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Following Flows III: Measuring Ethereum Miner Activity
Ethereum and Mining The Ethereum community has always had a somewhat strained relationship with miners. The network’s proof of work algorithm, Ethash, was explicitly designed to be resistant to ASIC mining and hence miner professionalization. Since then, the network’s migration [...]
Following Flows II: Where do Miners Sell?
Miners are frequently blamed for causing dips in the price of Bitcoin. These accusations are often unsubstantiated—worse still, they’re sometimes based on faulty metrics that conflate mining pool payouts with miner spending, ultimately misleading their users. Accurately assessing the degree [...]
Dissecting a Bitcoin Bull Market (Full Length)
A pandemic, followed by global societal shutdowns, followed by rampant social unrest, followed by increased political polarization, followed by unprecedented levels of monetary interventionism. This has been 2020. And in the midst of all of this uncertainty and chaos, a [...]
The State of DeFi Tokens (Full Length)
Decentralized finance (DeFi) took over the crypto world during the summer. But it cooled off after September, and has taken a back seat to BTC and ETH since. In this week’s Feature, we explore the rapid rise of DeFi tokens [...]
Bitcoin: An Unprecedented Experiment in Fair Distribution (Full Length)
Much has been written about the fundamental differences between Bitcoin and other asset classes. In fact, juxtapositions of Bitcoin and established commodities such as gold continue to lure swarms of newcomers into this industry, institutional and retail-alike. But are there [...]
Following Flows: A Look at Miners’ On-Chain Payments (Full Length)
Key Takeaways Using a new methodology that looks at addresses one hop out from the coinbase transaction, this report quantifies miner holdings and activity. This approach improves on previous attempts at tracking miner spending, which inadvertently measured pool operator activity [...]
Fundamentals Show Bitcoin Is Poised for Takeoff (Full Length)
On October 21st Bitcoin (BTC) broke out, rising by about $1,000 on the day. Since then it has topped $13,000 and set new 2020 highs. For crypto veterans this is a somewhat familiar story. BTC is notoriously volatile and has [...]
Q3 Refresh of Trusted Spot Volume Framework (Full Length)
This post is designed to be a follow up to our ‘trusted volume’ framework post (link) earlier this summer. We have made a few adjustments to take into account changes in the industry as well as reader feedback. In the [...]
Analyzing the Fallout from the BitMEX Lawsuits (Full Length)
On October 1st, the CFTC and Department of Justice jointly announced charges filed against BitMEX’s owners and operators. The CFTC is alleging they were illegally operating a derivatives trading platform and the Department of Justice that they violated various parts [...]
Q3 2020 Supply Transparency Report
The Supply Transparency Report brings visibility to the actions of the key categories of a cryptoasset’s holders that are deemed to restrict supply from the market, as defined in the CMBI Float Adjustment Methodology. The current universe of cryptoassets that [...]