Bitcoin is on fire and recently broke through its previous all-time high, pulling other cryptocurrency-levered assets along with it. Interest in the cryptocurrency space has exploded in recent days with the price of a single bitcoin spiking to new all-time highs—well north of $20,000. Leading the entire sector higher, the world’s best-known digital coin appears … Continued
On May 6, 2010 the Dow collapsed 9% only to recover a large portion of the loss almost instantly. The whole move only took about 36 minutes, and is known as the “Flash Crash.” No one quite understood the reasons behind the move when it occurred, but eventually the regulators found a culprit. The U.S. … Continued
A diverse panel plumbs the excesses of Google, Amazon and Facebook The ravenous rulers of the internet aren’t satiated by the tasty data that innocent users willingly feed them. They augment that information with the voluminous intelligence bought and sold by financial institutions, healthcare providers, location trackers and just about any other imaginable entity that … Continued