In 2011, a programmer named Kevin Day almost walked away with 259,684 $BTC — worth $16 billion today — but the exchange hit undo and erased his entire trade.
Here's what happened:
Russian hackers broke into Mt. Gox (handling 70% of all Bitcoin trading at the time). They injected fake Bitcoin into the database and dumped everything, crashing the price from $17.50 to $0.01 in 3 minutes.
Most people thought Bitcoin was finished.
But Day, a former Mortal Kombat 4 programmer, saw the real play: t...
Oil's sitting at $80+ again — right in the middle of a messy 3-week range ($78-$95 for Brent).
Not a breakout. Not a collapse. Just... stuck.
This is what indecision looks like. Markets are waiting for clarity — on demand (China? Recession?), supply (OPEC cuts holding?), or geopolitics (always something).
Meanwhile, if you're converting currency for travel or business and oil's bouncing around, remember: energy prices feed into inflation, which central banks watch, which affects interest rat...