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[steffisblogs]

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[iwan1979]

Ethereum cofounder, Charles Hoskinson, who went on to create ethereum rival cardano, has warned the banking crisis is going to be worse than the 2008 global financial crisis that led to the creation of bitcoin...

[readingloveswounds]

i think my view of ai is extremely influenced by the fact that my BA thesis project for CS was a project that looked at:

how does blockchain work

what are the applications and how do they work (+ are they viable/useful)

how do we explain and teach what blockchain is to an audience of non-experts.

as a group of 5 computer science majors, we came to the conclusion that while applications exist, none of them are necessarily useful at this point in time (2019) - our most viable one was supply chain management and even that was a 'needs more work' situation.

It's not that blockchain technology is useless, it's just that it became a fad, and that's essentially how i feel about ai. it has its applications - many arguably far more useful than anything blockchains have done - but it's also become a fad with a bunch of absolutely bullshit applications as well.

[loislane-ana]

Newsfeed: Microsoft Anniversary, JetBlue, Bitcoin (survival), Super Bowl in New Orleans, Boom Supersonic, Six Flag, California Wildfires, New Jersey

[tony-andonuts]

I miss when the sole purpose of bitcoin was to buy drugs on the dark web

[givemegifs]

[probablyasocialecologist]

The cryptocurrency hype of the past few years already started to introduce people to these problems. Despite producing little to no tangible benefits — unless you count letting rich people make money off speculation and scams — Bitcoin consumed more energy and computer parts than medium-sized countries and crypto miners were so voracious in their energy needs that they turned shuttered coal plants back on to process crypto transactions. Even after the crypto crash, Bitcoin still used more energy in 2023 than the previous year, but some miners found a new opportunity: powering the generative AI boom. The AI tools being pushed by OpenAI, Google, and their peers are far more energy intensive than the products they aim to displace. In the days after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, Sam Altman called its computing costs “eye-watering” and several months later Alphabet chairman John Hennessy told Reuters that getting a response from Google’s chatbot would “likely cost 10 times more” than using its traditional search tools. Instead of reassessing their plans, major tech companies are doubling down and planning a massive expansion of the computing infrastructure available to them.

[...]

As the cloud took over, more computation fell into the hands of a few dominant tech companies and they made the move to what are called “hyperscale” data centers. Those facilities are usually over 10,000 square feet and hold more than 5,000 servers, but those being built today are often many times larger than that. For example, Amazon says its data centers can have up to 50,000 servers each, while Microsoft has a campus of 20 data centers in Quincy, Washington with almost half a million servers between them. By the end of 2020, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google controlled half of the 597 hyperscale data centres in the world, but what’s even more concerning is how rapidly that number is increasing. By mid-2023, the number of hyperscale data centres stood at 926 and Synergy Research estimates another 427 will be built in the coming years to keep up with the expansion of resource-intensive AI tools and other demands for increased computation. All those data centers come with an increasingly significant resource footprint. A recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the global energy demand of data centers, AI, and crypto could more than double by 2026, increasing from 460 TWh in 2022 to up to 1,050 TWh — similar to the energy consumption of Japan. Meanwhile, in the United States, data center energy use could triple from 130 TWh in 2022 — about 2.5% of the country’s total — to 390 TWh by the end of the decade, accounting for a 7.5% share of total energy, according to Boston Consulting Group. That’s nothing compared to Ireland, where the IEA estimates data centers, AI, and crypto could consume a third of all power in 2026, up from 17% in 2022. Water use is going up too: Google reported it used 5.2 billion gallons of water in its data centers in 2022, a jump of 20% from the previous year, while Microsoft used 1.7 billion gallons in its data centers, an increase of 34% on 2021. University of California, Riverside researcher Shaolei Ren told Fortune, “It’s fair to say the majority of the growth is due to AI.” But these are not just large abstract numbers; they have real material consequences that a lot of communities are getting fed up with just as the companies seek to massively expand their data center footprints.

