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Math Bitcoin Price Prediction: 2030, 2040, 2050 by Andrey Ignatenko

In 2030, Bitcoin's maximum price is anticipated to reach approximately $100,000, with some projections indicating it could rise to $1 million between the 2060s and 2080s. These insights are thoroughly examined in Math Bitcoin Price Prediction: 2030, 2040, 2050 by Andrey Ignatenko (on Amazon), which delves into a variety of economic elements.

The book provides a detailed analysis of key factors influencing Bitcoin's price, including supply and demand dynamics, historical market patterns, and macroeconomic influences. With a total supply capped at 21 million coins, Bitcoin's scarcity plays a crucial role in its valuation, particularly as interest from both retail and institutional investors continues to expand. Furthermore, the book discusses how advancements in technology and the growing acceptance of cryptocurrencies in mainstream finance are likely to further elevate Bitcoin's price.

The reliability of these forecasts is strengthened by the contributions of experts with PhDs in Economics and Computer Science, ensuring that the mathematical models used are both robust and scientifically valid. This rigorous approach not only adds credibility to the predictions but also provides a deeper understanding of Bitcoin's potential price trajectory over the next several decades.

Readers can explore reviews and feedback about the book at the book’s page on author’s website. This resource offers additional insights into how the analysis resonates with both enthusiasts and skeptics in the cryptocurrency community. The comprehensive nature of Ignatenko's work allows it to serve as an invaluable guide for anyone interested in the future of Bitcoin and the broader implications for the cryptocurrency market.

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Excerpt from this story from Canary Media:

Octopus Energy has surged to the top of the U.K. electricity market with its plucky brand of clean, flexible, customer-centric energy. Now it’s loading up on new investment to make a broader push into North America.

The sprawling clean energy startup pulled in two new investments in recent weeks. On May 7, it announced a re-up from existing investors, including Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and the Canada Pension Plan. Last week, it added a new round from the $1 billion Innovation and Expansion Fund at Tom Steyer’s Galvanize Climate Solutions. The parties did not disclose the size of the new infusions but said that they lift Octopus’ private valuation to $9 billion. Previously, Octopus raised an $800 million round in December, putting its valuation at $7.8 billion. Thus, eight-year-old Octopus enters the summer of 2024 as one of the most valuable privately held startups in the world, but one whose impact is felt far more in Europe than in the U.S. The new influx of cash will help fund expansion in North America, both by growing its retail foothold in Texas and by ramping up sales of the company’s marquee Kraken software to other utilities. The company has its work cut out if it wants to reproduce its U.K. market dominance across the pond.

“It is a Cambrian explosion of exciting growth in almost every direction,” Octopus Energy U.S. CEO Michael Lee told Canary Media last week.

In the U.K., Octopus has gobbled its way up the leaderboard of electricity retailers, consuming competitors large and small until it reached the No. 1 slot this year. It supplies British customers in part with clean power from a multibillion-dollar portfolio of renewables plants that it owns. The company lowers costs to customers by using smart devices or behavioral nudges to shift their usage to times when the renewables are producing the most cheap electricity. Octopus also began making its own heat pumps, to help households break out of dependence on fossil gas at a volatile time.

In the U.S., land of free markets and capitalist competition, market design largely blocks Octopus from rolling out its innovations, and instead protects the monopoly power of century-old incumbent utilities. There is no national electricity market to take over, but a state-by-state hodgepodge of fiefdoms that obey differing rules. So Octopus made its first stand in Texas, whose competitive power market most closely resembles the U.K.’s system. It now sources power for tens of thousands of retail customers in the state.

“It is absolutely clear to me that the energy transition is happening first in Texas,” Lee said. ​“This is a fantastic market to be in if you know how to work with customers and help them be a central focus in providing that energy transition to the grid.”

Such an assertion might have elicited derisive snorts from Californians or New Yorkers a few years ago, but facts on the ground now support Lee’s thesis.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Calgary Co-op has agreed to become the majority shareholder in Care Pharmacies, a network of independent retail pharmacies across Canada. Neither company released details about the agreement, like valuations or terms. Headquartered in Vaughan, Ont., and founded in 2013, the pharmacy chain has 56 locations in provinces like P.E.I., Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, and the company says it’s the largest group of independent retail pharmacies controlled by licensed pharmacists in the country. There are 25 Care Pharmacies in Ontario and 15 in British Columbia. Alberta’s lone location is in Manning, Alta. Calgary Co-op’s CEO Ken Keelor said the acquisition, which still is subject to closing conditions and regulatory approvals, is a “tremendous fit” with the cooperative’s focus on growing its health and wellness business.

