Tell Your Mother About Bitcoin
Want to help promote and protect Bitcoin? Tell your mother about it. That’s the upshot of survey results released earlier this week. The Reason-Rupe poll shared data about a recent (U.S. national) survey that included questions about Bitcoin. Their findings comport with what you might expect: There’s a nice, neat correlation between awareness of Bitcoin and appreciation of Bitcoin. Most people don’t know about Bitcoin, though, and people who don’t know about Bitcoin are the most inclined to “ban” it. Bitcoin can’t be banned, of course. It’s an open-source communications protocol that....
Related News
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, has warned of “the mother of all crashes.” He further explained that the problem with cryptocurrency is the leverage. Michael Burry Warns of Mother of All Crashes Famous investor and founder of private investment firm Scion Asset Management, Michael Burry, shared his view last week about where he sees the markets heading. Burry is best known for being the first investor to foresee and profit from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010. He is profiled in “The....
The mother of Mark Karpeles, former CEO of Mt. Gox, is speaking out about her son. In a telephone interview with news publication Reuters, Anne Karpeles said her son was a bright child, bad student, and allowed people to take advantage of him. “Difficult, never. Too conciliatory for a few things. Someone who is extremely nice and who has a tendency to let himself get taken for a ride by others. People who took advantage of him, who asked him to do their homework,” she said. Mother Karpeles revealed that her son, who now lives in Japan, was admitted to Mensa — a society of high-IQ....
From being inspired to bashing the artwork’s “flaws,” the community responded to Madonna and Beeple’s latest NFT drop. The queen of pop has collaborated with record-setting artist Beeple to create a series called Mother of Creation, which includes three nonfungible tokens (NFTs) titled Mother of Technology, Mother of Nature and Mother of Evolution. The NFTs show a 3D likeness of Madonna giving birth to robot centipedes, butterflies and trees. As the markets went crazy over stablecoins showing instability, Madonna and Beeple decided that it was the right time to show the community something....
Bank of America’s chief investment strategist sees “the mother of all bubbles” in bitcoin. He compared the cryptocurrency’s recent rally to other bubbles, emphasizing the “increasingly speculative” investing behavior of bitcoin. Bank of America Warns of Huge Bitcoin Bubble Bitcoin’s recent rally has worried a number of prominent financial analysts who warned of a huge bubble. Among them is Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Securities. He explained on Friday that the recent surge in bitcoin’s price may be another....
It's been a while since we've heard about the pending Silk Road case, in which Ross Ulbricht (a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts) is accused to be the founder of the now-closed dark web illicit marcketplace (though another was formed in its place). Not, Ulbricht's mother is speaking out with regard to ongoing issues. Ms. Ulbricht spoke to WeAreChange.org, a media organization that dedicates itself to "expose corruption worldwide". While she admits she doesn't know a whole lot about the case, she's confident that her son, Ross, isn't the perpetrator of the crimes he's been accused of. This....