Plus, My Target Trading Range — Bitcoin: 2nd Half 2023 Outlook +78% year-to-date repeat Summer $20–30k trading range halving incoming +78% YTD Bitcoin is up 78% on the year. Closing July at $29,230.60, bitcoin fell 4% on the month but has traded within a tight range since the final week of June. As August gets underway, it looks like more of the same…

What You Should Know — I’m Counting Down the Days Til the Next Bitcoin Halving It’s less than a year away… The bitcoin halving is set to take place in late April 2024. You can track progress toward the halving at this website. What’s the bitcoin halving? The bitcoin halving is a mechanism by which the amount of bitcoin released into circulation is cut in half every four years. …

Revisiting $100k Bitcoin — $100,000 bitcoin. It’s the great white whale we thought we’d have caught by now. The most recent bull run took bitcoin to new heights near $70,000, twice. In April 2021, bitcoin topped $60,000 for the first time as Coinbase was going public on the Nasdaq. …

I Like the Stock — I Like the Stock I don’t trade bitcoin. Why? I don’t want to risk losing any bitcoin. I’ve spent bitcoin but that was my choice to do so. Trading means risking ending up being on the wrong side of a trade for an undefined amount of time. So, I don’t trade bitcoin. I’m not…

An Easy Way to Get Started — Exchanges are for trading bitcoin, not holding or storing it. They’re a way to buy and sell. Since they’re centralized, cryptocurrency exchanges resemble traditional brokerages like E*TRADE or TD Ameritrade more than anything else. If you’re looking to own bitcoin, there a few common ways to get started and using…

A Simple Strategy — The best time to buy bitcoin was 2009. The second best time to buy bitcoin is today. There’s a common saying about any type of investment that’s performed well — “The best time to buy was yesterday. The second best time to buy is today.” 2009 Short of knowing Satoshi Nakamoto…

What You Should Never Do — Not your keys, not your coins. If there’s one piece of advice that matters most when it comes to bitcoin, it’s that. If you don’t hold your private keys, then you don’t actually own your bitcoin. What does that mean in plain english though? Let’s explain. Not your keys, not…

I Should Have Done These 3 Things — I own bitcoin. In 2013, I bought my first BTC and I haven’t looked back since. But, I’m not retired living on an island somewhere. Why not? Why are early bitcoiners not all immensely wealthy? …

Bitcoin, BlackRock, and ETFs — BlackRock has entered the bitcoin conversation… again. This time, it isn’t Larry Fink pulling a Jamie Dimon and calling bitcoin an index for money laundering. Instead, Fink publicly stated that bitcoin “could revolutionize finance.” He called bitcoin an alternative, akin to gold. …