By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Just how big is the NFT market? By some estimates, sales could top $40 billion this year — $30 billion at the low end. But the proliferation of fake “wash trades” is calling that claim into question. Blockchain data firms say they can filter out many wash trades by looking for […]
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By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Sheila Warren, chief executive of the Crypto Council for Innovation, believes cryptocurrency — and the blockchain technology underpinning it — is powering the fourth industrial revolution, an era defined by the lines blurring between the physical, digital and biological worlds. Warren believes regulators can speed the pace of change, and in
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By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO When Jonathan Perkins, an entrepreneur with deep experience in web application development, decided to start a digital art business in 2018, investors were openly skeptical. “We were laughed out the door,” Perkins recalled. Investors advised Perkins and his team to go into the gaming industry instead. Four years later, the market
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By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Last Friday on “Crypto DeFined,” Hester Peirce, currently the lone Republican commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission, made it clear that she embraces her role as an independent voice in the regulatory world. While Peirce’s views on crypto often diverge from the majority at the SEC, headed by Democrat Gary
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By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Regulators need to streamline rules of the road for the $3 trillion cryptocurrency industry or risk losing innovation that might benefit consumers far beyond the crypto world, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester M. Peirce warned Friday. Peirce — who appeared on TruthDAO\’s \”Crypto DeFined\” show on Fireside – said regulators
This is a longer version of a column published by Newsmax.com on Nov. 9, 2021. We live in a lopsided world gone Covid Crazy. Our country is so divided we can’t even agree on how fearful we should be of the virus that China gave us. In Florida the fear is all but absent,
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From DK: The Wall Street Journal on July 23rd, 2021 published my op ed on my father’s sudden death and its aftermath. Below is a longer, more detailed version. My 64th birthday came on July 24th. The same date marked the 50th anniversary of a personal tragedy. At 5:32 a.m. on the morning of my
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A higher-stakes battle lurks beneath the GameStop kerfuffle and the “Rocky”-like victory of the little guy outsmarting savvy hedge fund billionaires on Wall Street. This could be the start of a war on short sellers. It’s about time. Capitalism is optimism monetized—we invest because we believe great things can happen. Short sellers are the destroyers
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A version of this article ran on newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/34p94qs With less than two weeks to go until the most important presidential election of our lifetime, it feels less like Trump vs. Biden and more like a vote on President Trump: for his policies, or against his character. This occurred to me the other day
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This article is adapted from my column on Newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/30oee3A Last Sunday night, gleefully, I started watching the TLC reality show “90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” and the culminating season finale known as the “Tell All.” The real-life romantic partners and exes on the show gathered (online in this cooped-up, locked-down era) to
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