VIEWEDNOW PLAYINGFTX ANNOUNCES $2 BILLION FUND WITH 'CRYPTO FOCUS'FTX's Head of Ventures and Commercial Amy Wu joins Emily Chang to talk about FTX's new $2 billion venture fund and where they intend on investing most. She also shares her thoughts on 2022 crypto... Bloomberg7 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGCOSTA RICA HYDRO PLANT RECOMMISSIONED FOR CRYPTO MINING small river in the middle of coffee plantations, sugar cane fields and a forest provides energy to a hydroelectric power plant in Costa Rica that feeds hundreds of computers wired up to the crypto... Reuters12 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGNORTON ACCUSED OF 'SKIMMING' CRYPTO COMMISSIONTwitter exploded recently when writer Cory Doctorow suggested NortonLifeLock's latest antivirus software "sneakily" mines crypto and charges users for the privilege. What's really going on? Bloombe... Bloomberg13 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGBITCOIN SELL-OFF CONTINUES, SLIPS BELOW $40,000Bitcoin's continued slide to start the year saw the cryptocurrency fall below $40,000 for the first time since September. ProChain Capital President David Tawil explains why he sees $38,000 as a ... Bloomberg13 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGBITCOIN MINING SLOWS AFTER KAZAKHSTAN UNREST, INTERNET BLACKOUTThe global computing power of the bitcoin network has dropped sharply as the shutdown this week of Kazakhstan's internet during a deadly uprising hit the country's fast-growing cryptocurrency minin... Reuters16 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGBITCOIN IS 'UNDER PRESSURE' AS FALLS DEEPENEmily Chang and Ed Ludlow talk about why Bitcoin went viral today after dipping below $41,000. It's not the first scare for the flagship cryptocurrency: after reaching a record near $69,000 in Nove... Bloomberg16 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGBITCOIN, OTHER CRYPTOCURRENCIES CONTINUE TO FALLMaja Vujinovic, managing director of investment and advisory firm OGroup LLC, spoke to Cheddar about factors impacting the price of a Bitcoin. She attributed some of the drop-offs in the cryptocu... Cheddar News17 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGGOLDMAN SACHS: BITCOIN WILL TAKE MARKET SHARE AWAY FROM GOLDBitcoin will take market share away from gold in 2022 as digital assets become more widely adopted, a Goldman Sachs analyst said in a research note to clients. Fred Katayama reports. Reuters19 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGGLOBALTHE YEAR IN FINANCE: ELON MUSK, MEMES AND CRYPTOFrom a blockbuster year for Tesla, to meme-stock mayhem and crypto chaos, we round up the big numbers in business and finance over the course of 2021. Ilan Rubens reports. Reuters24 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGBITCOIN'S LATEST DOWNTURN BLAMED ON VOLATILE MARKETWhile slumps within the crypto market have typically correlated with major developments, such as China's crypto crackdown or Tesla reversing course on accepting bitcoin, the current slide is coming... Cheddar News25 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGTEXAS TOWNS BECOME HAVEN FOR BITCOIN MININGBitcoin is giving a former aluminium plant in Texas a new industry. Crypto miners are pouring in from all over the world and offering millions for a spot there. And Rockdale, a rural Texas town... Al Jazeera27 days agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGARGENTINA: BUSINESSES HIT BY ECONOMIC WOES TURN TO CRYPTO MININGArgentina is in the middle of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund to restructure $44bn it owes to the global fund. Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies have become a way for people in Argenti... Al Jazeera1 month agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGBITCOIN FALLS FOR FIFTH CONSECUTIVE WEEKFalconX Head of Institutional Coverage Aya Kantorovich examines the Bitcoin market on "Quicktake Stock" as the largest cryptocurrency heads for a fifth consecutive weekly decline. Bloomberg1 month agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGQUICKTAKE: THE 'REAL-WORLD' USES FOR CRYPTOCoinshares International Chief Strategy Officer Meltem Demirors explains various practical uses for cryptocurrencies in everyday life on "Quicktake Charge." Bloomberg1 month agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGCOINBASE USERS SEE 'ASTRONOMICAL GAINS' IN ACCOUNTS AFTER ERRORPrices of cryptocurrencies listed on Coinbase Global Inc. and popular data provider CoinMarketCap.com briefly went haywire Tuesday, with many tokens showing astronomical gains that sent users gushi... Bloomberg1 month agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGIN