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☆ Couples are proposing to each other by writing 'marry me' on Ukrainian artillery shells to be fired at Russians
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A US supporter of Ukraine proposed to his girlfriend with a message on a Ukrainian artillery shell. They used a Ukrainian service that offers customized notes on munitions in exchange for a donation. "When we first started dating, I made an offhand comment one night," 38-year-old Emily Knight told Insider. A few months later that's more or less what her partner David did, using a then-burgeoning Ukrainian service known as SignMyRocket that the couple had been browsing. Her mother, who was ready to foot the bill for a white wedding, has been told to send the equivalent cash to Ukraine, Emily said.

In this article BTC.CM=ETH.CM= Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTKris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com, speaking at a 2018 Bloomberg event in Hong Kong, China. Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesKris Marszalek wants everyone to know that his company, Crypto.com, is safe and in good hands. While no evidence has emerged of wrongdoing at Crypto.com, Marszalek's business history is replete with red flags. Over the course of 2008 and 2009, Marszalek and his partner were transferred nearly $3 million in payments from Starline, according to the documents. As a result, when the bank forced Starline into liquidation, Marszalek and his partner were forced into bankruptcy as well.

related investing news Cathie Wood's ARK Invest keeps buying more crypto assets despite FTX bankruptcy Crypto.com is smaller than FTX but still ranks among the top 15 global exchanges, according to CoinGecko. Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com, speaking at a 2018 Bloomberg event in Hong Kong, China. Marszalek has spent the early part of the week trying to reassure users and regulators that the business is fine. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said his company's assets were "fine" two days before he was desperate for a rescue because of a liquidity crunch. Marszalek said on Monday that this was just a reflection of the assets Crypto.com customers were buying.

SINGAPORE, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Singapore-based crypto exchange Crypto.com's chief executive said the firm will prove all naysayers wrong on the platform being in trouble, and that it has a robust balance sheet and took no risks. Chief executive Kris Marszalek took questions in a livestreaming YouTube address, and also said the platform always maintained reserves to match every coin customers held on its platform. Marszalek had tweeted to say the ether was recovered and returned to the exchange, but that failed to calm a jittery market. Crypto.com is among the top 10 exchanges by turnover globally, but smaller than FTX and market leader Binance. Marszalek said Crypto.com had 70 million individual customers worldwide, and had made revenues of a billion dollars in 2021 as well as in 2022.

☆ Crypto.com CEO downplays FTX contagion fears, says he’ll prove naysayers wrong as withdrawals rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

"We do not run a hedge fund, we do not trade customers' assets. Alameda Research, FTX's sister company, borrowed billions in customer funds from the exchange to ensure it had enough funds on hand to process withdrawals, CNBC reported Sunday. Bankman-Fried declined to comment on allegations of misappropriating customer funds but said its recent bankruptcy filing was the result of issues with a leveraged trading position. Asked about this Monday, Marszalek said this was just a reflection of the assets Crypto.com customers were buying. Crypto.com has 70 million users globally and made revenues of $1 billion annually in both 2021 and 2022, according to Marszalek.

☆ Cryptoverse-Elon Musk frees the bird and the dog coin flies
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Vidya Ranganathan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has put fresh wind in the sails of dogecoin, the meme cryptocurrency he catapulted to fame. It was trading at about $0.07 on Oct. 27 before Musk tweeted "the bird is freed" to announce his ownership. Not bad for a coin that was created as a "joke" satirizing wild speculation in the crypto market and named after an internet meme of a Shiba Inu dog. Its share of the $1 trillion global crypto market cap through the year until the end of October was 1%, a fraction of bitcoin's 39%, according to CoinMarketCap. Bets that Musk may allow crypto payments with dog tokens were kindled by his tweet last week of a picture of the Shiba Inu dog wearing a Twitter T-shirt.

☆ Dogecoin has been revived with a $10 billion surge since Elon Musk purchased Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Dogecoin has added $10 billion in market value since Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter. Musk tweeted a picture of a Shiba Inu dog wearing a Twitter T-shirt early Tuesday morning. Dogecoin, which counts a Shiba Inu dog as its mascot, has soared more than 100% since Friday. After accounting for the recent surge, dogecoin's fully diluted market value is now $18.5 billion, according to data from CoinMarketCap, making it the eighth most valuable cryptocurrency. There has also been speculation that Musk could use dogecoin as a way to add support for microtransactions on Twitter.

