Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano used to work alongside Vitalik Buterin, the founder and CEO of Ethereum. Vitalik is Canadian-Russian, whilst Charles is as American as can be. The two men used to work together at Ether but then fell out as they saw the future of Ethereum differently.Hoskinson left, founded IOHK (Input Output […]
It was of course to be expected that when Elon Musk singlehandedly kills off some 500 million in shorts simply by investing in Bitcoin with a part of Tesla’s cash basis, that classic finance would react. Their media friends (the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC) are already at it. And their political cronies […]
This week marks Chinese New Year. The Year of the Ox, which according to a famous legend, is the second animal on the Chinese zodiac because of a trick that the Rat played on the Ox. The legendary Jade Emperor had stated to his court scribes that the ranking of zodiac animals was to be […]
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is experiencing both record trading volumes and new all-time-highs for it’s own cryptocoin, aptly called Binance Coin (BNB). In the past 24 hours, CEO Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, was already proud to announce that BNB had shot past $100. At the time of writing, BNB is trading at […]
There you have it folks, the Satoshi Nakamoto cryptocurrency had once again shown all the haters that when it comes to cryptocurrency, there is no stopping the wave anymore. It (briefly) hit a new all time high of $48,000 a couple of hours ago, spurred on by Asian traders who had just woken up to […]
Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, The Blind Side, Boomerang, The Fifth Risk and Moneyball, knows how to tell a good story. Whether it is sports, trading or government institutions, the pages and text captivate you and Hollywood is always round the corner to check if they can turn it into a successful movie. […]
Tesla, the world’s best-known maker of electronic cars, has informed the markets today that it has decided to invest a whopping 1.5 Billion (not million) in Bitcoin. The Elon Musk company claims it foresees to be accepting Bitcoin as form of payment for future products soon. The introduction of accepting crypto payments for a Tesla […]
It seems like ages ago that Mark Cuban said he preferred a banana over a Bitcoin (apparently because he could eat a banana and didn’t really see what you could buy with a Bitcoin). At the start of 2021, the Shark Tank star has truly gone full crypto. His preferred coins seem to be Ether, […]
Pump and dump schemes are back in a big way as of late. Thanks to CryptoTips, loyal readers were warned of two of these in the month of January alone. First we told you that a Discord group had taken up the plan to pump (and subsequently dump) VeChain and HBAR, both coins that had […]
Just as Bitcoin had crossed the $20k threshold back in December (which seems like ages ago now, it crossed $40k for the second time this year just yesterday), SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted a meme about the most famous cryptocurrency. At the time, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, who converted part of the balance […]
