Category: Cryptocurrency
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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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![Why your crypto bets are down and what’s to be done?]()
Why your crypto bets are down and what’s to be done?
Bitcoin’s down almost half of its high point mark achieved earlier this year, and naysayers are chuckling about the things they’ve always known about the currency. Like they always do whenever crypto hits the skids, which it does ever so often. It’s a common occurrence, and common enough that folks involved will keep quiet during…
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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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![Video: Intema Solutions (ITM.V) CEO explains how his 20-year-old tech company is evolving]()
Video: Intema Solutions (ITM.V) CEO explains how his 20-year-old tech company is evolving
Vancouver-based veteran news anchor Jody Vance likes to walk CEOs back from their usual ‘inside baseball’ business pitches and explain their deals so that anyone can understand them, and that’s a good thing when it comes to Intema Solutions (ITM.V) because it’s a technology company in the midst of a pivot that will make them…
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![Hive Blockchain Technologies (HIVE.V) and Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA.Q): object lessons in bitcoin mining scaling]()
Hive Blockchain Technologies (HIVE.V) and Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA.Q): object lessons in bitcoin mining scaling
Crypto doesn’t really have the same appreciable metrics as other assets in determining value. The closest asset we have for comparison is gold, so much in fact that Bitcoin (and Ethereum) actually possesses a lot of the same characteristics—such as their shared tendency to act as a safe haven asset. But gold is in limited…
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![The Bitcoin Bubble: Is Tether too big to fail?]()
The Bitcoin Bubble: Is Tether too big to fail?
Bitcoin’s zoomed to a new all-time high of $28,601.89 over the Christmas season, likely fattening the wallets of hodlers while causing a nasty case of regret in everyone who didn’t get in when it was $2,000 about a year and a half ago. But there was some uneasy rumblings throughout the cryptosphere about what it…
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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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Biggest hack in Twitter (TWTR.Q) history highlights developments in cyber-crime tracking
Twitter (TWTR.Q) got hacked earlier this week in what is probably one of the most brazen incidences of phishing since the technique was first recognized, but it’s not just the phishing scam—which by and large was fairly transparent—but the who and what that got hacked that made it so significant. Jack Dorsey’s going to have…
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NetCents Technology (NC.C) cracks the daily payment code and enhances UX for merchants
Cryptocurrency has a trust problem. Most merchants look at it, see the volatility, note the scaling problems, and go back to their trusted VISA and Mastercard setups for their online daily settlements. NetCents Technology (NC.C) management has been trying to crack the code on daily payments throughout 2020, trying their best to streamline and enhance…
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FansUnite (FANS.C) sports book debuts on the CSE, pandemic be damned
We get a lot of clients wanting to be written about on Mondays because that’s when everyone drops their good news. I usually try to tell them Friday is the sweet spot, because they have less competition on the good news front (the Friday bad news dump is real), and their stories will be read…
