’s driving the move. Bitcoin.com provided a nice summary of the conversation. Here…
One year ago — on March 12th, 2020 — bitcoin was trading at $6,131 per coin. It had been valued at more than $12,000 in June 2019. But markets everywhere were in a bit of a panic last March, and stocks were trading…
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JP Morgan released an interesting survey this week. It polled 3,400 institutional investors — representing 1,500 firms — about their views on crypto. Here are some highlights: 11% of respondents work at firms that own or trade crypto. 22% said their companies are likely…
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Bitcoin Is on the Path to Surpass Gold

By Adam Sharp on February 26, 2021

For now, it appears that our decision to take some profits last week may have been wise. Crypto is correcting pretty hard right now — which is perfectly normal and should be expected. I would be very worried if we weren’t seeing sizable corrections. …
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Alert: Taking Profits and Selling

By Adam Sharp on February 19, 2021

Deciding when to take profits in crypto is extremely difficult. Based on past bull markets, we likely still have at least a year to go before things cool off (and probably more based on the unprecedented deficits and money printing today). But I think it would…

Silicon Valley Is Losing Dominance

By Adam Sharp on February 19, 2021

For the past few decades, Silicon Valley has dominated the world of venture capital. According to Pitchbook, Silicon Valley accounted for a whopping 26% of all VC dealmaking in 2014. Even more impressive, more than 39% of all dollars invested into VC-backed startups happened in the Silicon Valley…
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How to Take Profits in a Bullish Crypto Market

By Adam Sharp on February 12, 2021

It’s been a beautiful year for crypto. We had a nice dip in March 2020 which turned out to be an amazing buying opportunity. Now we’re seeing unprecedented growth and adoption. Here are just a few of the major companies to jump on the bitcoin bandwagon…
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Bitcoin Shows Strength After Correction

By Adam Sharp on February 5, 2021

It appears that the crypto correction is over for now, but I’m glad it happened. We did need to slow down a bit after bitcoin shot practically straight up from $20k to $40k, and altcoins soared. Those kinds of moves are unsustainable in the short term. So it’s…

GameStop Losses: Right Strategy, Wrong Asset

By Adam Sharp on February 5, 2021

A lot of people lost a lot of money in GameStop this week. I feel for them — especially since I have been there myself. As I write this, GameStop is trading at around $66, down from a high of more than $450…
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Dogecoin Blasts Off as WallStreetBets Piles In

By Adam Sharp on January 29, 2021

I’m sure you’re all aware by now of what’s been happening with GameStop shares recently. Shares have shot up from under $4 six months back to a high of around $468 this week. GameStop was driven higher by a very clever campaign orchestrated on online forums…
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Why This Bitcoin Correction is Normal

By Adam Sharp on January 22, 2021

As I write this on Thursday, January 21st at around 3:00PM EST, bitcoin is currently down 8.3% over the last 24 hours to $32.4k. It’s down 17.2% over the last seven days. Altcoins are mixed, but mostly down as well. But none of that is cause for major…
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Nano, Decred Looking Up

By Adam Sharp on January 15, 2021

Long-time members know that I’ve always been wary of more centralized cryptocurrencies such as Ripple.  As you probably know by now, the SEC is going after Ripple in a big way. Here’s a brief summary from legal news site JDSupra,.

Long-Term Investing: Stable Returns, Fewer Risks

By Adam Sharp on January 8, 2021

“The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.” -Jesse Livermore I’ve been investing for 20 years now. The first few years were painful ones spent learning lessons the hard way. I tried day trading and picking…
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Crypto Monitor: Crypto Market Forecast

By Early Investing on January 8, 2021

Crypto is rolling. Bitcoin cracked the $40,000 mark yesterday. Ethereum is up more than 800% in the last 365 days and nearing its all-time high. And Haven Protocol is up 144% since we first recommended it. So what’s driving the market? Where does the crypto market go next?…