Author: Mark Hartley

Major social media platform Instagram, a subsidiary of Meta (nee Facebook) is the latest in a string of digital platforms exploring NFTs. As one of the largest image sharing applications in the world, it’s natural that Instagram would be the target of NFT speculation. The platform has grown from a fun photo app with retro-filters to a worldwide phenomenom on…

India is a country that has been battling with crypto regulations for several years now. Following the country’s demonetisation experiment in 2016, Indian residents turned to cryptocurrencies to avoid losing their savings. The tech-rich country has since dived head first into the world of blockchain and crypto, with several major digital currency exchanges popping up since 2017. In 2018, following…

A popular crypto analyst who goes by the Twitter handle Plan B (@100trillionUSD) has addressed the first failure of his controversial Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model. The model has so far performed with a high degree of accuracy, hitting every monthly target since its creation. However, ongoing negative price action throughout November has decimated Plan B’s $98k price prediction. Back in June,…

A new cryptocurrency is making headlines lately after taking over the much-loved memecoin Shiba Inu (SHIB). Avalanche (AVAX) catapulted into 11th place by market cap this weekend after a spectacular rally that saw it gain 36.6% since this time last Monday. The rally appears to have been prompted by the announcement of a partnership deal with Deloitte, one of the…

The price of Bitcoin suddenly surged by over $2,000 earlier today, cracking a new all-time high (ATH) above $69,000. The event coincides with the US consumer price-index (CPI), which measures inflation, jumping to a 31-year-high – 0.3% higher than government estimates. With the pace of inflation over the past year now at 6.2% it’s way beyond the Federal Reserve’s 2%…

Following last month’s listing of Shiba Inu (SHIB) on its platform, Coinbase has now overtaken TikTok to become the number 1 app on Apple’s AppStore. In essence, this makes buying cryptocurrency a more popular activity than using social media… or pretty much anything else in the world. How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/7xCGmnHljI — Fred Ehrsam (@FEhrsam) October 28,…

A Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) issued by ProShares has officially launched on the New York Stock Exchange. After nearly half a decade of failed attempts from a multitude of asset managers, the ProShares ETF was finally approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week. It will trade as PROSHARES BITCOIN STRATEGY ETF under the ticker BITO. “We…

Shiba Inu (SHIB), the new DOGE-inspired meme coin that has gained favor off the back of Elon Musk buying a puppy, has once again exploded in value. The coin is now the 12th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, despite having a per-coin price of only fractions of a cent. Now up by 216% in the past week, the coin climbed…

Former Facebook executive and billionaire CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, believes Bitcoin has replaced Gold. Speaking to CNBC’s Scott Wapner at the Delivering Alpha conference yesterday, Palihapitiya made his bullish case for Bitcoin but said it would be hard to give an accurate price prediction. The best he could offer was to say Bitcoin is likely heading for $200,000…

The cryptocurrency sector continues to struggle this week in face of tightening regulations and knock-on effects from the wider stock market. Following last week’s warning from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to major crypto exchange Coinbase, the market suffered a blow that took almost 20 percent off the price of Bitcoin (BTC). The warning, known as a Wells…