Analysing the US$/Bitcoin market from 2014-2018 finds significant differences in exchange prices during Bitcoin's meteoric price rise in December 2017, but surprisingly the range of prices each day is remarkedly similar across exchanges. The lack of a consistent Bitcoin trading price across...

With Bitcoin's price reaching nearly US$20,000 in December 2017, the decision was made to examine, in monetary terms, the Bitcoin market in US dollars, the euro and the UK pound to highlight the fact that peer-to-peer (P2P) traders face a very different market to those trading via a Bitcoin...

With reports of young investors copying Nancy Pelosi’s reported stock trades, it was decided to examine her 2020-2021 trades to look at the timing of each transaction. 22 stocks are favoured by Pelosi with half falling into the technology sector. It turns out that Pelosi’s timing is better...

An analysis of Qantas media releases from January 2019 to June 2021 indicates that in terms of Qantas stakeholders, customers come out on top both pre- and post-COVID-19. With the discontinuation of international flights, Qantas focus on their domestic market, where possible expanding their...

The aim of this paper is to present Bitcoin daily summaries such that transaction size is taken into account, rather than just the Bitcoin price. However, in doing this analysis a number of unusual trading patterns emerge. The most intriguing are the 6,000 0.09621094₿ transactions during March...

Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency which was spun-off from Bitcoin in 2017. It was a result of a disagreement over Bitcoin’s 1mg block size which it was felt hindered transaction times. The Bitcoin Cash block size was initially set at 8mg allowing more transactions to be verified at a time,...

Cardano was launched in October 2017 and by May 2021 has been operational for 44 months. Comparison with its closest rival, Ethereum, reveals that their prices are highly correlated but the change in daily closing prices do not always move in unison. Cardano is also more volatile than Ethereum...

Although Bitcoin's price behaviour appears to echo the fortunes of the S&P 500 index, large price declines in the post COVID-19 period are not uncharacteristic for Bitcoin. The intraday range of Bitcoin prices are not significantly different when comparing the pre and post COVID-19 periods. The...

Satoshi Nakamoto proposed in 2008, a peer-to-peer payment system, Bitcoin, outside of government or central bank intervention, government mismanagement or economic conditions. What the current pandemic has shown, is that even Bitcoin is not immune to the effects of COVID-19, for as the pandemic...

A preliminary examination of Bitcoin's trading activity around the time of COVID-19, Oct9ober 2019 to March 2020 finds that in the first five months of that period, both transaction levels and Bitcoins traded are heavily influenced by the day's opening Bitcoin price. That relationship begins to...