OBTC News and Press, Osprey Bitcoin Trust Unit Ben Int From 05/13/22

Why markets have been falling ever since the Fed hiked rates? Why bonds may now provide improved opportunities for investors? Volatility likely isn't going anywhere anytime soon. So, what should investors do? For further details see: Markets Sell Off As Volatility Spikes...

Although digital assets struggled in April, volatility in this space actually declined, with the exception of the DeFi sector. Digital assets struggled through a volatile April with Bitcoin falling 16% and Ethereum 15%, the MVIS CryptoCompare Smart Contract Leaders Index down 22%, and...

Every asset class has been on a rollercoaster ride as investors are watching central bankers all around globe tighten monetary policy to fight inflation. The focus for the upcoming week will naturally be a slew of Fed speak and the latest US CPI data which is expected to show inflatio...

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) continues to plunge in Friday morning trading as stock market futures imply further weakness out of the gates.  The global crypto market cap is dropping around 8% to $1.66T compared with its record high of $3T six months ago -- about the same time when bitcoin...

Although the macro environment is a headwind for riskier assets like crypto and crypto-related equities, broader adoption of Bitcoin - particularly for institutional investors - has been encouraging for longer-term fundamentals. Thirty-day correlations between Bitcoin and the S&P ...

The Fed has little control over today’s goods inflation, driven by supply-chain, COVID stimulus, and war. Every time the Fed has increased rates to fight inflation historically, unemployment has increased. Recent events have put an even greater spotlight on energy independe...

This is the third and final article in a series that dives into the properties of money, examining historical and current examples. The prior two parts focused on commodity money and fiat currency. This article dives into digital assets in their various forms such as cryptos, stab...

The claim, most famously made by the Winklevoss brothers in 2017, is that "Bitcoin is Gold 2.0". For Bitcoin to be Gold 2.0, it needs to share gold's top investing characteristic: it needs to provide an effective hedge against inflation by rising in value as inflation reduces real yie...

The euro has been weakening since last summer, and we are about to experience another episode of conflicting central bank policies, where the Fed will be tightening monetary policy while the ECB will be lagging the Fed. Europe already has had to deal with a horrific price spike in nat...

It is as easy to invest in crypto today as it is in equities, but what is actually being bought is not as clear. Crypto start-ups are financed through equity and tokens. Maybe there’s no relationship between coins and their utilization via bitcoin and Ethereum, the two coin...