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On Reddit and Truth Social, users have been trying to re-create the meme-stock magic for Trump Media and Technology Group—the company behind Truth Social—that boosted companies like GameStop in 2021. So far, they haven’t been too successful.

Truth Social, former president Donald Trump’s Twitter copycat, lacks two essential ingredients to the narrative of previous campaigns: underlying fundamentals and the foil of institutional investors. Large hedge funds had shorted GameStop, betting that the price would go down. This time, the stock is owned primarily by retail investors.

Unlike other social media companies, the Truth Social doesn’t disclose how many users it has, but has said previously that just 9 million people have signed up for the site, compared with over 3 billion monthly active users on Facebook. TruthSocial visitors have declined from 5.4 million in January to around 5 million in February, according to web analytics firm SimilarWeb. The site’s lack of users has contributed to poor financial performance.

On the r/wallstreetbets subreddit, home of meme-stock boosterism, most users aren’t buying what Truth Social is selling. “If you invest in this on a long enough timeline you will lose everything. Thus is strictly a movement play,” wrote Reddit user Rich4718. “If you think Donald Trump is going to create an income positive social media platform you are an absolute fucking moron.”

The company started trading publicly on March 26 under the ticker symbol DJT and has already experienced wild swings in price. On Monday, the stock slid nearly 20 percent, erasing $2 billion in value.

In a filing on Monday, the company said it had just over $4 million in revenue and $58 million in net losses. This comes after the auditor for Trump Media and Technology Group made a startling admission: The company’s losses “raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue,” according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 25. And yet the company is valued at around $7 billion, despite reporting these sizable losses. The valuation is propped up in part by Trump fans who see investing in the company as a way to support the former president. In some cases, these investors hold a genuine belief that Truth Social could become a major social media player.

Albert Choi, a professor of Law at the University of Michigan, says investors in Trump Media may be motivated by factors beyond traditional financial logic, like boosting the price through generating hype.

“If that’s your primary motivating factor, then you’re not going to care too much about whether the company is actually making money,” says Choi.

“I believe DJT is an investment in Donald Trump, not just Truth Social,” Reddit user autsauce, who declined to share their real name, tells WIRED. “If market participants start asking that question, which I am betting they will, they will likely arrive at a very different price valuing Truth Social in a silo.”

Choi noted that Trump winning the Presidential election could actually hurt the company’s stock, as investors' perceived need to support the former president financially by investing could fade.

“My guess is that the interest in the stock would largely disappear,” Choi said.

Some Truth Social fans have spun the company’s entry into the public market as a fresh start. The infusion of capital from people buying shares in the company will enable Truth Social to post an improved financial performance, they argue.

“With $300M to properly grow a company and Trump’s impending win in 2024, the entire situation has changed,” Chad Nedohin, who regularly livestreams about his support for the company while wearing a Jack Sparrow costume, wrote on Truth Social.

Still, Truth Social doesn’t really provide anything unique. The company’s defining feature is that it's the website where Trump is currently posting, and it is, unsurprisingly, home to many posts discussing conspiracy theories about QAnon, stolen elections, and deep state plots.

But Devin Nunes, Truth Social CEO and former Republican US representative, said in an interview last week with the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk that the company plans to combine features from other social networks.

“We’re trying to take the best of all platforms and put it into one,” Nunes said, “whether it be Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, et cetera.”

Truth Social still needs to comply with Apple’s and Google’s terms of service to remain in its respective app stores. Nunes claims, however, that Truth Social “doesn’t use any of the woke companies, referencing Parler, the social media company that was kicked off Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores in the wake of the January 6 riot at the Capitol. “It’s kind of an interesting investment, because you’re really investing in your constitutional rights,” Nunes said. “We’re the only company out there that can’t be shut down by woke companies.”

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The way people relentlessly bring up her billionaire status bugs me because she became one after almost two decades of her career. She earned that. It also doesn’t mean she has a billion dollars in her bank account either. (Are people being deliberate obtuse or naturally stupid?) e.g. she’s not going to sell the rights to her music, since it’d defeat the purpose of her re-recording it. I’m so sick of the “she’s a billionaire yadda yadda” bs. It’s just another excuse to invalidate her. Before that it was she’s got “millions.” Before that it was she’s a “blonde white girl.”

first off I would legitimately argue that she is the ONLY ethical billionaire (that I am aware of), because her status overcomes the trope of "you cannot become a billionaire without exploiting people below you": she literally didn't! it came from good & honest work [insert 'it ain't much' reaction image], just making music and touring it, and literally nothing else. any musician I know could technically become a billionaire the way she did by doing literally nothing different. no makeup lines, no retail empire built on the backs of minimum wage employees selling it, no nothing. just making music and playing it to crowds.

also: exactly, the billionaire thing irks me to no end because it's more than 50% based on the valuation of her catalogue, which she has made abundantly clear isn't up for sale under any circumstances. so it's almost a complete moot point. my cat's leg can be worth a billion dollars, too, but if I have no plans to chop off the cat's leg and sell it, I don't actually have a billion dollars.

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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco’s biggest mall has now lost nearly $1 billion in value, it’s been revealed. The financial firm Morningstar Credit Analytics says that since 2016, the former Westfield Mall’s value has dwindled in worth, losing $910 million dollars in value.

As first reported in The Real Deal, the mall was recently appraised at $290 million. That’s significantly down from its $1.2 billion valuation in 2016, according to Morningstar.

There has been a series of high-profile store closures at the 1.45 million-square-foot property. Last summer, the mall’s anchor tenant, Nordstrom, closed after more than 34 years.

In June, Westfield, the company which had owned and operated San Francisco Centre on Market Street for more than two decades, pulled out. Westfield cited a steep decline in shoppers and “challenging operating conditions” as reasons for it pulling out.

Several other retailers have also ceased operating at the mall, which is currently at just 25% occupancy.

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What is Private Banking? – Definition and How It Works 

Some people amass significant wealth through business ventures or inherited multi-generational assets. The criteria to categorize them as “high-net-worth individuals” might vary across geographies. However, they require unique financial services like private banking and investment research outsourcing. This post will describe how private banking firms work. 

What is Private Banking? 

Private banking offers numerous wealth management, accounting, risk assessment, financial modeling, and property valuation services customized for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). Different firms and banks enable their HNWI clients to create investment strategies using private banking services. 

Relationship managers and private bankers serve clients exclusively, supervising all financial aspects concerning the client’s real estate investments, gold possessions, and investor portfolio. They also monitor how different public policies and market trends affect the risks associated with an HNWI’s wealth. 

Moreover, retirement planning is essential to private banking services because of the distinct lifestyle followed by high-net-worth individuals. Professional firms and private banks also plan the transfer of wealth involving family members, donations, and inheritance. 

How Does Private Banking Work? 

Private bankers and consulting relationship managers are responsible for strategically allocating the capital resources made available by HNWI clients. They can benefit from investment research outsourcing to streamline their portfolio management strategies. 

Each private banking client has 1 million USD as investable assets. Therefore, managing all the financial operations via systematic investment decisions and advanced accounting tools are some essential duties of private banking professionals. 

Their revenue depends on the performance of assets, agreed-upon commission rates, and offered services. When clients have more than 10 million USD, they are Ultra-HNWI. So, more precise risk management and investment research reporting become critical to the financial service providers at a private bank. 

Benefits of Private Banking 

1| Confidential Transactions 

Private banks prioritize protecting the privacy of clients, managers, dealers, and marketing personnel. They allow HNWI to conduct secure transactions involving large sums of money using proprietary mechanisms. 

Remember how celebrities, international sports athletes, and some industrialists prefer personalized treatment while building networks to enhance their social and financial status. They do not want public attention or the retail banking environment to manage their assets. Therefore, privacy is important to them. 

2| Minimized Human Risks and Convenient Access 

HNWI and Ultra-HNWI interact with the relationship manager or private banker who manages all other investment research outsourcing activities and banking interactions. So, wealthy individuals reduce the human risk of intelligence leakage or fraud by letting a single person control their assets on their behalf. 

If an HNWI interacts with multiple people, everyone in the communication chain will know about the HNWI and share this information with third parties. The benefits of private banking services include mitigating such dangers. 

3| Personalized Investment Opportunities 

Private banks offer discounts and other pricing optimizations to ensure that high-net-worth clients stay with them instead of switching to another service provider. For example, private bankers might provide you with more generous interest rates to facilitate a beneficial mortgage. 

Besides, clients engaged in international business are better positioned to acquire advantageous foreign exchange rates. Specialized lines of credit (LOC) can become available to the HNWI using private banks for wealth expansion. 

Conclusion 

Individuals who own investable assets that surpass 1 million USD in valuation reports demand tailored financial products and services. Simultaneously, investment research outsourcing teams assist their relationship managers and private bankers in strategizing portfolio development. 

