The conspiracy theory which alleges that blockchain tracking (or storage as Cardano CEO Charles Hoskinson labeled it) can prove alleged cheating in the Pennsylvania result of the Presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is getting ever more traction. By now, a USPS Pennsylvania worker named Richard Hopkins, the Washington Post and a pending […]
Except for a year of pandemic plague, a year of extreme weather and great year for both crypto and DeFi, 2020 is also turning out to be a time of many Bitcoin ransomware attacks. Criminal actors have become specialized in inserting viruses into company computer systems and demanding Bitcoin as payment for releasing those files […]
Legendary Hedge Fund manager Bill Miller came into the crypto news this week, by having recently urged on financial channel CNBC that:Everyone should be buying Bitcoin at the current prices. […] Bitcoin has been very volatile, but I think right now it’s staying power gets better every day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcqXLp7uCckI think the risks of bitcoin going to […]
The UK distinguished itself from other countries in Europe by stepping away from Central Bank Digital Currencies. But that just changed, as announced by the Treasury Department.The UK will also have its digital currencyUK Treasury Chancellor Rishi Sunak shared the news yesterday. The press release explains the government’s strategy with regard to the post-Brexit UK […]
Bitcoin is continuing its steady climb higher as it is now trading well above $15k again, eyeing the absolute last line of defense before the attack towards it’s all-time-high of $20k. According to technical analysts, the $16k threshold would release an unlimited stream of FOMO money that would all pour into Bitcoin like sheep. However, yesterday […]
Both the New York Times and the Financial Times brought forward a rather interesting tidbit of news over the weekend, a conspiracy theory involving blockchain, the US elections and of course Donald Trump.Although we are a tad surprised that our favorite financial newspaper (FT) joins forces with our favorite regular newspaper (NYT), the stage is […]
Starting with his ever ironic “live from sunny Colorado”, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson gave a latest update on his thoughts as to the US election. Whereas his former colleague Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum CEO) mostly steers clear of politics (although he did retweet criticism of the Belarus situation in the past) and is more tech-minded, Hoskinson […]
Already in the 1800s, when asked why he wouldn’t try and conquer the Asian landmass for Europe, French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte knew that powers greater than the French army were present over there. His famous quote goes: China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world. https://twitter.com/patrickrooney/status/1325458169523564545 […]
On Tuesday 3 November we went along with a tread by Google engineer Tyler Reynolds who claimed that the loss of DeFi could be correlated to the gains of Bitcoin. As Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention started rising to heights unseen before the infamous bull run of late 2017 early 2018, DeFi projects sold off. One of […]
Now that Delaware’s own Joe Biden is set to become US President, one has to wonder what the effect of his presidency will be for cryptocurrency. As Biden is a 77-year-old, many are already loudly claiming that he’ll be a one-term president and that Ms Kamala Harris is set to take over in 2024. If […]
