Tag: Amazon
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![Bitcoin trader makes dumb greedy bet – loses $16 million – kills himself, triggering painful shotgun-in-mouth memory of even dumber, greedier Amazon (AMZN.Q) bet]()
Bitcoin trader makes dumb greedy bet – loses $16 million – kills himself, triggering painful shotgun-in-mouth memory of even dumber, greedier Amazon (AMZN.Q) bet
A few weeks ago, a Chinese Bitcoin trader, Hui Yi, embezzled 2,000 Bitcoins, used them as collateral to take a highly leveraged (100x) short position on the price of Bitcoin. The co-founder and CEO of a crypto market analysis platform, Hui got the timing and direction of his bet horrendously wrong. WeChat messages indicate that…
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![Canopy Growth (CGC.NYSE) is losing $41 per second – does that matter?]()
Canopy Growth (CGC.NYSE) is losing $41 per second – does that matter?
Canopy Growth’s (CGC.NYSE) Q4, 2019 results reported a net loss of $323 million Canadian dollars. That’s $41 loss per second. $2,500 per minute. $150,000 per hour. $3.6 million dollars a day. By any reasonable measure, that’s heavy bleeding. Yes – cannabis is a frontier market. It’s so new, it’s still bathed in amniotic fluid. Eighteen…
