#FutureProof: Bitcoin wins race to beat great monetary inflation

The pandemic hit the world in early 2020, forcing the global economy to shut down. Stocks only bottomed out after the US Federal Reserve promised to make unlimited asset purchases to support financial markets. Governments of major economies, led by the US, pledged to hand “stimmy” cheques directly to citizens.

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July 2022

#FutureProof: Why Dorsey backs Musk’s quest to unlock Twitter’s black box

Technology entrepreneurs are rewarded for being able to see what is coming before everyone else does. On this front, Block Inc CEO Jack Dorsey seldom comes up short. Dorsey, who is the brains behind Twitter and Square, was an early investor in Instagram and pushed Twitter to acquire Vine (an American short-form video hosting service) in 2012, years before TikTok took over the world of social media.

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June 2022

#FutureProof: Deglobalisation, a blitz accelerating the dawn of solar Satoshis

In 2003, Tesla’s founders realised that lithium-ion batteries were becoming increasingly powerful and cheap over time. Thanks to the explosion in laptop computers and cell phones, battery costs were falling fast. Soon, thousands of them could be used to power an affordable electric vehicle (EV).

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May 2022

#FutureProof: Bitcoin was made for the exponential age

Throughout history’s major computing paradigms — from the electromechanical calculators of 1890 to today’s semiconductor chips — the computational power that US$1,000 can buy has doubled every two years. Plotted on a standard linear graph, this is a flat, straight line that — towards the end — suddenly explodes upwards in a J-shaped curve.

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February 2022

#FutureProof: The Great Reset is already here

We are the only beings on Earth that use art to represent ideas, information and value. Primitive humans transformed inanimate objects from purely utilitarian tools into mediums of expression. Imbued with aesthetic and social value, collectibles evolved into the first forms of money, laying the foundation for trade and the economy.

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February 2022

#FutureProof: Bitcoin and the battle for the next internet

Bitcoin is on pace to end the year up at least 60%, defying several stomach-churning bouts of volatility. It bears mentioning that in the decade from 2010 to 2020, Bitcoin gained a staggering nine million per cent, making it the best investment of any asset class.

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January 2022

#FutureProof: Defining the DeFi opportunity

Even after quadrupling in value this year, crypto assets make up only a small portion of the total value of all financial assets. The value of all global stocks is US$122 trillion (RM510.5 trillion), according to The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), an industry group. With a market cap of just US$3 trillion, can crypto be considered a force to be reckoned with? The answer is yes.

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December 2021

#FutureProof: Mark Zuckerberg, master of the metaverse?

2007 was the year Apple ushered in the era of modern smartphones. The iPhone combined a camera, a gaming console, music, email and more in one single, sleek device. Its success was a coup — and a nightmare for Apple’s rivals.

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October 2021

#FutureProof: What does Elon Musk want?

Elon Musk, the world’s third-richest man, has emerged as a divisive figure among Bitcoin’s most ardent admirers. A mid-May tweetstorm over Bitcoin’s energy consumption sent retail investors scurrying, leading to crypto’s biggest crash since 2020.

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July 2021

#FutureProof: The Bitcoin mystery powering the rise of DeFi

Does the fate of a trillion-dollar digital asset — Bitcoin — hinge on a decade-old mystery? Coinbase, one of the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchanges, seems to think so.

In paperwork filed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month, it says markets for Bitcoin could “deteriorate” if the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of Bitcoin’s inventor, is revealed.

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April 2021

#FutureProof: Bitcoin lessons from Japan

Twenty-one years ago, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) knocked interest rates to zero, hoping to fire up the economy. It was the first time any central bank had adopted such a radical monetary policy. Public debt levels surged to the highest globally, but Japan never made it out of the ranks of low-growth economies. Recently, such fear has re-emerged in certain parts of the world. The concern is that Japan is the “preview movie” for what is going to happen to some other developed economies.

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February 2021

BFM – Should We Switch Back To GST?

A year on since the SST was brought back last year, we take a look at its impact so far, and whether or not it would be a good idea to revert to GST.

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October 2019

2019-08-17 The Star - Business Wealth v2

The Star, StarBizWealth – How To Be A Good Stock Market Investor

Alvin Vong, CEO of EquitiesTracker and Andrew Vong, CFO of EquitiesTracker featured in The Star, StarBizWealth

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August 2019

The Edge, Enterprise – Not Such A Great LEAP Forward

Alvin Vong, CEO of EquitiesTracker featured in The Edge – Enterprise – Pg 18-19.

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August 2019

BFM EQUITIESTRACKER – INTO THE FUTURE

EquitiesTracker Holdings, an equity investment research platform, and training provider made its debut on the LEAP Market in March, after nearly 20 years in the investment research business. We speak to its new CEO Alvin Vong about the company’s reasons for listing, their plans to modernize, as well as challenges in the investment training industry.

May 2019

The Sun Biz : Learn From Mistakes, Be Humble

I grew up around businesses which were founded by my late dad. I can see the pain points and struggles of an entrepreneur at a very young age. By learning how to avoid some pitfalls and mistakes from my late dad, it has groomed me to become what I am today.

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April 2019

CITYPlus FM -【城市菁英班】从投资教育培训到上市，EquitiesTracker怎么走过来？ – MP3Cover Story: A Dream fulfilled

2019年3月7日，股票投资研究平台及投资培训公司EquitiesTracker Holdings Bhd在杰出企业家加速器平台（LEAP）隆重登场，这家公司准备发行4200万新股，并筹集714万令吉。

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