• September 5, 2024

Mortgage rates unchanged this week, weighing on home sales

Mortgage rates are unchanged this week, Freddie Mac reported, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage sitting at 6.35%. The 30-year rate has fallen by 0.77% from this time last year. Yahoo Finance housing reporter Dani Romero details the latest mortgage print and how the figure is still a deterrent for prospective homebuyers. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.

  • September 5, 2024

Tackling the Maturity of The Bitcoin Mining Industry with Marko Tarman from NiceHash

While the process of mining itself has changed, becoming more centralized and being managed by large computer centers, companies such as NiceHash continue to serve small and big miners across the world. We sat with NiceHash’s Lead Mining Manager Marko Tarman to talk about how and why the process of mining has changed and how it can fit the current and future DeFi and crypto landscape.

  • September 5, 2024

A Crypto Project's Weird Marketing 'Hack' Riffed on Infamous 1987 Chicago TV Hijacking

The fake breach started with mocking tweets and crescendoed with a masked villain disrupting founder Illia Polosukhin to rip on the crypto "pipe dream" and telling viewers "there's nothing waiting for you in Thailand" (where NEAR's holding its hackathon in November). Reverse psychology aside, the marketing stunt makes callbacks to a decades-old character of early digital culture: Max Headroom. What really makes Max memorable today, and notable for the purposes of NEAR's rather cringey gambit, is the broadcast that wasn't supposed to be: the Max Headroom incident.

  • September 5, 2024

Big Market and Crypto News: U.S. Stocks Drop, DeFi at Risk, Ripple’s Stablecoin Launch and More

In this weeks top financial and crypto news, U.S. stocks plunged, with tech and semiconductor sectors leading the decline, while Bitcoin ETFs saw their largest outflows since May. Meanwhile, the FBI warns of North Korean hackers targeting Bitcoin ETFs. Uniswap Labs was fined for offering illegal crypto derivatives trading, and Ripple's CEO announced their stablecoin is close to launch.