The seizure involving 50,676 saw the accused, James Zhong, plead guilty to unlawfully obtaining the cryptocurrency, the DOJ said in a press statement on November 7. Zhong, accused of stealing bitcoin from the Silk Road marketplace, is said to have deployed sophisticated measures to hide the proceeds. Cryptocurrency tracing According to Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the crime was committed almost a decade ago, with the whereabouts of the Bitcoin remaining unknown....

According to data acquired by Finbold, in the first three quarters of 2021, the U.S. stock market value hit $48.57 trillion, growing 19.22% when compared to 2020’s full-year valuation of $40.74 trillion. Therefore, the market added $7.83 trillion in capital this year alone. In 2019, the stock market was valued at $33.9 trillion. Overall, in the last decade, the valuation has been growing steadily. Data on the value of United States stock market value is provided by SIBLI Research....

Using a web archive tool, Finbold determined that the US debt was $29.48 trillion as of January 1, 2022, and using the available data from the US Debt clock page, the current US debt was determined to be $31.04 trillion as of October 5. According to the calculations, an alarming $5.6 billion is added to the US national debt per day in 2022, which is an alarming sum for anybody invested in the future of the US....

In addition, comments are very valuable when debugging and/or troubleshooting problems with your application that appear at runtime. Commenting out a block of code can help you isolate the source of a problem. In this article, we are going to discuss the process of what is known as server-side comments. ASPX vs HTML Comments A typical ASPX page will generally contain a mix of HTML and ASPX controls. Most web developers are very familiar with the use of HTML Comments ....

Specifically, 92% of mass affluent and high net worth (HNW) clients have asked their financial advisors about the possibility of including cryptocurrencies in their portfolios over the past year, according to the results of a study carried out by Coalition Greenwich in cooperation with Talos, as per a press release published on December 15. The research covered 537 Financial Advisors (FAs) in the United States, more than a third of which (35%) have expressed the clients’ interest in crypto has intensified in the past 12 months, whereas 30% confirmed that they already have or plan to recommend specific cryptos to these clients in the next three months....

The new certificates attract a management fee of 3.75% p.a to enable Vontobel to fulfill the high capital requirements in the crypto space. Furthermore, the certificates have a subscription ratio of 1:100 to help first-time investors with limited capital to participate in the digital currency market. Vontobel has also incorporated a clause in the current certificate where the risk of a possible cyberattack and loss of the Bitcoins will be on investors....

You may wonder what NSFW means if you’ve just joined Discord. The abbreviations may be used by parents who wish to protect their children against certain content or users who don’t want to see some content. So, what does “NSFW” mean on Discord, then? Knowing more about NSFW channels and how to access or avoid their content will guide you better when choosing channels to join. All these will be explored to some extent in this guide....

There are about 500 million active Instagram Stories users daily.70% of these users view Instagram stories daily.Instagram Stories are shared by 86.6% of users.36% of businesses use Instagram Stories to promote their products.One-quarter of Generation Z and Millennials use stories to search for products and services. With so much buzz surrounding Instagram Stories, it’s critical to evaluate how well your Instagram Stories are received. With your stories’ insights, you can see how many people read, forward, and respond to your content....

We’ll have a closer look at the green circle, what it means, how to create one, and how to exclude yourself from it. What Does the Green Circle on Instagram Stories Mean? When you see a green circle on a person’s Instagram story, it means the person has added you to their list of close friends. Hence, you’ll be getting content only you and a few others can see and are not expected to share with anybody else....

If you are new to the platform, you may be lost wondering what a particular acronym means or how you should respond to such a term. “TIFU” is a common term found on the r/TIFU subreddit. If you don’t know what the acronym means or how you can use it, read this post! Seeing a lot of “TIFU” being used on Reddit can be discouraging, and you don’t understand what they mean....

