Category: Bitcoin
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![This week in crypto: slouching towards a cautiously optimistic future edition]()
This week in crypto: slouching towards a cautiously optimistic future edition
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why confidence in Bitcoin’s future has jumped, but the likely culprit is that the Chinese bitcoin miners recently exiled from their ancestral homelands have made their way to to North America (and Russia and Kazakhstan) and set up shop. The hashrate and mining difficulty both enjoyed a bump, and now…
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Buy Robin Hood (HOOD.Q)? Why don’t I just burn my money instead, at least I’ll get the warmth..
Technology has never been able to bring us an accurate means of assessing someone’s intelligence. The IQ test is a loose guide at best, career status can be boosted based on where you got your start in life and how much Great Uncle Cornelius left you, and number of social media followers only generally provides…
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![FansUnite (FANS.C) completes integration of cryptocurrency payment service CoinsPaid]()
FansUnite (FANS.C) completes integration of cryptocurrency payment service CoinsPaid
FansUnite Entertainment (FANS.C) announced they have fully integrated CoinsPaid into their B2B online gambling solutions. CoinsPaid provides cryptocurrency payment services and personal wallets. By integrating CoinsPaid into their system, FansUnite is enabling crypto payments to be used on their gambling features in addition to cash. B2B partners that license FansUnite’s technology are now enabled to…
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![DJIA drops 600 points, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) falls USD $2,000, Fear Index (VIX) surges 61%, as Biden hits a wall of anti-vaxxers]()
DJIA drops 600 points, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) falls USD $2,000, Fear Index (VIX) surges 61%, as Biden hits a wall of anti-vaxxers
According to the “collective wisdom of the markets,” the DJIA is worth 50% more today than it was in March 2020.
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![Brigadier Gold (BRG.V) intercepts 46 Grams of Gold per Tonne Over 1 Metre in 1st hole at Picachos]()
Brigadier Gold (BRG.V) intercepts 46 Grams of Gold per Tonne Over 1 Metre in 1st hole at Picachos
On November 24, 2020 Brigadier Gold (BRG.V) announced good assay results for the first three diamond drill holes at its Picachos Property, El Rosario, Sinaloa Mexico.
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![You can’t fight the Fed. But you can hedge against it. The case for crypto (Part 1/2)]()
You can’t fight the Fed. But you can hedge against it. The case for crypto (Part 1/2)
When you have one hammer, everything begins to look like a nail. For the Fed, it’s “print money, cut rates”. Act First, Think Later It began in 2008 when the crash of the housing market pushed the economy into a recession. The precedent was set, and policy response included a bailout and an aggressive expansion…
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AMPD, PAT, MTA, HIVE, MILE: Contrarian investing as the zombies climb over the walls
Okay, so the world is burning, the Russians and Saudis are pouring low-cost fuel over it, the Americans are shocked that a reality TV show host with a penchant for scams didn’t make a clever President, Italy is in total lockdown, the Japanese are thinking of holding a spectator-free Olympics, Israel is putting anyone coming…
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![Deciphering Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin’s bastards]()
Deciphering Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin’s bastards
Blockchain’s a dense topic with a lot of moving parts that can be confusing to the uninitiated. It’s one of those topics that you never stop learning about once you get started. If we’re going to discuss some of the denser, more difficult topics later on, we need a good foundation in the fundamentals. Blockchain…
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![Deciphering Cryptocurrency: surviving the winter]()
Deciphering Cryptocurrency: surviving the winter
There is lots of speculation about why Bitcoin is up this week ranging from an insecure reaction to Trump’s trade war with China, to new big names now accepting cryptocurrency. It’s too early to tell if this is the end of the crypto-winter or whether we’ll look back on this week as a type of…
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Blockchain Foundry (BCFN.C): Sector be damned, work still needs to get done
If I walked into the Cactus Club on Burrard Street with two supermodels on my arm and an eight ball in my pocket and $5k sticking out of my mouth, and told the assembled Howe St crowd ‘this can all be yours, all you have to do is listen to me talk for five minutes…
