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Luxor Technologies, Bitcoin mining pool and data analytics firm, now features a mining stock index on their Hashrate Index data platform.Today, Bitcoin mining pool and data analytics firm, Luxor Technologies, announced that they are now featuring a mining stock index on their Hashrate Index data platform. This Crypto Mining Stock Index (ISIN) was described as a basket...

This week's Fed meeting has been viewed hawkishly by the broader market, and asset prices reacted negatively to the plan to begin to raise interest rates come 2023. Bitcoin fell slightly putting a recovery in crypto on hold, while major stock market indices tumbled on the news....

Each of the included companies must hold “$100 million of liquid crypto assets on their balance sheet.”

In this discussion I moderated for Paxos, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla discuss GameStop, the broken traditional financial infrastructure, and how blockchain technology may change the future of settlements. Show highlights: why Robinhood stopped trading on GameStop and AMC stock earlier this year...

Measuring assets’ value in terms of time can help us understand why Bitcoin’s potential upside is so much greater than that of stocks.Written April 11, 2021Why would someone go all in on bitcoin as opposed to diversifying into other asset classes, particularly stocks? Why not hold an index tracking fund like the S&P 500?The short answer: because, as the premier...

With all of the industry’s eyes are focused on Coinbase’s Nasdaq listing, it’s time to have some fun and speculate. With the market as it is, it’s safe to assume that the initial pricing will be high, but, can that price resist a bear market? And, on another topic, will the Coinbase stock become a competitor for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general? This...

Greg Foss takes a deep look at the conditions surrounding the global credit market in this executive summary.It is often said that equities are about emotion, whereas bonds are about reason. Equity investors tend to ask, “How much can I make?” whereas bond investors tend to ask, ”How much can I lose?” Are these types of investors optimists vs. pessimists? No, but...

Two independent surveys conducted by Mizuho Securities and Bloomberg show that a significant portion of the $1,400 stimulus checks to be delivered to American citizens will flow to stocks and Bitcoin. Spending Stimulus Checks in Bitcoin and Stocks The U.S. government has sanctioned $380 billion in direct bank deposits to citizens earning less than $75,000 a year. A married couple...

Bitcoin and technology stocks rallied this week, recouping from losses due to rising bond rates. Along with changes in the bond and gold markets and new upcoming stimulus rounds, there are five important macroeconomic movements affecting Bitcoin. The Bond Market...

The futures contract is based on a basket of stocks being targeted by WallStreetBets and dogecoin.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and founder of FTX, describes what happened between the Subreddit Wall Street Bets and hedge funds around the stock of GameStop this week. In this episode, he covers: what happened with the stock of video game retailer GameStop this week...

"The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing." Phillip Fisher Bitcoin could care less about its vertical positioning on a chart. But, as emotional monkeys with too much brain for our own good, we get attached to the movements of price. Up and down, back and forth, oscillating like many naturally occurring phenomena,...

Cryptocurrency markets have revealed the power of global, never-sleep financial markets. The low barrier to entry has also boosted digital assets' mass appeal. A small German company is now bringing these advantages to Google, Tesla, and other popular American stocks. And this time around, U.S. citizens will be left out of the innovation....

Bitcoin has led the one-year gain versus top technology shares like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, including the S&P 500 index. The only company rising in BTC terms is...

Bitcoin took a dip Tuesday as traditional markets suffer the jitters over fears of a "no-deal" Brexit.

Bittrex Global announced today that users can now trade tokenized versions of Tesla, Amazon, and other traditional stocks. Trade Vaccine Stocks on...

Recently, the discussion around Bitcoin "maturing" and becoming a respected mainstream asset, has prompted comparisons to the stock market, gold, currencies, commodities, and more. One notable difference between the stock market and Bitcoin is that the crypto market is always on, and because this exists, the leading cryptocurrency by market cap will have traded more hours than the S&P 500 since its debut...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been the most prominent trend across the cryptocurrency and blockchain space throughout 2020. These blockchain-based alternatives to traditional finance have enabled crypto investors to earn ‘yields’ on their token lendings, borrowings, pool liquidity stakes to fund projects, and much more. Similar to the surging demand for new tokens in the DeFi...