Let me introduce you to MMM. While decentralized finance and digital asset companies bend over backwards to be customer centric and reform financial services (each in their own way), MMM is a pretender. It is a pretender that has stolen the language of the crypto economy to create a cancer in its body.
The Walmart Litecoin fake post brought the coin price from $175 up to $231.
Someone, or a group of people, likely made a lot of money on a pump and dump. According to Coinmarketcap, the coin's trading volume tripled from $2.4 billion to $6.3 billion in the hour after the article went live.
When asked about the crypto winter and her worries, she focuses on the cyclical nature which makes crypto resilient and able to survive.
his week, we look at:
There are two very large revenue pools in the crypto asset class — (1) mining, and (2) trading. There are some large revenue pools in crypto-as-a-software, too, but those tend to be less sensational.
This analysis will establish a 2021 baseline for the most regulated of crypto exchanges, Coinbase, including a detailed financial model building a $100B+ valuation case
We then consider the valuations and multiples of capital markets protocols in Decentralized Finance of Ethereum, now making up over $60B in token value
Lastly, we look at Binance’s $1B in profits, its $35B BNB token, and the activities on Binance Smart Chain
Messari calls itself the Bloomberg of Web3; we dig into that statement to see if it rings true
This week, we cover these ideas:
That absurd Paul Krugman article about Bitcoin. Also Jim Cramer has things to say about financial regulation.
If all the prices are down, which they are, does that mean that everything is bad and wrong?
How timing is a personal financial planning problem, not a market value problem