9 February 2024

[demilypyro]

Did news go... slower? In the past? I feel like when I was younger a tv show could talk about current events and it'd be pretty topical but this episode of Futurama came out like two weeks ago and it's about Bitcoin.... Wasn't the crypto boom like 5 years ago?

[vague-humanoid]

Remember a couple years ago when everyone was talking about how Bitcoin alone was using as much energy as a medium-sized country to enable rampant speculation and financial scams? The demand was so high in some jurisdictions that it was keeping fossil-fuel power plants from being taken offline, and even reactivating some defunct polluting generation infrastructure. Crypto’s environment toll was rightfully seen as unconscionable to many people following the industry. But the generative AI boom is taking it to a whole new level.

Since the launch of ChatGPT in December 2022, the entire tech industry has reoriented itself to try to get a boost from the interest in generative AI and many sectors beyond have pretended they’re doing something with artificial intelligence (AI) too in the hopes of increasing their share price. But if there are any winners from the AI hype, it’s the companies running the data centers — especially Microsoft, Google, and Amazon — and those making the chips that power it all. Nvidia is the standout example in that category, given its ascent to become one of the most valuable publicly traded companies in the world and the questions that’s prompted about the AI bubble.

All those generative AI tools are incredibly computationally intensive, which means they require a lot of dedicated hardware within massive hyperscale data centers owned by the cloud oligopoly, and all that computing power requires a immense amount of water and electricity to keep it running. If you’ve followed tech investment news over the past year, you’ve been seeing the effect of that as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have dropped billions of dollars every few weeks on new communities around the world for new data center projects.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Canary Media:

Texas has become an all-around clean energy juggernaut, thanks to its lax permitting regime, fast grid-interconnection process, competitive energy market, and ample amount of solar- and wind-friendly land.

Its plans for the next year and a half underscore that status. As of July, the state intended to build 35 gigawatts of clean energy over 18 months, more than the next nine states combined, according to a Cleanview analysis of U.S. Energy Information Agency data.

Texas has long been the biggest player in U.S. wind energy. But in recent years, energy developers have raced to build solar in Texas too. Five years ago, the state had connected just 2.4 gigawatts of utility-scale solar to its grid; as of this past June, it had installed almost 22 GW of solar, per an American Clean Power report released this week. That’s nearly 10 times as much as back in 2019, and enough to propel Texas past California for large-scale solar installations.

Now Texas is writing its next chapter on clean energy: The state has become the nation’s hottest market for grid batteries as energy developers chase after its cheap solar and wind energy.

Given its staggering construction plans, Texas is set to only further solidify its place at the top of the clean energy leaderboard. But the rapid rise of the state’s clean energy sector has not yet yielded an outright energy transition, as the writer Ketan Joshi points out.

Though Texas has built more large-scale clean energy than any other state in absolute terms, it lags behind California — and plenty others — in terms of how clean its grid actually is. The Golden State met over half its electricity needs with renewables in 2023, per Ember data, while clean sources generated just 28 percent of Texas’ power. Electricity produced in the Lone Star State remains slightly more carbon intensive compared with the U.S. average.

Part of the story here is that, largely thanks to data centers and bitcoin mines, Texas is seeing some of the fastest growth in electricity demand of any state. That means much of the new solar, wind, and battery storage it’s building is just meeting new demand and not necessarily booting dirty energy off the grid.

The other hurdle preventing Texas from cleaning up its grid faster is the entrenchment of the fossil fuel industry in its local politics. Last year, the state passed a law creating a taxpayer-funded program to give energy developers billions of dollars in low-interest loans to build several gigawatts’ worth of new fossil-gas power plants.

In other words, the Lone Star state’s fossil fuel buildout isn’t ending even as its clean energy sector takes off. For Texas to be considered a true leader on decarbonizing the power sector — and not just a state that builds lots of everything — that will need to change. 

