Macau, HongKong and Shanghai have a special meaning for the Beijing government. Given that these coastal cities are so important for China’s economy, they are often granted exceptional regulations, such as the democratic rights that HongKong is given or the fact that gambling is forbidden in mainland China but overlooked in Macau.In essence, Beijing renames […]
In February of this year, Cointelegraph made a top 100 of notable figures in the crypto scene and added in its explanatory note that readers would: Rage at the inclusion of [insert comedy villain here] and the exclusion of, say, Charles Hoskinson. Particularly if you are indeed Charles Hoskinson. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1388113533435482115 Charles Hoskinson, the founder of […]
Whereas traders were fearful that Bitcoin would close out April with a bearish red candle for the month of April, it was able to reverse most of those fears in the last few hours and is climbing towards $60k again. The whole CoinMarketCap top ten turns green as well, but the past month certainly belongs […]
Although the bubble in NFT (Non Fungible Tokens) has been announced and called many times over, the craziness continues. In the past few days, we’ve seen NFT-auctions for Edward Snowden, some iconic Nirvana pictures and the disaster girl meme go up for hefty sums of Ether. In recent weeks we had seen overly attached girlfriend […]
JP Morgan, America’s largest business bank, admits that Ethereum currently looks better than Bitcoin. Not only because Vitalik Buterin can still make changes to the coin’s blockchain and thus increase its possibilities (a feat the unknown Satoshi Nakamoto cannot implement to Bitcoin). But even from a technical perspective it has performed better than Bitcoin in […]
As Bitcoin seems to struggle to regain its recent new all time high of $64,000 and mostly trades in the $50,000 to $55,000 range, market analysts believe that investors are simply taking some of the profits obtained this year and are redistributing it into altcoin investment. This also explains the reduced volatility of Bitcoin witnessed […]
Ireland has a strange history when it comes to tech firms and the European Union. The Celtic Tiger knows that it is thriving because of access to the European Union’s free market, but at the same time welcomes US tech companies who wish to do business in Europe by offering them a headquarters with very […]
Major US business banks are faced with a growing problem. Their clients want to invest in crypto, a product which they don’t offer. Both JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have in recent months therefore done a 180 degrees turn when it comes to Bitcoin and blockchain, although they are still steering clear of offering direct […]
Bitcoin continues to trade within a small range, and is moving only a few percentage points in the past week. Which results in a declining dominance. Ethereum got a boost from the European Investment Bank using its blockchain (which pushed the price to a new all-time-high) and Elon Musk joked about Dogecoin on SNL, pushing […]
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an author favoured by many in the crypto market. Scott Melker, who tweets under the moniker Wolf of All Streets, got into a fight with the man he reveres last week over the supposed dumping of Coinbase stocks by the board of that company and was even called an idiot. Taleb, […]
