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Any","content":"<html><head></head><body><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6ac021ad95ff917ef327460fc1ba6a9e\" tg-width=\"800\" tg-height=\"480\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>If Bitcoin is crypto’s answer to gold, Ethereum is the closest thing it has to its own internet. Anyone who wants to mint a new token, launch a crypto app, or spend $150,000 on a Bored Ape nonfungible token, or NFT, probably uses the Ethereum network. More than $3 billion in transaction volume flows through Ethereum daily, traded in the network’s native token, Ether. About $60 billion in crypto assets sit on its blockchain through third-party apps. Aside from Bitcoin, no other network is more critical to crypto’s infrastructure or its future.</p><p>Tinkering with Ethereum is no trifling matter. 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Ethereum, with a market value of nearly $200 billion, now uses the same method of validating transactions as Bitcoin.</p><p>In that process, known as proof of work, computers compete to solve cryptographic puzzles. The network reaches a consensus on the winner, proving that a block of transactions is valid and should be added to the chain. The winner then receives some Bitcoin, a practice known as mining.</p><p>It’s highly energy-intensive, requiring a massive amount of computing work and electricity. Ethereum was built on the same system, and it is also an energy hog, using roughly the same amount of electricity in a year as countries like the Netherlands.</p><p>Now, developers are scrapping that model and moving to a much greener system for processing transactions, called proof of stake. Instead of mining, Ether owners use their tokens as collateral to validate transactions, “staking” them to the network in exchange for a yield, paid in the Ether token. To participate, a staker must deposit 32 Ether tokens, worth about $50,000, and run some software. The system randomly selects validators, like a lottery. Crypto exchanges and other firms run staking pools, allowing anyone to participate with smaller amounts of Ether.</p><p>The shift should eliminate Ether mining. In doing so, it will cut Ethereum’s energy usage by more than 99%, according to the Ethereum Foundation, sharply reducing the network’s carbon footprint.</p><p>That’s just the start of a larger makeover. The Merge should also reduce the newly minted Ether that’s produced each year. And developers are planning more upgrades over the next few years that aim to increase Ethereum’s throughput and lower its usage fees. Ideally, they aim to turn Ethereum into the internet of crypto—a base layer for apps, financial services, and many more digital assets like NFTs.</p><p>“Today, we talk about decentralized finance. In 10 years, if we are successful, people will just call it finance, full stop,” says Justin Drake, a researcher for the Ethereum Foundation who’s helping with the project. “For almost any financial transaction, they will use Ethereum.”</p><p>Yet The Merge may also have casualties. It could cause glitches, outages, or losses of tokens as the current Ethereum blockchain merges with a new one, called Beacon. “A laundry list of elements will need to keep working seamlessly post-Merge to keep exploits and liquidations at bay,” says Sean Farrell, head of digital assets at Fundstrat Global Advisors.</p><p>The stakes are high because so much of the crypto industry has a stake in its performance—from exchanges like Coinbase to mining operations, NFT platforms, and stablecoin issuers. “Usually, when you push out a change for a website and it breaks—oh well, it’s not the end of the world. In this case, you can lose a lot of money,” says Katie Talati, director of research at Arca, a crypto-asset manager.</p><p>The most immediate effect could be on Ether’s price. Since mid-June, the token has soared more than 50%, while Bitcoin has stayed flat. Both tokens are down about 60% this year, under pressure from rising interest rates and weaker demand for highly speculative tech.</p><p>A successful Merge could make Ether ripe for another run, some analysts say. That’s partly because moving to proof of stake should reduce token issuance to about 0.5% a year, down from 4.5% currently. Reducing the issuance could push up the price. “In the current market, supply and demand is relatively in balance,” says Steve Goulden, a senior analyst for Cumberland, the crypto arm of trading firm DRW Holdings. “Post-Merge, there will be a material supply deficit.”</p><p>Demand, meanwhile, could get a lift as owners stake their tokens in return for a yield. Investors may earn 4% to 8% by staking, depending on how much revenue the network generates and other factors, according to Talati. Institutional funds with a mandate to invest in environmentally friendly assets could also buy Ether as the blockchain’s carbon emissions become less of an issue.</p><p>The upgrade could be a boon to companies like Coinbase. The exchange is developing a service that makes it easy for investors to stake their Ether, with Coinbase taking a 25% cut of any income generated. The staking business has already “grown into a great source of subscription and services revenue and is growing nicely,” said CEO Brian Armstrong on an earnings call in August.</p><p>As in any tech upgrade cycle, however, there will be a legacy of obsolescence. Some of the biggest losers in this cycle could be mining companies that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on hardware that might be rendered worthless. Leaders of Hut 8 Mining (HUT), which mines both Bitcoin and Ether, said in August that they were studying how to adapt their Ether mining machines to other tokens or projects. Hive Blockchain Technologies(HIVE), another miner, said a shift to proof of stake “may render our mining business less competitive.”</p><p>Chip maker Nvidia looks like another casualty. The company’s graphics chips and cards have been adopted by the industry to mine Ether. But demand now appears to be evaporating. Nvidia, whose stock is already ailing from a slowdown in gaming and other core areas, said on its recent earnings call that it couldn’t predict how reduced crypto mining might hit demand. Analysts for investment bank Baird say The Merge is likely to “generate a wave of mining GPUs [graphics processing units] on the secondhand market, compounding the inventory woes.”</p><p>Longer term, Ethereum may pose more of a threat to rival blockchain networks. Blockchains and tokens such as Solana, Avalanche, and Tezos launched with the promise of being faster and more efficient than Ethereum. All run on proof of stake and have established various uses, but if Ethereum pulls off its upgrades, they may run out of time to prove their relevance. “Now that Ethereum has caught up with proof of stake, there’s less of an argument for many other blockchains,” Kassab says.</p><p>Some crypto companies aren’t taking The Merge lying down. The threat has led a few miners to launch a competing Ethereum blockchain, called a fork, using the proof-of-work method. The idea is to create an Ether spinoff and a parallel universe of smart contracts, NFTs, and decentralized-finance, or DeFi, applications.</p><p>The potential for dueling Ether blockchains is forcing companies to choose sides or declare neutrality. Exchanges like Coinbase, Binance, and FTX say they will apply their usual listing standards to forked tokens and may allow them to trade. Creators of crypto apps such as Uniswap, Compound, and stablecoin USDC have pledged to recognize only the new Ethereum blockchain.</p><p>An Ethereum split has some crypto leaders worried that scammers could find new ways to perpetuate theft and fraud. “Somebody’s going to spend 80 real Ether on a fake Bored Ape,” says Robert Leshner, founder and CEO of Compound Labs, a DeFi company. “There will be all sorts of disasters,” he says, advising investors to wait for the kinks to be ironed out and “do nothing.”</p><p>Another unknown is how Washington will react. Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have indicated that Bitcoin and Ether should be treated as commodities—potentially removing those tokens from SEC oversight. But because many investors will buy Ether with the expectation of a yield, some attorneys believe it could make the token look more like a security. If the SEC agrees, crypto exchanges like Coinbase could be vulnerable to lawsuits or enforcement actions if they let it trade on their platforms anyway.</p><p>Changes of this size are an “opportunity to try to distinguish the prior analysis from the current analysis,” says Teresa Goody Guillén, a partner at BakerHostetler and former SEC attorney, who believes that Ether still wouldn’t qualify as a security. The SEC did not respond to a request for comment.</p><p>As with all things in crypto, the hype around The Merge already exceeds the reality. Proponents say it could be the start of a Renaissance of useful apps and services—finally silencing the critics bemused at a multibillion-dollar industry that has yet to find a raison d’être apart from speculation. Conversely, if it flops, it would be another setback for a technology long on complexity and short on real-world utility.</p><p>“The most important part of The Merge is the narrative,” Kassab says. “It’s something that everybody is talking about that could bring people back into Web3 and crypto, assuming it’s successful.”</p><p>The crypto market is now suffering from a crisis of confidence, having lost $2 trillion in value over the past year and drawn the ire of governments worldwide. A successful Merge may not revive the market or its reputation. But it could make crypto a bit greener, at the least, on its path forward.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1610680873436","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ethereum’s $200 Billion Crypto Gamble</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nEthereum’s $200 Billion Crypto Gamble\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-09-02 13:32 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/ethereum-aims-to-become-the-internet-of-crypto-with-the-merge-51662096601?mod=mw_latestnews><strong>barron's</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If Bitcoin is crypto’s answer to gold, Ethereum is the closest thing it has to its own internet. Anyone who wants to mint a new token, launch a crypto app, or spend $150,000 on a Bored Ape nonfungible...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/ethereum-aims-to-become-the-internet-of-crypto-with-the-merge-51662096601?mod=mw_latestnews\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"COIN":"Coinbase Global, Inc."},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/ethereum-aims-to-become-the-internet-of-crypto-with-the-merge-51662096601?mod=mw_latestnews","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1190161038","content_text":"If Bitcoin is crypto’s answer to gold, Ethereum is the closest thing it has to its own internet. Anyone who wants to mint a new token, launch a crypto app, or spend $150,000 on a Bored Ape nonfungible token, or NFT, probably uses the Ethereum network. More than $3 billion in transaction volume flows through Ethereum daily, traded in the network’s native token, Ether. About $60 billion in crypto assets sit on its blockchain through third-party apps. Aside from Bitcoin, no other network is more critical to crypto’s infrastructure or its future.Tinkering with Ethereum is no trifling matter. Yet the network’s developers aren’t just about to tinker—they’re on the cusp of overhauling the core plumbing and mechanics of Ethereum in an upgrade that enthusiasts call The Merge.The change, slated to happen around Sept. 15, is a big technological risk and could be a transformative moment for crypto. Companies like Coinbase Global(ticker: COIN) will feel the impact almost immediately. And there are likely to be ripple effects throughout the industry, touching everyone from crypto miners to chip makers like Nvidia (NVDA), and investors with some Ether in their portfolios.