Late last week, owners of the Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were each given, for free, upwards of 10,000 tokens of a brand-new cryptocurrency called ApeCoin. At time of writing, ApeCoin was trading in the $13 to $14 range…meaning the NFT owners were awarded roughly $140,000 each. In total, NFT holders could collect [Read More] …
My Russian/Ukrainian Wife Has Some Advice for You
Everything You Take for Granted Could Be at Risk My wife, Yulia, was walking her eight-year-old son to school recently. She looked at him and said, “Don’t speak Russian on the street.” He didn’t understand why, but nodded. That’s the end of the story. The beginning of the story is Russia’s unprovoked war on its [Read More] …
Weekly Digest: PayPal Believes Crypto Wallets Are the Future
Plus, Movie Theater Chain AMC Makes a Bizarre, Yet Savvy Investment Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. First up this week, PayPal believes crypto payments are the future… While traders and the mainstream financial media tend to focus solely on [Read More] …
Video: DAOs—The Hottest New Trend in Crypto Explained
DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations, are perhaps the hottest trend in crypto right now. These online crypto-based organizations are opening up exciting new investment opportunities, and even have the potential to reshape how all sorts of groups work, from major corporations to political parties. So, recently, I sat down with Field Notes Managing Editor Ciaran [Read More] …
The Low-Stress Way to Buy Quality NFTs
You Can Find Bargain Projects on Secondary Markets Sometimes it’s just easier to go through the back door. I regularly write to you about NFTs, the non-fungible token cryptocurrencies that have exploded onto the scene over the last year. They started out as nothing more than digitized and pixelated art. They have since morphed into [Read More] …