This post originally comes from BrainFeed.co. On Halloween 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, a paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was sent to a cryptography mailing list. The paper was written by an anonymous person (or persons) named Satoshi Nakamoto. Nakamoto described Bitcoin as a digital currency that would allow transactions between two parties without […]
A recap of the past week in 3 short headlines. 1. Shaky But Steady Week With the one-year anniversary of the pandemic coming up, the market has never been so strong. Even with Treasury yields causing investors to revisit their relationship with higher growth stocks, it presently looks as if they are staying together and […]
A recap of the past week in 3 short headlines. 1. Bland Week This past week in the market was bland as the Dow recorded an insignificant gain of 0.11% while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq displayed losses of 0.71% and 1.57% respectively. Investors believed that Biden’s environmental policy would garner support for renewable energy, […]
Facebook’s announced cryptocurrency, Libra, has made quite the splash since it was first announced. For starters, it is already more well-known among the public than any other crypto besides Bitcoin. That includes staples of the cryptocurrency world, such as Litecoin and Ethereum, both of which have been around for years. While masses sit on the […]
Cryptocurrencies have been on a roll in recent weeks, and Bitcoin is leading the pack. When people think about cryptocurrency, the first thing that comes to mind is Bitcoin. That is because Bitcoin was the first-ever cryptocurrency. Satoshi created Bitcoin in 2009 when he restructured the blockchain to support such digital currencies. Bitcoin’s value, which […]
Facebook. This web-based tech giant has become a household name over the past 15 years. Many associate it with social media, photo-sharing, and due to recent events, a danger to personal privacy. However, through acquisitions and mergers, Facebook has bled into multiple other industries, such as fitness, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. The February 2019 […]
With 2018’s sudden spike in the value of Bitcoin, many investors and entrepreneurs saw their profits go through the roof. Masses of average people hurried to follow this trend, in hopes of themselves hitting the jackpot. However, this process created a large misconception about Bitcoin to the general public. Many considered Bitcoin to be a […]
Are bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies back? In short, not fully, but the crypto space still looks promising. This past week, the total market cap of cryptocurrency rose to a high of 183 billion, an increase of approximately 40 billion compared to the previous week. The market cap is the total value of all cryptocurrencies in […]