Facebook ushered in a new reaction (purple petaled flower) button a few years ago. So, what does the purple flower represent? Let’s dig further into the purple flower on Facebook. Facebook’s Purple Flower Facebook allows users to react to posts or comments on the platform. The reaction button lets you express your thoughts about a video, photo, story, or comment posted on Facebook. You’ll notice a collection of reaction buttons when you long-press or hover your pointer over the like button....

That can be frustrating, but the good news is that you can fix the issue when you know the causes of the delay in loading your Facebook. Sometimes Facebook may load slowly because of things you can modify and make it load faster. This guide will introduce the reasons that make Facebook so slow and the various actions to take to fix the issue. Let’s find out more! Reasons for Facebook Being So Slow Facebook can be slow depending on where you always access it....

Our comparison review looks into two such service providers – Wise (ex-TransferWise) and Revolut. The two companies based in the United Kingdom are now serving millions of customers worldwide with increasing popularity. This article will focus on their business accounts and compare the cost, availability, and compliance to global financial regulations. Wise Business Account (in brief) Wise was launched in 2011 by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus. For ten years, the company was known as TransferWise before its February 2021 rebrand to Wise....

The unaudited financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022, showed that the firm managed to deliver 34,422 vehicles in Q2, an increase of 98% compared to the 17,398 delivered during the same period in 2021. Revenue came in at $1.11 billion, a 97.7% year-on-year (YoY) increase, beating estimates by $10 million. Meanwhile, earnings per share (EPS) were -$0.43, missing estimates by $0.10. Furthermore, for Q3, the company sees vehicle deliveries between 29,000 and 31,000 (13-20....

FTX is currently attempting to avert a collapse as well as a potentially far-reaching domino effect over the whole cryptocurrency sector, which is still licking its wounds after the Terra crash. Although the market seemed to be settling and bottoming, most assets have faced significant selling pressure, and the market lost more than $100 billion in 24 hours at one point. As crypto regulation becomes more scrutinized than ever, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany, better known as BaFin, has issued an order relating to Coinbase’s local arm’s business organization in line with the country’s banking rules....

In one of the newest such developments, three finance giants – Citadel Securities, Fidelity Investments, and Charles Schab Corp – are joining forces to create a crypto offering that would widen access to digital assets, Reuters reported on June 7. According to the report citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter, these three financial giants will be joined by Virtu Financial Inc to develop a crypto trading ecosystem that will allow “retail brokerages to offer crypto-executions to their customers....

The S&P 500 fell 4%, entering the bear market territory officially, while the energy sector also got hit as previously one of the rare sectors that have prospered so far in 2022. With such a background, Finbold decided to dig deep to find three large-cap stocks that are holding strong amid this market crash. PetroChina Company Limited (NYSE: PTR) PetroChina is yet to reach the trillion-dollar status that it had; however, it still ranks among the top 90 most valuable companies in the world....

Investing titans like Warren Buffett made insurance stocks the backbone of their investment, as the industry is considered to be recession-proof. As things get tough, companies must maintain insurance coverage for their assets which in turn ensures long-term returns for insurers with minimal downside. Here are three strong insurance stocks with solid dividends from which potential investors could benefit through up and down markets. Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (OTCPK: FRFHF) Fairfax has been going up recently since they reported one of their best earnings report so far....

Although the markets are at all-time highs, there are other issues to consider, such as the long-term ramifications of inflation, the continuation of supply chain problems, and a proposed tax on corporate share buybacks and dividends. In particular, dividends are payments made by corporations to their investors as a way of sharing their earnings, and in the long run, they provide a steady stream of income with the potential for growth; thus, long-term investors will find them especially appealing because of this....

According to a survey by finance platform Finder.com, 50% of the respondents expect Bitcoin to overtake global currency by 2040. A majority of the experts at 20% believe the takeover will happen by 2040. Elsewhere, 15% of the experts opine that hyperbitcoinisation will occur in 2035 while another 10% place the take over as early as 2030. Interestingly, 44% of the surveyed experts believe Bitcoin will never replace fiat currency....