Dave Portnoy talked a strong crypto game right up until it cost him money. After recently entering the crypto space, Barstool Sports founder turned stock trader, Dave Portnoy, seems as though he is not quite ready for Bitcoin (BTC) trading yet. “I’m getting killed right now in Bitcoin,” Portnoy said in an Aug. 21 video…
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Davey Day Trader crowned himself the king of Bitcoin. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, a fresh player in the crypto trading arena, recently estimated that he will receive millions of dollars in upcoming Bitcoin (BTC) trading profits. “I’m up 100 grand in Bitcoin — in a week,” he said, noting positions in Ethereum and other…
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“Determing Bitcoin’s potential future value” instead of just solo “value.” Determining Bitcoin’s (BTC) value can be more complicated than simply looking at its current market price. “Most Bitcoins already cost at least $100,000, but probably more like $10 million,” said Michael Goldstein, also known as Bitstein, in an Aug. 17 tweet. While Bitcoin sits around…
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Have the Winklevoss twins created a monster? Following his recent educational foray into the world of Blockchain, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy now appears to be promoting crypto pump and dump schemes by shilling low-cap altcoins. Posting a number of videos on Twitter, Portnoy stated that he had found a new altcoin “that I’m interested…
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Dave Portnoy now knows more about crypto. Barstool Sports founder, Dave Portnoy, posted a video of his meeting with Gemini exchange founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, on Twitter. Portnoy, also known as Davey Day Trader on Twitter for his stock trading antics, recently invited the Winklevoss twins over to his house to teach him about…
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Andrew Hamilton, the CEO of legal firm JPB Liberty, is ready to file a class-action lawsuit seeking billion in damages from the social media “cartel” that sought to kill crypto in 2018. Andrew Hamilton, a lawyer with a background in computer science, is spearheading a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media and search giants Google,…
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Coincurve’s Rod Hsu says facial recognition can stamp out social media Bitcoin scams. Facial recognition can help prevent future Bitcoin (BTC) scams like those that hit Twitter and YouTube, said Rod Hsu, president and co-founder of virtual currency platform Coincurve. During an interview with Cointelegraph, Hsu said Bitcoin is an electronic form of currency that…
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As Trump clamps down on Chinese social media in the U.S., tech in general becomes subject to nationalism. Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note The U.S.–China trade war continues its brazen spillover into tech. In response to concerns over where…
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Someone hacked the digital court hearing of the alleged 17-year-old Twitter breacher. The teen behind July’s massive Twitter breach had a digital courtroom hearing on Aug. 5. The trial was postponed, however, due to a highly irregular breach in the hearing’s Zoom call. During a “Zoom bombing,” infiltrators “broke into the call to interrupt the proceedings,”…
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On Tuesday, during a court hearing in Hillsborough Circuit Court, the “mastermind” of the Twitter hack pleaded not guilty. Graham Ivan Clark, the 17-year-old resident of Tampa, Florida, who is accused of leading the hack of several celebrity Twitter accounts pleaded not guilty to all allegations on Tuesday in Hillsborough Circuit Court. According to the…
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