Following the acquisition of First Republic Bank by JPMorgan Chase, several regional banks such as Pacwest and Western Alliance experienced a significant drop in their stock prices. On Tuesday afternoon, all four major U.S. benchmark stock indexes are in decline as regional bank stocks hit new lows. Banking Industry on Edge as Pacwest Shares Sink
Month: May 2023
Investors cannot claim a tax loss on the sale of a security if they buy a “substantially identical” security within 30 days before or after the sale, as per the wash-sale rule, a tax regulation. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States established the wash-sale rule, which restricts investors from deducting a tax
The share of Ethereum (ETH) held by so-called whale addresses has dropped since Ethereum’s Shapella upgrade in mid April, suggesting that large investors may be leaning bearish in t near term. ETH whale population shrinks post-Shapella The amount of Ether held by addresses with 1,000-10,000 ETH, or “whales,” was over 14.033 million ETH on May 1, according
The majority of people will have their wealth progressively eaten away by the devaluation of money, according to Arthur Hayes, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX. According to Hayes, due to the huge amount of public debt accumulated by the world’s largest economies, governments will have no choice but “inflating it
Text generator ChatGPT is the fastest-growing consumer app ever, and it’s still growing rapidly. But the dirty secret of AI is that humans are still needed to create, label and structure training data — and training data is very expensive. The dark side of this is that an exponential feedback loop is being created where
International analysts have called out the supposed use of the national security policy of the U.S. as a tool to justify the establishment of blockades and economic sanctions against countries like China and Russia. While U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has recognized that a decoupling of the economies of the U.S. and China would be
Bitcoin (BTC) fought for $28,000 support on May 2 after the month opened to multiday lows. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC price: “Big volatility on the horizon” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it returned to the $28,000 mark on Bitstamp. The previous day’s Wall Street open had
Layer-2 blockchain protocols have been in the spotlight in 2023, bringing major performance improvements to a variety of platforms and services operating in the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem. Zero-knowledge proofs have been key in the roll-out of a variety of layer 2s, with the technology pioneered by the decentralized scaling network Starknet. StarkWare, the technology firm behind
Ava Labs founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer has reportedly won a defamation suit against a crypto influencer, awarding him $3 million in damages. The lawsuit stemmed from claims made in a February 2021 YouTube video by crypto influencer Emre Aksoy linking Sirer to an Islamist group the Turkish government calls the Fethullah Terrorist Organization
Business intelligence platform MicroStrategy has reiterated its commitment to its Bitcoin (BTC) investment strategy after turning its first quarterly profit since 2020. The Michael Saylor-founded firm went back into the green in the first quarter of 2023 with a profit of $94 million, which was largely attributed to a one-time income tax benefit of $453.2
Liquid staking solutions such as Lido and Rocket Pool now have more total value locked (TVL) than decentralized exchanges (DEXs), making them the top category of DeFi protocols, according to data from crypto analytics platform DefiLlama. For the first time, the Liquid Staking category has surpassed DEXes in total value locked, making it the leading
The deadline has come for comments on a consultation paper and call for evidence released by the United Kingdom’s HM Treasury on a proposed crypto asset regulatory framework. The long-awaited paper, published in February, drew detailed responses from a variety of cryptocurrency industry players. Blockchain provider Polygon Labs, venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the Association for
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that the Treasury will not be able to pay all of the government’s debt “as early as June 1, if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before that time.” Yellen also cautioned that the U.S. defaulting on its debt obligations “would produce an economic and
Your biweekly roundup of cool AI stuff and its impact on society and the future. The past two months have seen a Cambrian explosion in the capabilities and potential of AI technology. OpenAI’s upgraded chatbot GPT-4 was released in mid-March and aced all of its exams, although it’s apparently a pretty average sommelier. Midjourney v5
On May 1, cryptocurrency exchange OKX announced that it would be listing memecoin Pepe (PEPE) at 17:00 Hong Kong Time (HKT) and open Pepe withdrawals on May 2 at 17:00 HKT. In supporting the listing decision, OKX staff wrote: “Pepe the Frog is a cartoon character and internet meme created by cartoonist Matt Furie. Pepe
Bitcoin (BTC) saw considerable volatility between April 25 and May 1, ranging between $27,200 and $30,000. From a trading perspective, the 10.5% move sounds alarming, resulting in $340 million in leveraged BTC futures contract liquidations. However, from a broader angle, Bitcoin price is up 72% year-to-date in 2023, while the S&P 500 stock market index