[beardedmrbean]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s capital and outlying provinces have faced rolling power blackouts for weeks in October and November, with electricity cuts disrupting people’s lives and businesses. And while several factors are likely involved, some suspect cryptocurrency mining has played a role in the outages.

Iran economy has been hobbled for years by international sanctions over its advancing nuclear program. The country’s fuel reserves have plummeted, with the government selling off more to cover budget shortfalls as wars rage in the Middle East and Tehran grapples with mismanagement.

The demand on the grid has not let up, however — even as Iranians stopped using air conditioners as the weather cooled in the fall and before winter months set in, when people fire up their gas heaters.

Meanwhile, bitcoin’s value has rocketed to all-time highs after the U.S. election was clinched by Donald Trump. It hit the $100,000 mark for the first time last week, just hours after the president-elect said he intends to nominate cryptocurrency advocate Paul Atkins to be the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The surge has led some to suspect that organized cryptocurrency mining — sucking away huge amounts of power — has played a part in the outages in Iran.

“Unfortunately, some opportunistic and exploitative individuals use subsidized electricity, public networks and other resources for cryptocurrency mining without authorization,” Mostafa Rajabi, the CEO of Iran’s government-owned power company, said back in August.

Iran’s state energy company did not respond to a request for comment.

Power outages have come and gone in the past in Iran, which struggles with aging equipment at many of its plants. Over the summer, sustained blackouts struck industrial parks near Tehran and other cities. Then in October and November, rolling power cuts across Tehran’s neighborhoods became the norm in daylight hours.

Climate change has been blamed in part, with persisting droughts and less water running through Iranian hydroelectric dams.

Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered several power plants to stop burning mazut, a high-polluting heavy fuel common in the former Soviet Union countries. Tehran has used it in the past to make up the difference in electricity generation.

Fuel reserves, both in diesel and natural gas, also remain low even though Iran is an OPEC member and home to one of the world’s second-largest reserves of natural gas, behind only Russia. There’s been no explanation for the decision to keep those reserves low, though critics have suggested Iran likely sold the fuel to cover budget shortfalls.

For his part, Pezeshkian has said that he must “honestly tell the public about the energy situation.”

“We have no choice but to consume energy economically, especially gas, in the current conditions and the cold weather,” he said in mid-November. “I myself use warm clothes at home; others can do the same.”

Still, winter heating isn’t in full swing quite yet on Tehran — raising questions where the power is going.

In many poor and densely populated neighborhoods across the country, people have access to free, unmetered electricity. Mosques, schools, hospitals and other sites also receive free power.

And with electricity in general sold at subsidized rates, bitcoin processing centers have boomed. They require immense amounts of electricity to power specialized computers and to keep them cool.

Determining how much power is used up by mining is difficult, particularly as miners now use virtual private networks that mask their location, said Masih Alavi, the CEO of an Iranian-government-licensed mining company called Viraminer.

Also, miners have been renting apartments to hide their rigs inside of empty homes. “They distribute their machines across several apartments to avoid being detected,” Alavi said.

In 2021, one estimate suggested Iran processed as much as $1 billion in bitcoin transactions. That value likely has spiked, given bitcoin’s rise. Meanwhile, Iran’s blackouts began in earnest as bitcoin spiked from around $67,000 to over $100,000 in its historic rally.

Rajabi, the state electricity company CEO, said his firm would offer rewards of $725 for people to report unlicensed bitcoin farms.

The farms have caused “an abnormal increase in consumption, disruptions, and problems in power networks,” Rajabi said.

The amount of power used by some 230,000 unlicensed devices is equivalent, he said, to the entire power needs of Iran’s Markazi province — one of the country’s chief manufacturing sites.

Iranian officials and media have not linked bitcoin’s surge and the ongoing blackouts but the public has, with social media users resharing a video showing a massive bitcoin farm earlier this year uncovered in Iran. A voice off camera asks how it was possible the electrical company did not discover the farm sooner.

