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Warren Buffett steps down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway after 60 years of nearly flawless service. His patience, observancy, and watchfulness made him one of the most efficient investors of all time and one of the richest men on Earth. However, Buffett is just a man, and the market is sometimes too unpredictable, even for him.  Buffett started investing when he was 11 in 1942, during the troubled times of World War II. Later, he became famous as an investor who made profits when the markets were down. Notably, Berkshire Hathaway gained profits when the other giants, like S&P, were down during the Trump tariffs turmoil this spring. Value investment principle follower, who recommended being fearful when everybody else is greedy, Buffett believes there is no use in trying to time the market. Instead, his approach was to buy and watch what happens next.  “I never have an opinion about the market because it wouldn’t be any good, and it might interfere with the opinions we have that are good. If we’re right about a business, if we think a business is attractive, it would be very foolish for us to not take action on that because we thought something about what the market was going to do. […] If you’re right about the businesses, you’ll end up doing fine.” Buffett became the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway in 1970. Now, when he is 94, he says lately it has become harder for him to remember names and read newspapers, so he decided to leave his position in the company.  Cryptocurrency enthusiasts know Buffett’s negative stance on crypto. Could he be mistaken about it? Although Buffett is called a sage or an oracle, he sometimes makes mistakes. Let’s digest Buffett’s biggest mistakes in Buffett’s career and see what we can learn from them. “The dumbest stock I’ve ever bought” In 2010, Buffett shared a story of buying “the dumbest stock” in his career. And it was buying the majority share of… Berkshire Hathaway in 1964. Buffett says he made it out of anger just to fire its then owner, Seabury Stanton, who failed to fulfill his part of the deal with Buffett. At that time, Berkshire Hathaway was a declining textile manufacturing company closing one mill after another. Buffett noticed the company was selling its stocks at a discount every time it closed another mill, so he began to buy its stocks in 1962, hoping to sell them back to the company later.  In 1964, Stanton offered Buffett a tender to buy back his shares. They verbally agreed on a price of $11.5 per share. However, when Buffett saw a paper tender, he discovered it had an undercutting stock price of $11⅜. It angered Buffett, and he bought more stocks to overtake the company and fire Stanton.  This untypically emotionally driven investment cost Buffett $100 billion if we trust his calculations. He said that instead of investing in a textile company, he could start an insurance company and make $200 billion instead of the $100 billion that he made as of the time of telling this story in 2010.  There are two major lessons we can learn from this story:  Emotions are enemies of investors. Buffett had a plan to sell his Berkshire Hathaway stocks. Instead, he bought more and had to deal with the problems of this firm instead of setting up a new company.  Berkshire Hathaway has made $277 billion, but Buffett still believes he could do much better, be he a chiller person. So it is important to factor in possibilities. Mistake that scared Buffett off the gas station business for 66 years In 1951, at the age of 21, Buffett lost 20% of his net worth due to an unfortunate investment in the Sinclair gas station based in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.  Buffett’s Sinclair investment amounted to $2,000 of the $10,000 he had at that time. Sinclair had no competitive advantages when compared to Texaco, which was its main competitor in Omaha. Buffett tried to improve Sinclair’s business so hard that he even spent weekends working at the counter. Nothing helped. Given that, as of press time, Buffett’s net worth amounts to $158 billion, the opportunity cost of losing 20% is $31.6 billion. Buffett didn’t invest in gas stations until 2017, when Berkshire Hathaway bought a minority stake in a leading truck stop/travel center giant, Pilot Flying J. Later, Berkshire Hathaway owned the entire company.  After the Sinclair gas failure, Buffett found what he thought was a potent company and owned it. His mistake made him more cautious, but after 66 years of looking for a better option, Buffett finally re-entered the gas station business and achieved moderate success. We can extract a couple of lessons from this case:  The first lesson is on the surface: don’t invest in a company that doesn’t have competitive advantages, even if it’s your local business. Past mistakes shouldn’t be a burden. Buffett lost investing in a gas station, but when he found a strong opportunity in a similar business, he spent billions on it. The 1993 Dexter Shoes investment was a similar Buffett misstep. The company had a competitive advantage for a few years, but soon lost it. It cost Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders $3.5 billion. The cost of refusing to time the market As mentioned above, Buffett believes it is impossible to time the market. When he felt that the energy company ConocoPhillips was doing great (which it was), he invested in it. As the oil prices went down, Buffett had to admit to multi-billion-dollar losses, the biggest in two decades. He acknowledged that investing in an energy company during the peak oil prices is a miscalculation.  The lesson here is that if the energy company is doing great during the oil price rally, it doesn’t mean it will still be profitable when these prices fall. Cryptocurrencies Buffett regretted that he invested in Amazon too late. He regretted not investing in Google when it was viable. Will the Omaha Oracle regret not investing in crypto? It doesn’t seem so. The guys at @GenesisMining put these Bitcoin billboards outside Warren Buffett’s office.Crypto won’t go quietly into the night 🚀 pic.twitter.com/9VApfn9CKM— Anthony Pompliano 🌪 (@APompliano) May 17, 2018 As Buffett values companies with strong management and products, the decentralized world of cryptocurrency doesn’t meet his vision. In 2018, he called crypto “probably rat poison squared” and assured that the cryptocurrency craze would have a bad ending. He said that Berkshire Hathaway will never hold crypto.  Buffett stayed true to his promise. Almost. In the 2020s, Berkshire Hathaway invested $750 million in Nu Holdings, a Brazilian banking platform with a cryptocurrency service.  Read more:Warren Buffett dumps crypto-affiliated banks after he sees red flags In 2022, he said something that could be a prime answer to the Bitcoin Race fueled by people like Michael Saylor: “Now, if you told me you own all of the bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25, I wouldn’t take it because what would I do with it?” Buffett reportedly told Berkshire Hathaway investors three years ago. “I’d have to sell it back to you one way or another. It isn’t going to do anything.”  Time will show who’s right.  You might also like:Bitcoin nears Berkshire’s value despite Buffett’s critique Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only.

