The gods have not been very kind to crypto last month or so. Most of the cryptocurrencies are down 50% from their high prices of April and May. Many people are starting to write off cryptocurrencies in general, again. A lot of people who entered into crypto-land this year might have had very poor experiences…
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2021 v/s 2017: Why this time is different for crypto?
Long Blog alert! I recently spent some time learning up on cryptocurrencies and the related technologies. It’s the wild wild west out there right now and there’s a lot of crazy stuff ongoing. This is the 2nd blog in the crypto series: Blog 1 covers some basics about what crypto is, some important terminologies and…
Continue ReadingWhy is everything (stocks, ETF, crypto, asset prices) going up?
Lately, everything I look at is going up. I look at stocks of tech companies in US and they are going up. I look at various stock market exchange indexes and they are going up, both in India and in US at least. Crypto-currencies are going up for the last year or so. And not…
Continue ReadingFear of missing out (FOMO)
Fear of missing out is defined on Wikipedia as “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent”. This social anxiety is characterized by “a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing”. Before I started writing this blog I thought it was just a cultural term…
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