Tomorrow, Thursday 5 May 2022, block number 735,000 will be mined at approximately 11:00 BST (10:00 GMT). Halving periods are separated by 210,000 blocks, which, given a block is mined every 10 minutes or so, come around every four years. Tomorrow’s block will be the 105,000th since the last halving…

I am pleased to announce that from next week, ByteTree will launch its long-awaited crypto Model Portfolio, to be known as ByteFolio. This is a great time to kick off because the market is strong, and few seem to have noticed. …

The Bytetree Crypto Average (BCA) was designed to measure the strength of the crypto market. Firstly, it is important to clarify that this is an indicator, which means it is uninvestable, and there is no fund, token or strategy to buy. …

In part 2, I told how Amazon had made 376 new all-time highs since its IPO in 1997 and 375 of them were reminders to own this company. Buying into strength has always been, and always will be, a winning strategy. …

With nearly 20,000 cryptos to choose from, it is hard to pick winners, especially when they all rise and fall together. It would take a lifetime to read all the whitepapers, let alone studying independent research and finding the time to digest it all. There are so many pitch documents…

The fundamental case for gold is strong. Investors are scrambling for alternative assets, just as they did when the dotcom bubble collapsed in the year 2000. The driver is two-fold: an escape from a bubble and protection against inflation.

The title is deliberately ambiguous. It is a sad irony that the time for gold to demonstrate its prowess typically coincides with turbulent economic and political conditions. Gold has returned to the investment conversation. Even before Russia shattered 75 years of peace in Europe* by invading Ukraine, for the first…

2022 got off to a rough start, and the ByteTree BOLD Index has held up well. Gold has risen, just as it normally does when geopolitics heats up. With an 82.6% allocation to gold, BOLD has managed to offset the weakness in bitcoin. Remarkably, the fall in bitcoin is modest…

Our congratulations to Fidelity for being the latest ETF issuer to launch a bitcoin fund in Germany under the ticker FBTC. They see future client demand, and if there isn’t much today, there soon will be. …