About two years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to appear before congress. In a lively and well prepared (on his part) hearing, Americans watching the events on C-span were astounded to see how little their elected Senators really knew about tech companies, the internet or the workings of apps on smartphones. Zuckerberg repeatedly had […]
Venture Capitalists have made a name for themselves thanks to programs like Shark Tank (in the US and Australia) and Dragon’s Den (in the UK) in the past few years. The original show started in 2001 with the Japanese program Tigers of Money.The fact that Venture Capitalists investors dare to risk it all on a […]
Although Bitcoin is by now a digital currency with a bright future which is included in several Wall Street firm’s portfolios, its beginnings as a trading mechanism were rather dark. Whatever one’s opinion of the dealing of Silk Road (the now defunct black market that sold drugs and other illegal goods on the internet) it […]
A few days ago, we reported how the European Commission seemed to be fearful of Facebook’s Libra project as it could really undermine the European Central bank’s ability to control the flow of money. Five days after the Commission launched a document criticizing digital currencies and promising to regulate them by 2024, the European Central Bank […]
About 17 days ago, we were wondering whether Bitcoin at $10k was a buying opportunity. Ever since then, the limits of Bitcoin’s selloff has been tested multiple times. It sounded like the world came to an end in global stock markets, like a second coronawave had entered Europe and like tech stocks were posed for […]
Whereas most of the world’s media will be talking about a possible second coming of the great March selloff for stocks and Bitcoin due to an upsurge of coronavirus infections in Europe, it was the world of DeFi that has so far seen the largest pullback.Coins like YFI, UNI and Chainlink have all been met […]
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fell along with worldwide stock markets as it became obvious that Europe was in for a second wave of the coronavirus and a possible further tightening of the economic hardship.Major European stock markets like the German DAX, the Dutch AEX of the French CAC were down some 3% in afternoon trading […]
In the classic 1997 movie Contact, young Jodie Foster plays a scientist who uses the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescopes in New Mexico to try and find sings of alien life. The Zemeckis film is often seen as a prequel to the 2014 massive hit Interstellar, which also stars Matthew McConaughey.Foster is at […]
Goodbye Tiny Dancer by Elton John was trending over the weekend as it was the song that played just as US President Donald Trump was informed that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed at the age of 87.Trump expressed his condolences stating:She led an amazing life…She was an amazing woman, whether you agreed […]
Back in 1492, when the Santa Maria set ashore in the Americas for the first time, Christopher Colombus is rumored to have told his men: Welcome to the new world. Earlier this week could be just such a moment for the crypto world as the announcement that PayPal (the electronic payment processing company once founded by […]
