Month: September 2020

The markets kicked off the week with a 5-1 Tesla stock split rally and ended with major questions about tech company valuations.

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On this episode of The Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the full story the stock markets are telling us about the economy, including:

• SoftBank unmasked as the “Nasdaq whale” playing the same options game with stocks as r/WallStreetBets
• The Tesla stock split game: Does this just mean it’s for n00bs and rubes? 
• The VIX shows November nervousness
• Can you hear it? As stocks slide, the money printer is revving again

This week on The Breakdown:

Monday | US Stock Market Cap to GDP Ratio Reaches 190%, Eclipsing Dot-Com Bubble High 

Tuesday | Financial Postmodernism and the Great Inflation Debate 

Wednesday | Let Them Eat Equities! The Economic Chickens Come Home to Roost, Feat. Luke Gromen 

Thursday | DeFi Degens Are Crypto’s Suicide Squad 

Friday | 8 Historical Analogies That Help Explain the Madness of 2020 

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It wasn’t long ago the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade went live on an official test network. Developers have been catching mission-critical bugs in the code ever since. 

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“This is the biggest testnet launch that Ethereum 2.0 has seen. … So we learned about things that were frustrating for people. We found some bugs. We’ve been troubleshooting a very interesting and elusive bug at the moment that can cause nodes to crash,” said Paul Hauner, the lead developer of the Ethereum 2.0 Lighthouse client. 

Also testing the new Eth 2.0 mock network – called “Medalla” – and finding some surprises along the way is staking-as-a-service startup Staked. In the mind of Tim Ogilvie, co-founder and CEO of Staked, all of the bugs and unexpected issues on the Medalla network thus far are relatively minor and give no cause for concern. 

“We run 25 other proof-of-stake networks and so we’re used to running in testnets,” Ogilvie said. “We see a lot of the same issues in testnets, which is that sometimes the software doesn’t communicate perfectly or has issues where the network needs to be restarted. I think [Eth 2.0] is in pretty good shape relative to a lot of the other testnets we’ve seen.”

That said, both Hauner and Ogilvie agree there are important features about the Eth 2.0 network that users need to understand before staking their ETH. 

A “really important one,” according to Ogilvie, is the fact that once ETH is transferred to the Eth 2.0 network, it cannot be transferred back to the original Ethereum blockchain. 

“It is a one-way trip until the next phase [of Ethereum 2.0 development] has been enabled. Your funds are not liquid. Really, the only thing you can do is participate in staking. People have to understand that fundamentally before they get started,” Ogilvie said. 

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Today we hear from two guests providing key data and research about the future of the workplace.

Not only are they providing fascinating new insights about working during and after the pandemic, but they’re also turning that data into valuable advice for both executives and employees as we all navigate this new environment and economy.

You’ll hear from Gartner's Brian Kropp and LinkedIn's Caroline Fairchild, as they discuss everything from the impact of remote work to the toll on working parents, and much more.

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