Peter Brandt, a market veteran who has been trading since the 1970s, isn’t mincing words. He’s been upping the ante on the Ethereum bashing lately, calling it “worthless junk.” Now, Brandt’s been around enough market cycles that most of us have notched that many birthdays (insert appropriate age here), so...
The MANTRA (OM) implosion. A $5 billion market cap, gone. Disappears without a trace, as it has left behind a wake of destroyed portfolios and broken confidence. We’re told it’s just “market volatility.” I call it something far more sinister: a glaring indictment of the inherent dangers of centralized crypto...
DeepSeek AI, a Shanghai-based venture capital firm with an eye for the best deep tech innovations of tomorrow, has decided to pass on XRP. Instead, they have poured that energy into building Lightchain AI. Now, before you XRP maximalists take to the pitchforks and torches, let’s talk. While this might...
Is David finally beating Goliath? DeepSeek AI selecting Lightchain AI instead of XRP… it’s more than a headline. It’s a possible paradigm shift. For us, the underrepresented class of innovators and entrepreneurs typically excluded from the crypto gold rush, it has been our own little whisper of economic empowerment. XRP...
The MANTRA (OM) implosion. A 90% nosedive. Billions vanished. You saw the headlines. You felt the tremor. What really happened? Was this a black swan event, just the market operating as intended, or a little bit of something evil? The CEO’s inflammatory charges against centralized exchanges (CEXs) are alarming and...
So does this mean that Trump’s newfound love for crypto represents a true embrace of libertarian ideals? Or is this just another gilded opportunities for crony capitalists to reap profits at taxpayer expense? Let's be blunt: it's probably the latter. We're staring down the barrel of a potential crypto-fueled kleptocracy,...
Deregulation sounds great, right? Less red tape, more innovation. On crypto, we need to be very careful, but this time we should be encouraged to tread lightly. That is especially the case where the Trump family is concerned. Fast.Deregulation = Unforeseen Systemic Risks?Think of the 2008 financial crisis. Deflated, those...
Now, picture Amina, a single mother living in rural Kenya. She spends a quarter of her meager income on remittance fees just to receive money from her brother working in Dubai. That’s real money, dissipated, disappeared into the pockets of highly paid middlemen. For Amina and millions of her fellow...
BlackRock, the asset management giant, recently made a splash with Bitcoin with a recent $36.7 million investment. The knee-jerk reaction? The second spike occurred on April 15, 2025 and saw Bitcoin’s price increase by over 4%. This relatively small increase led to an absolutely massive 230% increase in trading volume....
