The King of Swamp Castle
What we’re experiencing in FinTech is a Cambrian explosion of personal and B2B financial apps and services. From wealth-advising robots to cheap equity trading platforms to mortgages in minutes, we are facing a world in which middlemen and women are being replaced by code. But this code has creaky foundations. Zenefits was built upon – and was sued by – an old-guard payroll company. Many modern financial companies are still sending CSV files to central repositories using arbitrarily secure systems. Hackers stole $80 million from SWIFT – a platform that banks use to move money overseas –....
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Burger King is giving away 20 bitcoin, 200 ether, and two million dogecoin this month in partnership with trading platform Robinhood. “Each entrant may receive up to 21 Prize Codes” that can be redeemed for cryptocurrencies on Robinhood.
‘Burger King With a Side of Crypto’
Fast food restaurant chain Burger King has announced “Burger King with a side of crypto,” its newest offer for Royal Perks members.
To be eligible to participate, customers must “make a minimum $5.00 pre-tax Burger King (‘BK’) food....
Grand Castle Malla Becomes the Bitcoin Supernode Perpetual Conference Center. Manor House of Bitcoin Baron, Risto Pietila. One thing we can do to beautify this planet, is preserve our valuable heritage, at times enabling it to shine even brighter. Whether it's centuries-old buildings or natural landscapes, they can definitely provide some of the most conducive environments for great minds to connect over joy, wonder, play and rich array of experiences. This week, February 28, 2014 marks the culmination of a momentous and historic transaction, a castle bought with Bitcoin earnings and....
Castle Labs is arguing that crypto’s long tail is structurally overbuilt and that most tokens will ultimately be priced toward zero unless they can prove real business traction and tighter token alignment. The thesis, published in a long X post, frames the current market as a selection phase rather than a broad-based recovery story. The core point is not that crypto itself is failing, but that token supply has far outpaced sustainable demand. Castle Labs says the result is a market where a handful of majors dominate while thousands of smaller assets compete for shrinking liquidity. Too....
Okay, okay... So after a recent surge over $300, and then a drop to about $270, the price of bitcoin has fallen just slightly again and is now hovering at around $265, but that's no reason to get emotional just yet. We're talking about a price drop of around $5-$7. That's mere pocket money, and something like that isn't going to make or break the future of bitcoin and digital currency as a whole. Let's look at this in perspective: It's quite possible that bitcoin price or bitcoin traders are simply going through an "I don't know" phase. After a massive breakthrough in price a little over a....