Nathaniel Popper

Sep 23, 2024 | shepherd.com | Andrew Chow |Nathaniel Popper |Vitalik Buterin |Nathan Schneider

The journalist Nathaniel Popper starts at the beginning, telling the story of how Bitcoin emerged from message boards and was slowly but surely propelled forward by government-wary libertarians, computer science nerds, and opportunistic venture capitalists. Popper persuasively articulates the many problems that Bitcoin solves across the world—and then reveals its extremely bumpy road toward adoption. Why should I read it?

Jul 22, 2024 | wbur.org | Nathaniel Popper

Wall Street trolls are still buying retail stocksRetail traders are still buying stocks as much as they were during the pandemic, subverting expectations that they would go away after people returned to work and their pre-COVID lives. Journalist Nathaniel Popper shares the data and the reasons why. This segment airs on July 22, 2024. Audio will be available after the broadcast.

Jun 15, 2024 | businessinsider.es | Nathaniel Popper

Del libro THE TROLLS OF WALL STREET de Nathaniel Popper, autor de Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money. El día después del Día de Acción de Gracias en 2020, en plena bacanal del consumismo estadounidense conocida como Black Friday, apareció un post en WallStreetBets con un breve vídeo grabado en el aparcamiento de un anodino centro comercial.

Jun 13, 2024 | coindesk.com | Nathaniel Popper

The crypto boom in the final months of 2017 woke up millions of people to the idea that you could get rich from your phone. In December alone, three million people downloaded the app for Coinbase, the main American crypto exchange. Coinbase had been much smaller and less popular than Robinhood, but in December, it got about six times more downloads.

Jun 12, 2024 | businessinsider.de | Nathaniel Popper

Die legendäre Gamestop-Aktienrallye begann auf dem Subreddit WallStreetBets nach Thanksgiving 2020. Investoren teilten Informationen und Recherchen über Gamestop und dessen Zukunftsaussichten. Die Rallye führte zu einem Kampf zwischen Kleinanlegern und Hedgefonds, die auf den Niedergang von Gamestop gewettet hatten. Dies ist ein Ausschnitt aus dem Buch “The Trolls of Wall Street“ von Nathaniel Popper.