Jonnie Emsley

Contributor at CryptoSlate

Crypto market structure “broke” last week but BitMEX wasn’t the cause, says crypto fund manager

The managing partner and co-founder of crypto hedge fund Multicoin Capital, Kyle Samani, says that the crypto market structure “broke” last week on account of a bottleneck in the Bitcoin blockchain and miners shuttering operations. Samani drew the conclusion in a blog piece Wednesday titled “March 12: The Day Crypto Market Structure Broke,” a post-mortem […]

Crypto market structure “broke” last week but BitMEX wasn’t the cause, says crypto fund manager

Funds on CME Bitcoin futures market have turned aggressively bearish, data shows

Large speculators on the CME Bitcoin futures market appeared to be positioned overwhelmingly short weeks in advance of Bitcoin’s supposed coronavirus panic-selling correction.  Data from the CTFC Commitment of Traders report reveals that, in late January, leveraged funds began to turn aggressively bearish on the CME cash-settled Bitcoin futures market. The shift in trend caused […]

Funds on CME Bitcoin futures market have turned aggressively bearish, data shows

Quant crypto fund: Bitcoin is just as “susceptible to market panic” as other assets

Quantitative crypto fund Strix Leviathan says the narrative of Bitcoin as a hedge against economic uncertainty could be false—considering last week’s nearly unprecedented stock market sell-off, where the S&P 500 suffered its sharpest correction since the 2008 financial crisis and BTC shed nearly 15 percent in USD terms. The number-one cryptocurrency by market capitalization started […]

Quant crypto fund: Bitcoin is just as “susceptible to market panic” as other assets

CME posts one of its largest volume days ever as Bitcoin marks three-month buy-streak

Trading volume has rocketed to a near-all-time-high on the CME cash-settled Bitcoin futures market as the number-one crypto by market capitalization continues one of its longest unbroken uptrends since the first half of last year. Tuesday posted over 23,000 contracts, worth $1.1 billion, according to preliminary data from CME Group, the Chicago-based commodities exchange that […]

CME posts one of its largest volume days ever as Bitcoin marks three-month buy-streak

Strix Leviathan: the crypto quant fund that’s beating the market with a differentiated investment approach

Career dotcom entrepreneur and serial bootstrapper Jesse Proudman is the co-founder of Strix Leviathan, a quantitative hedge fund that’s beating the market through software and systematic investing. Like so many entrepreneurs, Proudman may have found his initial concept as a reward for past struggles. Before his last company Blue Box was acquired by IBM in […]

BTSE leaves Dubai for British Virgin Islands: Why crypto businesses still haven’t found their regulatory utopia

Crypto exchange BTSE has shifted its operations out of Dubai, claiming that regulators in countries with “non-permissive legal systems” are holding back the mass adoption of cryptocurrency with their inaction and broken promises. The move comes as the latest in a global game of musical chairs by crypto businesses, who have little choice but to […]

BTSE leaves Dubai for British Virgin Islands: Why crypto businesses still haven’t found their regulatory utopia

Handshake mainnet goes live allowing anyone to own top-level domains and earn in decentralized fashion

Handshake, a Proof-of-Work DNS protocol spearheaded by the co-creator of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, has launched its mainnet in its bid to decentralize trusted Certificate Authorities and replace authoritative bodies like ICANN that govern top-level domains (TLDs) like “.com” and “.org.” The project has maintained a low profile since debuting in August 2018, when news broke […]

Handshake mainnet goes live allowing anyone to own top-level domains and earn in decentralized fashion