Tag: $BTC
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![This Week in Crypto: Hand in the Cookie Jar Edition]()
This Week in Crypto: Hand in the Cookie Jar Edition
Given that the United States is once again going to the cookie jar to raise the debt ceiling and foist this generation’s financial issues onto the next generation (or the next after that… or after that) you’d think this week in crypto would be all about people bailing out of their positions, and piling their…
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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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![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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![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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![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…
