Author: taiwandan

20 years working in finance & 3 years following crypto currencies. As a finance major with no background in computer science, I am doing my best to make sense of crypto currencies to bring what to me may as well be rocket science, to all the non rocket scientists out there.

Bitcoin Keep Calm & HODL?!?! (Analysis by Dr Andrew Jim)

The work below was recently done by a good friend and ex colleague of mine Dr Andrew Jim. It was completed during the most recent sell-off in Bitcoin, the result of yet another China ban. Using R programming language Andrew took the top 10 historical BTC max Drawdowns looking at the time it takes (in... Continue Reading →

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Bitcoin Value Proposition

Most people can intuitively understand why under Web1.0/Web2.0 that Facebook/Google have value whereas the underlying protocols that make up the Web (HTTP, TCP/IP etc) do not (or very little). Because of this it’s hard for many to understand the value proposition of the protocols driving the next iteration of the internet (Bitcoin/Ethereum etc). This old... Continue Reading →

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Bitcoin Bubble Trouble

BitcoinPrivacy.net June 23-27 data (I have a number of questions about this data but for the purposes of this note its not that important) showed 17.8mn wallets have at least a few cents of Bitcoin in them. Most people I know have at least 5-6 wallets so lets say roughly 3mn "active users" or at... Continue Reading →

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