Friday 4 August 2023
Who is Elon Musk and what drives him?
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Twitter is on the Brink of Bankruptcy
Tuesday 18 July 2023
Threads vs. Twitter: Could Elon Musk’s App Be Replaced?
Sunday 11 December 2022
Citadel Advantage News Digest - Issue #158
- Green Loans: A Fast-Track Method to Be a Banking ESG Leader
- Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Regulation and Bank Runs: A Summary
- The whole point of money is to NOT know your customer - Chris Skinner's blog
- Just 8% of Americans have a positive view of cryptocurrencies now
- 'Bank of Twitter': Is Elon Musk Spitballing Or Could It Really Work?
- Why Crypto’s Crash Hasn’t Spilled Into Other Markets
- Elon Musk Is Hiring Relatives at Twitter in Literal Nepotism
Check it out HERE
Wednesday 30 November 2022
Working for Elon Musk: Ex-Employees Reveal His Management Strategy
Wednesday 9 November 2022
Why Tesla’s China Ties Could Be a Problem for Elon Musk’s Twitter
Wednesday 20 July 2022
Read the latest Edition (#129) of the Citadel Advantage News Digest
Read the newsletter HERE
In this edition;
- With or without Elon Musk, Twitter is overdue a shake-up
- Crypto market crash: Layoffs, bankruptcies and frozen accounts
- What to do now about tomorrow’s code-cracking computers
- Credit Suisse: what next for the crisis-hit bank?
- Battle for Credit Cards Waged With Innovation and Sheer Marketing Muscle
- How Can Password-Free Identity Verification Safeguard User Privacy?
- Major Card-Issuing Bank Takes on Fintechs with Its Own BNPL Plan
- The real value in relationship-focused pricing decisions
- 5 Ways Community Banks & Credit Unions Can Compete in Credit Cards
- Visualized: How Bonds Help Reduce Bear Market Risk
- The Gap Between Products Banks Offer & What Consumers Really Need
- WaaS for Finance: How Banks and Retailers Can Leverage Wallet-as-a-Service?
- Banks Struggle to Provide Personalized Engagement: Here's Why
Wednesday 29 June 2022
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Trump, Twitter, Job Cuts, Recession Risks
Thursday 28 April 2022
How Elon Musk Plans to Change Twitter
Twitter will become a private company if Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover bid is approved. The move would allow Musk to make changes to the site. WSJ’s Dan Gallagher explains Musk’s proposed changes and the challenges he might face enacting them.
Friday 31 December 2021
Bitcoin is setting the world on fire
Bitcoin was really hot in 2021, but not the way you might think.
I'm talking about the massive energy and carbon footprint that has bloomed up as the Bitcoin network continues to grow. We've finally started to pay attention to it in 2021, with Elon Musk calling its energy consumption "insane," and calling into question its usefulness (and interestingly neither Tesla nor Musk have divested themselves of Bitcoin holdings).
It's true that Bitcoin uses an absurd amount of energy, and 2021 was the year that it truly skyrocketed, rising from somewhere around a 77 TWh/year forecast in the beginning of the year to more than 200 TWh/year by December 25. At this point, the Bitcoin network is burning through the same amount of power and fuel as some medium-sized countries, and an individual transaction eats up more power than an average U.S. household uses in 70 days!
Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, need something big, like a transition to proof-of-stake, if they're going to survive a larger global transition to greener energy.
Wednesday 15 December 2021
Musk Named Time's Person of the Year After Tesla's Stellar Run
Elon Musk was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year," capping a run during which the head of Tesla Inc. solidified his standing as the world's richest person and turned his onetime electric-vehicle startup into a $1 trillion company.
Thursday 9 December 2021
'Tesla as the World’s Biggest Robot Company' Elon Musk on AI and U.S. Innovation
Monday 21 June 2021
Elon Musk: CO2 saint or sinner? - FT Film
The electric car revolutionary has built a reputation as a clean energy champion. But SpaceX has never fitted in with Musk's green image. Now the tech billionaire is driving the energy-hungry crypto market. FT writers and experts weigh his climate record, both good and bad, and ask whether his green status stacks up.
You can read more at https://www.ft.com/climate-capital
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Elon Musk’s Power Over Crypto, Explained - WSJ
Elon Musk’s comments on assets like bitcoin and dogecoin have helped send prices sky high – and crashing down – over the past year. WSJ explains Musk’s influence on cryptocurrency investors, and why some experts think the ‘Dogefather’ is taking investors for a ride.
Friday 26 February 2021
Bitcoin Blues
Bitcoin speculators had a jittery week, pushing the cryptocurrency down from a record high. Janet Yellen, America’s treasury secretary, added to the febrile atmosphere when she described bitcoin as an “extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions”. Meanwhile, New York state’s attorney-general branded Tether “fraudulent” and barred the stablecoin—commonly used to buy bitcoin on crypto-exchanges—from trading in New York. Tether long claimed its coin was backed one-to-one by the dollar, but New York concluded that it overstated its reserves and is “a stablecoin without stability”.
The knock to bitcoin was a factor behind a sharp fall in Tesla’s share price. The electric-car maker made a controversial $1.5bn investment in bitcoin recently. Shortly before the cryptocurrency plunged, Elon Musk mused that its price seemed “too high”. The drop in Tesla’s stock at one point wiped $15bn off his fortune.