It’s the last Sunday of January and although the MSM spoke of a crypto crash, the world’s biggest coin has exchanged hands for about $37k for a week now. This morning it even trades at $38k. Some analysts believe a bottom has already been set. February is upon us and we are looking forward. Tesla, China and […]
Memecoin Shiba Inu got some bad news, Shark Tank star Mark Cuban proved that you cannot only win in crypto and a Belgian politician made headlines by getting his salary paid in Bitcoin. Here’s some weird crypto news you might have missed this week.Shiba Inu gets bad newsDuring an earnings call, CEO Vlad Tenev of […]
Member of GenZ or the iGen grew up with Farmville, Fortnite and Minecraft. As companies are eager to earn a few bucks from future players, they are throwing in some money into the Metaverse and want to combine gaming with crypto, either through the collection of NFTs or the earning of interest (or yield) on […]
Two articles jumped at me this week. The first was an opinion piece in Politico, claiming that ‘Bitcoin is the next climate fight for democrats’, the second an article in Barron’s, a dinosaur publication of Wall Street, that titled ‘White House Wants Crypto Rules as a Matter of National Security.’ Matt Hougan, CIO of crypto […]
Over the past few years, Bitcoin was seen as a sharply fluctuating risk asset. In January of this year, as analysts remarked, it has pretty much mirrored the fall of the Nasdaq, the US stock market that mostly reflects the state of the tech stocks in the market. It comes as more professional traders enter […]
Whenever the price of Bitcoin drops by more than 10%, the number of photomontages showing known crypto enthusiasts putting on their McDonald’s gear multiplies on Twitter. Not totally unhappy with this free visibility (every type of publicity is good publicity), the American fast food company reacted this week with a certain sense of humor to […]
Zug is a small, picturesque town in central Switzerland which normally doesn’t get many tourists or visitors. Those tend to end up skiing off the slopes of the alps or in the more frequently visited major destinations like Zurich, Geneva, Bern and Basel. Even Lucerne is bound to get more visitors now that Carnival season […]
The US Federal Reserve plans interest rate hikes this year, to deal with rising inflation and a difficult job market in the US which has seen many people walk out of their jobs in what became known as the ‘great resignation’. In response, this could mean that investors will go full risk-off and thus divest […]
When I used to write for US and Australian blogging sites, there was a standard phrase we had whenever the stock market lost a few percentage points and people around the world searching for alternative news needed to be informed. The phrase was ‘cue stressed trader’ and refers to stock pictures you can take from […]
US crypto exchange Coinbase was selected to provide the new New York Mayor Eric Adams’ first salary in Bitcoin and Ether. Adams had promised to have his first three salaries in crypto during his election, in order to promote the new financial industry in his city. It was not revealed however, how much of his […]
