Category: Cryptocurrency
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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…
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Flupocalypse 2020: Assuming you stay healthy, this is your ‘get rich’ moment
When the savings and loan crisis in the US hit in 1989, a lot of slow-moving investors lost their dough thinking the worst couldn’t possible happen. When the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, a lot of folks got torn up as stocks that had previously been 100-baggers went to zero. When the real estate market burned…
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![Busted Bitcoin pedophiles have started killing themselves]()
Busted Bitcoin pedophiles have started killing themselves
Two child-rape perverts killed themselves after the darknet’s “largest-known site of child exploitation videos” was busted. The South Korean website operator is in prison and 337 villains have been arrested after the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ) discovered their identities by following a trail of Bitcoin transactions. The scope of this issue is hard to…
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![Mastercard (MA.NYSE) backs out of Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra team like a two-headed baby]()
Mastercard (MA.NYSE) backs out of Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra team like a two-headed baby
Mastercard (MA.NYSE) joined PayPal (PYPL.Q) and Visa (V.NYSE) with its announced exit from Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra support group today, leaving the once famed project listing in the wind without a major payment processor to back it. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, said he had hoped to foist his cryptocurrency on the public in the same way Amazon…
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Deciphering Cryptocurrency: Where in the world is Satoshi Nakamoto?
The canon goes that blockchain technology was invented in 2009 by an unknown programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto. He added a white paper, which reads like part technical manual and part ideological manifesto, and unleashed it on the world in 2010. Then he vanished. He’s left some messages, most of which are thought to be hoaxes.…
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![Deciphering Cryptocurrency: Mark Zuckerberg still doesn’t care about your privacy]()
Deciphering Cryptocurrency: Mark Zuckerberg still doesn’t care about your privacy
Cryptocurrency is a hard sell for most people. The average person isn’t interested in things like censorship resistance, immutability, security, peer-to-peer services and other things that get blockchain enthusiasts off. Instead, Joe or Jane Citizen is interested in set-it-and-forget-it solutions so they can get back to living their best lives. These people are either shocked…
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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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Mining for minors: Time for resource companies to figure out the money is in millennials
In 2015, when we started this outfit, our business model was to steer clear of conventional wisdom and the same old pubco marketing techniques, and instead focus on rich niches. Honest coverage of client companies that is negative when justified was one niche. Being inclusive of women was another. And appealing to a younger investor…
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![Extraordinary Future investor conference: Get your ass off the couch, Sparky]()
Extraordinary Future investor conference: Get your ass off the couch, Sparky
Investors like to complain. “This company sucks, they never talk to investors.” “Insiders know about early financings and we’re always left out.” “Does anybody know about this company? All I can find is the investor deck..” Well, obviously nobody talks to you about their deals, their financings, their news, because you’re sitting at home reading…
