The top ten crypto exchanges in the world based on volume.

In this week's special issue of The Coin Times I break down my personal crypto investment strategy, explaining step-by-step how I got a 161% return in the last 30 days.

https://cointimes.substack.com/p/my-crypto-investment-strategy

Mapping out the Polkadot ecosystem... (hint: it's a good time to establish a low cost position in Polkadot projects like Akropolois, Polkaswap, Reef, Phala) before they launch on Polkadot in 2H 2021.)

Top trending searches on CoinGecko the last week...

Q3 2021 Bitcoin Price Estimates:
Willy Woo - $200k
Rekt Capital - $170k
Pantera Capital - $115k
Stock to Flow Model - $103k

Sources:
https://willywoo.substack.com/p/013-the-1t-resistance
https://rektcapital.substack.com/p/fouryearcycle2
https://panteracapital.medium.com/bitcoin-rally-2017-vs-today-ba1fe9d7ac79
https://digitalik.net/btc/

Year to date returns through today:

BTC: +57% YTD
ETH: +98% YTD
DPI: +207% YTD. (The DeFi Index token)

I expect ETH will appreciate in price to $5000 by August 2021, as

1) The major Ethereum Daaps move to Layer 2 (L2) protocols like Optimism, Polygon, and ZKRollup that move transactions off the main ethereum chain, making them much faster and less expensive.

2) EIP-1559 goes live in July 2021 (The "London Update") which will start burning gas fees (which means reducing the ETH token supply with every transaction). By August 2021, ETH will have a more deflationary money supply than Bitcoin. Most people don't realize this yet.

If you don't have ETH, now is a great time to load up. BTC + ETH + DOT = A Happy Summer 2021.

Today on The Breakdown podcast, Nathaniel Whittemore reads the great essay “Can Governments Stop Bitcoin” by Human Rights Foundation CSO Alex Gladstein

https://youtu.be/kmN-dx6_R8Q

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-breakdown/id1438693620#episodeGuid=f06c7778-d310-4149-93c2-fe72b1aeb7e2

I recommend a listen 🎧

The value of Bitcoin is now 7.6% the value of gold. Will we see the value of Bitcoin exceed the value of gold this decade? I think we will.

We have renamed the group and newsletter from The Coin Times to CoinStack.

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DeFi platforms have had a very nice bounce in value the last 24 hours...

Decentralized exchanges set a record volume of $61B in volume during February 2021, and this graph doesn’t even include PancakeSwap yet (which was #2 after Uniswap).

Here are the top monthly gainers for February 2021... happy to have been early into BakerySwap, PancakeSwap, and PlasmaPay.

I first wrote about BakerySwap and PancakeSwap in the February 2nd issue... https://coinstack.substack.com/p/whos-the-king-bitcoin-vs-ethereum

Will keep researching and sharing fundamentals-based quantitative analysis in each weekly issue. 👍👍

Take a read of the new CitiBank report on Bitcoin from March 1:

“The report notes the advantage of Bitcoin in global payments, including its decentralized design, lack of foreign exchange exposure, fast (and potentially cheaper) money movements, secure payment channels, and traceability. These attributes combined with Bitcoin’s global reach and neutrality could spur it to become the currency of choice for international trade.”

https://www.citivelocity.com/citigps/bitcoin/

Analysing Bitcoin HODL Waves from previous bull runs, Yann & Jan concludes that this bull run is far from over. The HODL Waves is a data visualisation that displays bands representing the percentage of total bitcoin and the length of time that bitcoin has been sitting in a given address. Source: https://bitcoinuncharted.substack.com/p/uncharted-4

I’m writing the weekly issue of CoinStack tonight... what topics do you want to hear about? Answer in comments.

Here's Coinstack #13 as a Google Doc...
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Pjr_b5UnLmCz7vnF6x2XSVGdvJF1hxlAE94gixRvS4/edit