8% fewer BTC than April (508 vs 466). 59% fewer new miners deployed than April (3,456 vs 1,086) Lower hashrate than April (4.7 vs 4.6EH) Fewer miners running than April (46,375 vs 43,458) due to shutting off 4,000 S17-Pros Reduced their estimated "total" hash rate...
Tapstone Partners LLC,- Beverly Hills – PPP Loan Data
It boggles the mind that Tapstone needed PPP loans to save jobs during the pandemic. Consumer spending surged as a result of the stimulus money the Fed handed out, client companies dramatically increased spending on marketing, and agencies saw record growth in...
Five Ways to Do Incrementality Testing with Digital Ads
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Retail Drops by Most Since 2009
Retail sales plummeted by the most in nine years in December, an unexpected drop that has fueled concerns about an economy driven by consumer spending. The Commerce Department said Thursday that retail sales sank 1.2% last month to $505.8 billion, marking the...
The Internet is fake. We’re not lying.
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Stanley Ford, AriseBank, dodging the law?
Law360 (March 12, 2018, 6:31 PM EDT) -- A Texas federal judge on Friday extended an asset freeze and other emergency measures put in place earlier this year for AriseBank and its top executives after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused them of running...
This Is the Data Snapchat Doesn’t Want You to See
Snapchat takes its secrecy seriously. Very, very seriously. Take the case of one former Snapchat employee. On his first day, he was forced to sit through an ominous orientation in which he was threatened with termination if he so much as breathed a word of what he was...
Attack of the Zombie Websites
A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals how seemingly-credible players in the ad supply chain can play an active role in — and profit from — fraud. Some of the world’s biggest brands were ripped off by a digital fraud scheme that used a network of websites connected to...
Search, Website Slowdowns Can Cost Brands Millions Annually
by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, 5 hours ago Website performance and IT issues cost brands roughly $20 million annually — about $1.5 million due to slowdowns and $18.5 million due to general site issues — for those analyzed in the study despite the...
The Kremlin Is Obsessed With Cryptocurrencies
Putin and his people once threatened to jail bitcoin users. Now, they can’t get enough of the digital money. In early June, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The headline moment at the event was a...