Black Swan

BTS’s “Black Swan” music video has hit 300 million views on YouTube! “Black Swan” reached the 300-million-view mark on July 7 at approximately 9:54 a.m. KST. The music video was released on March 5, 2020 at midnight KST, meaning it took the video approximately one year, four months, and two…

As outlandish as the killer heat wave that struck the Pacific Northwest was, it fits into a decades-long pattern of uneven summer warming across the United States. The West is getting roasted by hotter summer days while the East Coast is getting swamped by hotter and stickier summer nights, an…

Famed economist and author of “Black Swan” Nassim Taleb has claimed in a recent paper that Bitcoin isn’t worth anything – and that it is a failed currency. Before we jump into the guts of what looks a lot like academic delusion, let’s just state that at the time of…

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton "Black Swan" author Nassim Taleb said bitcoin is worth zero. He also said there is no evidence that blockchain is a useful technology. In a new paper, Taleb laid out four key arguments against the cryptocurrency. Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening…

Source: Adobe/Juhku Nassim Nicholas Taleb, an essayist and scholar, known for his book on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable events, The Black Swan, released a paper on Bitcoin (BTC), with Bitcoiners jumping on what they deemed numerous inaccuracies. In his paper titled 'Bitcoin, Currencies, and Bubbles', Taleb, who…

One of my favorite albeit heavily paraphrased quotes from Albert Einstein is his assertion that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. (What he actually said, in his 1936 work “Physics and Reality,” is more longwinded, and includes a digression into Immanuel Kant and the…

Covid-19 has indeed changed the customer experience in far more ways than one could imagine. It has disrupted in-person experience to a level that it resulted in a digital space that’s louder and way too harder to cut than ever before. While it has already re-shaped the business landscape; the…

Tourmaline, led by chief executive officer Mike Rose, is buying Black Swan Ltd. for about $750-million in stock. Chris Bolin/The Globe and Mail Tourmaline Oil Corp. is buying Black Swan Energy Ltd. for about $750-million in stock, marking the latest in a series of acquisitions to bulk up in British…

London, UK, May 31, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Plethori, a cryptocurrency ETF investment platform, is offering investment opportunities into leading Insurance, NFT, and Oracle sectors. In the crypto world, investment opportunities are plenty, but can appear scattered and complex. Plethori plans to help solve this problem. As crypto becomes…

Bitcoin (BTC) is not “a hedge against anything,” concluded “Black Swan” author and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb after inviting his 727,000 Twitter followers to debate on whether there is any correlation between BTC and inflation. “CONCLUSION: not a single reasonable argument that #BTC is a hedge against inflation, or,…