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AI’s predicts current bitcoin cycle top between $100k and $288k

AI predicts current bitcoin cycle top between $100k and $288k A few months ago we challenged various AI services to give us a bitcoin price prediction.

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Crypto

Altcoins pump

As bitcoin cracked $100k, altcoins have started to pump. This is to be expected. It has happened in previous bull markets. Bitcoin leads, the rest follow.

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News

Are SA banks too big and too fat?

The five big banks in SA account for 90% of all banking assets in the country. In USD terms, the banks have combined assets of $430 billion, larger than SA’s $400 billion GDP.

80eight Team2 min read
Trading

Are the Magnificent 7 losing momentum to AI stocks?

A recent research report by Coatue suggests the reign of the Magnificent 7 (shown in the graph below) may be coming to an end and is about to be overtaken by an AI supercycle.

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Trading

Are we in a commodity super-cycle?

A study by Alliance Bernstein found that of all asset classes, commodity futures had the highest inflation beta (a measure of how sensitive an asset's price is to changes in…

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Crypto

Are we in the Fourth Turning?

The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe, published in 1997, examines the arc of history and concludes that the world follows a pattern of roughly 80-100 year cycles,…

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Crypto

Are you just going to sit there and watch?

We’ve been through five years or so of hearing “it’s a scam”, “it’s going to zero” and other such drivel, some of it from people who run huge funds.

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News

Betting platform Polymarket has Trump winning the US election.

Polymarket Predicts Trump to Win US Election Cryptocurrency-based predictions market Polymarket has Trump winning the US elections.

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Crypto

Bitcoin is starting to compete with gold as a store of value

With a market cap just shy of $2 trillion, bitcoin is about 10% the size of gold ($18 trillion). Two years ago bitcoin was less than half that.

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News

Bitcoin revisits previous high at $123k

For Bitcoiners, the following chart is extremely satisfying, showing a double top at around $120k.

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News

Budget brawl: Is SA racing toward a constitutional crisis?

The clock’s ticking—April 1, 2025, looms like a guillotine over the Government of National Unity (GNU), with the 2025 Budget dangling in limbo.

80eight Team3 min read
Property

Buying a house in rands vs bitcoin

Check the graph below which shows the cost of an average South African home purchased for R1 million in 2017 and then escalated in value by the average price increase over the…

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