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 […]
Bitcoin’s price keeps hovering around $58k for a few days now, and what we’ve pointed out already last week (on 18 November to be exact), has now also siphoned into market knowledge. In an interview with Cointelegraph, David Lifchitz, managing partner and chief investment officer at ExoAlpha, admitted that the possible dump of Bitcoins by the […]
Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance (unofficially still the largest crypto platform in the world), was eager to tweet the front page of a subportion of the weekend edition of the Financial Times, which during the weekend consists of several papers all rolled up into one. It was the ‘FT Money’ part, in which new developments […]
A mostly bearish week for Bitcoin also brought some surprising winners. Metaverse coin Decentraland (which we’ve discussed repeatedly before) still managed to end the week on an upbeat and Gala, the coin of blockchain games provider Gala Games, surged 300% in a week and is climbing in the Coinmarketcap rankings. As to the memecoins, Floki […]
The Staples center is a landmark in Los Angeles. It’s where the LA Lakers won so many titles, where the Clippers play and where the WNBA’s Sparks try and battle for the regional championship. The sports arena is also used for concerts of many celebrities and therefore anyone in Los Angeles knows which venue you […]