“The Merge is the most significant upgrade in crypto history,” says Sami Kassab, an analyst for crypto research firm Messari. “It’s similar to changing the engines on an airplane in midflight. One flaw in the code could wreak havoc on the crypto ecosystem.”Years in the making, The Merge may be crypto’s answer to critics who say the industry is a colossal waste of energy. Ethereum, with a market value of nearly $200 billion, now uses the same method of validating transactions as Bitcoin.In that process, known as proof of work, computers compete to solve cryptographic puzzles. The network reaches a consensus on the winner, proving that a block of transactions is valid and should be added to the chain. The winner then receives some Bitcoin, a practice known as mining.It’s highly energy-intensive, requiring a massive amount of computing work and electricity. Ethereum was built on the same system, and it is also an energy hog, using roughly the same amount of electricity in a year as countries like the Netherlands.Now, developers are scrapping that model and moving to a much greener system for processing transactions, called proof of stake. Instead of mining, Ether owners use their tokens as collateral to validate transactions, “staking” them to the network in exchange for a yield, paid in the Ether token. To participate, a staker must deposit 32 Ether tokens, worth about $50,000, and run some software. The system randomly selects validators, like a lottery. Crypto exchanges and other firms run staking pools, allowing anyone to participate with smaller amounts of Ether.The shift should eliminate Ether mining. In doing so, it will cut Ethereum’s energy usage by more than 99%, according to the Ethereum Foundation, sharply reducing the network’s carbon footprint.That’s just the start of a larger makeover. The Merge should also reduce the newly minted Ether that’s produced each year. And developers are planning more upgrades over the next few years that aim to increase Ethereum’s throughput and lower its usage fees. Ideally, they aim to turn Ethereum into the internet of crypto—a base layer for apps, financial services, and many more digital assets like NFTs.“Today, we talk about decentralized finance. In 10 years, if we are successful, people will just call it finance, full stop,” says Justin Drake, a researcher for the Ethereum Foundation who’s helping with the project. “For almost any financial transaction, they will use Ethereum.”Yet The Merge may also have casualties. It could cause glitches, outages, or losses of tokens as the current Ethereum blockchain merges with a new one, called Beacon. “A laundry list of elements will need to keep working seamlessly post-Merge to keep exploits and liquidations at bay,” says Sean Farrell, head of digital assets at Fundstrat Global Advisors.The stakes are high because so much of the crypto industry has a stake in its performance—from exchanges like Coinbase to mining operations, NFT platforms, and stablecoin issuers. “Usually, when you push out a change for a website and it breaks—oh well, it’s not the end of the world. In this case, you can lose a lot of money,” says Katie Talati, director of research at Arca, a crypto-asset manager.The most immediate effect could be on Ether’s price. Since mid-June, the token has soared more than 50%, while Bitcoin has stayed flat. Both tokens are down about 60% this year, under pressure from rising interest rates and weaker demand for highly speculative tech.A successful Merge could make Ether ripe for another run, some analysts say. That’s partly because moving to proof of stake should reduce token issuance to about 0.5% a year, down from 4.5% currently. Reducing the issuance could push up the price. “In the current market, supply and demand is relatively in balance,” says Steve Goulden, a senior analyst for Cumberland, the crypto arm of trading firm DRW Holdings. “Post-Merge, there will be a material supply deficit.”Demand, meanwhile, could get a lift as owners stake their tokens in return for a yield. Investors may earn 4% to 8% by staking, depending on how much revenue the network generates and other factors, according to Talati. Institutional funds with a mandate to invest in environmentally friendly assets could also buy Ether as the blockchain’s carbon emissions become less of an issue.The upgrade could be a boon to companies like Coinbase. The exchange is developing a service that makes it easy for investors to stake their Ether, with Coinbase taking a 25% cut of any income generated. The staking business has already “grown into a great source of subscription and services revenue and is growing nicely,” said CEO Brian Armstrong on an earnings call in August.As in any tech upgrade cycle, however, there will be a legacy of obsolescence. Some of the biggest losers in this cycle could be mining companies that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on hardware that might be rendered worthless. Leaders of Hut 8 Mining (HUT), which mines both Bitcoin and Ether, said in August that they were studying how to adapt their Ether mining machines to other tokens or projects. Hive Blockchain Technologies(HIVE), another miner, said a shift to proof of stake “may render our mining business less competitive.”Chip maker Nvidia looks like another casualty. The company’s graphics chips and cards have been adopted by the industry to mine Ether. But demand now appears to be evaporating. Nvidia, whose stock is already ailing from a slowdown in gaming and other core areas, said on its recent earnings call that it couldn’t predict how reduced crypto mining might hit demand. Analysts for investment bank Baird say The Merge is likely to “generate a wave of mining GPUs [graphics processing units] on the secondhand market, compounding the inventory woes.”Longer term, Ethereum may pose more of a threat to rival blockchain networks. Blockchains and tokens such as Solana, Avalanche, and Tezos launched with the promise of being faster and more efficient than Ethereum. All run on proof of stake and have established various uses, but if Ethereum pulls off its upgrades, they may run out of time to prove their relevance. “Now that Ethereum has caught up with proof of stake, there’s less of an argument for many other blockchains,” Kassab says.Some crypto companies aren’t taking The Merge lying down. The threat has led a few miners to launch a competing Ethereum blockchain, called a fork, using the proof-of-work method. The idea is to create an Ether spinoff and a parallel universe of smart contracts, NFTs, and decentralized-finance, or DeFi, applications.The potential for dueling Ether blockchains is forcing companies to choose sides or declare neutrality. Exchanges like Coinbase, Binance, and FTX say they will apply their usual listing standards to forked tokens and may allow them to trade. Creators of crypto apps such as Uniswap, Compound, and stablecoin USDC have pledged to recognize only the new Ethereum blockchain.An Ethereum split has some crypto leaders worried that scammers could find new ways to perpetuate theft and fraud. “Somebody’s going to spend 80 real Ether on a fake Bored Ape,” says Robert Leshner, founder and CEO of Compound Labs, a DeFi company. “There will be all sorts of disasters,” he says, advising investors to wait for the kinks to be ironed out and “do nothing.”Another unknown is how Washington will react. Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have indicated that Bitcoin and Ether should be treated as commodities—potentially removing those tokens from SEC oversight. But because many investors will buy Ether with the expectation of a yield, some attorneys believe it could make the token look more like a security. If the SEC agrees, crypto exchanges like Coinbase could be vulnerable to lawsuits or enforcement actions if they let it trade on their platforms anyway.Changes of this size are an “opportunity to try to distinguish the prior analysis from the current analysis,” says Teresa Goody Guillén, a partner at BakerHostetler and former SEC attorney, who believes that Ether still wouldn’t qualify as a security. The SEC did not respond to a request for comment.As with all things in crypto, the hype around The Merge already exceeds the reality. Proponents say it could be the start of a Renaissance of useful apps and services—finally silencing the critics bemused at a multibillion-dollar industry that has yet to find a raison d’être apart from speculation. Conversely, if it flops, it would be another setback for a technology long on complexity and short on real-world utility.“The most important part of The Merge is the narrative,” Kassab says. “It’s something that everybody is talking about that could bring people back into Web3 and crypto, assuming it’s successful.”The crypto market is now suffering from a crisis of confidence, having lost $2 trillion in value over the past year and drawn the ire of governments worldwide. A successful Merge may not revive the market or its reputation. But it could make crypto a bit greener, at the least, on its path forward.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":92,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9073939860,"gmtCreate":1657260351850,"gmtModify":1676535981732,"author":{"id":"3578921549112370","authorId":"3578921549112370","authorIdStr":"3578921549112370","name":"TRXX","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3578921549112370"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"nice","listText":"nice","text":"nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9073939860","repostId":"1186984658","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1186984658","pubTimestamp":1657258949,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1186984658?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-07-08 13:42","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 EV Charging Stocks to Buy for Huge Gains in the 2020s","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1186984658","media":"investorplace","summary":"To make EVs broadly useful, the world will have to build a network of millions of charging ports.The","content":"<html><head></head><body><ul><li>To make EVs broadly useful, the world will have to build a network of millions of charging ports.</li><li>The owners of those charging ports will be $100-plus billion giants one day.</li><li>EV charging stocks are a broad, less risky bet on the entire EV revolution.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/13b2fdaebf58a81de19dbb4c7d69b1b1\" tg-width=\"768\" tg-height=\"432\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>The EV Revolution has arrived. And everyone is rushing to buy <b>Tesla</b>(Nasdaq:<b>TSLA</b>) and <b>Nio</b> (NYSE:<b>NIO</b>) stock to gain exposure to this megatrend. But there’s actually a much better, off-the-radar way to play this revolution: EV charging stocks.</p><p>The logic is simple.</p><p>No charging stations, no working EVs.</p><p>Gas cars run on fuel. Without fuel, a gas car is just a metal box with four wheels that doesn’t go anywhere. That’s why, to make gas cars broadly useful, the world built out a network of millions of refueling stations. The owners of those stations —<b>Chevron</b>(NYSE:<b>CVX</b>), <b>Exxon Mobil</b>(NYSE:<b>XOM</b>) and <b>Shell</b>(NYSE:<b>SHEL</b>) — are $100-plus billion giants.</p><p>The same thinking applies to electric vehicles.</p><p>EVs run on charge. Without a charge, an EV is just a metal box with four wheels that doesn’t go anywhere. And to make EVs broadly useful, the world will have to build a network of millions of charging ports. The owners of those charging ports will be $100-plus billion giants one day — the new Chevron, Exxon and Shell.</p><p>The best part? It doesn’t matter which auto maker wins the EV wars. So long as consumers buy more EVs, there will be a greater need for charging station infrastructure. Thus, EV charging stocks are a broad, less risky bet on the entire EV revolution.</p><p>With that in mind, here are my three favorite EV charging stocks to buy for huge gains in the 2020s:</p><ul><li><b>Blink Charging</b>(Nasdaq:<b>BLNK</b>)</li><li><b>ChargePoint</b>(NYSE:<b><u>CHPT</u></b>)</li><li><b>EVBox</b>(NYSE:<b>TPGY</b>)</li></ul><h2>EV Charging Stocks to Buy: Blink Charging<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c03daf89f4968f9ca14bd3baaef84274\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/></h2><p>At the top of this list is the stock market’s longest tenured EV charging operator, Blink Charging.