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Mark Cuban Upsets MAGA After Dunking On Elon Musk Over DEI

Mark Cuban was trending on X, formerly Twitter, after engaging in a debate with Elon Musk about DEI and hiring practices.

Mark Cuban to face questioning under oath over promotion of Voyager

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is set to be deposed next month as part of a defense against a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that he promoted a Ponzi scheme” in the form of now-bankrupted crypto lender Voyager Digital. A deposition in legal terms generally involves answering a line of questioning under oath during the pre-trial discovery stage of a potential court case. In a Jan. 9 court order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette M. Reid denied Cuban’s request to split the deposition into two sessions and ordered that his full deposition would be taken on Feb. 2 in Dallas, Texas. As part of the defense, two Dallas Mavericks employees will also be deposed before Feb. 23. Additionally, the judge stated that three plaintiffs behind the suit — Pierce Robertson, Rachel Gold and Sanford Gol...

Mark Cuban faces class action lawsuit for promoting Voyager crypto products

Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur who has been quite active in the crypto ecosystem for the past year, is facing a class-action lawsuit over his promotions of the bankrupt crypto brokerage firm Voyager Digital. The Moskowitz Law Firm filed a civil suit in the United States District Court in Southern Florida against Cuban for promoting Voyager’s unregulated crypto products. The lawsuit demanded a jury hearing for the case. The lawsuit alleged Cuban also misrepresented the firm on numerous occasions, making dubious claims of it being cheaper than competitors and offering “commission-free” trading services. Cuban, along with Voyager Digital CEO Stephen Ehrlich, leveraged their years of experience to lure inexperienced customers into investing their life savings in what they called...

Bear market will last until crypto apps are actually useful: Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur known for his role as one of the main investors on the reality television show Shark Tank, said the crypto bear market won’t be over until there’s a better focus on applications with utility. He also doesn’t think the market has hit “cheap” prices yet. Cuban has stated in the past around 80% of his non-Shark Tank portfolio was in crypto. Appearing on a June 23 episode of the Bankless Podcast, he was asked how long he believes the current crypto bear market will last: “It lasts until there’s a catalyst and that catalyst is going to be an application, or we get so low people go ‘fuck it I’ll buy some.’” He believes a better focus on applications with utility will pull crypto from its slump and with so many apps focused on financial technology or...

Lil Wayne Fires Back at Mark Cuban Amid NBA Drama: ‘I Will P— in Ya Fkn Mouth’

Lil Wayne and Mark Cuban have traded insults like the NBA trades players amid the Western Conference semifinal face-off between the Phoenix Suns and Cuban-owned Dallas Mavericks. As the two basketball teams duked it out in a seven-game series (which the Mavericks ultimately won 4-3), decade-old tensions arose on Twitter when Lil Wayne — who is longtime friends with Suns point guard Chris Paul — tweeted that Mavericks point guard Luka Dončić is “a ho” during Game 4 on May 8. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news More than a week later, Cuban fired back with an insult to Lil Wayne using the Grammy-winner’s own song lyric from the 2018 bop “Uproar.” “It’s a s–t show, put you front row’ #MFFL,” the mogul tweeted on Monday (May 16) with a photo of...

Mark Cuban Claps Back At Lil Wayne for Calling Luka Doncic A “Ho”

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christian Petersen / Getty Dallas Maverick’s superstar, Luka Doncic just sent Chris Paul and his Phoenix Suns team home for the remainder of the NBA playoffs and while many are giving Doncic his flowers for pulling off what seemed like an impossible feat, Lil Wayne is throwing dirt on his name instead. After Luka and the Dallas Mavericks completely destroyed the team with the best record in the NBA this season in the Phoenix Suns in a high stakes game 7, Wayne took to Twitter to call Luka a “H*” as his close friend, Chris Paul is once again not going to be able to get that elusive championship ring that alludes him. Related Stories While we’re sure this is just the CP3 fan in Wayne talking, Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban took issue with his franchise ...

Memecoins eye major revamps in an effort to return to their former glory

Memecoins briefly took the cryptocurrency market by storm in 2021 after steady attention and shilling from big-name influencers like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban helped propel coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) to 100x gains.  As one should expect, in the crypto market, rapidly rising prices have a tendency to reverse course just as fast and many of the formerly high-flying meme tokens now find themselves struggling for survival as the market matures and investors look for real-world use cases. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular memecoins of 2021 to see whether they were just a flash in the pan or if there are fundamental developments that may prove fruitful in the long-term. Dogecoin DOGE is the original memecoin and it helped kick off the rally of ‘21 after its price skyrockete...

5 cryptocurrency projects that made waves in 2021

2021 was a breakout year for the cryptocurrency market in many respects and most investors are absolutely thrilled that Bitcoin (BTC) price established a new all-time high of $68,789. In the same timeframe, Ether (ETH) went on a parabolic rally which saw its price gain 565% from Jan. 1 to hit a record high at $4,859 on Nov. 10. While it was a banner year for large cap cryptocurrencies, some of the biggest gains and most impactful developments came from the altcoin market where decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) rallied by thousands of percent and helped to usher in a new level of awareness and adoption for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Here’s a look at five altcoin projects that made significant contributions to the cryptocurrency ecosystem in 2021. Un...

3LAU, Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, More to Judge Shark Tank-Like NFT Funding Contest

As the NFT mania rages on, a new Shark Tank-like competition is set to debut with a number of high-profile judges. NFTs: The Pitch is a go following a $1 million funding round by Sound Ventures, a major venture capital firm founded by Guy Oseary and famed actor and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher. Both execs will appear as judges on a panel that also includes billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, iconic hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg, and electronic music producer 3LAU, among others. Details on the contest’s format and distribution plan are scarce at this time. Variety reports that on April 21st, finalists will participate in a live virtual pitch session with the judges. However, the discussions will not be streamed live to the public, according to the competition’s websit...