Omicron Many countries have begun enacting new travel restrictions in response to the new Omicron Covid-19 variant that was announced last week to be spreading in South Africa and elsewhere. These restrictions and global panic over the virus lead to a tank in the price of BTC, hitting a price of $53,569.76 on Friday. This is the lowest price BTC has seen since October 6, leading many to fear that the coin would continue to plummet in price. It has since recovered to the $57,000 price range, hitting a high of $58,872.88 earlier today, since the drop in price. BTC is currently trading at a volume of $32.4 billion. The…
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Our Weekly Bitcoin Review
Odell Beckham Jr’s crypto football salary, the Texas coin-mining boom, and a Bitcoin City in El Salvador
In the cryptocurrency space, no player or asset controls the market as a whole more than Bitcoin (BTC). With this new weekly feature, Modern Consensus will give the latest updates and big news stories from the previous week. The price of Bitcoin currently sits around $56,000, while it was at a high of $64,000 earlier in the week, a significant price drop. Sports Odell Beckham Jr., a wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams and an extremely popular football player, is now accepting his entire NFL salary in Bitcoin. With a $4.25 million salary, this equates to a little more than 75 BTC a year. He announced this big change…
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There’s No Way to Predict The Future of Dog Coins
Traditional Market Rules Do Not Apply
In the beginning of 2021, Dogecoin was worth far less than a penny. Right now it sits around a comfortable $0.28. Not too bad for a token named after a dog meme. The coin has gone as high as $.74, but that was because of social media hype generated by Elon Musk among others, and the price quickly diminished. Many financial experts and investors who have made massive fortunes trading stocks, options, and futures in the past have denounced cryptocurrency as a whole many times. In May of 2021, Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England Governor, warned that people who invest money in Crypto risk losing it all. Since then,…
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Modern Consensus 100 Most Influential: Who got it right and who got it wrong
The good guesses, the triumphs, the screw-ups and the downright disasters of 2020
In an industry as young and volatile as crypto, and especially with all the money sloshing around in it, the triumphs and tragedies—or at least successes and screw-up—can be be enlightening and sometimes funny. It’s also a good preview to The Modern Consensus 100 Most Influential People in Crypto 2021, which went live today.
