Should You Buy and Hold Block Stock for 20 Years? 1 Crucial Factor You Can’t Ignore.

Block (XYZ -3.84%) was once a high-flying stock. In the five years leading up to their peak in August 2021, shares were up an astonishing 2,430%. Growth was fantastic, and the market was warming up to this innovative financial services business. It’s been a disappointing story since that peak. As of July 14, this fintech […]

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Why infrastructure, not hype, will define the next wave of the industry

The following article is a guest post and opinion of Mike Romanenko, CVO & Co-founder of Kyrrex. The environment of crypto payments is shifting from speculative hysteria to underlying development. As the industry matures, a strong foundation in the form of business-to-business (B2B) payment infrastructure, user experience (UX), and regulation is materializing as crucial for […]

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The Compound and Friends: Reasons to Remain Overweight

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Time to move into prime London residential property?

How’s this for a contrarian opportunity? Prime London residential property. I’m thinking about flats and houses in South Kensington, Chelsea, Notting Hill, and Knightsbridge. Okay, you could easily spend £1m just to secure a very bottom-rung apartment near the Natural History museum – so perhaps ‘houses’ is a stretch for all but a handful of […]

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Malta’s MiCA license process under scrutiny by EU regulators

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has raised red flags over Malta’s handling of license approvals under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. In a peer review report released on July 10, ESMA highlighted deficiencies in how the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) approved a recent crypto asset service provider (CASP), urging tighter […]

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A new era of Stack Overflow

Every year for the last three years, we’ve shared major announcements from the mainstage of WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin at pivotal moments in our journey. In 2023, we launched OverflowAI, our flagship AI initiative for our users and enterprise customers, while last year, we revealed our vision for the Knowledge as a Service model […]

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What can agents actually do?

There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these conversations occur at such an abstract altitude that […]

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