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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...

Sir Richard Branson’s private space tourism company Virgin Galactic Inc. started its trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) via a direct listing at $12.10 on Monday under the ticker “SPCE”.The move comes after the Galactic merged with Chamath Palihapitiya’s venture Social Capital Hedosophia that gave the new company a combined valuation of $1.5 billion. Branson kept a 51% stake in the business.CEO George Whitesides said:“Virgin Galactic is making history again today as it becomes the...

The race for the space business is getting intense as big organizations are spending billions of dollars in creating the infrastructure for space tourism. While we have frequently heard Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jess Bezos’ Blue Origin working on the plan, Richard Branson’s space tourism venture Virgin Galactic has pulled the rabbit out of the hat.Virgin Galactic is all set to become the first company in the space tourism to go public. During a recent interview with the CNBC, we heard this...