</p><p>Many EV charging stocks came public in 2020 as companies tried to capitalize on investor enthusiasm for all things EV-related. Blink Charging was not one of those companies. Instead, it has been on Wall Street for over 10 years.</p><p>But it wasn’t until the EV Revolution went mainstream last year that BLNK stock soared into the spotlight. From 2020 to ‘21, BLNK stock was up more than 2,000%.</p><p>This year, the stock market has struggled, to say the least. But once it finds solid ground again, stocks like this will regain their highs. Indeed, this big rally in BLNK was just the beginning.</p><p>Blink is America’s second-largest charging station operator, with more than 23,000 EV charging stations throughout the U.S., Europe and Middle East. The company has a broad range of high-quality chargers for every need. And it has scored partnerships with important clients across all verticals — such as food, <b>McDonald’s</b>(NYSE:<b>MCD</b>); commercial, <b>Meta</b>(Nasdaq:<b>META</b>); and retail, <b>Whole Foods</b>.</p><p>Blink should be able to leverage its incumbent technological advantages and partnership network to become one of the largest EV station operators in the U.S. and Europe. (This isn’t a winner-take-all market).</p><p>Yet, Blink is worth just $767 million today. That implies the stock still has enormous upside potential over the next several years.</p><h2>ChargePoint<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/04f97f614b1a3f760daa1be1721233f0\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/></h2><p>The second on this list of EV charging stocks to buy is the highest-quality name on it, too: ChargePoint.</p><p>ChargePoint is America’s largest EV charging station operator. The company operates over 100,000 charging ports. And it commands 73% EV charging station market share in North America, making it <b>7X</b>larger than the closest competitor.</p><p>This size is a huge advantage because of network effects.</p><p>Roughly 62% of the Fortune 50 — including Meta, <b>Netflix</b>(Nasdaq:<b>NFLX</b>), <b>Salesforce</b>(Nasdaq:<b>CRM</b>), <b>Microsoft</b>(Nasdaq:<b>MSFT</b>), and <b>Adobe</b>(Nasdaq:<b>ADBE</b>) — already deploy ChargePoint charging stations at their corporate offices. ChargePoint should be able to leverage this already-huge and very well-known commercial client portfolio to keep winning more corporate contracts.</p><p>The same is true across the education, hospitality, and residential verticals. ChargePoint counts Harvard, Stanford,<b>Best Western</b>,<b>Disney</b>(NYSE:<b><u>DIS</u></b>), and<b>Brookfield</b>(NYSE:<b><u>BAM</u></b>) as customers (among many, many others).</p><p>Meanwhile, from a consumer-facing perspective, ChargePoint has teamed up with auto makers like <b>BMW</b>(OTCMKTS:<b><u>BMWYY</u></b>) so that its charging locations are seamlessly integrated into in-car navigation systems.<i>And</i>the company has a widely downloaded app that allows EV drivers to easily locate ChargePoint charging stations.</p><p>All that will push ChargePoint to top-of-mind for consumers. And that should provide a huge tailwind for ChargePoint to also dominate the at-home residential EV charging market.</p><p>Overall, the network effects at play here are powerful and pervasive.</p><p>Indeed, they’re so much so that ChargePoint will very likely replace Shell as the world’s largest “refueling” station operator.</p><p>Of course, that implies enormous long-term upside potential for CHPT stock.</p><h2>EVBox<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/58c56ea59a939d666d0e14636de5c0fd\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/></h2><p>Last on this list of EV charging stocks to buy is the EV charging leader in Europe: EVBox.</p><p>Blink and ChargePoint are duking it out in North America. And EVBox is one of the most major EV charging station operators in Europe.</p><p>The company has installed over 350,000 charging ports worldwide. As of late 2021, there were 72,000 active EVBox charging ports in Europe — a big enough base to give the company over 25% share of the EV charging station market in Europe.</p><p>This European leadership is a big advantage for EVBox.</p><p>When it comes to the EV Revolution, Europe is leading the way. While the U.S. is barely cracking 5% EV penetration, Norway and Iceland are up above 50% EV penetration. Indeed, of the top 10 market of EV penetration globally in 2020,nine of themwere located in Europe.</p><p>This big growth in Europe’s EV market will continue. Nearly every country in the EU has committed to strict and aggressive decarbonization targets.</p><p>Big picture: EVBox is the charging station leader in one of the most attractive EV markets in the world. 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And everyone is rushing to buy Tesla(Nasdaq:TSLA) and Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock to gain exposure to this megatrend. But there’s actually a much better, off-the-radar way to play this revolution: EV charging stocks.The logic is simple.No charging stations, no working EVs.Gas cars run on fuel. Without fuel, a gas car is just a metal box with four wheels that doesn’t go anywhere. That’s why, to make gas cars broadly useful, the world built out a network of millions of refueling stations. The owners of those stations —Chevron(NYSE:CVX), Exxon Mobil(NYSE:XOM) and Shell(NYSE:SHEL) — are $100-plus billion giants.The same thinking applies to electric vehicles.EVs run on charge. Without a charge, an EV is just a metal box with four wheels that doesn’t go anywhere. And to make EVs broadly useful, the world will have to build a network of millions of charging ports. The owners of those charging ports will be $100-plus billion giants one day — the new Chevron, Exxon and Shell.The best part? It doesn’t matter which auto maker wins the EV wars. So long as consumers buy more EVs, there will be a greater need for charging station infrastructure. Thus, EV charging stocks are a broad, less risky bet on the entire EV revolution.With that in mind, here are my three favorite EV charging stocks to buy for huge gains in the 2020s:Blink Charging(Nasdaq:BLNK)ChargePoint(NYSE:CHPT)EVBox(NYSE:TPGY)EV Charging Stocks to Buy: Blink ChargingAt the top of this list is the stock market’s longest tenured EV charging operator, Blink Charging.Many EV charging stocks came public in 2020 as companies tried to capitalize on investor enthusiasm for all things EV-related. Blink Charging was not one of those companies. Instead, it has been on Wall Street for over 10 years.But it wasn’t until the EV Revolution went mainstream last year that BLNK stock soared into the spotlight. From 2020 to ‘21, BLNK stock was up more than 2,000%.This year, the stock market has struggled, to say the least. But once it finds solid ground again, stocks like this will regain their highs. Indeed, this big rally in BLNK was just the beginning.Blink is America’s second-largest charging station operator, with more than 23,000 EV charging stations throughout the U.S., Europe and Middle East. The company has a broad range of high-quality chargers for every need. And it has scored partnerships with important clients across all verticals — such as food, McDonald’s(NYSE:MCD); commercial, Meta(Nasdaq:META); and retail, Whole Foods.Blink should be able to leverage its incumbent technological advantages and partnership network to become one of the largest EV station operators in the U.S. and Europe. (This isn’t a winner-take-all market).Yet, Blink is worth just $767 million today. That implies the stock still has enormous upside potential over the next several years.ChargePointThe second on this list of EV charging stocks to buy is the highest-quality name on it, too: ChargePoint.ChargePoint is America’s largest EV charging station operator. The company operates over 100,000 charging ports. And it commands 73% EV charging station market share in North America, making it 7Xlarger than the closest competitor.This size is a huge advantage because of network effects.Roughly 62% of the Fortune 50 — including Meta, Netflix(Nasdaq:NFLX), Salesforce(Nasdaq:CRM), Microsoft(Nasdaq:MSFT), and Adobe(Nasdaq:ADBE) — already deploy ChargePoint charging stations at their corporate offices. ChargePoint should be able to leverage this already-huge and very well-known commercial client portfolio to keep winning more corporate contracts.The same is true across the education, hospitality, and residential verticals. ChargePoint counts Harvard, Stanford,Best Western,Disney(NYSE:DIS), andBrookfield(NYSE:BAM) as customers (among many, many others).Meanwhile, from a consumer-facing perspective, ChargePoint has teamed up with auto makers like BMW(OTCMKTS:BMWYY) so that its charging locations are seamlessly integrated into in-car navigation systems.Andthe company has a widely downloaded app that allows EV drivers to easily locate ChargePoint charging stations.All that will push ChargePoint to top-of-mind for consumers. And that should provide a huge tailwind for ChargePoint to also dominate the at-home residential EV charging market.Overall, the network effects at play here are powerful and pervasive.Indeed, they’re so much so that ChargePoint will very likely replace Shell as the world’s largest “refueling” station operator.Of course, that implies enormous long-term upside potential for CHPT stock.EVBoxLast on this list of EV charging stocks to buy is the EV charging leader in Europe: EVBox.Blink and ChargePoint are duking it out in North America. And EVBox is one of the most major EV charging station operators in Europe.The company has installed over 350,000 charging ports worldwide. As of late 2021, there were 72,000 active EVBox charging ports in Europe — a big enough base to give the company over 25% share of the EV charging station market in Europe.This European leadership is a big advantage for EVBox.When it comes to the EV Revolution, Europe is leading the way. While the U.S. is barely cracking 5% EV penetration, Norway and Iceland are up above 50% EV penetration. Indeed, of the top 10 market of EV penetration globally in 2020,nine of themwere located in Europe.This big growth in Europe’s EV market will continue. Nearly every country in the EU has committed to strict and aggressive decarbonization targets.Big picture: EVBox is the charging station leader in one of the most attractive EV markets in the world. That’s a recipe for big gains ahead for TPGY stock.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":142,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9046653127,"gmtCreate":1656342908669,"gmtModify":1676535809984,"author":{"id":"3578921549112370","authorId":"3578921549112370","authorIdStr":"3578921549112370","name":"TRXX","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3578921549112370"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"k","listText":"k","text":"k","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9046653127","repostId":"2246279556","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2246279556","pubTimestamp":1656329177,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2246279556?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-06-27 19:26","market":"us","language":"en","title":"With Inflation Raging, Should You Buy or Sell Stocks Right Now?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2246279556","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Warren Buffett has a very pertinent thought on this important investment question.","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Inflation is running amok in the U.S., and that's likely prompting a few fully justified questions about what to do with your portfolio. With so much uncertainty in the air, it's hard to feel confident about even basic things like whether to add to your positions or reduce them.</p><p>But you're not helpless in the face of inflation, and the answer regarding whether you should buy or sell stocks is also very much dependent on which stocks are under consideration. Let's take a look at a pair of arguments and a pair of stocks to weigh the possibilities.