Well it’s been a while since we’ve written about DeFi (decentralized finance) coins, but it would appear they are the likely winner of the new year’s first investment shifts as its most famous coins saw respectable gains in the first few days of 2022. Yearn Finance, one of the leading DeFi coins, soared some 24% in […]
PlanB, the anonymous Dutch financial analyst whose stock to flow model gained worldwide notoriety, is afraid Twitter will soon deactivate his account as he’s been busy criticizing the Dutch government over their current Covid policies. As the mayor of Amsterdam sent police to disperse an illegal demonstration over the weekend, the video of police dogs […]
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remained mostly without direction in the first weekend of the year as investors awaited to see what stock market openings would bring to the market. At the time of writing, the world’s biggest digital currency trades for $47k while Ethereum changes hands for around $3,700. Over the weekend, Motley Fool, one […]
Bitcoin is trading around $47k for the biggest part of 1 January and seems to be looking for direction. Probably this won’t take place until stock markets open on Monday 3 January and we’ll see whether hedge funds, classic retail investors and pension funds are willing to pour more money into crypto this year. The […]
Neal Stephenson could have never guessed thirty years ago, when he coined the term for his debut science-fiction novel Snowcrash that in 2022, all things Metaverse would be in full swing. As we start the year, we can report that the company ProShares, who a few months ago launched one of the first Bitcoin ETF (exchange traded fund) has now […]
As 2021 came to an end and Bitcoin finished with a price of $47k, the world’s biggest crypto coin outdid Wall Street and most major stock markets for a second year in a row, with a profit of around 60%.Two winning years in a row, or a three year streak with a small upwards candle in […]
I got a lot of things off my to do list this week before the year ends, and yesterday evening I finally found a block of time to listen to Lex Fridman’s interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The third appearance of the latter on the highly interesting podcast.The talk went on for two and […]
Glauber Contessoto was one of the most remarkable people of 2021. The now 34-year-old musician from Los Angeles became a worldwide celebrity when he sold all of his belongings in the beginning of the year and put them all into Dogecoin.Glauber said he was inspired by the GameStop saga and was convinced that Dogecoin would be […]
A 12-year old boy from Britain had asked his parents for two things this Christmas: an IQ test from Mensa and some crypto. Acknowledging the sheer genius ability of their son Barnaby Swinburn for all things mathematics and general knowledge, they obliged and contacted the organization for the highly intelligent to test their child.Barnaby scored 162 in […]
This fall, most of the Bitcoin maximalists cheered when El Salvador’s leader, Nayib Bukele, turned his nation state into the first country where Bitcoin became legal tender. A few months on, many successes seem to have been cheered on (even mining Bitcoin using volcanos), although the MSM claims that Salvadorians haven’t really seen a lot of the […]
