Richard M Hopen
Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 29
August 21, 2022 | Issue 29 FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME TWICE... Residential brokerage is my third professional career. I began...
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Cyber Criminals Are Targeting Home Buyers and Sellers
When my wife and I sold our house in Westfield, NJ in 2017, our $239,000 mortgage payoff was stolen. The money was never recovered from...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 28
August 14, 2022 | Issue 28 GOVERNMENT CRYPTO ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ARE TOO BROAD A 29-year-old developer of Tornado Cash was arrested in...
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Crypto News for Realtors – 27
August 7, 2022 | Issue 27 DID BITCOIN REACH A KEY MILESTONE? Anthony Pompliano wrote in his Substack newsletter, The Pomp Letter, about...
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Crypto Lender Bankruptcy
CRYPTO CLASS – CRYPTO LENDER BANKRUPTCY US bankruptcy courts are about to create a new area of law – crypto lender bankruptcy. Crypto...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 26
July 31, 2022 | Issue 26 WHO WILL REGULATE CRYPTO? The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)...
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What are Regulations?
One of the biggest unknowns for the future of crypto is how it will be regulated. If the regulations are too onerous, crypto advocates...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 25
July 24, 2022 | Issue 25 NOW THAT I HAVE MY KEYS, I HAVE MY CRYPTO AND PEACE OF MIND In June 2021, I purchased crypto on the Coinbase...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 24
July 17, 2022 | Issue 24 HOW THE ECONOMY INSERTED ITSELF BETWEEN CRYPTO AND REAL ESTATE When the crypto market was growing and reaching...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 23
July 10, 2022 | Issue 23 CONTAGION IN THE CRYPTO ECOSYSTEM I lived three blocks from the ocean in the Pacific Beach section of San Diego....
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 22
July 3, 2022 | Issue 22 🇺🇸 BITCOIN DROPPED 37% IN JUNE – SECOND BIGGEST MONTHLY LOSS Business publications feature daily headlines...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 21
June 26, 2022 | Issue 21 ** SPECIAL ISSUE ** UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY I am taking a break from reporting the crypto news and instead...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 20
June 19, 2022 | Issue 20 ANOTHER POSITIVE, UPBEAT, WEEK FOR CRYPTO – NOT! This week began with shocking news. Crypto lending platform...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 19
June 12, 2022 | Issue 19 EXPERTISE IS ALWAYS RELATIVE I began learning about crypto last April when the graphic artist Beeple sold an NFT...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 18
June 5, 2022 | Issue 18 IS CRYPTO ENTERING ITS "DOT COM CRASH" PHASE? In November 2021, bitcoin approached its record high price of...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 17
MAY 29, 2022 | Issue 17 Search: "crypto real estate" What do journalists write about when there is nothing new or interesting to report?...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 16
MAY 22, 2022 | Issue 16 Who Is Still Interested in Crypto? This past week, I began presenting to my CØMPASS colleagues about crypto. I...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 15
MAY 15, 2022 | Issue 15 A HISTORIC WEEK FOR CRYPTO Let's begin with the TerraUSD Luna stablecoin saga. I cover it in more detail below,...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 14
MAY 8, 2022 | Issue 14 "HELLO? CRYPTO ENTHUSIASTS, WHERE ARE YOU?" When I joined CØMPASS in November 2021, I spoke with several...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 13
MAY 1, 2022 | Issue 13 "HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE BEFORE I UNDERSTAND CRYPTO?" I am asked a version of this question at least four times a...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 12
APRIL 24, 2022 | Issue 12 WILL ENERGY MARKET PRICING GO FROM USD TO BTC? Several weeks ago, I wrote about energy companies that have...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 11
APRIL 17, 2022 | Issue 11 TO REPORT OR NOT TO REPORT? For many of you, it's a holiday weekend and I'm expecting that crypto news is...
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Don't Sleep On the Threat of Real Estate Wire Fraud
A 2021 survey showed that 1 in 3 real estate transactions were targeted by cyber criminals. Real estate agents can no longer afford to...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 10
APRIL 10, 2022 | Issue 10 PREDICTING THE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE Certainty. We crave it in our personal lives and professional lives....
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