The U.S. Treasury and Israel have targeted bitcoin wallets that they’ve alleged are affiliated with operations run by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard to finance allied militant groups in Mideast war zones.

That suggests the Guard itself — one of the most-powerful forces within Iran — may be involved in the mining.

In contrast, Iranian media nearly every day report on individual mining operations being raided by police.

Iran may see bitcoin as a hedge against increased pressure from the incoming Trump administration and as regional allies are engulfed in turmoil, said Richard Nephew, an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

“The question for the economists inside Iran is do we trust this enough to fund the government,” said Nephew, who has long worked on Iran issues and sanction strategies in the U.S. government.

However, he cautioned against thinking of bitcoin as a magic bullet for Iran, particularly as bitcoin wallets can be targeted in sanctions.

“A pattern of behavior screams out to intelligence services,” Nephew said. “It screams out to bank compliance departments.”

[alwaysmediocre]

🚨 OMG URGENT MESSAGE‼️ 🚨

Hey bestie 😘 take a deep breath, relax, and read this carefully. Because we need to have a little chat 🤭

So like… you don’t know me, but I know A LOT about you 😌💅 and you’re probably thinking, “huh???” Well, babe, you’ve been a little reckless lately… scrolling, clicking, venturing into the spicy corners of the internet 👀💀 and oop—guess what? I was there too 😈

Yeah, so funny story 🤣 I, like, totally placed a malware surprise 🎁 on a certain website (you know the one 😏), and BOOM—you clicked. And when you were ahem watching, your device turned into my personal little spy cam 🎥✨

I can see everything. I can control everything. 📲💀

I have your emails, your contacts, your social media, and let’s just say… I’ve been watching 👀 and girl… the things I have seen 😳 (btw, nice setup 👌✨)

Now, listen. I could be a menace and send everything to your ENTIRE contact list. Imagine your mom, your boss, your childhood best friend getting a lovely video compilation 📩 featuring YOU and your questionable choices 😭 but lucky for you, I’m, like, super chill 😌💖

So here’s the deal:

🔴 Option 1: You ignore this message. I drop the vids. You become the main character of an internet scandal 💀 hope you have a good explanation for grandma!

🟢 Option 2: You send me a little “privacy fee” 💰 (only in Bitcoin, because I’m fancy like that 😌✨). Once you pay up, I’ll delete everything and we pretend this never happened 💖 no hard feelings bestie 💅

I believe in win-win situations 😌 so don’t be difficult. Tick tock ⏳💀

[prolegeoisgrumblebee]

The Grand Scam of Chakra Healing: Unlocking Your Wallet, Not Your Energy

The Chakra Business Is Booming

Once upon a time, when people faced problems, they sought doctors, psychologists, financial advisors, or—if things got truly desperate—the comforting embrace of alcohol. But in today’s world, if you lose your job, struggle with relationships, or even fail to get a decent night’s sleep, the answer is simple:

Your chakras are blocked.

Yes, my friend, it’s not your lack of skills, bad decision-making, or that gallon of cola you consume daily—it’s your blocked energy centers that are wreaking havoc in your life. And guess what? For a modest fee (starting at just the price of your kidney), a self-proclaimed "healer" will realign your chakras, ensuring you finally get that promotion you didn’t deserve in the first place.

This isn't just some passing trend. The chakra healing industry is flourishing, fueled by Instagram influencers, wellness gurus, and former door-to-door salesmen who discovered that selling "divine energy realignment" is far more profitable than selling vacuum cleaners.

But before you rush to book your chakra balancing session, let’s unravel this mystical scam with some good old-fashioned common sense.

A Brief History of Chakras: Where Did This Madness Begin?

The concept of chakras originates from ancient Indian spiritual traditions, particularly within Hindu and Buddhist philosophies. The word chakra means “wheel” or “disk” in Sanskrit, referring to spinning energy centers within the body. Historically, chakras were metaphorical, symbolizing different aspects of human consciousness and spiritual enlightenment.

