Tag: cryptocurrency
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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
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
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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Here’s what’s next: e-Sports is happening right now, and hell’s coming with it
I’m about to land at the next Cambridge House extraordinary Future investor conference this week, with more speaking events than I honestly know what to do with. Part of the reason why they’re being tacked on is because we here at Equity.Guru have spent the last year telling you virtual reality/augmented reality is coming to…
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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…
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Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY.V) debuts on market, early investors willingly hooped
Pity the 346 investors who saw former Goldman Sachs (GS:NYSE) macro trader Michael Novogratz launching his ‘crypto merchant bank’ Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY.V) in November of last year and couldn’t wait to get into his pre-TSX listing $304m financing announced in January. Pity the GMP Securities clients who were sold into that financing, buying into 60.9m…
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HIVE Blockchain (HIVE.V) posts financials, continues to drift
The crypto gurus at HIVE Blockchain (HIVE.V) posted financials for Q4 2018 today, and the documents make for interesting reading. While the big spotlight shines on revenues ($13m) and margin ($10m) for their mega crypto mining operations, and increases in mining efficiency, the organization’s annual net loss of $26m (of which $17.7m from with the…
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Proof of Business: CUV Ventures, Hashchain, Block One, Enterprise Group putting blockchain 2.0 in place
Saw a news release this week from a company I haven’t looked at in years, and it brought a wide smile to my face because, damn it, this is the future, yo. ENTERPRISE EQUIPMENT CONTROLS & AUTOMATION LOWERS COSTS, INCREASES REVENUES Enterprise Group Inc. (E.T) has further enhanced its proprietary dispatch and asset tracking software…
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Hashchain Technology (KASH.V) announces deal for more crypto rigs, dilutes up a storm
It’s been on a little rip the last few days while putting out ‘we have no idea why’ news releases, but Hashchain Technology (KASH.V) finally put out it’s reason why today; They’re tossing out a bunch of new shares to bring in 5,000 more cryptocurrency mining rigs. And when I say ‘a bunch’, I mean…
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Blockchain moves to Proof of Business: HIVE, UPCO, LTV, BLOC, VHI, DASH, KASH on a hard climb
When the first blockchain profit party ended last December, and companies that had been on an absolute tear of upward multiples began to turn the wrong way, few in the industry seemed too bothered about it all. Blockchain execs on the public market largely shrugged, some admitting there had been too fast of a run…