</p><h2>Why it's tempting to sell</h2><p>Between justified fears of inflation contributing to a prolonged bear market and the economic pressure that inflation inherently forces onto investors via rising prices, it's not shocking that people are thinking about selling stocks. Selling puts money into investors' accounts, and it also inoculates them against the anxiety caused by daily falling share prices. But, it's usually not a good idea as timing the market is a fool's errand that doesn't typically end well.</p><p>The reason why selling right now might not be a good decision is that there's a solid chance not much has changed over the last few months about a given company's ability to compete. Take <b>CVS Health </b>(CVS 2.33%), for example. The total return of its shares is down by about 11% so far this year, which isn't too bad compared to the market's decline of more than 20%.</p><p>But its competitive disposition hasn't changed. The products it sells, namely prescriptions and consumer health goods, aren't ones that people buy less of when prices are rising. That gives the company pricing power, which it can use to protect its margins even during inflation.</p><p>After all, you need to buy roughly the same amount of shampoo each month to stay clean, regardless of whether it's marginally more expensive than before. It would take a pretty fiendish rise in prices to change that, and such a change would probably only be temporary due to destruction of demand. Likewise, while its shares are down, it isn't as though any of CVS's competitors have made major inroads during this inflationary period.</p><p>Nor are fears of the Federal Reserve continuing to hike interest rates going to harm the company's ability to do business. With trailing 12-month revenue of nearly $299 billion, it isn't a growth-stage company -- and because it's profitable, it doesn't need to borrow to raise cash to open new retail locations or anything else. So rising borrowing costs aren't going to put a crimp in its ability to grow, and inflation isn't a major concern.</p><p>As for businesses in similar situations, where the ongoing economic phenomena aren't going to cause problems with growth or margin maintenance, it simply doesn't make sense to sell.</p><h2>Why it's probably better to buy</h2><p>Warren Buffett's timeless advice to "be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful" is as relevant as ever. The level of fear about inflation in the market right now is driving stocks down, and in many cases -- as demonstrated by CVS -- the downward movements are not always prompted by genuine reductions in companies' abilities to grow or compete.</p><p>Therefore, generally speaking, if you have your eye on a stock and your investing thesis for it isn't negatively impacted by ongoing economic events, it's probably as good a time as ever to buy it.</p><p>That's especially true for shares of under-the-weather evergreen stocks like <b>Costco Wholesale </b>(COST 1.97%). Much like CVS, its stock is down by more than 18% this year, but it's still profitable, and its discount warehouse business model is as in-demand as ever. Costco's huge range of products include many consumer staples like groceries and toilet paper, so its base of revenue, which totaled $195.9 billion in 2021, is relatively secure from inflation-linked headwinds. And people might even want to shop at its warehouses more if they think they'll get a better deal there amid rising prices.</p><p>In a nutshell, you're leaving money on the table if you were thinking of buying Costco shares and inflation made you hesitate. It's true that it certainly feels safer to sit on the sidelines when things seem like they're going haywire, but the whole point of inflation is that it makes cash less valuable over time, which means the feeling of safety is an illusion.</p><p>People fled from their positions in the stock due to fear, and the lower share price caused by their fear just might be the starting point for your future gains once the market recovers, so buy away if you've found a stable, growing company like Costco that's just as healthy this year as the year before.</p></body></html>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>With Inflation Raging, Should You Buy or Sell Stocks Right Now?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWith Inflation Raging, Should You Buy or Sell Stocks Right Now?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-06-27 19:26 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/27/with-inflation-raging-should-you-buy-or-sell-stock/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Inflation is running amok in the U.S., and that's likely prompting a few fully justified questions about what to do with your portfolio. With so much uncertainty in the air, it's hard to feel ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/27/with-inflation-raging-should-you-buy-or-sell-stock/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BK4550":"红杉资本持仓","COST":"好市多","BK4533":"AQR资本管理(全球第二大对冲基金)","BK4581":"高盛持仓","BK4155":"大卖场与超市","BK4504":"桥水持仓"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/27/with-inflation-raging-should-you-buy-or-sell-stock/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2246279556","content_text":"Inflation is running amok in the U.S., and that's likely prompting a few fully justified questions about what to do with your portfolio. With so much uncertainty in the air, it's hard to feel confident about even basic things like whether to add to your positions or reduce them.But you're not helpless in the face of inflation, and the answer regarding whether you should buy or sell stocks is also very much dependent on which stocks are under consideration. Let's take a look at a pair of arguments and a pair of stocks to weigh the possibilities.Why it's tempting to sellBetween justified fears of inflation contributing to a prolonged bear market and the economic pressure that inflation inherently forces onto investors via rising prices, it's not shocking that people are thinking about selling stocks. Selling puts money into investors' accounts, and it also inoculates them against the anxiety caused by daily falling share prices. But, it's usually not a good idea as timing the market is a fool's errand that doesn't typically end well.The reason why selling right now might not be a good decision is that there's a solid chance not much has changed over the last few months about a given company's ability to compete. Take CVS Health (CVS 2.33%), for example. The total return of its shares is down by about 11% so far this year, which isn't too bad compared to the market's decline of more than 20%.But its competitive disposition hasn't changed. The products it sells, namely prescriptions and consumer health goods, aren't ones that people buy less of when prices are rising. That gives the company pricing power, which it can use to protect its margins even during inflation.After all, you need to buy roughly the same amount of shampoo each month to stay clean, regardless of whether it's marginally more expensive than before. It would take a pretty fiendish rise in prices to change that, and such a change would probably only be temporary due to destruction of demand. Likewise, while its shares are down, it isn't as though any of CVS's competitors have made major inroads during this inflationary period.Nor are fears of the Federal Reserve continuing to hike interest rates going to harm the company's ability to do business. With trailing 12-month revenue of nearly $299 billion, it isn't a growth-stage company -- and because it's profitable, it doesn't need to borrow to raise cash to open new retail locations or anything else. So rising borrowing costs aren't going to put a crimp in its ability to grow, and inflation isn't a major concern.As for businesses in similar situations, where the ongoing economic phenomena aren't going to cause problems with growth or margin maintenance, it simply doesn't make sense to sell.Why it's probably better to buyWarren Buffett's timeless advice to \"be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful\" is as relevant as ever. The level of fear about inflation in the market right now is driving stocks down, and in many cases -- as demonstrated by CVS -- the downward movements are not always prompted by genuine reductions in companies' abilities to grow or compete.Therefore, generally speaking, if you have your eye on a stock and your investing thesis for it isn't negatively impacted by ongoing economic events, it's probably as good a time as ever to buy it.That's especially true for shares of under-the-weather evergreen stocks like Costco Wholesale (COST 1.97%). Much like CVS, its stock is down by more than 18% this year, but it's still profitable, and its discount warehouse business model is as in-demand as ever. Costco's huge range of products include many consumer staples like groceries and toilet paper, so its base of revenue, which totaled $195.9 billion in 2021, is relatively secure from inflation-linked headwinds. And people might even want to shop at its warehouses more if they think they'll get a better deal there amid rising prices.In a nutshell, you're leaving money on the table if you were thinking of buying Costco shares and inflation made you hesitate. It's true that it certainly feels safer to sit on the sidelines when things seem like they're going haywire, but the whole point of inflation is that it makes cash less valuable over time, which means the feeling of safety is an illusion.People fled from their positions in the stock due to fear, and the lower share price caused by their fear just might be the starting point for your future gains once the market recovers, so buy away if you've found a stable, growing company like Costco that's just as healthy this year as the year before.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":123,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":808296936,"gmtCreate":1627585117725,"gmtModify":1703492843760,"author":{"id":"3578921549112370","authorId":"3578921549112370","authorIdStr":"3578921549112370","name":"TRXX","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3578921549112370"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"? 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Although the system is named Full Self-Driving (FSD), the software is still in beta testing, and the company has said in SEC filings it is not yet fully autonomous.</p>\n<p>Tesla's recruiting effort in this area seeks to attract experts in machine learning and computer vision, as well as neural network specialists.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1179174010","content_text":"Tesla shares surged more than 5% after Elon Musk confirming Tesla AI Day will be on August 19.\n\nTesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed via tweet on Thursday that the company is holding an AI Day on Aug. 19. \nWhile the company did not provide details of the artificial intelligence event, Musk said in a June 21 tweet that the event \"will go over progress with Tesla AI software & hardware, both training & inference\" and that its purpose is recruiting.\nThe focus of the AI event is likely to be around Tesla's self-driving technology. 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","text":"?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":9,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/808296936","repostId":"1179174010","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1179174010","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1627572541,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1179174010?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-07-29 23:29","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Musk confirms Tesla AI Day will be on August 19","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1179174010","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Tesla shares surged more than 5% after Elon Musk confirming Tesla AI Day will be on August 19.Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed via tweet on Thursday that the company is holding an AI Day on Aug. 19.While the company did not provide details of the artificial intelligence event, Musk said in a June 21 tweet that the event \"will go over progress with Tesla AI software & hardware, both training & inference\" and that its purpose is recruiting.The focus of the AI event is likely to be around Tesla's self","content":"<p>Tesla shares surged more than 5% after Elon Musk confirming Tesla AI Day will be on August 19.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d2a827bd1090dddc0ac2adc7e3aa9e60\" tg-width=\"840\" tg-height=\"470\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed via tweet on Thursday that the company is holding an AI Day on Aug. 19. </p>\n<p>While the company did not provide details of the artificial intelligence event, Musk said in a June 21 tweet that the event \"will go over progress with Tesla AI software & hardware, both training & inference\" and that its purpose is recruiting.</p>\n<p>The focus of the AI event is likely to be around Tesla's self-driving technology. 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Although the system is named Full Self-Driving (FSD), the software is still in beta testing, and the company has said in SEC filings it is not yet fully autonomous.</p>\n<p>Tesla's recruiting effort in this area seeks to attract experts in machine learning and computer vision, as well as neural network specialists.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1179174010","content_text":"Tesla shares surged more than 5% after Elon Musk confirming Tesla AI Day will be on August 19.\n\nTesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed via tweet on Thursday that the company is holding an AI Day on Aug. 19. \nWhile the company did not provide details of the artificial intelligence event, Musk said in a June 21 tweet that the event \"will go over progress with Tesla AI software & hardware, both training & inference\" and that its purpose is recruiting.\nThe focus of the AI event is likely to be around Tesla's self-driving technology. 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And everyone is rushing to buy <b>Tesla</b>(Nasdaq:<b>TSLA</b>) and <b>Nio</b> (NYSE:<b>NIO</b>) stock to gain exposure to this megatrend. But there’s actually a much better, off-the-radar way to play this revolution: EV charging stocks.</p><p>The logic is simple.</p><p>No charging stations, no working EVs.</p><p>Gas cars run on fuel. Without fuel, a gas car is just a metal box with four wheels that doesn’t go anywhere. That’s why, to make gas cars broadly useful, the world built out a network of millions of refueling stations. The owners of those stations —<b>Chevron</b>(NYSE:<b>CVX</b>), <b>Exxon Mobil</b>(NYSE:<b>XOM</b>) and <b>Shell</b>(NYSE:<b>SHEL</b>) — are $100-plus billion giants.</p><p>The same thinking applies to electric vehicles.</p><p>EVs run on charge. Without a charge, an EV is just a metal box with four wheels that doesn’t go anywhere. And to make EVs broadly useful, the world will have to build a network of millions of charging ports. The owners of those charging ports will be $100-plus billion giants one day — the new Chevron, Exxon and Shell.</p><p>The best part? It doesn’t matter which auto maker wins the EV wars. So long as consumers buy more EVs, there will be a greater need for charging station infrastructure. Thus, EV charging stocks are a broad, less risky bet on the entire EV revolution.</p><p>With that in mind, here are my three favorite EV charging stocks to buy for huge gains in the 2020s:</p><ul><li><b>Blink Charging</b>(Nasdaq:<b>BLNK</b>)</li><li><b>ChargePoint</b>(NYSE:<b><u>CHPT</u></b>)</li><li><b>EVBox</b>(NYSE:<b>TPGY</b>)</li></ul><h2>EV Charging Stocks to Buy: Blink Charging<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c03daf89f4968f9ca14bd3baaef84274\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/></h2><p>At the top of this list is the stock market’s longest tenured EV charging operator, Blink Charging.</p><p>Many EV charging stocks came public in 2020 as companies tried to capitalize on investor enthusiasm for all things EV-related. Blink Charging was not one of those companies. Instead, it has been on Wall Street for over 10 years.</p><p>But it wasn’t until the EV Revolution went mainstream last year that BLNK stock soared into the spotlight. From 2020 to ‘21, BLNK stock was up more than 2,000%.</p><p>This year, the stock market has struggled, to say the least. But once it finds solid ground again, stocks like this will regain their highs. Indeed, this big rally in BLNK was just the beginning.</p><p>Blink is America’s second-largest charging station operator, with more than 23,000 EV charging stations throughout the U.S., Europe and Middle East. The company has a broad range of high-quality chargers for every need. And it has scored partnerships with important clients across all verticals — such as food, <b>McDonald’s</b>(NYSE:<b>MCD</b>); commercial, <b>Meta</b>(Nasdaq:<b>META</b>); and retail, <b>Whole Foods</b>.</p><p>Blink should be able to leverage its incumbent technological advantages and partnership network to become one of the largest EV station operators in the U.S. and Europe. (This isn’t a winner-take-all market).</p><p>Yet, Blink is worth just $767 million today. That implies the stock still has enormous upside potential over the next several years.</p><h2>ChargePoint<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/04f97f614b1a3f760daa1be1721233f0\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/></h2><p>The second on this list of EV charging stocks to buy is the highest-quality name on it, too: ChargePoint.</p><p>ChargePoint is America’s largest EV charging station operator. The company operates over 100,000 charging ports. And it commands 73% EV charging station market share in North America, making it <b>7X</b>larger than the closest competitor.</p><p>This size is a huge advantage because of network effects.</p><p>Roughly 62% of the Fortune 50 — including Meta, <b>Netflix</b>(Nasdaq:<b>NFLX</b>), <b>Salesforce</b>(Nasdaq:<b>CRM</b>), <b>Microsoft</b>(Nasdaq:<b>MSFT</b>), and <b>Adobe</b>(Nasdaq:<b>ADBE</b>) — already deploy ChargePoint charging stations at their corporate offices. ChargePoint should be able to leverage this already-huge and very well-known commercial client portfolio to keep winning more corporate contracts.</p><p>The same is true across the education, hospitality, and residential verticals. ChargePoint counts Harvard, Stanford,<b>Best Western</b>,<b>Disney</b>(NYSE:<b><u>DIS</u></b>), and<b>Brookfield</b>(NYSE:<b><u>BAM</u></b>) as customers (among many, many others).</p><p>Meanwhile, from a consumer-facing perspective, ChargePoint has teamed up with auto makers like <b>BMW</b>(OTCMKTS:<b><u>BMWYY</u></b>) so that its charging locations are seamlessly integrated into in-car navigation systems.<i>And</i>the company has a widely downloaded app that allows EV drivers to easily locate ChargePoint charging stations.</p><p>All that will push ChargePoint to top-of-mind for consumers. And that should provide a huge tailwind for ChargePoint to also dominate the at-home residential EV charging market.</p><p>Overall, the network effects at play here are powerful and pervasive.</p><p>Indeed, they’re so much so that ChargePoint will very likely replace Shell as the world’s largest “refueling” station operator.</p><p>Of course, that implies enormous long-term upside potential for CHPT stock.</p><h2>EVBox<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/58c56ea59a939d666d0e14636de5c0fd\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/></h2><p>Last on this list of EV charging stocks to buy is the EV charging leader in Europe: EVBox.</p><p>Blink and ChargePoint are duking it out in North America. And EVBox is one of the most major EV charging station operators in Europe.</p><p>The company has installed over 350,000 charging ports worldwide. As of late 2021, there were 72,000 active EVBox charging ports in Europe — a big enough base to give the company over 25% share of the EV charging station market in Europe.</p><p>This European leadership is a big advantage for EVBox.</p><p>When it comes to the EV Revolution, Europe is leading the way. While the U.S. is barely cracking 5% EV penetration, Norway and Iceland are up above 50% EV penetration. Indeed, of the top 10 market of EV penetration globally in 2020,nine of themwere located in Europe.</p><p>This big growth in Europe’s EV market will continue. Nearly every country in the EU has committed to strict and aggressive decarbonization targets.</p><p>Big picture: EVBox is the charging station leader in one of the most attractive EV markets in the world. 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And everyone is rushing to buy Tesla(Nasdaq:TSLA) and Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock to gain exposure to this megatrend. But there’s actually a much better, off-the-radar way to play this revolution: EV charging stocks.The logic is simple.No charging stations, no working EVs.Gas cars run on fuel. Without fuel, a gas car is just a metal box with four wheels that doesn’t go anywhere. That’s why, to make gas cars broadly useful, the world built out a network of millions of refueling stations. The owners of those stations —Chevron(NYSE:CVX), Exxon Mobil(NYSE:XOM) and Shell(NYSE:SHEL) — are $100-plus billion giants.The same thinking applies to electric vehicles.EVs run on charge. Without a charge, an EV is just a metal box with four wheels that doesn’t go anywhere. And to make EVs broadly useful, the world will have to build a network of millions of charging ports. The owners of those charging ports will be $100-plus billion giants one day — the new Chevron, Exxon and Shell.The best part? It doesn’t matter which auto maker wins the EV wars. So long as consumers buy more EVs, there will be a greater need for charging station infrastructure. Thus, EV charging stocks are a broad, less risky bet on the entire EV revolution.With that in mind, here are my three favorite EV charging stocks to buy for huge gains in the 2020s:Blink Charging(Nasdaq:BLNK)ChargePoint(NYSE:CHPT)EVBox(NYSE:TPGY)EV Charging Stocks to Buy: Blink ChargingAt the top of this list is the stock market’s longest tenured EV charging operator, Blink Charging.Many EV charging stocks came public in 2020 as companies tried to capitalize on investor enthusiasm for all things EV-related. Blink Charging was not one of those companies. Instead, it has been on Wall Street for over 10 years.But it wasn’t until the EV Revolution went mainstream last year that BLNK stock soared into the spotlight. From 2020 to ‘21, BLNK stock was up more than 2,000%.This year, the stock market has struggled, to say the least. But once it finds solid ground again, stocks like this will regain their highs. Indeed, this big rally in BLNK was just the beginning.Blink is America’s second-largest charging station operator, with more than 23,000 EV charging stations throughout the U.S., Europe and Middle East. The company has a broad range of high-quality chargers for every need. And it has scored partnerships with important clients across all verticals — such as food, McDonald’s(NYSE:MCD); commercial, Meta(Nasdaq:META); and retail, Whole Foods.Blink should be able to leverage its incumbent technological advantages and partnership network to become one of the largest EV station operators in the U.S. and Europe. (This isn’t a winner-take-all market).Yet, Blink is worth just $767 million today. That implies the stock still has enormous upside potential over the next several years.ChargePointThe second on this list of EV charging stocks to buy is the highest-quality name on it, too: ChargePoint.ChargePoint is America’s largest EV charging station operator. The company operates over 100,000 charging ports. And it commands 73% EV charging station market share in North America, making it 7Xlarger than the closest competitor.This size is a huge advantage because of network effects.Roughly 62% of the Fortune 50 — including Meta, Netflix(Nasdaq:NFLX), Salesforce(Nasdaq:CRM), Microsoft(Nasdaq:MSFT), and Adobe(Nasdaq:ADBE) — already deploy ChargePoint charging stations at their corporate offices. ChargePoint should be able to leverage this already-huge and very well-known commercial client portfolio to keep winning more corporate contracts.The same is true across the education, hospitality, and