But somewhere along the way, these profound philosophical ideas were hijacked by enterprising "healers" who decided that chakras weren’t just spiritual concepts but literal, tangible energy hubs that determine everything from your bank balance to your libido.

The result? A multi-million-dollar wellness industry preying on gullible souls who believe that chanting mantras while bathing in Himalayan pink salt will make their depression disappear.

The Seven Chakras: A Breakdown of the Nonsense

Now, let’s take a closer look at the seven chakras, what they’re supposed to do, and how modern fraudsters are milking them for all they’re worth.

1. Root Chakra (Muladhara) – The "I Am Broke" Chakra

Location: Base of the spine

Alleged Purpose: Grounding, stability, and financial security

 Fraudster Claim: If you’re struggling with money, it’s because your root chakra is blocked.

Reality Check: If your root chakra had anything to do with financial stability, billionaires wouldn’t need hedge funds—just a good "chakra alignment" session. The real cause of financial instability? Poor budgeting, overspending on Starbucks, and thinking investing in Bitcoin at its peak was a genius move.

2. Sacral Chakra (Swadhisthana) – The "Your Sex Life Sucks" Chakra

 Location: Just below the navel

 Alleged Purpose: Creativity, passion, and sexual energy

 Fraudster Claim: If you have relationship issues or your Tinder profile is gathering dust, your sacral chakra is blocked.

Reality Check: Maybe it’s not your chakra. Maybe it’s your bad hygiene, your terrible pickup lines, or the fact that your idea of romance is sending "U up?" texts at 2 AM.

3. Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura) – The "You’re a Loser" Chakra

 Location: Upper abdomen

 Alleged Purpose: Confidence and personal power

 Fraudster Claim: If you lack self-esteem or feel directionless, your solar plexus chakra is misaligned.

Reality Check: Confidence doesn’t come from imaginary energy wheels in your stomach. It comes from competence, experience, and the ability to hold a conversation without sounding like an AI-generated chatbot.

4. Heart Chakra (Anahata) – The "Why Am I Always Single?" Chakra

 Location: Center of the chest

 Alleged Purpose: Love, compassion, and emotional balance

Fraudster Claim: If you’re heartbroken, it’s because your heart chakra is closed.

Reality Check: Maybe your heart isn’t closed—maybe your ex just realized you’re a narcissistic nightmare who never texted back on time. Or perhaps, just perhaps, love is complicated, and no amount of "chakra healing" will change that.

5. Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) – The "My Boss Hates Me" Chakra

 Location: Throat

Alleged Purpose: Communication and self-expression

 Fraudster Claim: If you can’t express yourself or your boss never listens to you, your throat chakra is blocked.

Reality Check: Your boss isn’t ignoring you because of chakra misalignment; he’s ignoring you because your ideas are either terrible or you present them like a nervous wreck. Maybe try a public speaking course instead?

6. Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) – The "I Have No Idea What’s Going On" Chakra

 Location: Between the eyebrows

Alleged Purpose: Intuition and spiritual awareness

 Fraudster Claim: If you can’t make good decisions, your third eye chakra is blocked.

Reality Check: If your decision-making is bad, it’s probably because you never learned critical thinking, not because your forehead energy is out of whack.

7. Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) – The "I’m Woke" Chakra

 Location: Top of the head

 Alleged Purpose: Enlightenment and connection to the universe

 Fraudster Claim: If you feel disconnected from life, your crown chakra needs opening.

Reality Check: Maybe you feel disconnected because you spend 10 hours a day on your phone, scrolling through conspiracy theories about how the moon landing was faked. Try touching grass.

