Carl Erik Rinsch reportedly used nearly $11 million of his Netflix show’s budget to gamble with stocks and crypto and made millions on a single Dogecoin bet.
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Ex-Coinbase Exec Balaji Srinivasan Closes Out $1 Million Bitcoin Bet
Former Chief Technology Officer at Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan, closed out early a bet that the price of bitcoin would hit $1 million by mid-June amid hyperinflation of the U.S. dollar. Srinivasan paid a total of $1.5 million, more than the initially committed $1 million, with two-thirds of the money donated to two organizations. Former Coinbase […]Powered by WPeMatico
Billionaire Mark Cuban’s Million-Dollar Bet: BTC or ETH to Outpace the S&P 500 in 10 Years
The American billionaire entrepreneur and television personality, Mark Cuban, has waged a bet with Creative Planning’s founder Peter Mallouk over the performance of cryptocurrencies versus the S&P 500. Cuban said on Twitter that the two should put $1 million into a stablecoin-based smart contract, in order to place a bet over the return performance of […]Powered by WPeMatico
McAfee Catches Heat After Welshing On Famous Bitcoin Bet
Many bold predictions about bitcoin’s price have been made over the years, but tech entrepreneur John McAfee’s 2017 claim that BTC would reach $1 million before the end of 2020 garnered more column inches than any other. This is because he promised to, ahem, consume his own manhood – on television no less – if […]
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Okex Socializes Loss From Over $400 Million Bet Among BTC Futures Traders
Anyone getting involved with leveraged trading must assume upon themselves the risks associated with the potentially highly rewarding practice. A recent event should remind traders that, sometimes, even when the trade goes your way, you can still take a hit. Okex socialized one trader’s massive loss on BTC futures with a clawback. Also Read: The […]
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Place Your Bets! Bitcoin Core Lightning Network Fails to Complete Basic Transaction
Wagers really don’t settle matters, but they are a lot of fun and force advocates to have some skin in the game. In the ongoing debate about scaling, network fees, congestion and mempools, the Lightning Network is Bitcoin Core’s answer. Some in the ecosystem have doubted its efficacy. A bet was placed. If a payment […]
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Ledger X President: $50K Bitcoin Bet Saw a $1M Premium the Same Day
Last year on December 22 a firm purchased a $1 million dollar options trade on the Ledger X platform that wagered the BTC/USD market price will be $50,000 by the last month of 2018. This week Juthica Chou, the president of Ledger X chatted with Jared Blikre at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit’s cryptocurrency […]
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Arsenal Football Club Partners with Gambling ICO
Premier League football club Arsenal FC has announced a partnership with Cashbet, a cryptocurrency marketing itself as being “designed specifically for iGaming” – comprising the first instance of a cryptocurrency sponsoring a major soccer team. Partnerships between sporting entities and virtual currencies appear to be quickly proliferating worldwide, with newly crowned Bellator MMA welterweight champion, […]
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