Crypto&Blockchain

The global economy is inevitably moving towards a digital eco-system. From investment to money transfer, everything is going paperless. The newest and most promising addition to the digital payment sector is cryptocurrency.

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Mexico’s third-richest billionaire has advised people to stay away from fiat currencies, like the dollar and euro, and invest in bitcoin. Calling fiat “fake money made of paper and lies,” he stressed that “central banks are printing more money than ever before.” Ricardo Salinas Pliego Recommends Investing in Bitcoin,...
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Hacken, a blockchain and cybersecurity consulting ecosystem, has today announced along with InsurAce, a decentralized insurance protocol, a partnership that will see InsurAce refer clients to Hacken for security auditing and bug bounties while Hacken will be referring protocols to InsurAce for coverage purposes. The two teams will also...
Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView’s Investment team. Before that, he led the firm’s Proactive Portfolio Management function and acted as director of corporate development, supporting the portfolio on inorganic and balance sheet related initiatives. The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated. There are...
It doesn’t matter how experienced you are at trading because nothing can be done to protect a person against the might of cryptocurrencies’ price swings. Currently, Bitcoin’s (BTC) volatility, the standard measure for daily fluctuations, stands at 64% annualized. As a comparison, the same metric for the S&P...
On the morning of December 21st, Kimberly Bryant, CEO and co-founder of nonprofit organization Black Girls Code, learned that she could no longer access her work e-mail. The board of directors at the nonprofit organization, which she founded a decade ago, sent a note to her personal email...
The popularity of meme tokens exploded in 2021, and Shiba Inu (SHIB) was a front runner. The value of SHIB peaked last October, reaching $0.00008 from merely $0.0000076 in June 2020: that was a gain of more than 1,040 percent. The extraordinary returns also made many early investors...
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