Tag: Marathon Digital Holdings
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![Neptune Digital Assets (NDA.C) bucks the specialization trend]()
Neptune Digital Assets (NDA.C) bucks the specialization trend
Usually trying to be all things for all people is a bad business strategy. Mostly it stretches your operation too thin. You might be really good at one or two things, and only so-so on others, but if you spread out to include all the operations you can manage, you can usually expect mediocrity across…
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![If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition]()
If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition
If I had a billion dollars the first thing I’d do is buy a monkey. Not a howler monkey or a languor monkey, or one of those that gets creative with how they say hello, but a regular capuchin monkey—one that hasn’t reached puberty yet so he doesn’t get aggressive. His name would be Jocko,…
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![The Crypto Climate Accord and a carbon free future for cryptocurrency]()
The Crypto Climate Accord and a carbon free future for cryptocurrency
We need to talk about cryptocurrency’s carbon problem. Right now the Bitcoin network alone gobbles up more power than the entire nation of Sweden. That’s a big network. It spits a new block reward of 6.25 bitcoin every ten minutes, each worth approximately $61,568.60 at the time of writing, and Bitcoin is presently down a…
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![This Week in Crypto: Typical Bubble edition]()
This Week in Crypto: Typical Bubble edition
It’s getting a little hard to keep track of who does and who doesn’t like Bitcoin. This week, George Soros offered an endorsement whereas three years ago he panned it, calling it a “typical” bubble. The head of Soros Fund Management argued thi sweek that it has even more long term potential. “I’m not sure…
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![This week in crypto: standard regulation edition]()
This week in crypto: standard regulation edition
One of the biggest claims that hardline cryptocurrency aficionados offer is that cryptocurrency (and Bitcoin in particular) is regulation proof. It was a selling point for me back in 2014. You can’t regulate what you can’t find and decentralization comes specifically from that. The only way regulators could get at crypto is through the access…
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![This Week in Crypto: A cryptocurrency and blockchain roundup featuring LNK.C, MARA.Q, CSTR.C, HUT.T, BTCS.OTCQB, CWRK.C, GLXY.T, APP.C, GBLC.C]()
This Week in Crypto: A cryptocurrency and blockchain roundup featuring LNK.C, MARA.Q, CSTR.C, HUT.T, BTCS.OTCQB, CWRK.C, GLXY.T, APP.C, GBLC.C
Most of the news you’re going to find on public companies in the crypto and blockchain space is going to be on mining. Sometimes you’ll see a company on the periphery of decentralized finance, or in the burgeoning sub-sector of cryptocurrency custodianship, but mostly it’s miners. This week isn’t much different. But mining itself also…
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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…
