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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 11 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 14 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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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