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My Crypto and Money Related Reading and Watching Routine during this Bear Market

During bull markets the way in which I consume information about crypto and money tends to get less effective and a bit all over the place. Let’s call it an ove...

MarketCap vs. Buy Support - What Is More Useful?

I just watched the latest episode of the Magical Crypto Friends show and somewhere at the end a website called CoinMarketBook (CMB) gets mentioned. I took a loo...

A glimpse of the future of blockchain analytics. Google adds Ethereum to BigQuery.

A few days ago, an article was placed the Google Cloud Blog. It’s an article that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention, but if you ask me it is quite important. The...

Cryptocurrencies Still Strongly Correlated to Each Other and Show Weak Negative Correlation with S&P500

Every once in a while I check the correlations amongst cryptocurrencies and also with other asset classes like stocks and gold. Below you find a quick overview ...

An Ask Me Anything (AMA) with NOIA Network - A Powerful Distributed Content Delivery Network

A few months ago I came across a project called NOIA Network. It was in one of those weeks in which I sifted through at least 50+ projects. After a quick glance...

Serious Research - The Most Important Insights from the Researchers who Looked into the Top 50 ICOs of 2017

It is not every day that you discover serious in-depth research on ICO projects and when I found the paper “Coin-Operated Capitalism” by Cohney, Shaanan and Hof...

ICO Project Review - A Deepdive into AERGO

The current 1 challenge according to most people in the blockchain space is scalability. ‘On-chain or off-chain?’ is one of the many questions that keep quite a...

ICOs are Hot and 2018 has Already Beaten 2017. PwC & Crypto Valley Report Covers The Biggest ICOs and Countries with Most Traction

ICOs are still hot. The second half of last year was crazy and ICOs became really popular. This year they are even more popular and the total amount raised and ...

The Annual Costs of Bitcoin Compared to Banking, Gold Mining, Paper Currency and More

In the last 12 months there has been a lot of talking about the amount of electricity that is used for Bitcoin mining. It has been compared with US households, ...

Money Flow in Crypto in the Last 24 Hours - How Much Flows into Bitcoin, EOS or Ethereum and Where Does it Go Next?

Yesterday I came across a pretty cool graph displaying into which coins/tokens the fiat money flows, which in this case can be a gateway or Tether as well, in t...

The SEC Rules Ethereum as Not a Security. Could They Realistically even Have Done the Opposite?

Of course they technically could have ruled Ethereum as a security, but if you ask me the chances were very slim what they would. William Hinman, director of th...

How Much Does it Cost to Join the ‘Bitcoin Vladimir Club’? And What About the ‘Steem Vladimir Club’?

"Vladimir Club what!?" Yes, the Vladimir Club. It is actually a thing. The Bitcoin Vladimir Club was born in 2012 (see original Bitcointalk post and everyone ca...

What’s Happening in the Dutch Blockchain space? Three Projects that Presented at the Square5 Blockchain Investment Summit in Amsterdam

Last Thursday afternoon I was going through some of the crypto and blockchain Telegram groups I am a member of and found out that there was actually an event ta...

Cool Visualization of the Token Sale Market Jan 2014 - March 2018. Biggest Token Sales? Telegram, EOS and winner Petro!

A few months ago I shared with you a cool visualization of the ICO market. Today I want to share an updated one (up until March) that I came across. It is great...

How Expensive is it to Take over the (PoW) Network of Bitcoin, Ethereum or Monero? Why We Might See More 51% Attacks in the Future

Recently we’ve seen two 51% attacks on Verge (XVG) and one on Bitcoin Gold (BTG). It basically means that one party had control over these Proof-of-Work coins, ...

A Steemit Exclusive - What do Kids Know about Bitcoin? Mini Interviews with some Surprisingly Knowledgeable Kids!

Last Saturday we celebrated the 8th birthday of my nephew Costa. There were two cakes, one of which was a football cake (he really likes football), we had a bar...

Steem Bounty - Your 1 Million Dollar Portfolio for 1 Year - How Would You Diversify? Cash, Real Estate, Gold/Silver, Stocks and Crypto

Imagine you've had some luck and suddenly you have $1,000,000 in savings. Awesome right?! Unless you had more than that already, than it kind of sucks. Let's as...

China's Ministry of Industry & Information Technology published Blockchain Ratings - STEEM is rated number 2!

China's Ministry of Industry & Information Technology published blockchain ratings. STEEM is number 2! Ethereum is number 1 and Bitcoin ended up on place 13. In...

Quick Time Saving Tip - Watch Your Crypto and Blockchain related Youtube & DTube Videos at 1.25x or 1.5x Speed and Learn 50% More!

In the last few weeks I have been experimenting with watching all the video content related to blockchain and crypto at 1.25x or 1.5x the normal speed. It takes...

Some Beers With Interesting People at the OriginTrail Meetup in Amsterdam including Maja Voje (CMO) and Nino Pirtovšek (Head of Business Development)

Yesterday evening I joined the OriginTrail meetup @ Bar Lempicka in Amsterdam. Since the weather was awesome (for Dutch standards) we could sit outside the whol...