The Business of Chakras: Selling Snake Oil in the Digital Age

The "chakra healing" industry has evolved into a massive scam operation, expertly designed to exploit insecurity, laziness, and ignorance. Here’s how it works:

1. Create Fake Problems – Convince people that all their life struggles stem from blocked chakras.

2. Offer Expensive Solutions – Sell overpriced "energy realignment" sessions, healing crystals, and online workshops.

3. Keep Them Hooked – Tell customers their chakras need constant tuning, ensuring a never-ending revenue stream.

This isn’t spirituality—it’s capitalism disguised as cosmic wisdom.

Open Your Eyes, Not Your Wallet

Chakras, in their original form, were symbolic representations of human consciousness. But today, they’ve become nothing more than a trendy excuse for people to ignore reality and throw money at con artists.

So, the next time someone tells you your problems stem from a blocked chakra, remember:

If you’re broke, you need a better financial plan, not a chakra reading.

If your relationships suck, work on communication, not your sacral chakra.

If you lack confidence, build skills and experience, not imaginary energy fields.

And most importantly, if someone asks for money to “heal” your chakras, the only thing they’re unblocking is their bank account.

[channeledhistory]

Der Hype um die neue chinesische KI Deepseek erreichte am Wochenende einen Höhepunkt – und sorgte unter Anlegern für grosse Unruhe. Sie fürchten, dass amerikanische Tech-Konzerne wie Nvidia oder Open AI mit Chat-GPT ihre dominante Stellung bei der künstlichen Intelligenz verlieren könnten.

Die an der amerikanischen Technologie-Börse Nasdaq zusammengefassten Aktien standen am Montag stark unter Druck, Futures auf den Index gaben deutlich nach. Auch die europäischen Börsen und der Bitcoin gaben nach. Die Aktienkurse wichtiger Tech-Zulieferer in Europa wie ASML oder Siemens Energy verloren im zweistelligen Prozentbereich.

Das KI-Modell R1 von Deepseek kann über eine App abgerufen werden und kann leistungsmässig mit etablierten KI-Sprachmodellen wie Chat-GPT oder Claude mithalten. Der einflussreiche amerikanische Tech-Investor Marc Andreessen nannte Deepseek auf X «einen der erstaunlichsten und beeindruckendsten Durchbrüche, die ich je gesehen habe». Die Tatsache, dass Deepseek auf dem Open-Source-Prinzip basiere, also allen zugänglich ist, sei ein «Geschenk für die Welt».

[...]

Das Bahnbrechende an Deepseek ist, dass eine leistungsfähige KI viel effizienter und kostengünstiger betrieben werden kann als bei herkömmlichen Modellen. Chat-GPT oder Gemini beanspruchen enorme Rechenleistungen und Hochleistungs-Chips. Bei diesen verfügt der amerikanische Chip-Konzern Nvidia derzeit über ein Quasi-Monopol. Wegen Sanktionen werden die leistungsfähigsten KI-Chips aber nicht nach China geliefert.

Gemäss Tech-Experten könnte Deepseek die gesamte KI-Lieferkette auf den Kopf stellen. Diese wird von den amerikanischen Chip-Anbietern und grossen Betreibern von Rechenzentren (Hyperscaler) wie Alphabet, Amazon oder Microsoft dominiert. Sie investieren enorme Summen in den Ausbau ihrer KI-Infrastrukturen. Gemäss Schätzung der UBS wollen die amerikanischen Tech-Konzerne dieses Jahr weitere 280 Milliarden Dollar in KI investieren.

Im Gefolge des KI-Booms sind amerikanische Tech-Aktien stark gestiegen und haben hohe Bewertungen erreicht. Insbesondere Nvidia hat profitiert: Die Aktien des Chip-Entwicklers haben sich seit der Lancierung von Chat-GPT im November 2022 im Wert verachtfacht. Aber auch die Aktien von Alphabet, Meta oder Microsoft haben sehr hohe Bewertungsniveaus erreicht.

