Analyzing the Price of Bitcoin – Tone Vays

Tone Vays speak about his approach to technical analysis of the bitcoin price, why other cryptoassets can’t reach Bitcoin, relevant time frames for analyzing the bitcoin price, which companies in the blockchain space make sense, ICOs (mostly why they don’t make sense), Bitcoin as a working example of decentralization, proof of work, real assets on the blockchain, starting his own business, what would happen if Bitcoin went away, getting information about cryptoassets from podcasts and YouTube, comparisons between Wall Street and the crypto Wild West, worst case scenarios for Bitcoin, misunderstandings of Bitcoin, why he loves being an educator, role models, knowing when to quit a job, ethics in the crypto space, and much more.

Tone is an independent content creator focusing on economics & finance at LibertyLifeTrail with his own YouTube channel and podcast. Before that, he has worked on Wall Street for almost ten years starting as a Risk Analyst at Bear Stearns where he had a front row seat watching its collapse in the 2008 crash and he later became a vice president at JP Morgan Chase. Tone is famous for his technical analysis of Bitcoin and his price predictions, and he was recently featured in the Bitcoin Documentary Magic Money.

• Tone Vays: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tone-vays-a5243899/, https://twitter.com/ToneVays
• Liberty Life Trail: http://www.libertylifetrail.com
• Byzantine Generals Problem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
• Andreas Anatonopoulos: https://antonopoulos.com, twitter.com/aantonop
• Saifedean Ammous’ book The Bitcoin Standard: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36448501-the-bitcoin-standard
• Jimmy Song: http://programmingblockchain.com, twitter.com/jimmysong
• Lei Freeman-Shor’s book The Art of Execution: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26512908-the-art-of-execution

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