One of the big political questions of 2022 is whether former US President Donald Trump will be able to influence the midterm elections and be a kingmaker to several of his political allies seeking a place in congress or the senate. Trump had the world’s ear via Facebook and (mostly) Twitter, but both those social […]
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of pharmaceutical tech firm (and former Silicon Valley darling) Theranos, was convicted on four counts of fraud this week and will probably have to spend several years (or even decades) behind bars to satisfy the broken pride of the numerous famous investors she swindled. Theranos pretended to have developed a technology […]
One day after this site pointed to the fact that the natural enemy of Bitcoin, central banks, would have a great say in its price in 2022, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell did as we predicted and pointed to a possible interest rate hike in March of this year already, a lot sooner than most investors expected. […]
Chainlink was all the trend back in the summer of 2020 when DeFi coins first made the news. 2021 has been a somewhat lacklustre year for the Link Marines (the social media grouping that counts itself as fans of the coin), but 2022 seems off to a good start. As new investors look for higher-growth, small-cap […]
Back in the first few days of 2009, an anonymous cryptocurrency enthusiast known only by his pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto, probably read in The Times newspaper how the Chancellor of Britain had bailed out banks.In reaction to this news, he or they invented what we now know as the first major decentralized coin, a global […]
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 […]
