(00:00) Yoni Assia is the founder and CEO of Etoro, one of the most successful crypto and stock buying apps on the market with over 27 million users in over 100 countries at the time of recording. Originally founded in 2007, it was one of the pioneering companies to incorporate crypto to their platform as…
Try and guess my age. It may not be immediately obvious. And no I didn’t drink the blood of a thousand virgins, I seem to be weirdly youthful. Must be all those NFTs I’ve acquired. But I am in fact an ancient old man when it comes to the young blood coursing through this space…
In this week’s episode, I interview Jaime Rogozinski, founder of Wall Street Bets, the famous Reddit trading group which earlier this year organized to push up the price of heavily shorted stocks like Gamestop and AMC to create a short squeeze, which had the double benefit of amplifying the group’s gains and screwing over big hedge funds. Jaime goes…
The Pyth Network malfunctioned on Sep. 20 as the data provider reported a Bitcoin price of $5,402 on a day when other sources like CoinGecko didn’t report a BTC price below $40K. That wasn’t the only snafu. Pyth’s price feed for the stock of movie theater chain, AMC, showed a spike to $772 on Sep.…
Crypto markets were in the red on Monday morning NY time, and DeFi names were taking a beating as investors worldwide turned bearish overnight. Pacesetter Aave was down 13.6% in the last 24 hours, and Maker’s MKR wasn’t far behind with a 10.7% drop, according to CoinGecko. Ethereum shed 8% in the last day, and…
Did Robinhood freeze your account? Do you want to buy stocks but you can’t? Well, that’s exactly why we have DeFi — it’s permissionless, it’s trustless, no one can freeze your account here. In this tutorial we take a look at how to buy stocks using Mirror Protocol. Mirror Protocol is a synthetics protocol providing…