residential verticals. ChargePoint counts Harvard, Stanford,Best Western,Disney(NYSE:DIS), andBrookfield(NYSE:BAM) as customers (among many, many others).Meanwhile, from a consumer-facing perspective, ChargePoint has teamed up with auto makers like BMW(OTCMKTS:BMWYY) so that its charging locations are seamlessly integrated into in-car navigation systems.Andthe company has a widely downloaded app that allows EV drivers to easily locate ChargePoint charging stations.All that will push ChargePoint to top-of-mind for consumers. And that should provide a huge tailwind for ChargePoint to also dominate the at-home residential EV charging market.Overall, the network effects at play here are powerful and pervasive.Indeed, they’re so much so that ChargePoint will very likely replace Shell as the world’s largest “refueling” station operator.Of course, that implies enormous long-term upside potential for CHPT stock.EVBoxLast on this list of EV charging stocks to buy is the EV charging leader in Europe: EVBox.Blink and ChargePoint are duking it out in North America. And EVBox is one of the most major EV charging station operators in Europe.The company has installed over 350,000 charging ports worldwide. As of late 2021, there were 72,000 active EVBox charging ports in Europe — a big enough base to give the company over 25% share of the EV charging station market in Europe.This European leadership is a big advantage for EVBox.When it comes to the EV Revolution, Europe is leading the way. While the U.S. is barely cracking 5% EV penetration, Norway and Iceland are up above 50% EV penetration. Indeed, of the top 10 market of EV penetration globally in 2020,nine of themwere located in Europe.This big growth in Europe’s EV market will continue. Nearly every country in the EU has committed to strict and aggressive decarbonization targets.Big picture: EVBox is the charging station leader in one of the most attractive EV markets in the world. That’s a recipe for big gains ahead for TPGY stock.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":142,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9046653127,"gmtCreate":1656342908669,"gmtModify":1676535809984,"author":{"id":"3578921549112370","authorId":"3578921549112370","authorIdStr":"3578921549112370","name":"TRXX","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3578921549112370"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"k","listText":"k","text":"k","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9046653127","repostId":"2246279556","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2246279556","pubTimestamp":1656329177,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2246279556?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-06-27 19:26","market":"us","language":"en","title":"With Inflation Raging, Should You Buy or Sell Stocks Right Now?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2246279556","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Warren Buffett has a very pertinent thought on this important investment question.","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Inflation is running amok in the U.S., and that's likely prompting a few fully justified questions about what to do with your portfolio. With so much uncertainty in the air, it's hard to feel confident about even basic things like whether to add to your positions or reduce them.</p><p>But you're not helpless in the face of inflation, and the answer regarding whether you should buy or sell stocks is also very much dependent on which stocks are under consideration. Let's take a look at a pair of arguments and a pair of stocks to weigh the possibilities.</p><h2>Why it's tempting to sell</h2><p>Between justified fears of inflation contributing to a prolonged bear market and the economic pressure that inflation inherently forces onto investors via rising prices, it's not shocking that people are thinking about selling stocks. Selling puts money into investors' accounts, and it also inoculates them against the anxiety caused by daily falling share prices. But, it's usually not a good idea as timing the market is a fool's errand that doesn't typically end well.</p><p>The reason why selling right now might not be a good decision is that there's a solid chance not much has changed over the last few months about a given company's ability to compete. Take <b>CVS Health </b>(CVS 2.33%), for example. The total return of its shares is down by about 11% so far this year, which isn't too bad compared to the market's decline of more than 20%.</p><p>But its competitive disposition hasn't changed. The products it sells, namely prescriptions and consumer health goods, aren't ones that people buy less of when prices are rising. That gives the company pricing power, which it can use to protect its margins even during inflation.</p><p>After all, you need to buy roughly the same amount of shampoo each month to stay clean, regardless of whether it's marginally more expensive than before. It would take a pretty fiendish rise in prices to change that, and such a change would probably only be temporary due to destruction of demand. Likewise, while its shares are down, it isn't as though any of CVS's competitors have made major inroads during this inflationary period.</p><p>Nor are fears of the Federal Reserve continuing to hike interest rates going to harm the company's ability to do business. With trailing 12-month revenue of nearly $299 billion, it isn't a growth-stage company -- and because it's profitable, it doesn't need to borrow to raise cash to open new retail locations or anything else. So rising borrowing costs aren't going to put a crimp in its ability to grow, and inflation isn't a major concern.</p><p>As for businesses in similar situations, where the ongoing economic phenomena aren't going to cause problems with growth or margin maintenance, it simply doesn't make sense to sell.</p><h2>Why it's probably better to buy</h2><p>Warren Buffett's timeless advice to "be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful" is as relevant as ever. The level of fear about inflation in the market right now is driving stocks down, and in many cases -- as demonstrated by CVS -- the downward movements are not always prompted by genuine reductions in companies' abilities to grow or compete.</p><p>Therefore, generally speaking, if you have your eye on a stock and your investing thesis for it isn't negatively impacted by ongoing economic events, it's probably as good a time as ever to buy it.</p><p>That's especially true for shares of under-the-weather evergreen stocks like <b>Costco Wholesale </b>(COST 1.97%). Much like CVS, its stock is down by more than 18% this year, but it's still profitable, and its discount warehouse business model is as in-demand as ever. Costco's huge range of products include many consumer staples like groceries and toilet paper, so its base of revenue, which totaled $195.9 billion in 2021, is relatively secure from inflation-linked headwinds. And people might even want to shop at its warehouses more if they think they'll get a better deal there amid rising prices.</p><p>In a nutshell, you're leaving money on the table if you were thinking of buying Costco shares and inflation made you hesitate. It's true that it certainly feels safer to sit on the sidelines when things seem like they're going haywire, but the whole point of inflation is that it makes cash less valuable over time, which means the feeling of safety is an illusion.</p><p>People fled from their positions in the stock due to fear, and the lower share price caused by their fear just might be the starting point for your future gains once the market recovers, so buy away if you've found a stable, growing company like Costco that's just as healthy this year as the year before.</p></body></html>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>With Inflation Raging, Should You Buy or Sell Stocks Right Now?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWith Inflation Raging, Should You Buy or Sell Stocks Right Now?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-06-27 19:26 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/27/with-inflation-raging-should-you-buy-or-sell-stock/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Inflation is running amok in the U.S., and that's likely prompting a few fully justified questions about what to do with your portfolio. With so much uncertainty in the air, it's hard to feel ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/27/with-inflation-raging-should-you-buy-or-sell-stock/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BK4550":"红杉资本持仓","COST":"好市多","BK4533":"AQR资本管理(全球第二大对冲基金)","BK4581":"高盛持仓","BK4155":"大卖场与超市","BK4504":"桥水持仓"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/27/with-inflation-raging-should-you-buy-or-sell-stock/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2246279556","content_text":"Inflation is running amok in the U.S., and that's likely prompting a few fully justified questions about what to do with your portfolio. With so much uncertainty in the air, it's hard to feel confident about even basic things like whether to add to your positions or reduce them.But you're not helpless in the face of inflation, and the answer regarding whether you should buy or sell stocks is also very much dependent on which stocks are under consideration. Let's take a look at a pair of arguments and a pair of stocks to weigh the possibilities.Why it's tempting to sellBetween justified fears of inflation contributing to a prolonged bear market and the economic pressure that inflation inherently forces onto investors via rising prices, it's not shocking that people are thinking about selling stocks. Selling puts money into investors' accounts, and it also inoculates them against the anxiety caused by daily falling share prices. But, it's usually not a good idea as timing the market is a fool's errand that doesn't typically end well.The reason why selling right now might not be a good decision is that there's a solid chance not much has changed over the last few months about a given company's ability to compete. Take CVS Health (CVS 2.33%), for example. The total return of its shares is down by about 11% so far this year, which isn't too bad compared to the market's decline of more than 20%.But its competitive disposition hasn't changed. The products it sells, namely prescriptions and consumer health goods, aren't ones that people buy less of when prices are rising. That gives the company pricing power, which it can use to protect its margins even during inflation.After all, you need to buy roughly the same amount of shampoo each month to stay clean, regardless of whether it's marginally more expensive than before. It would take a pretty fiendish rise in prices to change that, and such a change would probably only be temporary due to destruction of demand. Likewise, while its shares are down, it isn't as though any of CVS's competitors have made major inroads during this inflationary period.Nor are fears of the Federal Reserve continuing to hike interest rates going to harm the company's ability to do business. With trailing 12-month revenue of nearly $299 billion, it isn't a growth-stage company -- and because it's profitable, it doesn't need to borrow to raise cash to open new retail locations or anything else. So rising borrowing costs aren't going to put a crimp in its ability to grow, and inflation isn't a major concern.As for businesses in similar situations, where the ongoing economic phenomena aren't going to cause problems with growth or margin maintenance, it simply doesn't make sense to sell.Why it's probably better to buyWarren Buffett's timeless advice to \"be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful\" is as relevant as ever. The level of fear about inflation in the market right now is driving stocks down, and in many cases -- as demonstrated by CVS -- the downward movements are not always prompted by genuine reductions in companies' abilities to grow or compete.Therefore, generally speaking, if you have your eye on a stock and your investing thesis for it isn't negatively impacted by ongoing economic events, it's probably as good a time as ever to buy it.That's especially true for shares of under-the-weather evergreen stocks like Costco Wholesale (COST 1.97%). Much like CVS, its stock is down by more than 18% this year, but it's still profitable, and its discount warehouse business model is as in-demand as ever. Costco's huge range of products include many consumer staples like groceries and toilet paper, so its base of revenue, which totaled $195.9 billion in 2021, is relatively secure from inflation-linked headwinds. And people might even want to shop at its warehouses more if they think they'll get a better deal there amid rising prices.In a nutshell, you're leaving money on the table if you were thinking of buying Costco shares and inflation made you hesitate. It's true that it certainly feels safer to sit on the sidelines when things seem like they're going haywire, but the whole point of inflation is that it makes cash less valuable over time, which means the feeling of safety is an illusion.People fled from their positions in the stock due to fear, and the lower share price caused by their fear just might be the starting point for your future gains once the market recovers, so buy away if you've found a stable, growing company like Costco that's just as healthy this year as the year before.