When you ignore bad news for long enough, eventually even good news becomes hard to process.

The announcement that an efficient vaccine has been concocted at the beginning of last week set the markets on a mean rotation.

Long have the markets relied on oversimplifications like bullish or bearish, hawkish or dovish, risk-on and risk-off.

Well, in the current global environment, we can probably add lockdown and recovery to the basic market themes.

It’s been nearly a week since the media declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner in the most dramatic U.S. election of our lifetime.

It’s enough to boggle the brain of even the most economic thinkers, I don’t see how the general public is expected to keep up. After all the stimulus, both monetary and fiscal, that’s been pumped into the market, inflation is still flat.

To all those who’ve fallen in the great wars, today we remember your contributions to the world, and how your actions back then have had an incredible impact on our world today.

Of all the things 2020 will be remembered for, I very much doubt that institutional adoption of crypto assets will be one them.

Is it the election, the pandemic, the rapidly declining U.S. dollar, or the combination of the stimulus we’ve seen over the last few months and the fact that all assets are rising at the moment?

Many of you may not have noticed, but the Bitcoin network has been running a bit slow lately.

Of the many metrics we can use to visualize the throughput of the legacy blockchain, the average block time is probably the most dramatic.