☆ The stock market crash is exposing Wall Street's biggest charlatans
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In a market bubble, it's easy to confuse opportunity for genius. While many of these new investors invested wisely, a pack of them got swept up in a social-media-driven market mania. For the past decade-plus, the stock market loved this. It's really never a good sign when you see celebrities hanging around the stock market, and during the bubble they were everywhere, pumping crypto and investing in SPACs. Good information about the stock market does not come easy, and Gordon Gekko was right to say that if you want a friend on Wall Street, you should buy a dog.

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☆ A history of Elon Musk's love affair with Dogecoin, from a Doge-themed Twitter icon to a spat with one of its creators
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-03 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Elon Musk's Twitter changed the logo on its homepage to an image of a Shiba Inu on Monday. Twitter changed its logo to a Shiba Inu on Monday. TwitterDogecoin soared as high as 31% on Monday after the social media company changed the home button on the site from Twitter's blue bird to the doge meme. The change might have left some users questioning Musk's plans for Twitter, but for longtime followers of Musk it was just the billionaire's latest homage in a long love affair with the cryptocurrency. Source: Bloomberg

☆ Cryptovoxels is an artist-dominated metaverse featuring wearable blunts and eclectic locales like the Temple of Doge. Here's why OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer named it one of his favorite growing NFT proje
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-25 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

As the self-described "first non-engineer hire" to join Cryptovoxels, Robinson was brought on to fix these kinds of user nuisances. As part of the next rollout of features, Robinson tells me that Cryptovoxels will allow users to sell custom dances. According to Robinson, users can make money in other ways, like selling mini-game scripts and renting land for events like dances or NFT collection releases. For some reason, the Cryptovoxels world is also abundant with shrines, like the ancient Greece-inspired Frenetik Temple and the Jedi-themed Dark Junction. It's reminiscent of attending a presentation in the real world, except instead of pinning name tags to our shirts, they're superimposed over our heads in large white letters.

☆ India's young investors prefer crypto to gold and 'boring' stocks
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-03 | by ( Diksha Madhok | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New Delhi CNN Business —Indian businesswoman Swati Daga first bought bitcoin in 2017, when the cryptocurrency was trading well under $3,000. “I find stock markets boring,” she told CNN Business, adding that she enjoys the “thrill” and “recklessness” that comes with investing in volatile currencies. The growth is driven by younger investors — mostly under the age of 35 — and many of them are coming from smaller cities and towns, founders of two of India’s biggest crypto exchanges told CNN Business. WazirX also has over 10 million users, and called 2021 a “phenomenal year” for crypto trading in India. On-again, off-again relationshipThe excitement over crypto is rising in India despite the country’s on-again, off-again relationship with digital currencies.

By not following my friends' advice, I avoided a lot of losses on things like meme coins. I did a lot of research firstA lot of my friends rushed to buy meme coins — like dogecoin or shiba inu — when they went viral in both the news and on crypto forums in 2020. Since I'm new to this, I couldn't justify the risk of buying these meme coins since I didn't know much about them or what their purpose was. If I listened to my friends, I'd only be able to make gains from buying cryptocurrency. Some of my friends have been buying crypto for more than five years, and others have been buying coins since early 2020.

☆ Cel mai tânăr miliardar în criptomonede din lume a donat peste un miliard de dolari pentru a ajuta India în lupta cu Covid
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-14 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: Guliver/Getty ImagesCel mai tânăr miliardar în criptomonede din lume a donat peste un miliard de dolari pentru a ajuta India în lupta cu CovidCel mai tânăr miliardar în criptomonede din lume, cofondatorul Ethereum Vitalik Buterin, a donat criptomonede Shiba inu în valoare de peste un miliard de dolari, pentru a ajuta India în lupta cu pandemia Covid-19. Tânărul în vârstă de 27 de ani a transferat miercuri peste 50 de trilioane de monede Shiba inu către India Covid-Crypto Relief Fund, potrivit portofelului său public. La momentul transferului, monedele Shiba erau evaluate la 1 miliard de dolari, dar valoarea a scăzut după donația lui Buterin cu aproximativ 30%, potrivit Coinbase. Buterin, care avea doar 19 ani când a creat Ethereum în 2013, a devenit miliardar din 4 mai, când moneda digitală a atins 3.500 de dolari. Prin acest gest, Buterin va ajuta India să gestioneze criza sanitară de proporții prin care trece.

Persons: Tânărul, Ether Organizations: CNN Locations: India

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