Libra (LBA) & Facebook

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) says its ready to do all it can to regulate Libra and any other new “payment technologies” that make their way through the country’s borders.A Test Version of Libra Is Made AvailableAustralia has been particularly hard towards Libra in the past, citing trust issues and even hinting that the platform was going to face hardcore scrutiny due to a largely unwelcoming attitude. This latest statement suggests that Australia may be giving into the idea that Libra...

Robinhood online brokerage app crumbled on March 2 when the Dow Jones gained its most single-day points, leaving investors frustrated unable to take advantage of the market recovery.After the stock markets imploded last week due to the fears of the coronavirus spread, traders were ready on March 2 to cut some of those losses. However, that was not meant to be for all Robinhood investors. Robinhood, the brokerage platform, suffered a prolonged outage and was offline for a whole U.S. trading...

Uhive, a new upcoming social media company, allows users to connect and share content with their family and friends publicly or anonymously to create its own cryptocurrency.Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency at large have been huge game-changers for the global economy over the past ten years. Social media companies have not been ignoring this, and many have adopted tokenization to move forward their main agenda, gain popularity, increase their customer base, and also monetize their...

Stock market and Bitcoin volatility are bad but holding the fiat currency or average altcoin is even worse. Dow, S&;P 500 markets are falling during the fears that coronavirus stops supply chains. Where are investors putting their money power to avoid risk?The stock market had lost more than 3,6 trillion USD or the equivalent of 694 573 870 Bitcoin. The total mass of Bitcoins that can be in circulation is 21 million. We can say that the fair lost 33 Bitcoin markets. Each one has 16-21...

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) has become one of the major events that have been called off due to the coronavirus spread over the world.The Game Developers Conference, which was to be held in San Francisco, has been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that is spreading all over the world. The organizing team has announced that they have officially canceled the event, which was scheduled for this March. However, they are hoping to reschedule it for a later date in the...

While the coronavirus is expanding to new countries, already a row of major international events has been canceled. Now it has become known that the Geneva Motor Show will not take place this year.The Geneva Motor Show has been canceled as a result of the coronavirus outbreak and the fears that it may be lurking in large assemblies. The Swiss auto show is dabbed as one of the largest car exhibition shows in the world, where most high-end carmakers assemble to showcase their best models.Since...

MKM partners prepared a list of stocks that may have the greatest chance of doing well during the times of the coronavirus. The list includes AAPL, FB, NFLX and others.Some all-weather stocks could lift investment portfolios even amid coronavirus. This comes at a time when markets are plunging. While this isn’t investment advice, these stocks could help mitigate the risk associated with sideways markets. Here’s the kicker: most of them have something to do with serving home-based services....

The coronavirus has a serious impact on many spheres of social life. This year Facebook will not hold its F8 developer conference due to the fears and risks related to the virus.Social media giant Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) announced that it has canceled this year’s F8 developer conference due to fears caused by the coronavirus spread. The F8 developer conference is the biggest event hosted by the company, where it brings together more than 5000 developers and also entrepreneurs from all over...

The global markets have been bleeding for the fourth straight day in a row after the U.S. Health officials warned against a possible coronavirus outbreak. In just four days the S&P 500 has crashed over 10% registering its fastest crash to date. Dow has lost 1000 points.Things are clearly not looking good for the global markets as threats of a global coronavirus outbreak intensifies. On Thursday, the Dow Jones dropped 4.5% over 1000 points dragging down several bluechip stocks as well!On...

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt are causing the global community at large to panic over the potential implications of the coronavirus. The chairman of Virgin Galactic Chamath Palihapitiya believes that in the current situation it would be sensible to keep 1% of assets in Bitcoin.We were already writing numerous times how Bitcoin (together with other cryptocurrencies) is a good asset to have when things are going rough. Nowadays, we are witnessing, not just geopolitical tensions between the...