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Category: Bitcoin

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Currencies

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Bitcoin Price Reaction or Lack of Reaction to News from China? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

In short: we don’t support any short-term positions in the Bitcoin market at the moment.

More news from China coming our way. BTC China, a prominent Bitcoin exchange, announced today it would stop taking yuan-denominated deposits from the Bank of China as of today:

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Currencies

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Bitcoin is a Fascinating Story, and I Think it's Real / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Bloomberg

Michael Novogratz, principal of Fortress Investment Group, spoke with Bloomberg Television anchor Stephanie Ruhle from the Sohn Investment Conference in New York today.

Novogratz talked about Bitcoin, saying, "Intellectually it's a fascinating story to me, and I think it's real. If you look at the total market cap of Bitcoin, it's probably somewhere between $4.5 billion, $5 billion. There are in best estimates somewhere 30,000 individual programmers working on Bitcoin. My college roommate lives down in Barbados. He was the smartest guy that we went to school with. He full time works on derivatives of Bitcoin. So there's this open source community where there's huge brain power, let alone all the VC money that's going in. And so from Marc Andreessen and his company to Benchmark...there's lots of smart money going in. I've never seen a small project with more human capital going into it, and so I kind of want to bet just on that alone."

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Currencies

Friday, May 02, 2014

Bitcoin Price Moving Down but What Kind of Move Is It? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

Briefly: we don't support any short-term positions in the Bitcoin market now.

Bitcoin's popularity has spread in the recent months and this is acknowledged by the number of articles there are out there on cryptocurrencies. Articles also posted by news services and financial websites. Now the popularity of Bitcoin has been confirmed by Bloomberg. The company has recently decided to include Bitcoin in the vast universe of financial instruments reported within Bloomberg's data stream.

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Currencies

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Bitcoin Price at the Beginning of a Move up? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

In short: we don’t support any short-term positions in the Bitcoin market at the moment.

It looks like Mt. Gox’s creditors in Canada and the U.S., or at least those of them who took part in the class action lawsuits, have come to an agreement with potential investors. Today, Reuters posted a story according to which former Mt. Gox customers had agreed to settle the class action lawsuits in exchange for the 200,000 bitcoins found at Mt. Gox, $20 million in other currencies and, perhaps most importantly, for a 16.5% stake in a revived Mt. Gox.

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Commodities

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Bitcoin Implications of Lack of Price Action / Commodities / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

In short: we support short speculative positions in the Bitcoin market at the moment.

Reuters posted an article supposedly giving some insight into how things had worked (or not worked) at Mt. Gox and providing us with Mark Karpeles’ (the CEO of the exchange) profile. We read:

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Commodities

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Save MtGox - Bitcoin Important Implications of Going Down / Commodities / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

Cutting right to the chase: short positions might be the way to go now (stop-loss at $550).

A group of investors has come up with an initiative to convince the Tokyo Distric Court to not liquidate Mt. Gox's assets but instead give a go-ahead to the plan to rehabilitate the failed exchange. A website Save Gox has been set up and the plan has been outlined on it. We can read:

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Currencies

Monday, April 14, 2014

Bitcoin Price Strong Appreciation to Be Followed by Declines? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

In not too many words: we don’t support any short-term positions just now.

First of all, a security update coming from Bitcointalk, a forum for Bitcoin aficionados. The following message was posted on the site:

A bug in OpenSSL, used by Bitcoin-Qt/Bitcoin Core, could allow your bitcoins to be stolen. Immediately updating Bitcoin Core to 0.9.1 is required in some cases, especially if you're using 0.9.0.

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Currencies

Friday, April 11, 2014

This Bitcoin Price Rally Might Be a Fake One / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

Cutting right to the chase: we still don’t support any short-term positions in the market.

Yesterday, we wrote that Chinese Bitcoin exchanges BTC100 and BTCTrade were ordered by the Chinese government to close their bank accounts used to receive customer deposits. Today, Reuters reported that another exchange, Huobi.com, issued a statement that the bank handling their account would close them by Apr. 18.

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Currencies

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Bitcoin Price - Are We About to See Another Move Down? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

Briefly: we don’t support any short-term positions now.

New Bitcoin-related products seem to be hitting the market every day now. New types of altcoins, new kinds of wallets, new services. The currency is surrounded by a wide umbrella of solutions which might help bring it to the attention of the mainstream public. So, what’s stopping us from using bitcoin debit cards? Cryptex, a Hong-Kong-based company asked themselves the same question and couldn’t think of a good reason not to.

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Currencies

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Bitcoin Trading Clues from Price and Volume / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

In short: we don’t support any positions in the Bitcoin market at the moment.

The Financial Post reported that Bill Downe, CEO of the Bank of Montreal, expressed the view his company would consider dealing in Bitcoin was the currency a stable means of exchange:

If it was reliable and if it was regulated, “then there’s no reason why we couldn’t be an intermediary in bitcoin-related transactions,” Bill Downe said in an interview after the company’s annual general meeting in Toronto.

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Currencies

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Bitcoin Price Moving up to $500 but Is This to Last? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

In not too many words: we don’t support any short-term positions in the market now.

