The February 2021 winter storm that highlighted the weakness of Texas’s power grid was captured with the Ted Cruz meme. The popular Republican senator from the ‘biggest state in the union’ was photographed boarding a flight to sunny Cancun, Mexico, while many Texas were freezing to death. He later tried to blame the ‘obvious mistake’ on […]
An small unknown crypto coin listed on CoinGecko soared by almost 500% over the weekend while analysts warn about a possible Squid Game hoax. Name of the small crypto in question is Omicron, just like the new Covid variant that is wrecking havoc around the world. Given that the search volume of Omicron is massive […]
Writing on Monday morning, we see that the crypto market has somewhat managed to recover some of the losses sustained both on ‘Black Friday’ and over the weekend as the world’s financial markets try to shake off the spookiness of an unknown and new Covid-19 variant known as Omicron. At the time of writing, Bitcoin […]
Although stocks and crypto suffered a major selloff on Friday, which for digital coins meant that a bad two weeks simply continued, some coins are still breaking new ground. One of these, Basic Attention Token, was highlighted on these pages about a month ago as a possible candidate for a Silicon Valley takeover. Ever since Facebook rebranded […]
A new Covid-19 variant which the WHO has labelled ‘of concern’ is sparking global unrest on both stocks and crypto markets. The Omicron variant caused drops of major airlines and travel stocks in financial markets and brought down altcoins of the CoinMarketCap top 100 in great numbers. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 2.5% […]
‘Memecoins’ are one of the new words which will makes it to the 2021 ‘shortlist’, unfortunately a year that will go down as just another one in a multi-year pandemic. The three memecoins that have been in focus lately are all centered around a Shiba Inu dog. The original was called Dogecoin, its famous competitor […]
From time to time it is good to tout your own victories. Not too much as this might set you up for ‘revenge answers’ if all else fails, but if it happens, it is always wise to remind your readers that actually surfing to this site can give them added knowledge which is usable and […]
With two major sports stadiums being renamed to feature crypto names, with Bitcoin reaching an all-time-high in 2021 and with SNL spoofing the Thanksgiving discussions beforehand already, everyone in US media seems convinced that cryptocurrencies will be a major discussion point around the Thanksgiving table this year. Great for adoption of course. Target thanksgiving ad […]
The Turkish Lira dropped 15% this week when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared in a speech that his country was fighting an ‘economic war of independence’. As a result, the currency that some 85 million people in his nation use for their daily consumption has now lost 40% versus the American dollar and a similar […]
In the past week, you’ve probably all heard that famed movie director Quentin Tarantino decided to enter the cryptosphere by selling a few NFTs related to his legendary movie Pulp Fiction. Miramax, the production company of the movie, was not amused though. Block the sale Miramax in essence decided to go to war with director […]
