All things Billionaires
It would appear that the initial coin offering (ICO) class action ship has sailed (without a lot of damage suffered by the defendants), but with some pretty interesting takeaways to consider. Last year, I wrote about the 11 class actions that were filed in the
Bill and Melinda Gates have started splitting their fortune, and it’s already made Melinda a billionaire in her own right. On the day the Microsoft MSFT, +0.34% founder and his partner of almost 30 years announced that they were getting divorced, Bill Gates’s holding company
Facebook’s Diem, formerly Libra, has dramatically reduced its ambitions from creating a single global stablecoin backed by a basket of traditional currencies to releasing a set of digital tokens collateralized by each individual currency. However, in facilitating this strategic shift, it has created new opportunities for
Topline The value of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency originally invented as a joke, surged to an all time high of over 50 cents Tuesday, a landmark as enthusiastic online traders continue efforts to push the digital currency towards $1. Key Facts At the time of writing,
DOGE is set to make its pop culture debut. As a weeklong pump carries the meme cryptocurrency up 12% on the daily to $.33 and a staggering 43.8% higher on a 7-day basis, some are now speculating the rally could be fueled perhaps in part
Bitcoin has repeatedly broken fresh ground this year, doubling from its price of just under $30,000 per bitcoin at the start of 2021 to almost $65,000 earlier this month. The blistering 2021 bitcoin price rally has slowed since late February as bitcoin traders and investors
A new global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, Globe Derivative Exchange — or GlobeDX — continued its preparation for the platform’s launch by securing another major raise. GlobeDX announced Wednesday that the firm successfully raised $18 million through a new funding round featuring investors like seed money
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK The rise in popularity of fintech has brought with it an increase in the number of blogs and newsletters focused on the industry. Last year, I published a list of eight fintech blogs and newsletters I thought were the
Institutional investors will soon be able to receive Bitcoin-collateralized U.S. dollar loans through Silvergate Capital Corporation — the holding company of pro-crypto institution, Silvergate Bank. According to an announcement from Silvergate, Coinbase Custody will be the custodian for loans funded through the bank’s Silvergate Exchange