
December 2024 Newsletter: The Rise of Digital Assets

On the brighter side, by this point BTC and ETH are solidified. Similar to how FAANG stocks performed during the overall stock market drawdown in 2022-23, BTC and ETH are now relentlessly bid by younger generations who control an increasing share of global wealth. A lot of the reflexivity in crypto prices is now muted – at least for these two large... See more
Compound Crypto • A Crypto Future: 2027-2028 — A Crypto Future
For those who want more risk than public equity markets provide, a long tail of speculative assets are exploding – digital collectibles, DeFi, Bitcoin. Bitcoin grew more than 5x YoY. Collectibles like NBA Top Shot did $60m in sales in a week. DeFi (decentralized finance), the infrastructure powering the casino of crypto, had a $40b influx in the pa... See more
John Luttig • Finance as culture
Some are skeptical about the ability of digital currencies to emerge as a viable store of value in just a few years since it took thousands of years for gold to do so, and only after gold had been used for its intrinsic value for centuries before that. I don’t agree; such logic is too rooted in the past and does not account for rapid behavioral cha... See more