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":123,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9939296680,"gmtCreate":1662109991841,"gmtModify":1676536999976,"author":{"id":"3578921549112370","authorId":"3578921549112370","authorIdStr":"3578921549112370","name":"TRXX","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3578921549112370"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"take the ride...","listText":"take the ride...","text":"take the ride...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9939296680","repostId":"1190161038","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1190161038","pubTimestamp":1662096769,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1190161038?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-09-02 13:32","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Ethereum’s $200 Billion Crypto Gamble","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1190161038","media":"barron's","summary":"If Bitcoin is crypto’s answer to gold, Ethereum is the closest thing it has to its own internet. Any","content":"<html><head></head><body><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6ac021ad95ff917ef327460fc1ba6a9e\" tg-width=\"800\" tg-height=\"480\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>If Bitcoin is crypto’s answer to gold, Ethereum is the closest thing it has to its own internet. Anyone who wants to mint a new token, launch a crypto app, or spend $150,000 on a Bored Ape nonfungible token, or NFT, probably uses the Ethereum network. More than $3 billion in transaction volume flows through Ethereum daily, traded in the network’s native token, Ether. About $60 billion in crypto assets sit on its blockchain through third-party apps. Aside from Bitcoin, no other network is more critical to crypto’s infrastructure or its future.</p><p>Tinkering with Ethereum is no trifling matter. Yet the network’s developers aren’t just about to tinker—they’re on the cusp of overhauling the core plumbing and mechanics of Ethereum in an upgrade that enthusiasts call The Merge.</p><p>The change, slated to happen around Sept. 15, is a big technological risk and could be a transformative moment for crypto. Companies like Coinbase Global(ticker: COIN) will feel the impact almost immediately. And there are likely to be ripple effects throughout the industry, touching everyone from crypto miners to chip makers like Nvidia (NVDA), and investors with some Ether in their portfolios.</p><p>“The Merge is the most significant upgrade in crypto history,” says Sami Kassab, an analyst for crypto research firm Messari. “It’s similar to changing the engines on an airplane in midflight. One flaw in the code could wreak havoc on the crypto ecosystem.”</p><p>Years in the making, The Merge may be crypto’s answer to critics who say the industry is a colossal waste of energy. Ethereum, with a market value of nearly $200 billion, now uses the same method of validating transactions as Bitcoin.</p><p>In that process, known as proof of work, computers compete to solve cryptographic puzzles. The network reaches a consensus on the winner, proving that a block of transactions is valid and should be added to the chain. The winner then receives some Bitcoin, a practice known as mining.</p><p>It’s highly energy-intensive, requiring a massive amount of computing work and electricity. Ethereum was built on the same system, and it is also an energy hog, using roughly the same amount of electricity in a year as countries like the Netherlands.</p><p>Now, developers are scrapping that model and moving to a much greener system for processing transactions, called proof of stake. Instead of mining, Ether owners use their tokens as collateral to validate transactions, “staking” them to the network in exchange for a yield, paid in the Ether token. To participate, a staker must deposit 32 Ether tokens, worth about $50,000, and run some software. The system randomly selects validators, like a lottery. Crypto exchanges and other firms run staking pools, allowing anyone to participate with smaller amounts of Ether.</p><p>The shift should eliminate Ether mining. In doing so, it will cut Ethereum’s energy usage by more than 99%, according to the Ethereum Foundation, sharply reducing the network’s carbon footprint.</p><p>That’s just the start of a larger makeover. The Merge should also reduce the newly minted Ether that’s produced each year. And developers are planning more upgrades over the next few years that aim to increase Ethereum’s throughput and lower its usage fees. Ideally, they aim to turn Ethereum into the internet of crypto—a base layer for apps, financial services, and many more digital assets like NFTs.</p><p>“Today, we talk about decentralized finance. In 10 years, if we are successful, people will just call it finance, full stop,” says Justin Drake, a researcher for the Ethereum Foundation who’s helping with the project. “For almost any financial transaction, they will use Ethereum.”</p><p>Yet The Merge may also have casualties. It could cause glitches, outages, or losses of tokens as the current Ethereum blockchain merges with a new one, called Beacon. “A laundry list of elements will need to keep working seamlessly post-Merge to keep exploits and liquidations at bay,” says Sean Farrell, head of digital assets at Fundstrat Global Advisors.</p><p>The stakes are high because so much of the crypto industry has a stake in its performance—from exchanges like Coinbase to mining operations, NFT platforms, and stablecoin issuers. “Usually, when you push out a change for a website and it breaks—oh well, it’s not the end of the world. In this case, you can lose a lot of money,” says Katie Talati, director of research at Arca, a crypto-asset manager.</p><p>The most immediate effect could be on Ether’s price. Since mid-June, the token has soared more than 50%, while Bitcoin has stayed flat. Both tokens are down about 60% this year, under pressure from rising interest rates and weaker demand for highly speculative tech.</p><p>A successful Merge could make Ether ripe for another run, some analysts say. That’s partly because moving to proof of stake should reduce token issuance to about 0.5% a year, down from 4.5% currently. Reducing the issuance could push up the price. “In the current market, supply and demand is relatively in balance,” says Steve Goulden, a senior analyst for Cumberland, the crypto arm of trading firm DRW Holdings. “Post-Merge, there will be a material supply deficit.”</p><p>Demand, meanwhile, could get a lift as owners stake their tokens in return for a yield. Investors may earn 4% to 8% by staking, depending on how much revenue the network generates and other factors, according to Talati. Institutional funds with a mandate to invest in environmentally friendly assets could also buy Ether as the blockchain’s carbon emissions become less of an issue.</p><p>The upgrade could be a boon to companies like Coinbase. The exchange is developing a service that makes it easy for investors to stake their Ether, with Coinbase taking a 25% cut of any income generated. The staking business has already “grown into a great source of subscription and services revenue and is growing nicely,” said CEO Brian Armstrong on an earnings call in August.</p><p>As in any tech upgrade cycle, however, there will be a legacy of obsolescence. Some of the biggest losers in this cycle could be mining companies that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on hardware that might be rendered worthless. Leaders of Hut 8 Mining (HUT), which mines both Bitcoin and Ether, said in August that they were studying how to adapt their Ether mining machines to other tokens or projects. Hive Blockchain Technologies(HIVE), another miner, said a shift to proof of stake “may render our mining business less competitive.”</p><p>Chip maker Nvidia looks like another casualty. The company’s graphics chips and cards have been adopted by the industry to mine Ether. But demand now appears to be evaporating. Nvidia, whose stock is already ailing from a slowdown in gaming and other core areas, said on its recent earnings call that it couldn’t predict how reduced crypto mining might hit demand. Analysts for investment bank Baird say The Merge is likely to “generate a wave of mining GPUs [graphics processing units] on the secondhand market, compounding the inventory woes.”</p><p>Longer term, Ethereum may pose more of a threat to rival blockchain networks. Blockchains and tokens such as Solana, Avalanche, and Tezos launched with the promise of being faster and more efficient than Ethereum. All run on proof of stake and have established various uses, but if Ethereum pulls off its upgrades, they may run out of time to prove their relevance. “Now that Ethereum has caught up with proof of stake, there’s less of an argument for many other blockchains,” Kassab says.</p><p>Some crypto companies aren’t taking The Merge lying down. The threat has led a few miners to launch a competing Ethereum blockchain, called a fork, using the proof-of-work method. The idea is to create an Ether spinoff and a parallel universe of smart contracts, NFTs, and decentralized-finance, or DeFi, applications.</p><p>The potential for dueling Ether blockchains is forcing companies to choose sides or declare neutrality. Exchanges like Coinbase, Binance, and FTX say they will apply their usual listing standards to forked tokens and may allow them to trade. Creators of crypto apps such as Uniswap, Compound, and stablecoin USDC have pledged to recognize only the new Ethereum blockchain.</p><p>An Ethereum split has some crypto leaders worried that scammers could find new ways to perpetuate theft and fraud. “Somebody’s going to spend 80 real Ether on a fake Bored Ape,” says Robert Leshner, founder and CEO of Compound Labs, a DeFi company. “There will be all sorts of disasters,” he says, advising investors to wait for the kinks to be ironed out and “do nothing.”</p><p>Another unknown is how Washington will react. Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have indicated that Bitcoin and Ether should be treated as commodities—potentially removing those tokens from SEC oversight. But because many investors will buy Ether with the expectation of a yield, some attorneys believe it could make the token look more like a security. If the SEC agrees, crypto exchanges like Coinbase could be vulnerable to lawsuits or enforcement actions if they let it trade on their platforms anyway.</p><p>Changes of this size are an “opportunity to try to distinguish the prior analysis from the current analysis,” says Teresa Goody Guillén, a partner at BakerHostetler and former SEC attorney, who believes that Ether still wouldn’t qualify as a security. The SEC did not respond to a request for comment.