OBTC News and Press, Osprey Bitcoin Trust Unit Ben Int From 06/22/22

It doesn’t look good for the bitcoin bulls, as all buyers in 2021 are now under water and are experiencing cascading losses, causing this liquidation to gain momentum. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to a hair below 3.50% on the day before the FOMC meeting opened. If inflat...

Cryptocurrencies, most notably Bitcoin, have shown the ability to generate outsized returns for those who time their investments correctly. What about crypto in DC plans? We call foul. Because when it comes to defined contribution plans, the game is different. Defined contribution...

Though we are seeing the makings of some favourable readings in many on-chain, derivatives, technical and sentiment indicators, the macro and liquidity environment moving forward remain a significant headwind for crypto assets. Rather than signaling a bottom, many of these metrics are per...

When money is virtually free for borrowers and near-nil yielding for investors, many people do dumb stuff with money. But when rates rise sharply, the riskiest bets blow up, and investors get reminded that capital options are far from equal. Return of principal matters most in the...

Investment assets can be classified into those with an inherent vs fiat money return. Both are valued according to a common principle linked to real GDP growth described herein. In addition to showing how these assets are valued, this post discusses investment implications given s...

Davos 2022, the annual meeting of The World Economic Forum, came to an end with many experts painting a bleak outlook for the global economy. Wall Street analysts, economists, and industry leaders agree that a global recession is likely. A close evaluation of some of the topics di...

Bitcoin has been relatively flat in the past couple of weeks in the wake of the TerraUSD blowup. As the two largest cryptos - Bitcoin and Ethereum - have traded more or less sideways, speculators appear to be getting a little more bullish. The highest share of speculators are anti...

On the surface, the correction has only started getting to the broad indices. Under the hood, the damage is deeper: 70% of S&P 500 stocks and 85% of NASDAQ stocks are below their 200-day moving averages. The Fed is raising rates and reducing liquidity by allowing assets on its bal...

Bitcoin doesn't act like gold (KITCO: Live Gold Price), which rises in value whenever inflation forces real interest rates to fall. We think Bitcoin looks, walks, and quacks like a non-dividend paying stock. Unless and until it starts acting differently, that's perhaps the best wa...

Since its peak at the end of 2021, nearly $8 trillion in market cap has been knocked off the S&P 500 alone. As home prices were leaping over the past few years, households sustained spending by borrowing against their rising equity. It’s spooky that this cycle has combi...