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How Macroeconomic Conditions Affect Crypto Markets
An overview of the main channels, from interest rates and inflation to the dollar and liquidity, through which economy-wide conditions are linked to crypto prices.
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Macro and Regulation
How policy, rates and law enter crypto price discussions.
Bitcoin and Stock Market Correlation Over Time
Learn how rolling correlation between bitcoin and stock indices is measured, what the numbers mean, and why the relationship has varied across different periods.
Crypto Regulation and Market Reactions
How announcements, bans and enforcement actions have appeared in crypto price data, and why separating the effect of regulatory news from other events is so hard.
Crypto Taxes: A General Overview of Concepts
A general, non-country-specific introduction to concepts that often appear in crypto taxation, such as realized gains, cost basis and holding periods.
Global Differences in Crypto Rules
A high-level comparison of how different regions approach crypto regulation, from licensing regimes to bans, and why the differences affect access and markets.
Inflation Reports and Crypto Price Reactions
What inflation releases such as consumer price reports are, why markets watch them, and how crypto prices have reacted around them, with the limits of those patterns.
Interest Rates and Risk Assets: The Crypto Connection
Why changes in central bank interest rates are discussed alongside crypto price moves, the reasoning behind the link, and why the evidence is mixed.
Is Bitcoin Digital Gold: Comparing Store of Value Claims
A balanced comparison of the digital gold narrative with gold itself, looking at history, volatility, supply and what a store of value needs to demonstrate.
Spot ETFs Explained: What They Are and How They Work
How exchange traded funds that hold actual coins are structured, how shares are created and redeemed, and what published flows data does and does not tell you.
The US Dollar Index and Bitcoin
What the US Dollar Index measures, why bitcoin is often compared with it, and why the observed relationship has been unstable rather than a dependable rule.
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