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Monday, June 13, 2022

#CryptoCorner #Podcast 853- #Crypto Market Crashes Below $1T Market Cap as #BTC and #ETH Plummet, but BTC Hashrate Hits All-Time High

#CryptoCorner #Podcast 853- #Crypto Market Crashes Below $1T Market Cap as #BTC and #ETH Plummet, but BTC Hashrate Hits All-Time High

Vancouver, Kelowna, Delta, BC June 13, 2022 - Investorideas.com, a leader in crypto and blockchain investing news brings you today’s edition of the Crypto Corner podcast and commentary on what’s driving cryptocurrency stocks and the crypto market.

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Crypto Market Crashes Below $1T Market Cap as BTC and ETH Plummet, but BTC Hashrate Hits All-Time High

The crypto market is an absolute bloodbath today with Bitcoin (BTC) having dropped to a trading price of roughly $23,250 USD at press time – its lowest since December 2020. This is a decline of approximately 17.4 percent in the past 24 hours alone, but follows a notable downturn beginning last Friday (June 10), and not to mention a rocky last couple of months. Similarly, Ethereum (ETH) has plummeted to a trading price of about $1,225, down around 19 percent in the past 24 hours. This crashing of the two largest cryptocurrencies by market cap has dragged much of the market with it, bringing the total crypto market capitalization to below $1 trillion for the first time since February 2021, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

CNBC cites factors such as “rampant inflation continuing and the U.S. Federal Reserve expected to hike interest rates this week to control rising prices,” as well as the crypto market’s general correlation with stock market trends as reasons for the crash. Vijay Ayyar, vice president of corporate development and international at crypto exchange Luno, told CNBC:

“Since Nov 2021, sentiment has changed drastically given the Fed rate hikes and inflation management. We’re also potentially looking at a recession given the FED may need to finally tackle the demand side to manage inflation.

All this points to the market not completely having bottomed and unless the Fed is able to take a breather, we’re probably not going to see bullishness return.”

Ayyar went on to say:

“We could see much lower bitcoin prices over the next month or two.”

Cointelegraph reports that this crash coincides with an all-time high in Bitcoin’s hash rate – a network security measure based on computing power for mining – of 231.428 exahash per second (EH/s). An excerpt from the article highlights the strengths of the market, possibly offering a silver lining to today’s news:

Despite the market crash that threatens to wipe numerous crypto projects out of existence, the Bitcoin ecosystem continues to strengthen its core by consistently recording new ATHs for hash rate, network difficulty and network capacity.

In addition, the Bitcoin Lightning Network — the layer-2 technology built on Bitcoin — increased its capacity to 4,000 BTC, furthering its goal to enable faster and cheaper peer-to-peer BTC transactions.

With continued support from miners, traders and developers, Bitcoin remains well-positioned to be hosted on the most secure blockchain network in the world.

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Investors, VC and Business Betting on the Future

Vancouver, BC, June 13, 2022 – Investorideas.com, a global news source and expert investing resource covering tech and fintech issues a sector snapshot on the SaaS (software as a service) market featuring Business Warrior Corp. (OTC: BZWR), a SaaS company providing small businesses in the United States with a suite of data-driven marketing and next-generation, funding solutions to boost local market dominance.

Read this article, featuring BZWR in full at https://www.investorideas.com/news/2022/technology/06131SaaS.asp

According to the latest research by SkyQuest Technology, the Global SaaS Market was valued at USD 143.77 Billion in 2021 and it is expected to reach USD 720.44 Billion by 2028, with a CAGR of 25.89% during the forecast period of 2022 - 2028.

Business Warrior Corp. (OTC: BZWR) just announced the acquisition of Alchemy Technologies, a global FinTech software as a service (SaaS) company. The acquisition strengthens Business Warrior’s core marketing and lending software while expanding the Company’s brand and services to meet global demand.

From the news: Alchemy specializes in creating end-to-end, cloud native lending experiences for other FinTech companies, merchants and banks. The company installs its core solution to a number of different verticals, including: Personal loans, Point of Sale Financing, Health and Beauty Financing, Construction Loans, Solar and Home Improvement Financing, Small Business Lending, Skillset Financing and Crowdfunding Platforms.

In working with Alchemy to develop its Business Warrior Funding lending platform earlier this year, Business Warrior identified Alchemy as an attractive acquisition opportunity, noting its operational and financial performance.

Alchemy is a global company with customers in six different countries and territories, the United States, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Australia, United Kingdom and Puerto Rico. In 2021, Alchemy generated total revenues of $2.8 million. The company is on track to add additional revenue and projects full-year 2022 revenues to increase by 77% compared to 2021.

"After working with Alchemy, we quickly realized the massive potential of adding this international group of industry leaders to the Business Warrior team," explains Business Warrior President Jonathan Brooks. "With our Business Warrior platform, premium marketing, and now a global lending technology presence, we are building solutions that propel the success of small businesses."

