Last week, stock markets in the US woke up bleary eyed, confused as to what had just happened. Regular investors, pumping in cash and buying up stocks through mobile apps, had somehow caused multi billion-dollar hedge funds to lose billions of dollars in the coordinated short squeeze. GameStop wasn’t even the end, and over the…
With Bitcoin edging every week towards a new all-time high, and other alternative cryptocurrencies also charging up the charts, the question on many experienced investors’ lips is: are we set for another painful crypto winter? It’s a valid question to ask as well. Every Bitcoin rally since it was introduced over ten years ago has…
Bitcoin is firmly in uncharted territory: For the first time ever, 11 years since it first launched, the world’s most popular blockchain-based digital asset breached the $20,000 mark, and then some. With over a week left to spare to the end of 2020, Bitcoin is trading around $23,500 (22/12/2020) and has not shown any signs…
It’s a familiar trope in Bitcoin and crypto communities, with projects launching their own versions of independent blockchain-based money, the messages of “banking the unbankable” and “being your own bank” are preached from the crypto pulpits to would-be adopters in the congregation of online listeners. The first message was popular especially in the 2016 and…