Binance, the biggest crypto exchange by volume, was hacked on Tuesday. The hacker took $40 million or 7000 BTC. Binance had a chance to recover these funds. They could cut a deal with the majority hashpower miners. The miners would reverse the chain and gain a share of the stolen money. Binance this time decided not
Month: May 2019
Occidental Petroleum may have spoiled Chevron‘s plans to acquire oil and gas driller Anadarko Petroleum, but Wall Street is not pronouncing the oil company the loser in the buyout battle. Several analysts are commending Chevron for declining to counter Occidental’s $38 billion bid for Anadarko. Chevron not only walks away with a $1 billion breakup
Traders work on the floor at the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Bryan R. Smith | AFP | Getty Images The markets have woken up to two facts: The odds of a tariff increase on Friday are much higher than the market had estimated and stocks will be dramatically overvalued if this
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Disney popped in extended trading after the mass media company reported second-quarter results that beat expectations on the top and bottom lines. The company reported earnings of $1.61 per share on revenue of $14.92 billion, topping analysts’ estimates of $1.58 per share on revenue
Most people know who Joesph Stiglitz is. Some know him as the 2001 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; others know him as a vocal cryptocurrency bear. This week, Stiglitz is getting a lot of attention for the latter. In a May 6 interview with CNBC, Stiglitz said we should shut down
One of the most recognizable names in the crypto space (and perhaps even outside of it) is using one of the least recognizable blockchains. Overstock.com subsidiaries Medici Ventures and tZERO have been utilizing the FLO blockchain for some time in work aimed at re-organizing property rights. At one time, a video of the tZERO homepage
In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the subsequent decade, the company became more than a controversial transportation company; it proved the scalability of the two-sided market. Though Uber was not the first company to deploy this model, it did so with unmatched pace and veracity, evidenced by its place in common vernacular. Overnight, VC
President Donald Trump Joshua Roberts | Reuters President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired back at The New York Times over the newspaper’s investigative report that said his tax figures from 1985 through 1994 showed staggering business losses of more than $1 billion. “You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes….almost all real estate developers
Bitcoin’s price rose above $6,000 on most cryptocurrency exchanges for the first time today in nearly six months. At 00:57 UTC on Thursday, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, which accounts for more than half of all other cryptocurrencies combined, picked up a bid and saw its price reach as high as $6,076 –
One of the biggest investment opportunities over the next decade will be in companies working to delay human death, a market expected to be worth at least $600 billion by 2025, according to one of Wall Street’s major investment banks. Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts Felix Tran and Haim Israel believe that genome sequencers
Lyft CEO Logan Green (R) and President John Zimmer (2nd R) speak before the Nasdaq opening bell celebrating the company’s initial public offering (IPO) on March 29, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Lyft seesawed in extended
Ethereum is now firmly established as the cryptocurrency with the second biggest market cap after Bitcoin, and more good news could be on the way for the coin if recent reports regarding CTFC approval of Ethereum futures are to be believed. According to a report from Coindesk, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission could
Arbitrage bots are exploiting “inefficiencies” in decentralized exchanges (DEX), according to a report. Citing recent research from Cornell Tech, Homeland Security News Wire said on Monday that such cryptocurrency platforms are being used by “predatory users” to profit from everyday trades, “siphoning millions or possibly billions of dollars a year in cryptocurrency.” In some cases, high fees
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Real estate agents, like mortgage providers, title insurers, and home inspectors, depend on the free flow of information and compensation to remain in business. AdobeStock_113802827 What is it about 2019 which seems to be drawing the ire of regulators and competitors to the residential real estate
A realtor, at right, shows prospective buyers a property in Newport Beach, California. Jamie Rector | Bloomberg | Getty Images Home prices are less heated this spring, but the largest metropolitan markets are still overpriced. About 40% of the nation’s top 50 markets, based on the number of homes, were overvalued in March, according to
