Posts

Showing posts with the label crypto winter

Superdao shuts down, will return investor funds

Superdao founder Yury Lifshits hints at shutting down the platform despite launching many decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) since its launch in 2021.  According to a letter published on the company’s Notion, Superdao has ceased operations, saying that the crypto ecosystem “has become much smaller than its initial ambition” of becoming the next generation of internet. The founder stated that Superdao has helped more than 2,000 DAOs to launch with 300 million wallets already indexed.  According to its Crunchbase profile, Superdao raised $1 million in October 2021, soon after it was launched, and $10.5 million on Jan. 26, 2022.  Moreover, the company stated that the remaining funds , while not disclosing the amount, will be return ed to the investors.  “With this view in mind, we decided to return the substantial remaining funds to investors and wind down operations. We believe that both the team and the capital can create bigger outcomes elsewhere....

Google Admits Crypto Winter Is Hurting Ad Business

Image
The digital asset market downturn that started the current crypto winter is negatively affecting search spending, Google has acknowledged. Ad growth in the third quarter fell to a low seen only once in almost a decade, the tech company revealed this week. With Fewer Crypto Ads, Google Registers 6% Ad Revenue Growth in Last Quarter Online advertising giant Google has partially blamed a slowdown in revenue growth on decreasing ad spending by financial firms, including those working with crypto assets. During parent company Alphabet’s earnings call on Tuesday, Google’s Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler admitted to witnessing reduced search spending during the third-quarter and elaborated: For example in financial services, we saw a pullback in the insurance, loan, mortgage, and crypto subcategories . In a report quoting the executive, CNBC noted that the with an overall ad growth of 6%, the three-month period was Google’s weakest among all quarters since ...

A timeline of Bitcoin crashes and bear markets from 2009 to 2022

Image
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Bitcoin experienced one of its most severe crashes in 2022, with the BTC price falling below $20,000 since June of this year, after peaking at $68,000 in 2021. However, the current market sell-off does not imply that Bitcoin crashes and bear markets will be limited to 2022. Since the first Bitcoin block, or the genesis block, was mined in January 2009, Bitcoin has seen its fair share of crypto winters. As we zoom out on the Bitcoin price chart, we notice five of the most notable price drops in the cryptocurrency’s history. Bitcoin’s price plummeted from $32 to $0.01 in 2011 20 months to retest previous high: (June 2011–February 2013) Bitcoin’s price broke its first major psychological barrier of $1 in late April 2011, launching its first-ever rally to $32 on June 8, 2011. But the happiness didn’t last long, as Bitcoin’s value dropped to $0.01 in a matter of days. The s...