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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Sign up here to get this email in your inbox every morning. An internal Facebook audit reportedly shows QAnon groups have millions of members, but some employees who ran the investigation fear the company won’t take any action. The employees also expressed…

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An internal Facebook audit reportedly shows QAnon groups have millions of members, but some employees who ran the investigation fear the company won’t take any action. The employees also expressed concern that QAnon’s presence on the popular social network might influence the upcoming 2020 presidential election.
A California judge ruled that Uber and Lyft have to classify their drivers as employees, not contractors. Uber and Lyft both plan to appeal Monday’s ruling.
An outspoken Tesla critic and short-seller is suing Elon Musk, alleging he defamed him by saying the Tesla short ‘almost killed’ Tesla employees. Musk has openly voiced distaste for short-sellers and has rallied against the practice for years, even going so far as to sell Tesla-branded short shorts on the company’s online store.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said gig economy companies should be required to establish ‘benefits funds’ for workers instead of treating them as full-time employees. Gig workers have called on companies like Uber to give gig workers more benefits that full-time employees receive, like health insurance. 
Facebook is reportedly expanding its banking ambitions with a new division that will run all of the tech giant’s payment projects, including Facebook Pay. According to a Bloomberg report, the new program will be called Facebook Financial, or F2, and will be run by David Marcus, the cocreator of the firm’s Libra cryptocurrency project.
LinkedIn and Pinterest backer Bessemer Venture Partners plans to establish a base in Europe for the first time, tempted by big exits such as Adyen, Spotify, and TeamViewer. One of the oldest venture capital companies in the US, Bessemer Venture Partners, plans to establish staff permanently in London as it looks to boost investment into Europe.
Musicians are coming after Jeff Bezos over copyright concerns after the Amazon CEO told Congress he’s not sure if Twitch pays royalties. Twitch, which Amazon acquired in 2014 for almost $1 billion, issues takedown notices for copyrighted music instead of licensing music.
American Express is in advanced talks to buy SoftBank-backed lender Kabbage. The all-cash deal could value the closely held lender at as much as $850 million, including retention payments, Bloomberg reported.
Silicon Valley scooter startup Bird bet big on Paris and lost to rivals, now it could be betting on consolidation. Bird has raised more than $600 million to date, but its growth has been complicated by the emergence of copycat rivals, the coronavirus, and regulators limiting the number of scooter operators in their cities.
The unannounced Xbox Series S has been leaked by Microsoft’s own controller boxes, and a holiday 2020 release is rumored. The Xbox Series S, an unannounced version of Microsoft’s new video game console, has been revealed by the packaging for Microsoft’s new Xbox controller.

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Bitcoin tends to outperform gold and stocks after global shocks, Mercado Bitcoin finds

Markets Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Bitcoin tends to outperform gold and stocks after global shocks, Mercado Bitcoin finds The study analyzed 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks and found that Bitcoin posted stronger returns than gold and the S&P 500 in each period. By Francisco

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Bitcoin tends to outperform gold and stocks after global shocks, Mercado Bitcoin finds

The study analyzed 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks and found that Bitcoin posted stronger returns than gold and the S&P 500 in each period.

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What to know:

  • A study by Mercado Bitcoin found that bitcoin tends to outperform traditional safe-haven assets like gold in the 2 months following major global crises.
  • The study analyzed 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks and found that bitcoin posted stronger returns than gold and the S&P 500 in each period.
  • Despite its volatility, bitcoin has consistently bounced back after crises and has been the best-performing asset of the past decade, according to the study’s author, Rony Szuster.

Bitcoin tends to outperform traditional safe haven assets like gold in the two months following major global crises, according to new analysis from Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin.

The study, led by Rony Szuster, head of research at the Latin American crypto platform, examined 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks such as the COVID-19 outbreak and U.S. tariff escalations. Bitcoin posted stronger returns than both gold and the S&P 500 in each of the periods analyzed.

In April last year, after the Trump administration announced sweeping tariffs, the price of bitcoin jumped 24% over the following 60 days. Gold rose 8%, and the S&P 500 gained 4%, the firm found.

A similar pattern emerged at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, when BTC rose 21%, while the other assets trailed.

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Szuster cautioned that judging bitcoin’s performance too soon after a crisis can be misleading.

“It’s like watching the first few minutes of a movie and thinking you already know how it ends,” he said. “In moments like this, investors sell positions to reduce risk or raise cash, and even defensive assets can fall.”

That happens as investors scramble for liquidity, yet bitcoin has consistently bounced back, the firm found. The pattern appears to be repeating in the current U.S.-Iran conflict, where bitcoin is the only one of the three assets in positive territory so far, according to Szuster.

Data backs this up. Since the war started, bitcoin has risen by more than 2.2%, from around $65,800 to $67,300 at the time of writing. Gold, the traditional safe haven, has meanwhile dropped around 11%, while the S&P lost 4.4% of its value in the index’s steepest monthly drop since 2022.

Despite its volatility, bitcoin was the best-performing asset over the past decade, he added.

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