Ihre Dominanz wurde durch den KI-Boom verstärkt – mittlerweile sind die amerikanischen Indizes stark konzentriert und von den Bewegungen dieser Werte abhängig. Das macht die Aktien dieser Tech-Konzerne anfällig für Kursrückschläge. Werden wegen Deepseek nun ihre KI-Strategien grundsätzlich angezweifelt, könnte das an der Börse einen Stimmungswechsel gegenüber amerikanischen Tech-Werten zur Folge haben.

«Die enormen Ressourcen, die für KI aufgewendet wurden, werden infrage gestellt», sagt der Tech-Experte Nirgunan Tiruchelvam von Aletheia Capital gegenüber Bloomberg. Die Strategie der amerikanischen Tech-Giganten war bisher, ihre KI-Kapazitäten maximal auszubauen, koste es, was es wolle. Damit begründeten die Konzerne ihre enormen Investitionen in KI-Chips und Rechenzentren.

Deepseek zeigt nun einen Weg auf, wie leistungsfähige KI viel effizienter betrieben werden kann. So ist Deepseek selbst kein grosser Tech-Konzern, sondern ein kleiner, in Peking ansässiger Spin-off eines Hedge Funds namens High Flyer. Er wird vom Unternehmer Liang Wenfeng geleitet. Laut Medienberichten kommt Deepseek mit 200 Mitarbeitenden aus. Die Entwicklungskosten des KI-Modells R1 sollen nur 6 Millionen Dollar betragen haben.

Der Durchbruch von Deepseek könnte auch die jüngst lancierte amerikanische KI-Initiative Stargate herausfordern. [...]

[...] Die Aktien des japanischen Tech-Konglomerats Softbank haben am Montag in Tokio zeitweise mehr als acht Prozent verloren.

Der Durchbruch von Deepseek kommt aber auch für die amerikanischen Tech-Riesen zu einem ungünstigen Zeitpunkt. Diese Woche werden Apple, Microsoft, Meta und Tesla Finanzzahlen vorlegen und sich der Frage stellen müssen, wie sie auf Deepseek reagieren wollen.

[skrillnetworkblog]

🌟 Bitcoin’s Meteoric Rise: ETF Influx Fuels New Heights! 🌟

🔑 Key Highlights

1️⃣ Bitcoin Soars to $64K: The largest cryptocurrency breaks past its previous peak, reflecting a resurgent market.

2️⃣ BlackRock Leads ETF Revolution: iShares Bitcoin Trust secures a staggering $550 million investment.

3️⃣ ETF Magic: SEC approval of 10 Bitcoin ETFs powers retail and institutional adoption.

4️⃣ Market Recovery: Cryptocurrencies like Ethereum also see sharp value increases, with ETH now trading at $3,500.

5️⃣ Federal Reserve Cuts: Lower interest rates are shifting focus to digital assets.

6️⃣ Halving Event Ahead: Anticipation builds for Bitcoin’s supply cut in April, adding fuel to the rally.

🚀 Crypto Revival: BlackRock’s ETF Boom Shakes the Market!

📊 Numbers Speak

Bitcoin (BTC): $63,933 (up from $42,000 in early 2023).

Ethereum (ETH): Surpasses $3,200, marking significant growth.

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF: Second-highest inflows in U.S. history at $550M.

💡 What’s Driving Growth?

ETFs reduce volatility, offering safer investment routes.

Weakening Dollar Index & controlled inflation enhance crypto's appeal.

Federal Reserve interest cuts boost liquidity in crypto markets.

⚡ Bitcoin Surge 2024: Is This the New Crypto Boom?

🌐 Why the Surge?

ETF Legitimacy: SEC approval legitimizes Bitcoin ETFs, pushing investor confidence.

Macro Trends: Declining yields in traditional markets drive funds to crypto.

Retail Power: Retail investors dominate the market resurgence.

📉 Challenges Ahead

Network infrastructure struggles to meet demand during peaks.

Volatility risks still linger despite ETF stabilization mechanisms.

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