• Sep 05, 2024

Wall Street’s Big Bet on Jumbo Fed Cuts Hangs on Jobs Report

(Bloomberg) -- The bold bet from the likes of Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. that the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates by a half-percentage-point this month faces its biggest test yet from Friday’s US jobs report.Most Read from BloombergThe Outsized Cost of Expanding US RoadsHow Air Conditioning Took Over the American OfficeHong Kong’s Arts Hub Turns to Selling Land to Stay AfloatMadrid to Ban E-Scooter Rentals, Following Lead Set in ParisWorld's Second-Tallest Tower Tests Mala

  • Sep 05, 2024

Tackling the Maturity of The Bitcoin Mining Industry with Marko Tarman from NiceHash

While the process of mining itself has changed, becoming more centralized and being managed by large computer centers, companies such as NiceHash continue to serve small and big miners across the world. We sat with NiceHash’s Lead Mining Manager Marko Tarman to talk about how and why the process of mining has changed and how it can fit the current and future DeFi and crypto landscape.

  • Sep 05, 2024

A Crypto Project's Weird Marketing 'Hack' Riffed on Infamous 1987 Chicago TV Hijacking

The fake breach started with mocking tweets and crescendoed with a masked villain disrupting founder Illia Polosukhin to rip on the crypto "pipe dream" and telling viewers "there's nothing waiting for you in Thailand" (where NEAR's holding its hackathon in November). Reverse psychology aside, the marketing stunt makes callbacks to a decades-old character of early digital culture: Max Headroom. What really makes Max memorable today, and notable for the purposes of NEAR's rather cringey gambit, is the broadcast that wasn't supposed to be: the Max Headroom incident.