Black Thursday

Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis is peeling back the curtain on privacy coins.Chainalysis announced Monday that its Reactor and Know Your Transaction (KYT) products can now trace zcash and dash, two privacy coins whose technical underpinnings theoretically make their transaction flows difficult for investigators to follow. Both have been delisted by…

William Davidow: COVID-19, Radical Uncertainty, and Survival https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-radical-uncertainty-survival-william-davidow/: ‘We live in a radically uncertain world (See recently published Radical Uncertainty by John Kay and Mervyn King). About every ten years something completely unpredictable happens that has a major impact on our lives. The unpredictability makes it extremely difficult to make plans…

Retail buyers helped push the price of Bitcoin back up toward $10,000 after the Black Thursday crash to below $4,000. Low prices proved to be too attractive to pass up, and traders went against the trend.But following the initial storm of buying, retail traders following the trend has led to…

Lucas Jackson/Reuters US stocks erased losses and traded higher on Monday after the Chinese government ordered a halt of American farm imports. The announcement further inflamed US-China trade tensions and paused a key component of the two nations' phase-one trade deal. Markets generally ignored nationwide protests against police brutality staged…

Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the ghosts of the 2008 financial crisis that sent inequality soaring to new heights in this country are still with us, it's become abundantly clear that the economic disaster brought on…

The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the economies of countries all around the world and is showing no signs of stopping. The overwhelming response from global governments has been to place their countries under full or partial lockdowns. This has arguably saved many lives, but the economic fallout has been savage.…

(Tomdispatch.com) – Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the ghosts of the 2008 financial crisis that sent inequality soaring to new heights in this country are still with us, it’s become abundantly clear that the…

What goes up, must come down. That saying just applied to the cryptocurrency named Theta, which recently became a topic of hot discussion due to a supposed Google partnership.Details about the “partnership” however bring up questions about if there’s any validity to the claim, or if Theta is simply a…

Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the ghosts of the 2008 financial crisis that sent inequality soaring to new heights in this country are still with us, it’s become abundantly clear that the economic disaster…

Having launched in 2014, BitMEX enjoyed many years as the only fish swimming in the cryptocurrency derivatives pond. However, in recent times, it has found itself surrounded by an increasing number of competitors, both large and small.OKEx, Huobi, and Binance have all expanded from the spot markets into the crypto…