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Essere (troppo) first mover: podcast edition

Preamobolo: Ora i podcast spopolano da qualsiasi parte. Ognuno ha qualcosa da dire. Produrli è anche relativamente semplice. Tutto bello, tutto vero… Svolgimento: Il mio amico V. mi dice sempre che sono un first mover. In molti casi è vero. In tantissimi casi sono anche ambiti dove poi non succede nulla. In altri invece sarebbero anche cose interessanti ma poi… col tempo mi faccio sorpassare e…

First Mover Advantage: Get Off The Couch And Just Do It!

        Scan the internet and you will be able to find a bounty of motivational quotes: “The early bird gets the worm.”- William Camden “You don’t have to be great to start.  But you have to start to be great.”- Zig Ziglar “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”- Lao Tzu “Someday is not a day of the week.”-Denise Brennan-Nelson “A year from now you may wish that you had…

First Mover: A Bullish ($1 Million) Bitcoin Forecast as Year of Ox Begins

Editor’s Note: Happy Chinese Lunar New Year! First Mover will not publish on Monday, February 15, which is Presidents’ Day in the U.S. Cryptocurrency markets will be open, as they always are. Price Point Bitcoin (BTC) was lower, after pushing early Friday to a new all-time high price of $48,925, based on CoinDesk pricing.  Market activity was quiet due to the Lunar New Year celebrations across…

First Mover: As Wall Street Fixates on Inflation Hedges, Good Luck Finding Bitcoin

Price Point Bitcoin (BTC) was lower, after an intraday price spike on Tuesday took the largest cryptocurrency to a new all-time high of $48,226.25, based CoinDesk 20 data.    $50K in sight: “Bitcoin needs a couple more big endorsements, and that could be the key to take prices above the $50,000 level,” Edward Moya, senior market analyst for the foreign-exchange broker Oanda, wrote…

First Mover: Elon Musk’s #bitcoin Bet Pays Off With $270M Gain on First Day

Price Point In a run reminiscent of its stunning ascent in early January, bitcoin’s price blew past $45,000, $46,000 and $47,000 in less than an hour late Monday, eventually topping $48,000. By early Tuesday, the largest cryptocurrency had settled down to about $45,200.  The powerful rally came after Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle company, Tesla (TSLA), announced it had bought $1.5 billion of the…

First Mover: Tesla Sends Bitcoin Mooning Past $44K as Snoop Wins #dogebowl

CoinDesk TV is here! Regular programming starts Monday as we roll out three daily and three weekly shows, including “First Mover,” hosted by Christine Lee, Lawrence Lewitinn and Emily Parker, airing every weekday at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern time. Today’s debut episode features guests: Brian Brooks, former U.S. comptroller of the currency; Tim McCourt, global head of equity products at CME; and Yassine…

First Mover: Silver Is the New GameStop as Musk’s #Bitcoin Stalls

Bitcoin (BTC) quickly settled back into the past couple weeks’ range between roughly $30,000 and $36,000, after a short-lived price spike Friday when Elon Musk, the electric-vehicle and private-spaceflight entrepreneur who’s also reportedly the world’s richest person, added “#bitcoin” to his Twitter profile. “The longer we stay at the current level, the stronger the base to bounce back up,” Matt…

First Mover: Elon Musk #Bitcoin Moment Adds to Dogecoin, GameStop Wackiness

Bitcoin (BTC) which seemed uncannily listless for most of this wild week, suddenly found energy after Elon Musk, the electric-vehicle and private-spaceflight entrepreneur who’s also reportedly the world’s richest man, changed his Twitter bio to mention the cryptocurrency. (See screen grab below, in Omkar Godbole’s Bitcoin Watch column.)  The price of bitcoin, the oldest and largest…