Worldcoin Offers Free Crypto To Scan Your Eyeballs .
What’s the best way to build a biometric database? Well, you can steal fingerprints, faces, irises, and voice scans of millions of Americans, like US intelligence agencies, have done, or you can go the more ethical route and give people free cryptocurrency for their unique biometric data. That’s precisely what several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are…
Crypto: The Bitcoin Lightning Strike
Lightning: Bitcoin’s Second Layer When Bitcoin arrived in January of 2009, one of the first criticisms was that it was too slow. It takes about an hour for a transaction to finalize on the network.* It was also criticized because the block size limited the number of Bitcoin transactions meaning that Bitcoin couldn’t compete with…
Virginia Senator Warner Aligns Himself with former SEC Chairman Clayton and Tries to Make a Quick Few Million on Crypto in Infrastructure Bill
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Crypto: Why Cryptocurrency? Why Bitcoin?
There are a zillion crypto currencies available these days, and you may be wondering: “What can they do for me?” Some of them are scams. A few have stood the test of time. A couple have demonstrated novel innovation. And all of them are complicated. Let’s simplify all of that and look at how…
“The Financial Story of the Century Continues to be Ignored” The SEC’s case with Crypto Innovator Ripple Labs Heats Up
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BREAKING: SEC Asks Judge to Quash Deposition from a Former SEC Official in Crypto Case – Former SEC Chairman Clayton Initiated Case Hours Before He Resigned
A letter sent from the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) to the judge in the Ripple case initiated hours before the former SEC Chairman Clayton resigned, requests that a former SEC official not have to provide information on the case in a deposition. Last week we reported on the activities the SEC took related to…
Elizabeth Warren Claims Bitcoin is Fueling Climate Change, Supports Federal Reserve Creating a Crypto Instead (VIDEO)
Kooky Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren told a Senate Banking Subcommittee that Bitcoin is fueling climate change. Warren called for the government to confront crypto threats “head on,” while saying a Federal Reserve-backed digital currency shows “great promise.” “Cryptocurrency has created opportunities to scam investors, assist criminals, and worsen the climate crisis,” she said during the…
Stocks, Bond Yields, & Crypto Soar Amid Payrolls Plunge, "Damaged" Democracy, & Biden's "Trillions"
So, the first week of the year brought us – the worst first day for stocks in two decades, the “darkest day in American democracy”, a dismal jobs print (far worse than expected), ISM beats that were almost entirely predicated on model misattribution of global supply chain disruptions, a blue-sweep of government (fiscal-palooza), and the…
Dollar Drops As Gold & Crypto Pop On Fed Flop, Washington Slop
Close to close prices hide what was a very noisy day in the markets with bonds, the dollar, and the broadest stock index flat-ish until some last minute malarkey. Headline hockey between The Fed “flop” – not delivering the QE Twist that so many had hoped for (but promising more will come) – and the…
The Empire Strikes Back (Against Crypto)
Authored by Omid Malekan, Some years ago, when I first began telling people about crypto, a friend pushed back and said that the government would never allow Bitcoin to succeed. “Money is power” he said, “and no self-respecting government is going to give that power up.” I told him that I agreed, but that Bitcoin…
As Bitcoin Tops $16k, Dalio Warns Nations Will ‘Outlaw’ Crypto If Prices Keep Rising
The ongoing institutional flow into crypto has pushed Bitcoin back above $16,000 this morning. Source: Bloomberg That is the highest since Jan 2018… Source: Bloomberg But this bullish surge could have consequences as Ray Dalio, the billionaire hedge fund legend, warns that Bitcoin’s price going higher will only force governments to take action. image courtesy…
Bitcoin Nears $16k As Feds “Seize” $1 Billion In Crypto Linked To ‘Silk Road’
Bitcoin continued its post-election surge overnight, getting close to $16,000 for the first time since Jan 2018 as the volume of global negative-yielding debt soars, Source: Bloomberg And while the initial Bitcoin strength mirrored altcoin weakness, that rotation has stalled and now the entire crypto space is rising… Source: Bloomberg And this strength is coming…