Last year, China decided to ban Bitcoin mining, and a lot of Bitcoin’s hashrate got redistributed, with the USA and Kazakhstan as the major recipients. Both countries combined now make up more than 50% of Bitcoin’s mining power. As the beginning of the year saw protests over a spike in fuel prices which soon turned […]
The Bitcoin bears were out in full force on crypto Twitter this week as the world’s biggest crypto coin was seen dropping to levels not seen since a few months. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading near $42k and Ethereum changed hands for $3,200. Crypto analyst Matthew Dibb yesterday told Reuters news agency: […]
Back in October, Crypto.com thought it was a good idea to hire Hollywood star Matt Damon to promote their brand in an ad that mostly did not ruffle any feathers.Probably having some marketing budget left, the team at Crypto.com decided to run the ad again, this time in the beginning of 2022, just in the halftime […]
One of the big political questions of 2022 is whether former US President Donald Trump will be able to influence the midterm elections and be a kingmaker to several of his political allies seeking a place in congress or the senate. Trump had the world’s ear via Facebook and (mostly) Twitter, but both those social […]
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of pharmaceutical tech firm (and former Silicon Valley darling) Theranos, was convicted on four counts of fraud this week and will probably have to spend several years (or even decades) behind bars to satisfy the broken pride of the numerous famous investors she swindled. Theranos pretended to have developed a technology […]
One day after this site pointed to the fact that the natural enemy of Bitcoin, central banks, would have a great say in its price in 2022, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell did as we predicted and pointed to a possible interest rate hike in March of this year already, a lot sooner than most investors expected. […]
Chainlink was all the trend back in the summer of 2020 when DeFi coins first made the news. 2021 has been a somewhat lacklustre year for the Link Marines (the social media grouping that counts itself as fans of the coin), but 2022 seems off to a good start. As new investors look for higher-growth, small-cap […]
Back in the first few days of 2009, an anonymous cryptocurrency enthusiast known only by his pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto, probably read in The Times newspaper how the Chancellor of Britain had bailed out banks.In reaction to this news, he or they invented what we now know as the first major decentralized coin, a global […]
Well it’s been a while since we’ve written about DeFi (decentralized finance) coins, but it would appear they are the likely winner of the new year’s first investment shifts as its most famous coins saw respectable gains in the first few days of 2022. Yearn Finance, one of the leading DeFi coins, soared some 24% in […]
PlanB, the anonymous Dutch financial analyst whose stock to flow model gained worldwide notoriety, is afraid Twitter will soon deactivate his account as he’s been busy criticizing the Dutch government over their current Covid policies. As the mayor of Amsterdam sent police to disperse an illegal demonstration over the weekend, the video of police dogs […]
