Thriller "A Bitcoin Zine"

Today we discuss Bitcoin and Ethereum Debate What seems to be an never ending battle between Ethereum and Bitcoin followers, Peter McCormack had a chance to discuss the complex mechanisms of Ethereum 2.0 along with some other philosophical differences between ETH and BTC with two very important guests. Vitalik Buterin of the Ethereum Foundation and Samson Mow, CSO of Blockstream. Vitalik Buterin h...

The release of Thriller Crypto's first audiobook is released. It is called, One Satoshi at a Time: How Bitcoin Will Change The World. Total runtime is just about 3hrs 54min. Please make sure to share with everyone you know. There are so many ways to get access to it SoundCloud, Bandcamp, IPFS, Torrent, Direct Download and even Skynet 🤓 Attached is the Preface & Introduction to the book. Thats rig...

This week, MicroStrategy chose to invest $250 million in Bitcoin. coming from CoinDesk Publicly traded business intelligence firm MicroStrategy purchased 21,454 bitcoin on Tuesday, effectively pouring all $250 million of its planned inflation-hedging funds into the digital currency. Earlier this week, American software company MicroStrategy announced it was investing $250 million in Bitcoin to pro...

Today we discuss Bitcoin in August. TradingShot Chart via Trading View Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is a trend-following momentum indicator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of a security's price. The MACD is calculated by subtracting the 26-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) from the 12-period EMA. The expected aggressive break-out finally took place and...

TradingShot Chart The recent volatility and inability to make a new high and break above the $10500 Resistance, have made me look again on the wider Bitcoin charts. On this study I look on the 1W chart in particular and compare the current spot we are on based on the Fibonacci time channel of the previous Cycle.** The Fibonacci framework **The framework I use is this. I measure each Fibonacci Time...

Today we discuss Bitcoin in July. Bitcoin Market Health Bitcoin's price took a tumble over the past week after climbing on Monday and Tuesday in the last couple days in June. The weekend saw it briefly brush below the $9000 mark before settling back up just above $9200. Coin Metrics and where they are headed in July Whats ahead…Watch for Facebook release of Novi wallet and $LBR digital currency, l...

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Bitcoin Down to Lowest price since May Its low of $8,975 this week is the lowest Bitcoin’s been for just over a month; the last time Bitcoin’s price was this low was on May 27. TradingShot Chart The important of the 1D MA200 and MA1000 Back then, when the RSI broke 38.00, Bitcoin tested the 1D MA200 for the first time in 6 months. In fact, if it wasn't for President Xi's speech on China and Blockc...

Unlike Bitcoin, which has stalled in the low-$9,000s, Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen exponential growth over the past few weeks. DeFi’s growth has seen an intense recovery in the months since, however, with the total value locked within collateralized loans reaching fresh all-time highs earlier this week. One of the hallmark examples of DeFi’s current popularity can be seen w...

Act I The Creation of the Fed The Federal Reserve System, often referred to as the Federal Reserve or simply "the Fed," is the central bank of the United States. It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve was created on December 23, 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserv...

Today we discuss Bitcoin in June. TradingShot The May Triangle The price has been consolidating within a Triangle since the May 07 $10100 High. Typically when Triangles break, that is the direction to follow.- If the current Triangle breaks upwards, we still have the August 20, 2019 Lower Highs trend-line (dotted line) to consider as well as (and more importantly) the $10500 9-month Resistance.- I...

As Quantitative Easing approaches infinity, it simply has to have an impact on things whose quantity can’t be eased. Quantitative easing is a tool that central banks, like us, can use to inject money directly into the economy. Money is either physical, like banknotes, or digital, like the money in your bank account. Quantitative easing involves us creating digital money. We then use it to buy thin...

Goldman Sachs’ latest client conference call will include a subject that Wall Street has either long derided or shrugged off: Bitcoin. Per an invitation to investors, the investment bank is holding a client call on “US Economic Outlook & “Implications of Current Policies for Inflation, Gold and Bitcoin.” The conference call, set for May 27 at 10:30am EST, is the fifteenth in a series on macro econ...

