Cryptocurrency has become a worldwide phenomenon, with governments and banks being among the first to recognise its importance. But with so much volatility in the marketplace, new currencies being created daily and plenty of crypto naysayers about, where do you start when you’re new to the industry? We’ve created dedicated guides that look at Bitcoin, altcoins and stablecoins. You can explore the purpose, benefits and risks of each coin and keep up-to-date with how they’re performing in the market. How are crypto prices determined? Let's look at the different factors that affect the value of cryptocurrency
Identifying the determinants of asset prices is one of the most important questions in finance. Traditional asset pricing theories are founded on the idea that equity prices should be determined by fundamentals such as earnings (Gordon 1959, Campbell and Shiller 1988). In contrast, the behavioral finance literature posits that prices do not always follow fundamentals due to investor sentiment trading (Shiller 1981, Baker and Wurgler 2006, Stambaugh et al. 2012). Eventually however, equity prices seem to trace their fundamentals (Pa´stor and Veronesi, 2003, 2006, Bartram and Grinblatt 2018).

Note that backing up a wallet doesn’t duplicate the actual cryptocurrency units, merely the record of their existence and current ownership.
Wavelets are wavelike functions used to transform signals into a representation which has time and frequency domain components. Visually wavelets appear as wave-like oscillations with an amplitude that starts at zero, increases, then returns to zero. Another way to consider a wavelet is as a bandpass filter, which can be applied to a time series under investigation, letting through only components of the time series within a finite range of frequencies to different extents depending on the energy spectrum of the wavelet. Wavelets take the form: