Counterfeits are a huge problem for high-end designers but a new platform could help ensure that high-value purchases are the real deal. ( read original story ...)
How ethnic Chinese women are preyed on by crypto swindlers
Qiao Er was idly scrolling through Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, one hot summer day in the southern Taiwanese port city Kaohsiung, when she came across a profile of a wealthy and attractive ... ( read original story ...)
Asian stocks up on Wall St gains; Nikkei, Kospi rise over 1%
"The market remains focused in the trade-off between the policy response to high inflation and fears of a hard landing," Westpac rates strategist Damien McColough wrote in a client note. ( read original story ...)
Extreme Heat Is Set to Stretch Japan’s Power Grid to Near Limits
Japan is making a new appeal to Tokyo residents to conserve power with unusually hot weather expected to boost demand for cooling and stretch the city’s grid close to its limits. Most Read from ... ( read original story ...)
INSIGHT-On Japan’s farms, a weakening yen adds to slow-burning discontent
YAMAGATA, Japan, June 27 (Reuters) - Japanese farmer Kiyoharu Hirao has started to add more rice to the mix he gives his cattle in order to stretch his money further as a plunging yen drives up ... ( read original story ...)
Why inflation – not the crypto crash – will define Bitcoin
From using it as a store of value to exploring it in international trade, Bitcoin is being pushed to new heights of adoption by inflation. ( read original story ...)
What CPAs Should Think About During This Crypto Winter
As cryptoassets enter a new crypto winter, the temptation is to relegate cryptoassets (and blockchain) to the backburner, and that would be a disservice to the accounting profession as well as the ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Now Braced For A $2 Billion Goldman Sachs Bombshell As The Price Of Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Solana, Cardano And Dogecoin Swing
Reports have emerged Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs is looking to raise $2 billion to snap up the assets of embattled crypto lender ... ( read original story ...)
The Crypto Kings Aren’t Sorry
So naturally the crypto exchange Coinbase used the opportunity to air an ad poking fun at crypto’s more enthusiastic doomsayers. A series of tweets declaring “Crypto is dead”—some new, others nearly a ... ( read original story ...)
No-fee trading has arrived for crypto. Here’s what that may mean for revenue at these companies
Crypto companies are at a crossroads with the introduction of zero-fee trading. Analysts are uncertain about how these trading platforms may handle it. ( read original story ...)
What One Tech Guru Thinks of the Current Crypto Market
Crypto is struggling, but one high profile investor thinks there is more to it. Mark Cuban has become renowned for his successful venture capitalist career in the early 2000s. He invested in some of ... ( read original story ...)
Fear not, bitcoin bulls — the current rout will weed out the solid crypto operators from the weak ones. 3 experts explain how
Two crypto routs and insolvency worries pertaining to crypto funds including Three Arrows and Celsius have hit the overall market. ( read original story ...)
Morning Crypto Briefing: Equity Rally Supports Crypto Into Weekend, BTC in Mid-$21Ks, ETH Above $1.2K
Bitcoin’s weekly gains currently stand at just over 4.0%. Meanwhile, altcoins are outperforming, indicative of buoyant crypto sentiment. As a result, Bitcoin’s crypto market dominance is on ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Exchanges Hunker Down as Everything Goes Wrong in India
India’s largest digital assets exchanges are bracing for a drawn-out crypto winter — one with some unwelcome local twists. ( read original story ...)
Another day, another crypto heist: Hacker steals $100 million from Harmony blockchain bridge
That's the latest haul from yet another successful crypto heist carried out by hackers finding a weakness to exploit. Harmony, a blockchain bridge that helps facilitate transfers between different ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto winter is here. Triangle investors know many companies won’t survive.
As a major downturn hits the cryptocurrency world, Triangle investors say they are still bullish on the digital assets even as values plummet and companies go into survival mode. ( read original story ...)