By Andrea Brooks, Founder and CEO of Sava. The tech boom throughout the 2010s reached record-breaking fundraising numbers.At-home stationary bike company, Peloton raised over $1 billion.An endless stream of media fanfare followed Uber, Lyft and Pinterest when they went public.Even crypto-currency companies that have struggled to find a mainstream market base have been raising billions…

Just one Bitcoin transaction uses the same amount of electricity as a British household for nearly two months, new figures have shown. The amount of energy needed to run the cryptocurrency has soared to record annual highs of 77.78 terawatt hours the same as the entire electrical consumption of Chile. The carbon footprint of a…

It’s only natural that many investors, especially those who are new to the game, prefer to buy shares in ‘sexy’ stocks with a good story, even if those businesses lose money.But as Warren Buffett has mused, ‘If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re…

There are few options as attractive as investing in cryptocurrencies.A lot of people make a decent some of their income by investing in high profile crypto currencies.Some also use these currencies as alternative methods to payments.Ripple happens to be a crypto currency that has been on the rise for the past few years.A lot of…

There is now evidence that the unpopular oil majors are oversold.That spells opportunity for canny investors, writes Victor Hill. The conventional wisdom is that the oil majors are doomed since, thanks to the “climate crisis”, mankind is transitioning to renewable energy.Green energy, they say, represents an existential threat to the oil industry.Oil is the mega…

naqiewe/Getty Images When Daniel Ellsberg photocopied and leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, those 7,000 pages of top secret Vietnam War documents represented what was then the biggest whistleblower leak in history—a couple dozen megabytes if it were contained in a modern text file.Almost four decades later, WikiLeaks in 2010…

JOIN THE DISCUSSION Grygo is chief content officer for FTF. It appears that the incredible power of celebrity combined with social media has the full attention of the SEC especially when it comes to endorsements of all things crypto-currency. The SEC just announced that movie actor Steven Seagal, who is also a producer, screenwriter, martial…