Leading peer-to-peer crypto marketplace Paxful has resumed operations after the platform packed up for a short while. The platform has been offline for about 30 days following an announcement by the CEO Ray Youssef. In a blog post on the website in April, Youssef said the platform was folding up and asked users to withdraw […]
The largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance, has announced plans to integrate Bitcoin Lightning Network on the platform. Lightning is a Layer 2 solution created to facilitate faster Bitcoin transactions. With it, the scalability and high fee problems associated with Bitcoin are out of the way, and users can make lightning fast Bitcoin transactions. […]
The coronation of the new King of Britain, King Charles III was marked with a lot of celebration and fanfare. But what makes it even more interesting is the launch of a non-fungible token (NFT) collection in honor of the occasion. A top UK newspaper, the Evening Standard in partnership with renowned Scottish artist Trevor […]
The banking crisis that started in March keeps dragging along. Several regional banks in the United States are seeing their stock prices dive while large investors try to spread their risk and diversify in commodities. Gold is climbing to a record high. Bitcoin is also benefiting from the banking crisis but struggles to surpass the […]
Three years ago there were the scandals surrounding foodcoins (Sushi, Yam and Kimchi), last year (and in 2021) you had the copies of Dogecoin (Shiba Inu and Floki for example) which were quite volatile and this year it is all about the ‘internet meme tokens’ such as Wojak, Pepe and WallStreetBets coin. The last one lost no […]
A broadening banking crisis gives a renewed boost to Bitcoin and other major cryptocoins. First Republic Bank may have been taken over by JP Morgan at the beginning of this week, but other regional banks continue to run into problems. This time the pressure is on PacWest and Western Alliance. The news that the Federal […]
The world is facing a population crisis. In most major economies such as China, the United States, Germany and Japan, families do not have enough children to expand or even replace the population. And so the population of most major economic powers will shrink in the coming years. This means that there will be even more […]
The United States seems to be jumping from one troubled bank to another while Europe seems to have its banking affairs in order. Bitcoin, just like the stock markets, awaits Fed news this Wednesday (and ECB news on Thursday) while crypto analysts turn more negative as the $30,000 level appears too difficult to pass. JP […]
Bitcoin didn’t manage to break through the $30,000 mark and now seems caught in a broad trading band between $27,000 and $29,500. Much will now depend on the Fed decision of Wednesday, May 3. That news will affect both stocks and crypto. Furthermore, beware of flash crashes if there is any news about the Mt Gox […]
When it comes to investing, there are only a few clear winners for the first four months of 2024. Chipmaker Nvidia (up 90% year-to-date) and social media platform Meta (up 92% year-to-date) are the clear winners of the most famous names on the tech exchange Nasdaq. Tesla stock has also, if you count from 1 […]
