What Is The Metaverse? – 7 Meta Coins To Watch

What Is The Metaverse

Metaverse is a term that is loosely thrown around recently, especially since the name change of Facebook to Meta. The history of the term ‘metaverse’ can be traced to a notable SciFi novelist, Neal Stephenson in his book- Snow Crash. He detailed a universe that was different from what existed. It was a 3D virtual … Read more

How To Buy Your First NFT

buy an NFT

Non Fungible Tokens- NFTs- are digital assets with unique characteristics that can be minted, bought, and sold on a Marketplace. As a non-fungible digital item, every NFT minted is different from others.  Let’s say a friend borrows a dollar and spends it. When they return a different dollar note to the lender, it replaces the … Read more

Curve Wars Part 2: The Kingmaker of DeFi Convex

Curve wars

In part 1, we went over Curve Finance and what makes it so attractive to investors. In this article, we will explore a relatively new addition to the Curve ecosystem called Convex Finance. Convex Finance developed a protocol specifically for CRV staking. Since staking on Curve requires long lock-up times, Convex allows stakers to unstake … Read more

Curve Wars Part 1: The King of DeFi

Curve wars

As of writing, Curve Finance is the second largest protocol in all of DeFi, with a TVL (Total Value Locked) of $14.43 billion. CRV has been gaining a lot of attention as of late due to what is referred to as the “Curve Wars”. The Curve Wars is essentially different protocols making million dollar bribes … Read more

Bitcoin Hash Ribbon: Miner Capitulation & Recovery

Bitcoin: Hash Ribbon

In this short article we will be discussing the Bitcoin Hash Ribbon. This metric is specifically good at identifying great buying opportunities after large drawdowns in the Bitcoin price. It tracks miner capitulation as mining becomes unprofitable overall. Hash Ribbon uses a 30 day and 60 day moving average for the Bitcoin hash rate. When … Read more

Bitcoin Issuance & The Puell Multiple

Bitcoin: Puell Multiple

We have observed a handful of metrics that have been reliable to identify tops and bottoms in Bitcoin Cycles. The Puell Multiple can be added to that list. Using The Puell Multiple, we can analyze the supply side, Bitcoin issuance. Everyday new Bitcoins are being released onto the network via mining. Those Bitcoins are first … Read more

How To Easily Explain Bitcoin To A Newbie

Explaining Bitcoin as a non-sovereign, permissionless, hard-capped supply, global, immutable, decentralized, digital store of value can go way over peoples heads. It takes time learning about Bitcoin to understand why these characteristics matter. That’s why I’ve adopted a new approach to explaining Bitcoin when people ask me about it. I got this concept from Raoul … Read more

Bitcoin: Coin Years Destroyed Explained

Bitcoin: Supply-Adjusted Coin Years Destroyed

In a previous article on Reserve Risk, we spoke about Bitcoin Days Destroyed (also known as Coin Days Destroyed). Bitcoin Days Destroyed (BDD) is the amount of days erased from a UTXO once that Bitcoin has been moved to another address. Coins that have been in the same address for a long period of time and … Read more

Using Open Interest & Funding Rates To Swing Trade Crypto

Bitcoin: Futures Open Interest (Current)

In our Cryptostreet Bootcamp we discuss open interest and funding rates in detail and how to use them to swing trade the crypto market. Future Open Interest Bitcoin open interest is the total number of outstanding Bitcoin derivative contracts, such as options or futures that have not been settled. When it comes to futures, we … Read more