As a subsidiary of Business Warrior, Alchemy will remain under its current brand name and will continue to support its clients and internal teams. Alchemy and its more than 30 full-time employees and over 100 full-time contracted developers will be an independently managed subsidiary of Business Warrior. This acquisition expands the Business Warrior team to 157 professionals focused on a singular mission: to be the source for success and long-term growth for small businesses through marketing technology and unique funding solutions. Alchemy Founder and CEO, Timothy Li, will join Business Warrior as the Global Head of Technology, where he will work alongside the Business Warrior executive team. Li, who has an extensive background and is a recognized expert in the FinTech industry, previously worked as a Chief Information Officer and as a Chief Risk Officer for JP Morgan Chase, Loan Depot, and Realty Mogul.

"We are so excited about joining the Business Warrior family! This move provides Alchemy with the additional resources, tools and capital necessary to enhance our service to customers," states Li. "Both companies believe small business owners are the lifeline of local communities. By bringing Alchemy and Business Warrior together, the positive impact on these communities is going to be worldwide."

Randy Schmidt, formerly the COO of Alchemy, will transition into the role of Senior Vice President of Alchemy and will lead its internal team moving forward.

The value of the deal at closing is $8.75 million with $2.25 million in cash and $5 million in preferred stock with a 7%, three-year cash dividend. In addition, $450,000 in restricted common stock will go to existing Alchemy employees that will vest over 24 months.

Looking at growth and investor interest in the SaaS sector, Forbes just reported “In 10 years, SaaS funding has grown by almost seven times and outpaced the growth of overall venture capital funding by almost six times.

“Just last year alone, 27 SaaS companies went public, representing around $225 billion of market capital. One of the reasons there is so much investor interest in software is because the use cases for it continue to grow rapidly, spanning a wider range of industries than previously imagined.”

One of the SaaS companies that went public last year was Toast (NYSE: TOST), a cloud-based, all-in-one digital technology platform purpose-built for the entire restaurant community. Toast provides a single platform of software as a service, or SaaS, products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to run their business across point of sale, operations, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, and team management.

Research and Markets reports, “SaaS allows an organization to run an application at minimal upfront cost and speeds up overall functionality of the organization. Major players in the Software as a Service (SaaS) market are Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Slack, Adobe, Oracle, Amazon AWS, DocuSign, Zendesk, Dropbox, ADP, Atlassian Confluence, Shopify, Workday, Hubspot, SAP, IBM, Box, Concur, JIRA, GitHub, GoToMeeting, Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) , CoupaSoftware, Xero and Zuora.”

Positioning for future growth in the SaaS market, Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) recently announced Joyce Kim will be joining the company as Chief Marketing Officer, reporting to President of Revenue, Elena Donio. As Chief Marketing Officer, Kim will lead global marketing as the company executes its vision of becoming the leader in the emerging customer engagement category.

“It’s a crucial time for Twilio as we look to scale and embrace the unique opportunity to define a new category in technology,” said Elena Donio, President of Revenue. “With decades of experience across SaaS product positioning, demand generation and large scale developer community engagement, Joyce’s expertise directly lends itself to leading Twilio’s growing, global marketing organization. Joyce brings a great energy to Twilio, and I can’t wait to see what she builds.”

Another small player in the space, QuantGate Systems Inc. (OTCQB: QGSI), an Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS-based Fintech solutions provider recently announced that it has entered into a Joint Venture agreement with Infocorp Computer Solutions Ltd. a leader in payments and system integration for the public sector with Municipal and State/Provincial clients across North America, to develop and market fintech solutions globally.

From the news: The joint venture will aim to develop and distribute fintech solutions for the global financial services market. The two companies have complementary strengths and share a common goal of providing innovative solutions that meet the needs of their customers.

For investors following SaaS stocks and industry moves; start-ups, VC funding, acquisitions and smart money are betting big on this trend.

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Friday, June 10, 2022

#AIEye #Podcast 704: #Stocks discussed: (NasdaqGS: $NICE) (OTC: $RNECY) #artificialintelligence

#AIEye #Podcast 704: #Stocks discussed: (NasdaqGS: $NICE) (OTC: $RNECY) #artificialintelligence

NICE Actimize Xceed Chosen by American State Bank for Financial Crime Strategy, and Renesas Electronics to Acquire Reality AI

Global #AI in #BFSI to Reach $84.33B in 2028

Vancouver, Kelowna, Delta, BC – June 10, 2022 – Investorideas.com, a global investor news source covering Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings you today’s edition of The AI Eye-watching stock news, deal tracker and advancements in artificial intelligence.

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Stocks discussed: (NasdaqGS:NICE) (OTC:RNECY)

NICE Actimize, a subsidiary of NICE Ltd. (NasdaqGS:NICE), has announced that Texas-based financial institution American State Bank has selected NICE Actimize Xceed, described as “an all-in-one AI fraud and anti-money laundering platform,” to drive its restructured financial crime strategy. Craig Costigan, CEO, NICE Actimize, commented:

"By providing a single platform leveraging AI, data intelligence and behavioral analytics, NICE Actimize Xceed provides mid-sized financial institutions with superior financial crime and compliance risk management. We look forward to supporting American State Bank’s new financial crime management platform and its future growth in the market."

