The iconic ‘buy bitcoin’ message, written on an average yellow A4 notepad, which a visitor to the US Congress held up while Janet Yellen was being questioned, has been auctioned for $1 million. At a time when Bitcoin is going through a difficult few weeks, partly due to the consequences of the ‘halving-slump’ and the […]
Hong Kong is preparing to follow in the footsteps of the US stock exchanges with the introduction of a Bitcoin ETF. Meanwhile, investors from mainland China are driving the gold price to a record thanks to mass buying. At the time of writing, the largest digital coin is trading for $64,200. Gold and geopolitics Asian and […]
Earlier this year, comedian Larry David, star of the very popular series ‘Curb your enthusiasm’, spoke for the very first time about that famous 2022 FTX super bowl commercial (for which he was paid millions of dollars). Larry finally commented because it was believed that the celebrities who once promoted FTX would never be charged […]
Railgun is a relatively small privacy coin that has been in the news quite often in recent days. First there were the links with North Korea, then the FBI complained about the coins’ usage as a crypto mixer and a few days ago even Vitalik Buterin seemed ready to invest. What’s going on? Monero and […]
Geopolitics, interest rates and inflation all seem bent on stopping the advance of stock and crypto markets this month. With only 8 days left until the month of May, the old stock market adage ‘sell in May and stay away’ is gaining ground. With a loss of around 10% since the March peak for Bitcoin […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued a stark warning to the United States, still the world’s largest economy. Reduce your debt and get your expenses in order. It is however quite unlikely that something like this will happen anytime soon as Americans are in an election year. Both Biden and Trump promise to […]
Bitcoin rose from $60k a few days ago to $65k yesterday just as Israel launched an attack on Iran. The ‘bounce’ of the Bitcoin price is mainly due to the global media all covering today’s ‘bitcoin halving’, of course. The search term ‘bitcoin halving’ on Google also reached absolute records. The question of course is […]
About a month ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview to an American journalist. It became one of the best watched interviews ever. That is because that American journalist, like him or not is Tucker Carlson. He was once the most famous anchor at Fox News, but had to resign last year. Ever since […]
We can’t ignore facts. Although Bitcoin is still looking at a nice gain of some 50% this year, the last month has not really been positive. Ever since a new all-time high of $74,000 was reached on March 13, the crypto market has not yet managed to move decisively higher again. And all this while […]
The European stock exchanges followed their American colleagues sharply lower yesterday and the crypto market also followed suit. Bitcoin plunged to its lowest level in more than a month while many memecoins dropped by double percentages. The American stock exchanges stabilized lightly in the session of Tuesday evening and even Bitcoin was able to stave […]
