Want a high-level overview of DeFi? here's a GREAT 2 minute video summary from CNBC... https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/04/15/heres-what-decentralized-finance-or-defi-means-for-crypto.html

For those who want to understand why most experts are predicting a $120k to $300k Bitcoin price by the end of 2021, watch this great analysis by Benjamin Cowen of Into The Cryptoverse... https://www.youtube.com/embed/mOqRPqH4F7Y

Does anyone know of a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) that enables trades in both Ethereum ERC-20 tokens and Binance BEP-20 tokens with low fees? Lmk in comments.

When you layer the chart for 2016-2017 Bitcoin cycle (in purple) on top of the 2020-2021 Bitcoin cycle (in orange), starting from the date the last halving on May 11, 2020, it implies we will reach a price point of $253,021 by October 6, 2021. And considering we’re currently ahead of cycle 2, some like Willy Woo are projecting a $300k top. However...

...Assuming cycle lengthening theory holds (in which each Bitcoin cycle from market halving until peak price lasts long than the one before it) and extrapolating the declining logarithmic growth of each cycle, I expect that Bitcoin will peak in this cycle somewhere around $108k around the end of 2021. Large institutional capital flows this cycle may make the actual peak higher than this forecast. My best guess is that we get to somewhere around $110k to $150k by the end of 2021 and then during 2022 drop from that level back about 50%-60% to around where we are now ($60k to $70k) before resuming an upward trend toward $500k in the 2024/2025 bull cycle. I expect the drawdown in 2022 will not be as severe as prior cycle 85% drawdowns due to the level of institutional capital coming into Bitcoin. You can view my original TradingView chart at https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BLX/ONvywhVn-Predicting-the-December-31-2021-Bitcoin-Price-108k/

This Bitcoin Open Interest & Price Chart from Messari’s Mira Christanto shows that like clockwork Bitcoin has a small 15-25% retrace every 3-5 weeks. These nearly monthly retraces are all part of the normal growth pattern during a bull market cycle like we are in. They are healthy for the market as they reduce leverage. With each bottom above the prior bottom and each top above the prior top, we are looking good. HODL.

Source: https://twitter.com/asiahodl/status/1384484744604307458?s=20

Crypto adoption is mirroing the adoption of the internet, but faster. Right now we are in the equivalent of 1996. It's early, my friends. So early.

Today I’m writing this week’s Coinstack issue. What topics would you like to hear about?

Coinstackers--here is this week's issue of Coinstack... early Google Doc edition...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k19_96-8jfswx3r7NBE2FUQ7GHXwSvrQDlbqku4m-5g/edit#

In This Issue:
1. The Bitcoin 2021 Cycle Top Price Forecast
2. The Bitcoin Supercycle
3. How We Will Know When We’re At the Top
4. How We Know We’re Not At the Top Now
5. A Bitcoin Price Drop in 2022?
6. Ethereum Scaling Update - 30 TPS to 100,000 TPS by End of 2021
7. The Ethereum 2021 Cycle Top Price Forecast
8. The Ethereum Cash Flow Report 2021 - Why You MUST hold ETH
9. The Crypto Adoption Curve - Faster than the Internet
10. Mrs. Bubble’s New NFTs - Llamacorn Angel Auction
11. A Long-Term Crypto Portfolio
12. How to Get Started in Crypto

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Coinstackers--here is this week's newsletter web edition...

https://coinstack.substack.com/p/the-cycle-top-isnt-here

DEX volume is up 8,012% since Q1 2020. Been a good year.

Hope everyone is loaded up on ETH. The train is about to leave the station. Up 8% today.

What is everyone buying during this dip? Answer in comments.

Ethereum settled $1.54 trillion in transaction volume in q1 2021, up 167% since q4 2020.

A good summary of how Ether (ETH) is improving as an asset in 2021.

Number of active addresses on Ethereum has now surpassed it’s all time high last set in January 2018.

Above is a good analysis of the cash flows and investment case for Ethereum. It’s called The Ethereum Cash Flow report and is from Ethereumcashflow.com.

Here is the EARLY EDITION of this week's Coinstack newsletter. It will be going out tomorrow via email. Early edition for our 1,002 Telegram subscribers...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j8zo8SruqFRh0RfbwAElKRsOv11M5I1YfZa35tv_ERo/edit#