The Ethereum price has been under pressure this year, having dropped by 56% from its November high.  Ethereum’s (ETH) performance has been worse compared to other top cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL). In fact, Ethereum has dropped to a record low against SOL, and is hovering at its 2020 lows against BTC. This performance has led some investors and analysts to question whether Ethereum is dead. In a YouTube video on Thursday, Charles Hoskinson, Cardano’s (ADA) founder, predicted that Ethereum wouldn’t be around in the next 15 years. He pointed to the growth of layer-2 networks like Base, Optimism, Arbitrum, and Polygon, which have continued to gain market share. These chains have largely taken users from Ethereum, a chain known for slow speeds and high transaction costs. You might also like:Investors can turn to stocks as Bitcoin nears range top, analysts warn However, a closer look at top network data reveals that Ethereum is far from heading to its demise. Its decentralized exchange protocols handled over $57 billion in volume over the last 30 days, making it the second-biggest chain after Solana, whose protocols handled $61.3 billion in the same period. Ethereum is also the biggest chain in terms of total value locked. It has a TVL $107 billion, giving it a 57% market share. Its stablecoin market cap of $124 billion represents a 51% market share. It remains the biggest chain in the non-fungible token industry as well. Additionally, Santiment data shows that the number of Ethereum holders has continued rising. It now has over 144.8 million holders, up from 130 million in October last year. Furthermore, the five-year Mean Dollar Invested Age has increased to 658, indicating that older holders are not selling. ETH holders and MDIA | Source: Santiment Ethereum technical analysis: $2150 is the key price to watch ETH price chart | Source: crypto.news The daily chart shows that ETH price has bounced back after bottoming at $1,383 earlier this month. It has rebounded to $1,787, its highest level since April 6. The coin has moved above the upper boundary of the falling channel that had formed since last November. It has also jumped above the 25-day moving average and formed a small bullish flag pattern. The Awesome Oscillator is about to move above the zero line. It jumped above that level lastly in November, triggering a 40% jump. Therefore, the key Ethereum price level to watch will be at $2,150, the lowest point in August and September last year. A break above that level will signal more gains, potentially to $3,000. Failure to move above that level is risky because it will signal a break-and-retest pattern, which would indicate further downside. You might also like:PENGU price breaks out with 40% surge, eyes $0.015 ahead of potential ETF approval

加拿大比特币挖矿公司 HIVE Digital 已在巴拉圭建成其旗舰设施，目标是到 2025 年秋季达到 25 EH/s。 4月21日，加拿大比特币（BTC）挖矿公司HIVE Digital宣布其位于巴拉圭的100兆瓦矿场一期基础设施已完工，其股价在盘前交易中飙升2%。HIVE Digital在周日的新闻稿中表示，其位于伊瓜兹（YguazÃ）的矿场现已完全通电并配备齐全，可为ASIC矿机提供每秒5 exahash的算力。 HIVE 已使用其内部 BUZZ 矿机实现了 200 PH/s 的算力，预计 4 月底将有 8,000 台矿机上线。新闻稿称，比特大陆 S21+ 矿机的首批交付已开始，预计 5 月底前将有超过 20,000 台矿机到货。 “截至 3 月 31 日，我们已获得比特大陆 S21+ 矿机 4.3 EH/s 的保证金，资金来自严格的资金管理。我们的财年末标志着一个战略转折点——没有债务，只有明智的执行。我们矿机算力从 6.5 EH/s 到 11.5 EH/s 的扩张计划已到账，我们正在快速推进。” Aydin Kilic, HIVE Digital’s CEO You might also like:HIVE Digital 完成对巴拉圭伊瓜苏矿场的收购，寻求将采矿量提升 317% HIVE 的目标是到第二季度末，在巴拉圭的算力达到每秒 5 EH，在全球范围内达到每秒 11.5 EH。正如 HIVE Digital 首席运营官 Luke Rossy 所说，公司的目标是到 2025 年秋季达到每秒 25 EH，每日产出超过 12 个比特币 (BTC)。 随着项目竣工，HIVE Digital 还宣布任命卡洛斯·A·托雷斯·佩雷斯 (Carlos A. Torres Pérez) 为巴拉圭的运营和项目经理。HIVE Digital 表示，巴拉圭拥有引领加密货币挖矿市场的“人才、活力和远见”，而这家加拿大矿业巨头也表示“已经认识到了这一点”。 阅读更多：比特币储备同比增长 23% HIVE Digital 股价上涨

