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Trumponomics Results In Lowe’s Laying Off Thousands of Workers (#GotBitcoin?)
Home-improvement chain will outsource maintenance, assembly jobs as retailers scrutinize labor costs. Trumponomics Results In Lowe’s Laying Off Thousands of Workers (#GotBitcoin?) Lowe’s Cos. told thousands of store workers this week their jobs were being eliminated as the company outsourced tasks such as assembling barbecue grills and janitorial services. The…
Macro Factors Creating ‘Perfect Storm’ To Drive Up Bitcoin Price: Report (#GotBitcoin?)
Digital asset research firm Delphi Digital says that the macroeconomic landscape is creating the “perfect storm” to ignite Bitcoin price appreciation. Macro Factors Creating ‘Perfect Storm’ To Drive Up Bitcoin Price: Report (#GotBitcoin?) Monetary Easing, Crypto Peaking In a fresh report cited by Forbes on August 1, the researchers isolate…
Families Go Deep In Debt To Stay In the Middle Class (#GotBitcoin?)
Wages stalled but costs haven’t, so people increasingly rent or finance what their parents might have owned outright. Families Go Deep In Debt To Stay In the Middle Class (#GotBitcoin?) The American middle class is falling deeper into debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Cars, college, houses and medical care…
Crypto Exchange Launches ‘Shitcoin Futures Index,’ Offering New Way To Short Alts (#GotBitcoin)
Crypto derivatives platform FTX has perhaps the most speculative and oddly-named futures index fund on the market: SHIT-PERP, or the Shitcoin Index Perpetual Futures. Crypto Exchange Launches ‘Shitcoin Futures Index,’ Offering New Way to Short Alts (#GotBitcoin) An index of 58 low market cap coins, SHIT-PERP includes projects…
Developing Bitcoin’s Software Just Got A Bit More Trustless (#GotBitcoin?)
Like it or not, there’s a bit of trust involved in the process of setting up, or “compiling,” the software at the heart of bitcoin – but a recent code change could help. Developing Bitcoin’s Software Just Got A Bit More Trustless (#GotBitcoin?) Featuring container software Guix, code was recently…
Scarcity Is About To Kick In 85% of Total Supply Mined Leaving Only 3.15Mil. (#GotBitcoin)
Bitcoin (BTC) now has 85% of its supply in circulation as of August 1, leaving just 3.15 million new coins for the next 120 years. Scarcity Is About To Kick In 85% of Total Supply Mined Leaving Only 3.15Mil. (#GotBitcoin) Bitcoin Has A Total Fixed Supply Of 21 Million Units…
Crypto Exchange Gets Central Bank License In Middle East (#GotBitcoin?)
Bahrain-based cryptocurrency exchange Rain has become the Middle East’s first exchange to receive a regulatory license. Crypto Exchange Gets Central Bank License In Middle East (#GotBitcoin?) In a blog post from July 31, Rain confirmed it had received a Crypto-Asset Module (CRA) license from the Central Bank of Bahrain. The…
Fed Lowers Interest-Rate To Stimulate Sluggish Economy (#GotBitcoin?)
Global growth, trade uncertainty and low inflation forced turnabout after four rate increases last year. Fed Lowers Interest-Rate To Stimulate Sluggish Economy (#GotBitcoin?) The Federal Reserve reduced its benchmark interest rate by one quarter percentage point. That would mark just the fifth time in the past 25 years that the…
1 in 5 Crypto Holders Are Women, New Report Reveals (#GotBitcoin?)
While fresh data confirms that the crypto community continues to be male-dominated, the gender imbalance may be less extreme than previously thought. 1 in 5 Crypto Holders Are Women, New Report Reveals (#GotBitcoin?) A report published by fintech firm Bitpanda and market research company GlobalWebIndex on July 31 examined a…
Beating Bakkt, Ledgerx Is First To Launch ‘Physical’ Bitcoin Futures In Us (#GotBitcoin?)
Bitcoin derivatives provider LedgerX announced it has launched the first physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts in the U.S. Wednesday. Beating Bakkt, Ledgerx Is First To Launch ‘Physical’ Bitcoin Futures In Us (#GotBitcoin?) The Takeaway The contracts, which pay traders out in bitcoin, rather than U.S. dollars, will be available to both…
Facebook Warns Investors That Libra Stablecoin May Never Launch (#GotBitcoin?)
Facebook has warned its investors that its Libra stablecoin may never be released, CNBC reports on July 29. Facebook Warns Investors That Libra Stablecoin May Never Launch (#GotBitcoin?) Engaging with regulator “critical to Libra’s success” Facebook told its investors in its latest quarterly report that — while the firm expects…
Capital One Reports Data Breach Affecting 100 Million Customers, Applicants (#GotBitcoin?)
Alleged hacker, a former employee of Amazon Web Services, arrested by federal agents in Seattle. Capital One Reports Data Breach Affecting 100 Million Customers, Applicants (#GotBitcoin?) Capital One Financial Corp. , the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer, said Monday that a hacker accessed the personal information of approximately 106 million card…