How will the Shanghai Fork Affect the De-Fi Crypto Ecosystem?
What exactly is the fork, in layman’s terms? How will it affect the price of ETH now and in the future? Which parts of De-Fi it is likely...
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coalexander
Dec 16, 20223 min read
How should Binance Prove it is Solvent?
Self-regulated crypto exchanges need to prove their solvency using stress tests for capital adequacy, not a proof of reserves. Shortly...
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coalexander
Jul 7, 20227 min read
Why This Crypto Crash is Different
One of my favourite journalists (Ryan Browne, CNBC) sent me some questions which were precipitated by his reading of this article. There...
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coalexander
Jan 17, 202211 min read
Binance Spoofy Bots Cause Mass Liquidations
Price Manipulation Bots Caused Mass Binance Liquidations on 26 July 2021 The class actions against Binance for irresponsible behaviour...
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coalexander
Nov 14, 20213 min read
The Tether-Binance Axis and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022
Tether Corporation is not printing USDT for the purpose of inflating Bitcoin's price, even though it often has that effect (as explained...
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coalexander
Nov 14, 20212 min read
Binance Still Onboarding Fiat and Offering 50X to 125X Leverage
Of the many interesting response to my latest blogs, the most informative came from a UK trader who shared screenshots with me (below)...
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coalexander
Nov 13, 20212 min read
Tether and Bitcoin Ponzi Ecosystem Stage 2: DOWN
Lets start by summarizing stage 1, from yesterday's blog. My diagram there depicts how our imaginary trader XYZ starts with 100,000...
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coalexander
Nov 12, 20214 min read
Tether and Bitcoin Ponzi Ecosystem Stage 1: UP
As Tether corporation continues to obfuscate the identity of the companies whose commercial paper constitutes the majority of its $75...
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coalexander
Oct 16, 20213 min read
Tether Props up Toxic Crypto Carousel
This is from the FT on Saturday 16 Oct: "The CFTC order found that Tether relied on unregulated and third-party entities to hold funds,...
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coalexander
Aug 20, 20215 min read
Trading Operations of the Binance Insurance Fund
Comments on Replies from Binance’s Representative This is a continuation of my last blog about how the liquidation of so many long...
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coalexander
Aug 3, 202114 min read
Binance’s Insurance Fund
How insufficient insurance funds might explain the outage of Binance’s futures platform on May 19 and the potentially toxic relationship...
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coalexander
Jul 9, 20212 min read
Almost All Bitcoin Price Transmission Comes from Binance
This picture represents the results of a bitcoin (BTC) price discovery analysis between the highly-controversial Binance exchange and...
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coalexander
Jul 4, 20214 min read
Almost all Bitcoin Volatility Transmission Comes from Binance
The figure above shows the results of applying a state-of-the-art econometric model for identifying high-frequency volatility flows, to...
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coalexander
Jun 14, 20213 min read
Here’s Why Cryptocurrency Doesn’t Crash at Weekends
I’m learning a lot as I become more familiar with talking with the press. Most contacts follow my blogs, or my press releases from the...
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coalexander
May 28, 20211 min read
Bitcoin Variance Swaps
Bitcoin variance swaps have been traded on-chain for nearly two years. Here is the smart contract code for doing so. However, these...
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coalexander
May 10, 20211 min read
CNBC Interview
My thoughts about dogecoin and other meme coins, platform coins, exchange tokens, De-Fi and NFTs relative to bitcoin, and the necessity...
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coalexander
Apr 29, 20213 min read
Is Dogecoin as Dodgy as Elon Musk?
There isn't anything particularly unique about dogecoin. Like bitcoin and other so-called `payment’ coins dogecoin has no fundamental...
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coalexander
Apr 24, 20213 min read
Why britcoin CBDC will take many years to launch
If you're looking for follow-up stories on this week's news that the Treasury and the Bank of England are exploring the possibility of...
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coalexander
Apr 24, 20211 min read
CoinBase Interview on CNBC and FT
Full interview available until end of this month here YouTube extract here FT article here University of Sussex news article here...
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coalexander
Mar 22, 20211 min read
ProfCAlexander's Lockdown Lectures
I've just finished my own YouTube channel for sharing the videos I made during lockdwon for teaching University of Sussex Finance...
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