On May 11th, the block reward in the Bitcoin network was decreased from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC heralding the 3rd halving in Bitcoin history. Block #630000, was the first to bring a decreased reward, and it was mined by the AntPool mining pool group. On Chain Metrics The number of active addresses (and entities) has increased to levels not seen since the 2017 bull market - as has the number of new addres...

CoinDesk's annual conference on the future of the global financial system is happening this week. Consensus: Distributed features hundreds of hours of programming with more than 150 speakers over five days, from May 11th-15th. Highlights Chris Giancarlo and Martin Chorzempa talking with CoinDesk Asia about the Digital Dollar Giancarlo is a renowned blockchain technology advocate and key contributo...

Bitcoin’s long-anticipated halving event took place today. At the time it took place (19:23 UTC or 3:30 p.m. ET), bitcoin was trading below its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, bearish technical indicators after a huge 10% drop in price on May 10 at 00:00 UTC. This was triggered by an outage striking San Francisco-based exchange Coinbase. At press time, bitcoin (BTC) was trading down less than a...

CoinDesk's annual conference on the future of the global financial system is happening this week. Consensus: Distributed features hundreds of hours of programming with more than 150 speakers over five days, from May 11th-15th. Highlights Yves Mersch on Central Bank Digital Currencies Member of the Executive Board, Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board • European Central Bank Yves Mersch was appointe...

Today we discuss Bitcoin in May. We have discussed, Bitcoin Halving in a recent episode but from that episode we have concluded bitcoin price action is a result of the halving as well as, “Have the miners priced in the halving?” We used historical market data and even went a step further to study market trends in order to predict potential future prices. It was a lot of fun to say the least. Based...

The third halving event in Bitcoin’s history is approaching. A halving in Bitcoin is when the number of new bitcoin created roughly every ten minutes is cut in half. This change in the Bitcoin issuance rate is scheduled to take place every 210,000 blocks (around every four years). After hitting a 2020 high of over $10K in mid-February, the bitcoin price was lower than $5K a month later. Since then...

The People’s Bank of China is poised to become the first major central bank to issue a digital version of its currency, the yuan, seeking to keep up with -- and control of -- a rapidly digitizing economy. PBoC’s official website, the word “Bitcoin” is not mentioned even once, although China is one of the top players in the crypto industry. The principles and technologies on the basis of which it i...

Today we discuss The Road to 20K As you see on the TradingShot chart there are two key trend-lines on each of the previous 3 bitcoin cycles:The one in red displays the resistance trend-line of lower highs that start from the peak (all time high) of each cycle and ends once bitcoin breaks above it with a sustainable series candle closings. This trend-line contains the bear cycle in it as well as pa...

According to Ross Ulbricht, best-known for creating & operating the darknet market website Silk Road, Bitcoin’s price is headed downward. Using the Elliot Wave Theory for his analysis, Ulbricht believes that there might be more loss ahead, taking the price significantly lower. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the infamous Silk Road dark market, pointed out that Bitcoin’s price may be headed lower. Ac...

What a Digital Dollar looks like… We are on the cusp of a new monetary era. Central bankers around the world are increasingly worried that privately controlled digital currencies will relegate them to the sidelines of monetary affairs. To avoid this fate, central banks have been studying, and in some cases actively pursuing, issuing digital currencies of their own: so-called central bank digital c...

Today we discuss Bitcoin in April. Charts by TradingShot Bitcoin is currently on its 3rd straight bullish 1 week candle. We are rising for 3 weeks in a row. This move is happening straight after the $3900 flash crash and is taking a lot of traders by surprise. But should it? Will get back to this in a second but first lets dive into Bitcoin Fractals and why they are more important now in an uncert...

This week, we have seen an unprecedented amount of liquidity of economic stimulus stabilize the economy, putting an end to weeks of free fall caused by the corona pandemic. All the major US equities were up by around 9% to 12% this week—on Tuesday, the Dow Jones had its best day since 1938. Bitcoin had its least volatile week since its price cut in half on March 13. Bitcoin’s market value rose fro...