DEPTH: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM CRYPTO IN 2022Juthica Chou, head of OTC options trading at Kraken, talk about trends to watch in crypto for 2022 and why Bitcoin has been struggling over the last few weeks. She's on Bloomberg's "QuickTake Stock." Bloomberg1 month agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGDOGECOIN SURGES AFTER TESLA ANNOUNCEMENTElon Musk says Tesla will take dogecoin as payment for some merchandise, sparking a 24% surge in the value of the meme-inspired cryptocurrency. Julian Satterthwaite reports. Reuters1 month agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGCOINDESK REVEALS TOP TEN CRYPTO FIGURES FOR 2021Ben Schiller, the managing editor for features and opinion at CoinDesk, breaks down how the year's top 10 crypto influencers were selected and what to expect from the blockchain ecosystem, especial... Cheddar News1 month agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGTHE SEARCH FOR $350 MILLION WORTH OF BITCOIN 'LOST IN A LANDFILL'CNBC's Kelly Evans reports on British I.T. worker James Howells' last-ditch effort to find a hard drive in a landfill. The drive contains 7,500 bitcoin, worth more than $350 million. New Yorker S... CNBC1 month agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGSELF-PROCLAIMED SATOSHI NAKAMOTO HAILS COURT VICTORYA computer scientist who has claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin largely prevailed this week in a Florida jury trial over whether the estate of a former business partner deserved half of a bitcoi... Reuters2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGINTERVIEW: WHAT THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARING MEANS FOR CRYPTOChamber of Progress CEO Adam Kovacevich joined Wake Up With Cheddar to break down what to expect from the cryptocurrency executives appearing on Capitol Hill and how it could impact future crypto r... Cheddar News2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGBITCOIN PLUNGES BY 22%, RECOVERS SOME GROUNDBitcoin shed a fifth of its value on Saturday as a combination of profit-taking and macro-economic concerns triggered nearly a billion dollars worth of selling across cryptocurrencies. Fred Katayam... Reuters2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGGLOBALSQUARE CHANGES ITS NAME TO BLOCK AS FOCUS SHIFTSSquare, the payments company led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, said on Wednesday it was changing its name to Block, as it looks to expand into new technologies like blockchain. Flora Bradley-W... Reuters2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGINDIA CRYPTO BAN TRIGGERS 'HEAVY SELLING'Plans by the Indian government for a new bill that would bar most private cryptocurrencies has triggered heavy selling in the country's digital currency markets, as investors look to exit positions... Reuters2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGSPORTS CARD TRADING PLATFORM ALT'S RAISES $75M, MOVES TO NFTAlternative asset, sports cards-focused platform Alt recently raised $75 million in a Series B round. Alt's platform lets users research, trade, and securely store sports cards and other high-val... Cheddar News2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGEL SALVADOR PLANNING TO CREATE A 'BITCOIN CITY'After becoming the first country to accept the cryptocurrency as legal tender, El Salvador plans to build the world's first Bitcoin City, funded initially by bitcoin-backed bonds, Natalie Powell re... Reuters2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGGLOBALBITCOIN PLUNGE CONTINUES, NOW DOWN 20% SINCE LAST MONTHKraken Chief Legal Officer Marco Santori and Bloomberg's Justina Lee discuss the market impact of new U.S. legislation on cryptocurrency and volatility in the Bitcoin market as it slides nearly 20%... Bloomberg2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGCRYPTO GROUP LOSES BID TO BUY RARE COPY OF U.S. CONSTITUTIONA crowd-funded bid by cryptocurrency enthusiasts to buy a rare copy of the U.S. constitution fell short on Thursday after the document sold to another buyer for $43.2 million. Flora Bradley-Watson ... Reuters2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGETHEREUM CO-FOUNDER SAYS CRYPTO 'IS MOVING FORWARD'ConsenSys Founder & Ethereum Co-Founder Joe Lubin joins Emily Chang to talk about Bitcoin briefly dipping below $60,000 and Ether touching its lowest level this month. He also talks about his com... Bloomberg2 months agoVIEWEDNOW PLAYINGCRYPTO.COM RESPONDS TO CRITICISM OVER STAPLES CENTER DEALBeginning Christmas Day, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, Clippers, Kings, and Sparks, the Staples Center, will go by the name Crypto.com Arena after a massive $700 million deal with AEG. Cheddar News2 months ago