Mobile payments company Square announced yesterday it would accept Bitcoin on its online website Square Market, which enables retailers to feature their merchandise. Ajit Varma, Square Market Lead wrote:

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Currencies

Monday, March 31, 2014

Bitcoins, Are Cryptocoins Money? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Michael_S_Rozeff

The bottom line is that cryptocoins are not money. The Austrian analysis rules.

Money’s key property is that it is a numeraire for goods. Wikipedia puts it this way:

“Numéraire is a basic standard by which value is computed. Acting as the numéraire is one of the functions of money, to serve as a unit of account: to measure the worth of different goods and services relative to one another, i.e. in same units.”

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Currencies

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Bitcoin Scam - MTGox Finds 200,000 Behind Sofa, How Many More Hidden in old Socks, Coat, Shoes? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Nadeem_Walayat

MtGox which stands for 'Magic the Gathering' and not 'Mount Gox' that the mainstream broadcast press still mistakenly reports it as, has apparently found 200,000 of the estimated 800,000 missing bitcoins behind what amounts to an electronic sofa, as MtGox reveals that 200,000 bitcoins worth approx $100 million were found in an old digital wallet kept off line (old hard drive) that effectively blows a hole in their whole story to date of being innocent victims of 'bitcoin transaction malleability' (causing transactions to be issued twice) as the means by which theft of the MTGox bitcoins took place that MtGox representatives have been spouting of since at least Mid Feb when the web site filed for bankruptcy.

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Currencies

Friday, March 28, 2014

Bitcoin Price Pause at $500. Is It Temporary? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

If you don’t have time: we think shorts could become more profitable.

We’ve long been discussing Mt. Gox’s fall and the credibility of Mt. Gox’s claims that their Bitcoins might have been stolen via transaction malleability exploits. It now turns out that Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich came up with a paper in which they analyze Bitcoin transactions on Mt. Gox starting with data from January 2013.

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Currencies

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Bitcoin Price False Turnaround? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

Keeping it short: we don’t support any short-term positions at the moment.

There is a growing market of services around Bitcoin and the world of finance seems to recognize the opportunity this presents. The Wall Street Journal reported a new Bitcoin-related derivative instrument was being developed by Tera Group Inc. The aim of the company is to provide a first Bitcoin swap.

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Currencies

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Bitcoin Price Move Below $600 Continues / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

Cutting right to the chase: we don't think going short is a good idea yet.

Just when you would think the situation with Mt. Gox couldn't get any stranger, it has. Apparently, the exchange "found" almost BTC 200,000 in one of its old wallets this month. The coins would be currently worth approximately $115 million. A statement published yesterday on the exchanges website reads:

MtGox Co., Ltd. had certain old-format wallets which were used in the past and which, MtGox thought, no longer held any bitcoins. Following the application for commencement of a civil rehabilitation proceeding, these wallets were rescanned and their balance researched. On March 7, 2014, MtGox Co., Ltd. confirmed that an old-format wallet which was used prior to June 2011 held a balance of approximately 200,000 BTC (199,999.99 BTC). MtGox Co., Ltd. investigated the presence of these 200,000 BTC, immediately reported it to its counsels in the application for commencement of a civil rehabilitation proceedings ("counsels"). A hearing took place on March 8 where a detailed explanation of the situation was made to counsels. Immediately on Monday (March 10), counsels reported the existence of the 200,000 BTC to the Court and the Supervisor.

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Commodities

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Bitcoin - My Two Bits / Commodities / Bitcoin

By: David_Morgan

Some have asked our view on Bitcoin, and my response is simply -- I view these things from a Free Market perspective. I have often stated that "The Market knows more than any of us". I would not want to be labeled a hypocrite by stating my conviction that the "real" free market is capable of making decisions that are in the best interest of masses, and then proceed to disparage Bitcoin through a personal bias.

However, I do have a personal bias as to the basic construct of money, or what I would prefer to think of as "real" money. Here the span of history has given us a very clear message that a fair exchange of value for value is the only ethical way for people to conduct a transaction that is mutually beneficial for both parties.

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Currencies

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Bitcoin Market Tensions Building Up / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

To the point: we don’t support any positions in the market just now.

Mt. Gox has enabled users to log into their accounts and check their wallet balance. Before users get excited – this doesn’t mean that they will be able to access their money. For all we know, these balances are nothing more than numbers on a computer screen, or if you will in a database. Mt. Gox reminds of that using different wording:

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Commodities

Monday, March 17, 2014

Why I’d Still Stay Away from Bitcoin / Commodities / Bitcoin

By: DailyGainsLetter

Mohammad Zulfiqar writes: “I think the stock market is getting into the overbought territory. Gold is due for a pullback. To be honest, I don’t see many opportunities out there other than bitcoins.” These were the words of wisdom from my good old friend Mr. Speculator. While most have forgotten about the virtual currency, Mr. Speculator thinks there’s an opportunity.

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Currencies

Friday, March 14, 2014

Bitcoin Trading Maybe Flat but Not Flatlined for Good / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

To the point: we don’t support having any short-term positions in the market now.

We wrote yesterday that Bitcoin’s future holds promise and that the system has the potential to revolutionize payments. In an article from its print edition, the Economist also comes to the conclusion that the characteristics of Bitcoin may as well outweigh the recent disastrous shutdown of Mt. Gox over the long term. What is more, the applications of Bitcoin or its underlying general ledger (blockchain) system might not be restricted to money transfers:

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