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I made a 500pc return on dogecoin
It was like betting on elections or sport: a mix of not wanting to miss out on some dumb fun, and having a slight chance in the future to say: âI was rightâ.Â
Apr 20, 2021 â 1.04pm
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It was the first âinvestmentâ I made outside of my superannuation.
Iâm not sure if the returns will last, but I plan to remain invested. For now.
The cryptocurrency was created as a joke in 2013 as a coin with the face of a Shiba Inu dog, a popular internet meme. This week, it briefly became the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation when prices hit a high of about US43¢.
Is this the moment of reckoning for the gig economy? John Arlidge
We’ve been tapping more than ever since lockdowns began almost a year ago. We tap our screens for Amazon, Ocado and Deliveroo. App-based big online retailers have seen demand and profits skyrocket. Amazon has been raking in $11,000 a second the firm’s founder, Jeff Bezos, has seen his net worth grow to almost $200 billion. That’s good news for consumers in tough times, for the whizzy new e-businesses, and for their workers, right?
Not if you ask the ever-growing army of always-on gig workers that do the heavy lifting, racing to deliver what we “need” when we need it. Thanks to our “get it now” culture, Britain has more gig workers as a proportion of the overall workforce than any other of the G7 group of the world’s richest nations some five million, half of those in London and the South-East and critics say they are getting a raw deal.