Four years ago, when the Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX announced a new product called the “perpetual bitcoin leveraged swap,” few traders in nascent digital-asset markets could have anticipated what a major impact the obscure roll-out would have on the industry. But the instrument, which made it easy for customers to trade the equivalent of $100 of bitcoin for every $1 down, proved hugely popular and successful […]
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Amy Webb, a quantitative futurist and founder of the strategic foresight firm Future Today Institute, thinks the world can, indeed, get worse. In her most recent book “2020 Tech Trend Report: Strategic Trends that Will Influence Business, Government, Education, Media and Society in the Coming Year,” Webb examines the companies – and the people who run them – that will make the future either a utopia […]
A token for rewarding content on a specific Reddit forum now has the unusual honor of being thousands of times bigger than the entire global economy… kind of. MOON, a community token for the r/Cryptocurrency subreddit, technically has a market cap of over $2.88 septillion (that’s 24 zeroes) at press time. That dwarves the global economy which, as per data from the World Bank, came to […]
After passing $2 billion in locked assets, there’s now more value in Uniswap than there was in the entire DeFi space on July 9. Source link
While bitcoin is eyeing an August gain for the first time in three years, the cryptocurrency is still lagging U.S. stocks over the month. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202008291080310579-bigger-than-anything-we-saw-joe-biden-pays-respects-to-chadwick-boseman/ Sad news about “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman dying of cancer after a four-year fight rocked the world earlier on Friday, causing a large number of fans, fellow actors and other prominent figures to express their grief. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden honored the memory of Marvel star Chadwick Boseman, whose death was confirmed on Friday. “The true power […]
As companies have to shift their business model to contend with low interest rates, the largest find themselves in a comparatively better situation. Today’s episode of The Breakdown is an extended edition of the Brief. The final topic today looks at news that some large money market funds are shifting fees from users and taking the financial hit themselves. This creates a dynamic where only the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107927/25/1079272579_0:-1:3640:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_f75025a179a1e0a7f79e73484e526e20.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007171079916897-bigger-than-london-eye-massive-asteroid-heads-towards-earth/ The asteroid in question was reportedly designated by NASA as potentially hazardous, as it is expected to approach our planet at a distance closer than 0.05 astronomical units. A large space rock traveling at a speed of over 46,000 kilometers per hour is expected to swoop by our planet on 24 July, according to data provided by NASA. The […]
This is the Democrat Party leader and the likely nominee for President of the United States. Advertisement – story continues below Joe Biden today told a crowd of supporters that George Floyd’s death was bigger than the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Joe Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Joe Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination […]
The price of gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) steadied on Tuesday at the equivalent of $1,733 per ounce after retreating on the news of a potential coronavirus vaccine by drug maker Moderna. Gold ETFs are not equal to physical gold, as they are simply securities backed by the commodity designed to track the gold price. Gold bullion, which hit an eight-year high just before the news, lost […]
Just in case anyone was getting too comfy, NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies is warning that two asteroids are heading towards Earth this Monday. Another one is expected to come close to us early on Tuesday. All three of the near-Earth asteroids are expected to make close approaches at some point between Monday May 18 and Tuesday May 19, at speeds of between 13,000 and […]
It’s Bigger Than Scrubs – My Termination From United Hospital ER By Cliff Willmeng, RN, Popular Resistance. May 11, 2020 It’s Bigger Than Scrubs – My Termination From United Hospital ER2020-05-112020-05-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/mnnurses-e1589204236949.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty Images. St. Paul, MN – During the course of my May 8, 2020, shift, I was brought into two meetings with managers of United Hospital’s Emergency Room and two representatives from its […]