Weiss Crypto

Authored by Juan Villaverde and Bruce Ng Why pay attention to what hedge funds, university endowments, pension funds and other big-foot institutional investors are doing? Because that’s where the big money is. And Bitcoin is one of the only cryptocurrencies big and liquid enough to absorb...

Fascination and enthusiasm for Bitcoin is running red-hot. And it's not hard to see why.  On the pretext of pandemic panic, the U.S. Federal Reserve is printing and spending $41 billion a day. Altogether, the Fed and other central banks will create more than $6 trillion in new money in...

Thanks to coronavirus lockdowns, the U.S. economy is contracting faster than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Trying to soften the blow, the Federal Reserve has just printed another more than $2 trillion. This is the fastest rate of new money creation in history. But all that...

Right now, our long-term outlook in the crypto market is decisively bullish. Why? Because we’re seeing a favorable risk/reward ratio ... Because the Federal Reserve is creating a new surge in demand for crypto assets by printing fiat money at the fastest pace in history. And this demand...

In times of crisis, the ever-present balancing act between security and privacy always rises to the surface.  Sure, some sacrifices to privacy are considered “justified” in the short term. But I’m concerned with the long-term consequences of giving central governments too...

Stock market volatility has been bleeding into the crypto markets … We’re inching steadily closer to Bitcoin’s halving, an event expected to shake up the crypto sphere … And the greed/fear propaganda of yesteryear is back. How do you navigate through this labyrinth of...

When stocks, commodities, currencies and even investment-grade bonds plunge like they did today. Or …  When pro traders look at their Bloomberg terminals and yell out in unison, “Oh my God! The market is collapsing!” … What does that really mean? Most people think all...

Stablecoins are cryptos whose value is pegged to a real-world asset, like the U.S. dollar. They’re in demand because crypto prices jump around too much to be used by vendors to price their products. But there’s a big problem with the first generation of stablecoins: Users have to trust...

The finance sector relies on numerous middlemen. And they’re making out like bandits.  In traditional payment systems, you invariably go through a middleman, such as Mastercard Inc (NYSE: MA) or Visa Inc (NYSE: V) … Western Union (NYSE: WU) … or a bank that issues...

By Juan M. Villaverde Tezos (XTZ, Rated “B-”) is on fire.  It has surged by more than 190% in the past five weeks.  And now, it's breaking out to new bull-market highs well ahead of the other altcoins — even ahead of Bitcoin (BTC, Rated “A-”), the...

Looking for the next Bitcoin (BTC, Rated "A-")?  Some people have long thought it would be Ethereum (ETH, Rated "B+").  Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum is more than just a payment system. It’s a platform for running an infinite variety of applications, called “...

We rarely make a big deal about crypto tech upgrades. We dissect them. We run them through our technology model. And we give you our objective analysis. Period. But this is an exception. Ethereum 2.0 is now finally moving forward in a substantive way, and it’s slated to have far-reaching...

In financial markets, it’s rarely possible to know, in advance, precisely when a major event will impact supply and demand — let alone how or where.  But in one particular asset and one particular point in time, it does happen.  I’m talking about … The Bitcoin...

Imagine a country that replaces culture with computer code.  Instead of laws and police, it has smart contracts. Instead of a president, legislature or supreme court, it simply has another layer of computer code called “governance.”  Instead of money, it has digital...

We continue to see a stark contrast between Bitcoin (BTC) and other leading cryptos ("altcoins") that are bound to thrive and the hundreds of other digital assets that are, or will become, zombie coins with virtually zero adoption in the real world.  This is especially true for the...