Advanced semiconductor solutions provider Renesas Electronics Corporation (OTC:RNECY) has entered into a definitive agreement with Reality Analytics, Inc. (Reality AI), a leading provider of embedded AI solutions, under which Renesas will acquire Reality AI in an all-cash transaction. This, according to the press release, “will significantly enhance Renesas’ endpoint AI capability, providing more flexibility and efficiency for system developers to make their products AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) ready and get to market faster.” Hidetoshi Shibata, President and CEO of Renesas, said:

"The importance and demand of data at the endpoint is increasing at an unprecedented scale. The acquisition of AI technology is an important milestone to address our customers’ emerging requirements for endpoint intelligence. The addition of Reality AI’s AI solutions to our existing embedded AI portfolios will further solidify our position as a leading AIoT solution provider."

Global AI in BFSI to Reach $84.33B in 2028

A report published by Research Dive finds that the global AI in BFSI (Banking, financial services, and insurance) is projected to grow from $21.06 billion in 2020 to $84.33 billion in 2028, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.1 percent in the forecast period 2021-28. The following excerpt from the report’s overview highlights some key factors contributing to the market’s growth:

The implementation of AI based technologies in BFSI such as robotic process automation (RPA) and natural language processing (NLP) is expected to open new scope of opportunities for the market in the forecast period. Software that mimics rules-based digital tasks performed by humans is being applied in banking to eliminate much of the time-intensive and error-prone work involved in entering customer data from contracts, forms, and other sources. These factors are expected to open new scope of opportunities for the market in the forecast period.

Sam Mowers, Investorideas.com

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#CryptoCorner #Podcast 852: #Stocks discussed: (NYSE: $MA) (CSE: $GBLC.C) (NasdaqCM: $MARA)

#CryptoCorner #Podcast 852: #Stocks discussed: (NYSE: $MA) (CSE: $GBLC.C) (NasdaqCM: $MARA)

Mastercard to Allow NFT Purchases Directly with Card, Niftable Announces Partnership with Station Gallery, and Marathon Posts May Update

Vancouver, Kelowna, Delta, BC June 10, 2022 - Investorideas.com, a leader in crypto and blockchain investing news brings you today’s edition of the Crypto Corner podcast and commentary on what’s driving cryptocurrency stocks and the crypto market.

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Cointelegraph reports that Mastercard (NYSE:MA) is enabling card payments for NFTs, having “partnered with a number of leading NFT marketplaces to allow 2.9 billion cardholders to directly make NFT purchases without buying crypto first.” Previously, users were able to first buy crypto so as to bid on and buy NFTs, but after partnering with NFT marketplaces including: Immutable X, Candy Digital, The Sandbox , Mintable, Spring, Nifty Gateway and Web3 infrastructure provider MoonPay, company cardholders can “directly make NFT purchases without buying crypto first.” A statement from the payment processing giant reads:

“These integrations are designed to make crypto more accessible and help the NFT ecosystem keep growing, innovating and bringing in more fans.”

On the subject of NFTs, Niftable, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Graph Blockchain Inc. (CSE:GBLC), has announced a partnership agreement with Whitby Arts Inc. (o/a "Station Gallery") and will aid the latter in the creation of NFTs, advise on the marketing strategy, sale of the NFTs and post-sale of the NFTs. Michael Yeung, President of Niftable, said:

“We are extremely happy to have Station Gallery as a partner and help guide them through the NFT world. We continue to hold that NFTs are a new venue for charities to access for fundraising. Furthermore, we look forward to showcasing some of the artists and artwork from Station Gallery this summer.”

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqCM:MARA) has published its unaudited Bitcoin (BTC) production and miner installation updates for May 2022. Highlights include the production of 268 self-mined Bitcoin – bringing total holdings to 9,941 BTC, a total of 19,000 miners installed and awaiting energization, and a current operating mining fleet total of 36,830 active miners producing approximately 3.9 EH/s. Management commentary from the press release reads:

“We remain confident that Marathon is well positioned to achieve its performance goals, and we will continue to provide updates as they materialize. We have a strong foundation from which to build, we have a solid pipeline of potential hosting and power arrangements that exceeds our needs and allows us to diversify our operations, and we have a strong balance sheet to support our growth plans. We look forward to continuing to execute on our strategy of achieving carbon neutrality by the end of this year and growing to 23.3 EH/s in early 2023.”

Sam Mowers, Investorideas

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Monday, June 13, 2022

#CryptoCorner #Podcast 853- #Crypto Market Crashes Below $1T Market Cap as #BTC and #ETH Plummet, but BTC Hashrate Hits All-Time High

Following the Money in #SaaS (software as a service) – (OTC: $BZWR) (NYSE: $TOST) (NYSE: $TWLO) (OTCQB: $QGSI) @BizWarriorLIFE @twilio @quantgate

Friday, June 10, 2022

#AIEye #Podcast 704: #Stocks discussed: (NasdaqGS: $NICE) (OTC: $RNECY) #artificialintelligence

#CryptoCorner #Podcast 852: #Stocks discussed: (NYSE: $MA) (CSE: $GBLC.C) (NasdaqCM: $MARA)

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