MrBeast, aka James Stephen “Jimmy” Donaldson, hasn’t exactly had a fantastic 2024. First there were the multiple complaints and lawsuits over his ‘Beast Games’ and now he is accused online of several crypto pump and dump schemes that have earned him some 10 million dollars. Is there truth behind the story or is it yet […]
Bitcoin jumped up on Monday, briefly touching $66,000 in a sign that has investors hopeful that ‘uptober’ could finally kick off. Beijing’s claim that further stimulus will be forthcoming for the Chinese economy is of course what investors are really waiting for in order for stocks and crypto markets to surge. JUST IN: $66,000 #Bitcoin […]
Shares of MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor’s investment firm, rose to a 25-year high last week as investors responded enthusiastically to their plans to become a Bitcoin bank in the future. Compared to the beginning of the year, the stock of Saylor’s company (which now owns more than 1% of all Bitcoins) increased in value by more […]
For the media, there’s nothing more sensational to cover than a couple of celebrities going to jail. Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis already knew this when they played opposites in ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’. The audience enjoys nothing more than a so-called ‘fall from grace’. Just as the Netherlands has its own celebrity couple in […]
The correlation between the price of Bitcoin and the state of the US economy became very clear in the past 48 hours. After the US inflation rate turned out a bit higher than expected, the price of the largest digital currency suddenly fell 3.6% to $59,000. Bitcoin quickly recovered and the support around $60,000 remained […]
Just as Bitcoin seems to be having a hard time breaking out of the trading range between $55,000 and $65,000 in ‘uptober’, a real use case for crypto has emerged in South America in recent months. Due to skyrocketing inflation in some countries, more and more Argentinians, Brazilians, Colombians and Venezuelans are buying stablecoins to […]
American rap star Cardi B launched a new memecoin this week. The crypto coin has the name of her biggest hit to date (WAP, which stands for, well, just look it up), It immediately went up by thousands of percent and then fell like a stone again, of course. Her name is $WAP 🐾💦CA:Bz7vVzQhm2KMW1XgcrDruYega1MiwrAs1DQysrx4tFkp pic.twitter.com/BDvJqeqh0u […]
Emigration (the departure of many of its own residents to a neighboring country) and a large amount of available green energy catapulted one very small Asian country (with less than a million inhabitants) to fourth (or fifth) place among Bitcoin owners in the country rankings. Bhutan, the small mountain state between China and India, now […]
This week the new documentary series by Cullen Hoback (who also exposed the ‘probable’ identity of QAnon a few years ago), starts on HBO. The topic this time is the identity of Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. Of course, before HBO starts the series, the internet already has an opinion. You can follow who most crypto […]
This weekend, the official website of Lego, the world-famous Danish toy manufacturer, was hacked. Instead of the original homepage promoting the latest Lego box, it featured a recommendation for a ‘Lego coin’ that you could buy. Anyone who clicked on it was of course guided to a fake website where you could pay for ‘Lego […]
