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2017 vs 2020

Is it different this time? “Why this bull run is fundamentally different from 2017” Nine Bitcoin Charts Already at All-Time Highs | by Nic Carter | Nov, 2020 | Medium

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QR mainstream

Following on from my COVID QR post the other week, I got this in my inbox yesterday from Andreessen Horowitz: “Since QR codes were first invented more than 25 years ago, the technology’s strongest application has been improving the payment experience. QR codes provide a safe, reliable, and fast way to pay. QR code payments…

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Stepping back

Yesterday in my office I started having some issues with my back. So I got up from my chair and did some back stretching against the wall. Looking back at my desk this is what I saw. On the left you can see $AAPL double topping and failing. Ont the right you can see an…

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Participation

This morning going through my Twitter feed. People active on Stocktwits you would assume are active traders. And bitcoin is just another ticker. Of sorts. I would have expected around 70%+ to be holders. Active traders aren’t holding. As Howard says, suggests we are still very early.

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Bitcoin whitepaper

“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow onlinepayments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the mainbenefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending…

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Social commerce

“Social commerce has been far more prominent in China than in the US. To put that into perspective, social commerce sales in China totaled $186.04 billion (RMB1.285 trillion) in 2019—nearly 10 times the number of sales in the US, which reached $19.42 billion last year.“ “Investment in the social commerce space by Tencent’s WeChat—particularly with…

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