Welcome back everyone to your very important, very normal cryptocurrency newsletter blog. I took a break because I got really sleepy and spent every dollar I have on cryptocurrency statues that then fell onto me, pinning my body to the ground. Disgraceful.
As you can tell things are going great in cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin dropping below $7500, for reasons nobody knows, but don’t worry, it didn’t stop people from coming up with random reasons as to why. For example, Ethereum is thinking of charging fees for keeping data on the platform (?!) because apparently a decentralized platform needs that I guess. Maybe it’s like a mining fee. I don’t know. It’s all really confusingly written because most of these people write entirely for one very small audience to read.
Crypto is good or bad
CNBC’s at it again with some great coverage of cryptocurrency. It’s very good to hold – also, it’s very bad.
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If an investor didn’t hold stocks through the 10 best days for the S&P 500 each year, the annualized return would drop to 5.4 percent from 9.2 percent, Thomas Lee, head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, said in a Wednesday report.
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Similarly, “the reason ‘buy and hold’ (or HODL) makes sense for BTC is that a handful of days each year account for the bulk of gains for BTC,” Lee said.
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However, it’s not clear whether historical analysis on the decades-old stock market is appropriate for the far more volatile cryptocurrency that’s less than 10 years old.
I’d say 90% of what CNBC publishes is either “Bitcoin sucks – or does it?” or “Bitcoin rules – or does it?” rewritten by some sort of AI.
Folks,
Seriously Though from Bitcoin
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Racoon mind good
Inarguably the best part of this entire thing was the specificity of the requests about how he should go about being a raccoon:
After receiving the photos, Neil decided to end their correspondence and told Yousef that he would not be receiving any money from him. Yousef, unsurprisingly, blocked him.
Country exchange
In remarkably large yet underreported (or I didn’t see it because I’m ignorant, so let’s just assume it’s someone else’s fault) story, both Binance and Bitfinex will be leaving asia, headed toward Malta and Switzerland respectively. This is pretty huge! It means that the regulations in asia have actually become bad enough that people are moving their questionably legal cryptocurrency operations into other countries. Let’s hope nobody changes the laws there!
John McAfee update: there is no difference between good things and bad things
Looking good for Bitcoin:https://t.co/wFFIcqitps
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) March 26, 2018
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