Showing posts with label Bitcoin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bitcoin. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2020

9/1/20: Herding and Anchoring in Cryptocurrency Markets

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Our new paper, with Daniel O'Loughlin, titled "Herding and Anchoring in Cryptocurrency Markets: Investor Reaction to Fear and Unc...
Monday, October 7, 2019

7/10/19: Bitcoin, ethereum and ripple: a fractal and wavelet analysis

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Myself and Professor Shaen Corbet of DCU have a new article on the LSE Business Review site covering our latest published research into cr...
Friday, September 20, 2019

20/9/19: New paper on Cryptos pricing

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Our paper " Fractal dynamics and wavelet analysis: Deep volatility and return properties of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple " is no...
Friday, December 28, 2018

28/12/18: BTCD is neither a hedge nor a safe haven for stocks

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A quick - and dirty - run through the argument that Bitcoin serves as a hedge or a safe haven for stocks. This argument has been popular i...
Friday, December 7, 2018

7/12/18: Seeking Alpha Market Outlook features a recent blogpost

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My post on Bitcoin price dynamics and trading  http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/12/51218-bitcoin-sell-off-is-structural.html has ma...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

5/12/18: Bitcoin: Sell-off is a structural break to the downside of the already negative trend

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Bitcoin has suffered a significant drop off in terms of its value against the USD in November. Despite trading within USD6,400-6,500 range...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

20/11/18: Bitcoin's Steady Loss of Fundamentals

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Base rate fallacy is one of the key behavioral heuristics or biases in economics and finance, defined as a cognitive error whereby too lit...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

15/11/18: BIS on payments systems and cryptos / blockchain

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On November 1, Agustín Carstens, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements delivered a pretty punchy speech on the topic of paym...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

18/9/18: Extreme Concentration Risk: Bitcoin's VUCA Bomb

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I wrote before both, about the general problem of concentration risk and the specific problem of this risk (more accurately, the concentra...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

1/8/18: Dynamic patterns in BTCUSD pricing: is there a new down cycle afoot?

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Bitcoin Cycles Analysis in one chart: As the above suggests, BTCUSD dynamics are signalling continued structural pressures on Bitcoin...
Friday, June 15, 2018

15/6/18: "Ripples in the Crypto World" - Our New Article on Systemic Risks in Cryptocurrencies

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Our new article on dynamic properties and systemic risks of key cryptocurrencies is available at: Gurdgiev, Constantin and Corbet, Shaen...
Friday, May 25, 2018

25/5/18: The Wondrous World of Cryptos Fraud: Profitable and Growing

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One of the key promises of cryptocurrencies to their 'users'/'investors'/'gamblers' has been that of security of d...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

19/5/18: The Scary Inefficiency & Environmental Costs of Bitcoin

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Bitcoin is just one of the cryptocurrencies, albeit the dominant one by market capitalisation and mining assets deployment. The cryptocurr...
Monday, March 19, 2018

19/3/18: Bitcoin as a Hedge?..

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The story of Bitcoin has been told, repeatedly, as a story of an asset that offers a hedge to stocks, a hedge against the fiat currencies ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

21/2/18: Cryptos Fans Checkmating Themselves on Petro

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Venezuela launched the Petro, an oil-backed cryptocurrency that is supposed to augment (strike that: replace) the totally debased fiat cur...
Friday, February 2, 2018

2/2/18: CFR: What Financial Economics Tells Us About Bitcoin

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My new contribution to the Cayman Financial Review  is available, covering the key aspects of the fundamentals (or lac of such) behind the...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

15/1/18: Of Fraud and Whales: Bitcoin Price Manipulation

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Recently, I wrote about the potential risks that concentration of Bitcoin in the hands of few holders ('whales') presents and the ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

20/12/17: My Forex Analytix Interview Link

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My today's interview with Forex Analytix  on Cryptocurrencies and Central Banks is now on youtube, here:  https://www.youtube.com/watc...
Monday, December 18, 2017

18/12/17: Of Winners and Whiners: Bitcoin's Path to Value

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One of the key Bitcoin issues is concentration of miners. Concentration in Bitcoin markets occurs primarily due to high cost of energy use...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

13/12/17: Why cryptos might not prevail? Because of their supporters...

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Why cryptos might not prevail? Because of this: Or, put differently, because the entire hype around cryptocurrencies, and increasing ...