The service fees charged by private banks vary across wealth reporting, risk management, legal compliance audits, real estate services, and inheritance. However, HNWIs and UHNWIs pay the fees to enjoy the increased privacy and convenience of large transactions. 

A leader in private banking services, SG Analytics supports worldwide private banks in devising research-backed investment ideas and strategies to maximize returns. Contact us today to get extensive insights into coverage expansion and the screening process. 

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Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the shell company that became Trump Media Tuesday morning, have spiked nearly 200% so far this year. That includes a 35% surge Monday after the deal closed. Shares popped again at the start of trading Tuesday – investors’ first opportunity to trade the stock after the merger, under the new DJT ticker.

The skyrocketing share price comes despite the fact that Trump Media is burning through cash, piling up losses and its main product, Truth Social, is losing users.

“This is a very unusual situation. The stock is pretty much divorced from fundamentals,” said Jay Ritter, a finance professor at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business, who has been studying initial public offerings (IPOs) for over 40 years.

Ritter said the closest parallel would be GameStop, AMC and other so-called meme stocks that skyrocketed during Covid-19 as an army of retail traders piled in. He said Trump Media is likely worth somewhere around $2 a share — nowhere near its implied stock price of $50.

“The underlying business doesn’t seem to be worth much. There is no evidence this is going to become a large, highly profitable company,” he said. “I’m reasonably confident the stock price will eventually drop to $2 a share and could even go below that if the company blows through the money it got from the merger.”

The eye-popping valuation is a massive windfall for Trump, who owns a dominant stake of 79 million shares.

At Tuesday’s opening price of nearly $78, that stake is worth nearly $6 billion, although lock-up restrictions likely prevent Trump from selling or even borrowing against those shares anytime soon.

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Three Israeli companies — UBQ Materials (plastic alternative made from household trash), Fabric (automated urban micro-fulfillment centers) and Believer (cultivated meat) – appear on the inaugural XB100 ranking of the top 100 private deep-tech companies, published by XPRIZE and Bessemer Venture Partners.

UBQ and Fabric are headquartered in Tel Aviv and Believer in Rehovot.

According to XPRIZE, “The XB100 was launched to celebrate the entrepreneurs who are commercializing scientific research into deep tech and spotlight how they are impacting our society across nine categories.

“The XB100 evaluation process involved ranking companies across four factors: impact on humanity, valuation, scientific difficulty, and commercial traction.”

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Tess Hatch said, “The companies on the XB100 list represent the most valuable and impactful private companies in the deep-tech sector. The XB100 awardees defy imagination and will reshape the human experience.”

“UBQ’s inclusion in this ranking exemplifies how innovation and technology can extend beyond software to break through the norms of our physical world,” commented Jack “Tato” Bigio, cofounder and co-CEO of UBQ Materials.

“UBQ is introducing a sustainable alternative to oil-based plastics, reducing the carbon footprint of thousands of products across industries including construction, logistics and supply chain, consumer goods and even automotive.”

The company’s patented thermoplastic (made from trash that would have been landfilled or incinerated) has been adopted by brands including Mercedes-Benz, PepsiCo and McDonald’s. This year, UBQ will open its new facility in The Netherlands to produce 80,000 tons of UBQ annually from 104,600 metric tons of waste.

Fabric, which was also recently on CB Insights’ Retail Tech 100 list, reports that brands using its robotic urban micro-fulfillment centers have seen a more than 62% reduction in labor costs, an over 71% improvement in storage density, upward of 99% inventory accuracy and a threefold increase in throughput compared to manual fulfillment.

Believer is building its first US commercial-scale lab-grown meat factory in Wilson, North Carolina – which is on track to be the largest facility of its kind anywhere, capable of producing 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.  

[oneidiotwithasword]

i understand that my friends want the best for me but i’m so sick of them telling me to push myself into a job related to my degree and not “settle” for retail. firstly, i’m very comfortable with my decision and am not asking for their opinions. secondly, none of them are disabled or live with c-ptsd or have graduated uni so just aren’t in a position to relate to my current condition. i don’t want to prioritise my career over my recovery atm. i’m not concerned about not living up to my “potential”, especially cos most people’s valuation of said potential underestimates the severity of my mental and physical illnesses (i don’t share it with a lot of people). i’m really content spending my days reading and drawing and gardening. i don’t need to serve some greater purpose beyond my own beliefs around social justice, anti-capitalism and environmentalism. i’m so tired of people projecting their desires for their lives onto me because it stops me from wanting to share my own desires with them