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“Firestorm: Fisker’s Explosive Entry into the Mobility Market and Tesla’s Pursuit of FSD Profit”

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Remember in the last edition of TechCrunch Mobility, when I wrote that the wheels were starting to come off the Fisker bus? Deal of the weekIt ain’t easy being an executive at an EV startup these days. Amid all of the EV startup bankruptcies and other bleak goings-on, there was a bit of positive news. It seems that Tesla is turning to FSD as another financial lever to pull as profits on automotive sales shrink.

“Record Breaking Bitcoin: Surging to $72,700 Amidst Warnings of ‘Extreme Greed’ in Market Index”

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Bitcoin has increased 9.5% in the past seven days and is up 50% on the month, according to CoinMarketCap data. There is, of course, no way of telling how high bitcoin can rise during the current bull frenzy. The CoinMarketCap Crypto Fear & Greed Index is in “extreme greed” territory at 89.12 points, up from “neutral” at 59.3 points, in early February. The index measures price and trading data of the biggest cryptocurrencies, with its user behavior data to measure crypto market sentiment from 0-100. The last bitcoin halving was on May 11, 2020 and drove its price up about 600% from around $9,000 to $63,000 by the April 2021 mark.