View Bitcoin’s quick recovery from levels below the former resistance-turned-support of $5,627 (April 23 high) seen on Monday, coupled with a break above the stiff resistance at $5,780 (June 2018 bottom) seen today, indicate fairly strong bullish sentiment. BTC looks set to breach the psychological hurdle of $6,000, as suggested by April’s bullish close, and
Traders work at Goldman Sachs booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images For investors fearful of a full-blown trade war, here’s Goldman Sachs’ playbook to tackle the tough market. Stock losses keep accelerating as investors remain anxious about President Donald Trump’s new
The Glu Mobile Inc. logo is displayed on for a photograph an Apple Inc. iPhone in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Avid Technologies jumped almost 7% in extended trading Monday after the technology company announced an
On Monday, May 6, media agency Mindshare said a Pepsi blockchain trial has been carried out and that it brought a 28% boost in supply chain efficiency. At the time of writing, PEP stock is down less than 1%. Here’s what we know. Pepsi Blockchain Trial: The Details Today, Mindshare said the Pepsi blockchain trial was
Foam is accomplishing what few token issuers have: A consistently engaged community that actually uses its token beyond speculation. Following a $16.5 million token sale in 2018, the geolocation data startup has launched a token-curated registry (TCR) with about 140 monthly participants in April and a scavenger hunt that garnered 500 user contributions to its
Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday and her favorite café is sure to be busier than it’s ever been. (If you haven’t made a reservation yet, breakfast in bed may be the way to go this year.) Either way, a meal alone won’t cut it, so consider a gift that lasts longer than brunch,
Getty Images High home prices along with strong demand have today’s youngest homebuyers moving to smaller cities — and that could mean a boom for local economies and home values in those markets. For example, Madison, Wisconsin is a new mecca for millennials, according to a recent study from the National Association of Realtors, which
According to Bloomberg, Fidelity Investments is on the verge of buying and selling Bitcoin (BTC). Earlier this year, the firm began a custody service to store Bitcoin, but now it will evolve to trading. Fidelity Investments Embraces Bitcoin Fidelity is one of the largest asset managers in the world. Its newly-formed arm—Fidelity Digital Assets—will be
View The June 2018 low of $5,780 is proving a tough nut to crack, as expected. BTC has failed to close above that level for three days in a row, indicating a price pullback may be needed to fuel a sustained move to $6,000. BTC looks to be creating a double-top bearish reversal pattern with
Shareholders walked between booths at the annual Berkshire shareholder shopping day in Omaha, Nebraska, May 3, 2019. Scott Morgan | Reuters At the “Woodstock of Capitalism,” thousands of shareholders walked around the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday, posing for photos with oversized pop-ups of Warren Buffett, giant Heinz ketchup bottles and buying
Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of online real estate and home-related mobile platform Zillow rallied Monday afternoon after Valiant Capital said the stock is one of its portfolio picks. The huge advantage Zillow has here is so much traffic already coming to its site, Valiant President and Founding Partner Chris Hansen said
Crypto theft has greatly reduced this year compared to last year as regulators continue to enhance their scrutiny and the enforcement of anti-money laundering controls. Crypto Theft Could Hit $1 billion Mark Despite being $500 million less than last year, crypto theft could still go well beyond a billion dollars by the end of this
As speculation and impatience arises over the upcoming Bitfinex token sale, opportunistic fakers are creating bogus white papers that purport to describe the details of the upcoming sale. Why? To scam potential buyers out of their cash. “The white paper you all are seeing now is a fake one,” said Dong Zhao, a Bitfinex shareholder.
Skyscraper and high-rise buildings near The Bund at night. Getty In a previous article, I theorised that one of the key PropTech themes for this year is that of “smart” technologies. Industry players seek solutions that help deliver the now widely accepted principle of real estate-as-a-service. There are many ways this goal can be achieved, from
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Facebook is in talks with various e-commerce companies and financial firms to support its crypto payment that is under development. So far Facebook has engaged MasterCard and Visa about the project that is known as Project Libra. Crypto Payment Facebook is expected to commit $1 billion to the
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