Investors Confuse Ethan Allen With Ethereum: Shares up 50% Over Average Price
Ethan Allen, a U.S.-based furniture company, has been getting strange traction in markets this year, due to an interesting coincidence. The company’s stock ticker is the same as ethereum’s ticker, something it shares with one of the hottest cryptocurrencies right now. This has caused confusion among investors, who have bought Ethan Allen without doing research and thinking they are buying ethereum. Ethan Allen Enjoys Ethereum’s Market...
Shiba Inu Crypto Investors Turn Multimillionaires After Almost Jobless, Relying on Stimulus Checks
Two brothers have shared the story of how they became millionaires after investing in Shiba Inu, the cryptocurrency nicknamed “dogecoin killer,” for just under two months. Before the investment, the covid-19 pandemic almost killed their business, and the government’s stimulus checks did not last long. Shiba Inu Crypto Investors Become Millionaires Two brothers from Westchester, New York, have shared their story of how they went from...
Banking System Uses Significantly More Energy Than Bitcoin, Research Shows
A new report shows that the banking system consumes more than twice the amount of energy that bitcoin does. The authors analyzed bitcoin’s energy usage and compared it to the banking and gold industries. Banking System Consumes Much More Energy Than Bitcoin Galaxy Digital published a report last week entitled “On Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption: A Quantitative Approach to a Subjective Question.” The authors described, “This report took a...
Police: Pirate IPTV Raids Shut Down “80 Percent” of Illegal Transmissions in Italy
Italy’s love of the pirate streaming world is well documented and authorities there have placed themselves at the forefront of high-profile enforcement actions. From the 2019 closure of Xtream-Codes, a service that still protests its innocence, through to several other major shutdowns, Italian police are determined to reduce the use of illegal set-top boxes, known locally as “pezzotto”. New Operation Claims To Be One of the Most...
YouTube’s Takedown Numbers are a Mystery, But Content-ID is a ‘Cash Cow’
Earlier this year we reported that Google had processed the five billionth DMCA takedown request for its search engine, a massive number. These data are conveniently shared through Google’s official transparency report, which is a treasure trove for reporters. For example, it allowed us to monitor the steep increase in notices over the years, as well as the subsequent decline. The data has also helped us spot errors and inaccuracies...
