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Dedicated analysis on Bitcoin market cycles, institutional adoption, hash rate metrics, and macroeconomic liquidity.
9 briefings on this desk
Bitcoin4 min readBy Daily Forex Report Bitcoin Desk
How fiat money supply and inflation work, how Bitcoin's fixed issuance differs, and why scarcity alone does not make a good currency: volatility, unit of account and policy trade-offs.
Bitcoin4 min readBy Daily Forex Report Bitcoin Desk
A guided tour of Satoshi Nakamoto's nine-page whitepaper: the double-spending problem, timestamping, proof of work, incentives, simplified verification and privacy.
Bitcoin4 min readBy Daily Forex Report Bitcoin Desk
How to read Bitcoin's public ledger: hash rate, active addresses, exchange flows, realized value metrics such as MVRV and SOPR, holder behavior and fee data.
Bitcoin4 min readBy Daily Forex Report Bitcoin Desk
Why Bitcoin's base layer handles only a few transactions per second, how Lightning payment channels and routing enable fast, cheap payments, and the trade-offs involved.
Bitcoin4 min readBy Daily Forex Report Bitcoin Desk
How futures, spot ETFs, corporate treasuries, custody and accounting changes brought Wall Street into Bitcoin, and what institutional participation means for liquidity and volatility.
Bitcoin4 min readBy Daily Forex Report Bitcoin Desk
The case for and against Bitcoin as digital gold: scarcity, portability and independence from central banks, weighed against volatility, correlation with risk assets and a short track record.
Bitcoin4 min readBy Daily Forex Report Bitcoin Desk
How the halving cuts Bitcoin's new supply every 210,000 blocks, what happened around the 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 halvings, and why past cycles are a weak guide to the next one.
Bitcoin5 min readBy Lukas Brandt, Senior Digital Asset Strategist
Analyzing corporate treasury allocations to Bitcoin, supply inelasticity following halving milestones, and custodial ETF inflows.
Bitcoin4 min readBy Lukas Brandt, Senior Digital Asset Strategist
Examining channel liquidity, payment routing efficiency, and cross-border remittance corridors powered by layer-2 Bitcoin protocols.