Bitfarms 首席执行官 Ben Gagnon 分享了他对特朗普政府的新地缘政治挑战将如何影响比特币挖矿行业的看法。 加尼翁 3 月 11 日接受彭博电视采访时表示，美国和加拿大都是能源驱动型经济体，已有 200 多年的历史。过去两个世纪，能源供应充足、价格低廉，是两国经济增长的主要动力。 不过，他解释道，持续的贸易紧张局势和关税可能会对能源市场产生下游影响，而能源市场对于比特币挖矿至关重要。 “我们所有的站点都位于魁北克，”加尼翁说。“最大的站点将位于魁北克和阿尔伯塔，其次是不列颠哥伦比亚。另一方面，安大略省由于能源市场较弱且产能减少而不那么有吸引力。” 尽管华盛顿和渥太华之间的政治紧张局势没有立即缓解的迹象，但加尼翁认为，扩大电力市场准入和监管支持对于采矿业的长期成功至关重要。他强调，需要放松管制和平稳的市场运作，以允许矿工继续扩大业务。 战略收购巩固市场地位 Bitfarms 一直忙于通过战略收购来加强其市场地位，以实现更好的地理多样性，从而利用能源获取优势。 Gagnon 表示：“我们的业务从 40% 位于北美、6% 位于美国转变为 80% 位于北美、66% 位于美国。”“这种转变为我们打开了无限的机遇，改善了我们运营的质量和成本结构。” 加格农还解释说，能源基础设施从工业用途向比特币挖矿的转变正在创造新的增长机会。 “过去四五年来，比特币矿工一直在投资以前用于铝冶炼等行业的能源基础设施。随着钟摆重新摆回北美，这些资产现在需求旺盛，”他说。 监管不确定性仍然是一个挑战 尽管加格农对比特币挖矿行业的未来仍持乐观态度，但他指出，尽管前景确实在改善，但目前的监管不确定性仍然是一个持续令人担忧的问题。他指出，特朗普总统最近的举动，包括关于战略比特币储备的讨论，至少表明人们越来越认识到比特币在经济中的作用。 但是，更加清晰的能源和加密法规是创造更大增长机会的关键。 他补充道：“我们需要更多地进入电力市场，并需要一个支持性政策框架来推动长期成功。”

XRP price has wavered this year, but its fundamentals and strong technicals point to more gains later this year.  Ripple (XRP) rose to $2.60, its highest level since March 3 and 60% above its lowest level this year.  XRP has numerous bullish catalysts. Donald Trump has mentioned it as a potential component of the U.S. strategic stockpile. On Monday, Amber, a Nasdaq-listed company, announced it would add XRP to its $100 million crypto ecosystem reserve. It will also add popular blue-chip coins like BNB, Solana (SOL), Bitcoin (BTC), and Ethereum (ETH). Amber joins companies like Worksport, BC Bud, and Wellgistics that have also added XRP to their strategic reserves. You might also like:Solana price prediction: rare pattern shows SOL rally is just starting The likely approval of spot ETFs by the Securities and Exchange Commission is another factor that could boost XRP’s price. The odds of approval have remained above 80% on Polymarket, the popular prediction platform.  XRP price is also expected to benefit from the continued growth of Ripple USD (RLUSD), Ripple’s stablecoin. Its market cap has climbed to over $316 million, while its daily volume averages more than $100 million. This makes it one of the most actively used stablecoins in the crypto market.  Another bullish factor is the conclusion of the SEC vs Ripple case. With legal clarity now established, Ripple is better positioned to ink new partnerships with financial institutions. CEO Brad Garlinghouse has expressed hope that more U.S. banks will adopt Ripple’s technology to disrupt the SWIFT payment system.  Therefore, a potential XRP ETF approval, RLUSD growth, RippleNet growth, and the addition into strategic reserves will likely boost its token price. It will also benefit from the expected Bitcoin price rally.  XRP price prediction XRP price chart | Source: crypto.news The weekly chart shows that XRP has formed several highly bullish technical patterns. One key structure is the bullish pennant, a continuation pattern made up of a vertical rally followed by a symmetrical triangle consolidation. XRP has already broken out above the triangle, signaling the start of a long-term rally. It has also completed the four phases of the Elliott Wave cycle and has now entered the fifth wave. This final wave is typically bullish and could propel the token to the key psychological resistance level at $5, approximately 100% above the current price.  XRP has also remained above the 50-week Exponential Moving Average, a sign that bulls have remained in control since October last year. The bullish forecast will become invalid when it drops below the 50 EMA. You might also like:HBAR price prediction: Can Hedera hit 1$ in this bull market?