Recently many people in the crypto space have been talking about the China crackdown on crypto mining and consequent drop in the Bitcoin hashrate. But what is it exactly? In the first part of this article we explore in detail what is the Bitcoin hashrate, and present an analysis of data related to it to discuss its main characteristics and evolution over time. In the second part, we focus on the impact of the Bitcoin hashrate on the profitability of a crypto mining operations, and why miners should pay close attention to it and possibly hedge the hashrate risk with customized contracts or through an experienced crypto asset manager. The final sections concludes with key takeaways.

Bitcoin hashrate refers to the number of hashes computed by all the miners in the Bitcoin network over a period of time and it is measured in number of hashes per second.

While investors are looking after the best investment managers, some also actively manage their investments by withdrawing money from the fund when markets decline and reenter when markets rally. In this report, we simulated different scenarios where investors actively manage their investment and calculated the investment performance accordingly to analyze whether it would bring a better return to investors. Investment in an Active Investment Strategy without Withdrawal To analyze whether investors could benefit from actively managing their investment into one portfolio, we choose one of our portfolios as an example in the analysis. Figure 1 shows the performance and the monthly return of a portfolio that actively managed by Apex Hedgefund.

To analyze whether investors could benefit from actively managing their investment into one portfolio, we choose one of our portfolios as an example in the analysis. Figure 1 shows the performance and the monthly return of a portfolio that actively managed by Apex Hedgefund.

Investors always prefer financial assets with high liquidity and reflective of the real trading conditions, with no wash trading or market manipulation. However, sometimes the public data may not be trustful, like in the case of crypto markets. In this research article, we analyzed historical volume data of a highly popular cryptocurrency exchange and evaluated to what extent the reported volume reflects the real one. In our previous article 3 Major Benefits of Crypto Liquidity Provision on Price, Volume and Volatility, we analyzed the market liquidity from three different aspects and how investors could benefit from high liquid market. Similarly, exchanges with high liquidity would be more appealing to investors, which enable them to charge more for listing fees. That’s why some cryptocurrency platforms or tokens inflated their trading volumes. In this report, we analyzed the trading volume reported by an exchange.