</p><p>As with all things in crypto, the hype around The Merge already exceeds the reality. Proponents say it could be the start of a Renaissance of useful apps and services—finally silencing the critics bemused at a multibillion-dollar industry that has yet to find a raison d’être apart from speculation. Conversely, if it flops, it would be another setback for a technology long on complexity and short on real-world utility.</p><p>“The most important part of The Merge is the narrative,” Kassab says. “It’s something that everybody is talking about that could bring people back into Web3 and crypto, assuming it’s successful.”</p><p>The crypto market is now suffering from a crisis of confidence, having lost $2 trillion in value over the past year and drawn the ire of governments worldwide. A successful Merge may not revive the market or its reputation. But it could make crypto a bit greener, at the least, on its path forward.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1610680873436","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ethereum’s $200 Billion Crypto Gamble</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nEthereum’s $200 Billion Crypto Gamble\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-09-02 13:32 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/ethereum-aims-to-become-the-internet-of-crypto-with-the-merge-51662096601?mod=mw_latestnews><strong>barron's</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If Bitcoin is crypto’s answer to gold, Ethereum is the closest thing it has to its own internet. Anyone who wants to mint a new token, launch a crypto app, or spend $150,000 on a Bored Ape nonfungible...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/ethereum-aims-to-become-the-internet-of-crypto-with-the-merge-51662096601?mod=mw_latestnews\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"COIN":"Coinbase Global, Inc."},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/ethereum-aims-to-become-the-internet-of-crypto-with-the-merge-51662096601?mod=mw_latestnews","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1190161038","content_text":"If Bitcoin is crypto’s answer to gold, Ethereum is the closest thing it has to its own internet. Anyone who wants to mint a new token, launch a crypto app, or spend $150,000 on a Bored Ape nonfungible token, or NFT, probably uses the Ethereum network. More than $3 billion in transaction volume flows through Ethereum daily, traded in the network’s native token, Ether. About $60 billion in crypto assets sit on its blockchain through third-party apps. Aside from Bitcoin, no other network is more critical to crypto’s infrastructure or its future.Tinkering with Ethereum is no trifling matter. Yet the network’s developers aren’t just about to tinker—they’re on the cusp of overhauling the core plumbing and mechanics of Ethereum in an upgrade that enthusiasts call The Merge.The change, slated to happen around Sept. 15, is a big technological risk and could be a transformative moment for crypto. Companies like Coinbase Global(ticker: COIN) will feel the impact almost immediately. And there are likely to be ripple effects throughout the industry, touching everyone from crypto miners to chip makers like Nvidia (NVDA), and investors with some Ether in their portfolios.“The Merge is the most significant upgrade in crypto history,” says Sami Kassab, an analyst for crypto research firm Messari. “It’s similar to changing the engines on an airplane in midflight. One flaw in the code could wreak havoc on the crypto ecosystem.”Years in the making, The Merge may be crypto’s answer to critics who say the industry is a colossal waste of energy. Ethereum, with a market value of nearly $200 billion, now uses the same method of validating transactions as Bitcoin.In that process, known as proof of work, computers compete to solve cryptographic puzzles. The network reaches a consensus on the winner, proving that a block of transactions is valid and should be added to the chain. The winner then receives some Bitcoin, a practice known as mining.It’s highly energy-intensive, requiring a massive amount of computing work and electricity. Ethereum was built on the same system, and it is also an energy hog, using roughly the same amount of electricity in a year as countries like the Netherlands.Now, developers are scrapping that model and moving to a much greener system for processing transactions, called proof of stake. Instead of mining, Ether owners use their tokens as collateral to validate transactions, “staking” them to the network in exchange for a yield, paid in the Ether token. To participate, a staker must deposit 32 Ether tokens, worth about $50,000, and run some software. The system randomly selects validators, like a lottery. Crypto exchanges and other firms run staking pools, allowing anyone to participate with smaller amounts of Ether.The shift should eliminate Ether mining. In doing so, it will cut Ethereum’s energy usage by more than 99%, according to the Ethereum Foundation, sharply reducing the network’s carbon footprint.That’s just the start of a larger makeover. The Merge should also reduce the newly minted Ether that’s produced each year. And developers are planning more upgrades over the next few years that aim to increase Ethereum’s throughput and lower its usage fees. Ideally, they aim to turn Ethereum into the internet of crypto—a base layer for apps, financial services, and many more digital assets like NFTs.“Today, we talk about decentralized finance. In 10 years, if we are successful, people will just call it finance, full stop,” says Justin Drake, a researcher for the Ethereum Foundation who’s helping with the project. “For almost any financial transaction, they will use Ethereum.”Yet The Merge may also have casualties. It could cause glitches, outages, or losses of tokens as the current Ethereum blockchain merges with a new one, called Beacon. “A laundry list of elements will need to keep working seamlessly post-Merge to keep exploits and liquidations at bay,” says Sean Farrell, head of digital assets at Fundstrat Global Advisors.The stakes are high because so much of the crypto industry has a stake in its performance—from exchanges like Coinbase to mining operations, NFT platforms, and stablecoin issuers. “Usually, when you push out a change for a website and it breaks—oh well, it’s not the end of the world. In this case, you can lose a lot of money,” says Katie Talati, director of research at Arca, a crypto-asset manager.The most immediate effect could be on Ether’s price. Since mid-June, the token has soared more than 50%, while Bitcoin has stayed flat. Both tokens are down about 60% this year, under pressure from rising interest rates and weaker demand for highly speculative tech.A successful Merge could make Ether ripe for another run, some analysts say. That’s partly because moving to proof of stake should reduce token issuance to about 0.5% a year, down from 4.5% currently. Reducing the issuance could push up the price. “In the current market, supply and demand is relatively in balance,” says Steve Goulden, a senior analyst for Cumberland, the crypto arm of trading firm DRW Holdings. “Post-Merge, there will be a material supply deficit.”Demand, meanwhile, could get a lift as owners stake their tokens in return for a yield. Investors may earn 4% to 8% by staking, depending on how much revenue the network generates and other factors, according to Talati. Institutional funds with a mandate to invest in environmentally friendly assets could also buy Ether as the blockchain’s carbon emissions become less of an issue.The upgrade could be a boon to companies like Coinbase. The exchange is developing a service that makes it easy for investors to stake their Ether, with Coinbase taking a 25% cut of any income generated. The staking business has already “grown into a great source of subscription and services revenue and is growing nicely,” said CEO Brian Armstrong on an earnings call in August.As in any tech upgrade cycle, however, there will be a legacy of obsolescence. Some of the biggest losers in this cycle could be mining companies that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on hardware that might be rendered worthless. Leaders of Hut 8 Mining (HUT), which mines both Bitcoin and Ether, said in August that they were studying how to adapt their Ether mining machines to other tokens or projects. Hive Blockchain Technologies(HIVE), another miner, said a shift to proof of stake “may render our mining business less competitive.”Chip maker Nvidia looks like another casualty. The company’s graphics chips and cards have been adopted by the industry to mine Ether. But demand now appears to be evaporating. Nvidia, whose stock is already ailing from a slowdown in gaming and other core areas, said on its recent earnings call that it couldn’t predict how reduced crypto mining might hit demand. Analysts for investment bank Baird say The Merge is likely to “generate a wave of mining GPUs [graphics processing units] on the secondhand market, compounding the inventory woes.”Longer term, Ethereum may pose more of a threat to rival blockchain networks. Blockchains and tokens such as Solana, Avalanche, and Tezos launched with the promise of being faster and more efficient than Ethereum. All run on proof of stake and have established various uses, but if Ethereum pulls off its upgrades, they may run out of time to prove their relevance. “Now that Ethereum has caught up with proof of stake, there’s less of an argument for many other blockchains,” Kassab says.Some crypto companies aren’t taking The Merge lying down. The threat has led a few miners to launch a competing Ethereum blockchain, called a fork, using the proof-of-work method. The idea is to create an Ether spinoff and a parallel universe of smart contracts, NFTs, and decentralized-finance, or DeFi, applications.The potential for dueling Ether blockchains is forcing companies to choose sides or declare neutrality. Exchanges like Coinbase, Binance, and FTX say they will apply their usual listing standards to forked tokens and may allow them to trade. Creators of crypto apps such as Uniswap, Compound, and stablecoin USDC have pledged to recognize only the new Ethereum blockchain.An Ethereum split has some crypto leaders worried that scammers could find new ways to perpetuate theft and fraud. “Somebody’s going to spend 80 real Ether on a fake Bored Ape,” says Robert Leshner, founder and CEO of Compound Labs, a DeFi company. “There will be all sorts of disasters,” he says, advising investors to wait for the kinks to be ironed out and “do nothing.”Another unknown is how Washington will react. Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have indicated that Bitcoin and Ether should be treated as commodities—potentially removing those tokens from SEC oversight. But because many investors will buy Ether with the expectation of a yield, some attorneys believe it could make the token look more like a security. If the SEC agrees, crypto exchanges like Coinbase could be vulnerable to lawsuits or enforcement actions if they let it trade on their platforms anyway.Changes of this size are an “opportunity to try to distinguish the prior analysis from the current analysis,” says Teresa Goody Guillén, a partner at BakerHostetler and former SEC attorney, who believes that Ether still wouldn’t qualify as a security. The SEC did not respond to a request for comment.As with all things in crypto, the hype around The Merge already exceeds the reality. Proponents say it could be the start of a Renaissance of useful apps and services—finally silencing the critics bemused at a multibillion-dollar industry that has yet to find a raison d’être apart from speculation. Conversely, if it flops, it would be another setback for a technology long on complexity and short on real-world utility.“The most important part of The Merge is the narrative,” Kassab says. “It’s something that everybody is talking about that could bring people back into Web3 and crypto, assuming it’s successful.”The crypto market is now suffering from a crisis of confidence, having lost $2 trillion in value over the past year and drawn the ire of governments worldwide. A successful Merge may not revive the market or its reputation. But it could make crypto a bit greener, at the least, on its path forward.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":92,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}
