As Binance Coin is shattering records and surged 43% higher, CEO Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ in the cryptosphere, was interviewed by Bloomberg a few hours ago.Binance Coin has now overtaken both Cardano and Polkadot and sits on the fourth place in CoinMarketCap’s top 10. Currently, the Binance Coin price is trading around $258 and […]
Except for a store of value (which even Jim Cramer recently admitted), cryptocurrencies are becoming an escape mechanism for opposition leaders in autocracies as well.We’ve already reported on Belarus and Nigeria in recent months turning to crypto collections to finance opposition rallies, but it now seems that a much larger opposition figure is doing the […]
Robinhood, the popular app that allows US customers to trade without a fee, is in the middle of a political storm as the US Congress starts a hearing today on the whole Gamestop debacle. You may remember that a bunch of Redditors grouped together on the WallStreetsBets platform took on Wall Street Hedge funds in […]
Few tweets have captured the essence of the 2021 crypto craze as well as the one Zhu Su, CEO of Three Arrows Capital, a Singapore-based hedge fund. Explaining why anyone would still consider buying Bitcoin over $50k (it just crossed $52k today), he stated that during the Weimar era you would buy gold and Picasso’s to protect […]
The Beijing government is coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic as a clear winner. Still, the apparatchiks are worried about what the future holds. One thing in particular, namely the popularity of VPN is a gaping black hole. Via Virtual Private Networks, the younger generation (which is massive in China ever since it abolished the one-child policy) […]
Legendary trader Peter Brandt should not really need an introduction in the world of crypto by now. He is the author of several books on trading and the profession of technical analysis. His book diary of a professional commodity trader is considered a bible to many in the City of London (which seems to be losing […]
American commentators and crypto fans like Anthony Pompliano had to resist sleep as Bitcoin broke through the $51,000 barrier easily in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Europe. Meanwhile Gold is seeing a dropping price tag and ditto interest. Crypto fans are drumming up support on social media as hedge funds buy over one […]
As one hyped mainstream media bulletin (Tesla invests 1.5 billion dollars directly into Bitcoin) follows another (Bitcoin broke through $51,000), classic finance is in full panic mode. Being overwhelmed with the media attention for their nemesis of crypto, they are forced to call on whoever will answer in order to preach their message that Bitcoin […]
Fangirling, the term popularized thanks to the launch of K-pop boybands and teenage girls’ reaction to them, has gone mainstream since a few years. The K-stans (or the K-Pop stans), the group of people that tweet or post on social media about K-Pop, is a serious movement on the internet, much larger than the WallStreetBets […]
Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse is normally a busy man this time of year. From attending (virtual) Davos conferences to promoting XRP to possible venture capitalists on Wall Street and the gleaming capitals of several Asian tiger economies, Garlinghouse is keen on traveling the world and telling everyone about his blockchain solutions. However, the SEC […]
