coalexanderJan 1711 minBinance Spoofy Bots Cause Mass LiquidationsPrice Manipulation Bots Caused Mass Binance Liquidations on 26 July 2021 The class actions against Binance for irresponsible behaviour...
coalexanderNov 14, 20213 minThe Tether-Binance Axis and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022Tether Corporation is not printing USDT for the purpose of inflating Bitcoin's price, even though it often has that effect (as explained...
coalexanderNov 14, 20212 minBinance Still Onboarding Fiat and Offering 50X to 125X LeverageOf the many interesting response to my latest blogs, the most informative came from a UK trader who shared screenshots with me (below)...
coalexanderNov 13, 20212 minTether and Bitcoin Ponzi Ecosystem Stage 2: DOWNLets start by summarizing stage 1, from yesterday's blog. My diagram there depicts how our imaginary trader XYZ starts with 100,000...
coalexanderNov 12, 20214 minTether 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...
coalexanderOct 16, 20213 minTether Props up Toxic Crypto CarouselThis is from the FT on Saturday 16 Oct: "The CFTC order found that Tether relied on unregulated and third-party entities to hold funds,...
coalexanderAug 20, 20215 minTrading 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...
coalexanderAug 3, 202114 minBinance’s Insurance Fund How insufficient insurance funds might explain the outage of Binance’s futures platform on May 19 and the potentially toxic relationship...
coalexanderJul 9, 20212 minAlmost All Bitcoin Price Transmission Comes from BinanceThis picture represents the results of a bitcoin (BTC) price discovery analysis between the highly-controversial Binance exchange and...
coalexanderJul 4, 20214 minAlmost 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...
coalexanderJun 14, 20213 minHere’s Why Cryptocurrency Doesn’t Crash at WeekendsI’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...
coalexanderMay 28, 20211 minBitcoin Variance SwapsBitcoin variance swaps have been traded on-chain for nearly two years. Here is the smart contract code for doing so. However, these...
coalexanderMay 10, 20211 minCNBC InterviewMy thoughts about dogecoin and other meme coins, platform coins, exchange tokens, De-Fi and NFTs relative to bitcoin, and the necessity...
coalexanderApr 29, 20213 minIs 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...
coalexanderApr 24, 20213 minWhy britcoin CBDC will take many years to launchIf 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...
coalexanderApr 24, 20211 minCoinBase Interview on CNBC and FTFull interview available until end of this month here YouTube extract here FT article here University of Sussex news article here...
coalexanderMar 22, 20211 minProfCAlexander's Lockdown LecturesI've just finished my own YouTube channel for sharing the videos I made during lockdwon for teaching University of Sussex Finance...