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Five Methods to Improve the Hiring Process at Your Company

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Finding good employees is such a huge part of running a business. If you don’t have hardworking and trustworthy workers, it can feel like you are doing everything on your own. You won’t be supported in the business and your vision will suffer. However, when you do have good employees, you will be relieved from some of the stress and work you put in. Every business needs great workers. Below are five methods to help you improve the hiring process at your company.

Run Background Checks

A great way to find out if you are hiring trustworthy hard workers is to run a background check. You never know what someone has done in the past and how they may have lied on their resume. With background checks, you don’t just have access to any criminal background, but you will also be able to see their education, addresses, past names, and more. It becomes a lot easier to know who you are dealing with. Furthermore, you can run a bunch at the same time when you are hiring with bulk background checks. This diligence is necessary whenever you are hiring anyone.

Utilize Employee/Employer Match Sites

You should also do your best to utilize the career platforms and job listing sites that match employers with employees. These platforms usually have sophisticated algorithms that do a great job of matching employers in need with the right candidates. You shouldn’t wait for the perfect employee to come through your door, and you shouldn’t use just one career platform site. When you put in the effort to utilize these sites for their benefits, you will have more qualified and hard-working candidates applying to work at your company. It’s important to use all the resources and tools that you have.

Hire Remote Workers

One thing you should be comfortable with is hiring remote workers. Some of the best employees will want to work from home because they know what they are worth and what they can deliver. When you are okay with hiring remote workers, you broaden your horizons. You will have access to great candidates outside of your city. Technology can help smoothen out the process and manage a remote workforce. When it comes to hiring these days, it’s necessary to hire remote workers sometimes. You might want to keep everyone in the office, but it’s just not feasible these days.

Working with recruiting agencies can be incredibly advantageous when hiring remote workers. These agencies have access to a vast network of candidates and use free talent acquisition software to streamline the hiring process. By leveraging this software, agencies can efficiently match your company’s needs with the best candidates available, saving you time and resources.

Recruit Straight from College

A great benefit of modern business is that you often get to hire employees straight from college. A lot of positions at businesses don’t require a huge amount of experience. Not only will the college graduates have updated training, but you will also get to pay them a lot less than you would pay an experienced worker. Furthermore, when you hire college graduates you won’t have to rework their bad training. Instead, you will get them started exactly where you want them to be. Recent college graduates are a great option because they can grow with the company and are usually quite versatile.

Focus on Versatility

Lastly, another thing that will help your hiring process is focusing on versatility of skills. If someone can do more than one job, you should think about hiring them over someone who specializes in one. This is one of the best things you can do for a growing company like a start-up. When you have a worker that can perform one task before moving on to another, you will be able to create a team that can get the job done. You won’t have to hire new employees all the time because you will be training current workers to do new tasks.

When you are trying to improve your hiring process, it’s important to come at it from all angles. Whether you are trying your best to find long-term versatile employees straight from college or need experts that will work remotely, there are plenty of great employees who can help you create the team that you need.

It’s never easy to hire for any company, but it’s a lot harder when you are trying to grow. Large companies hire often and start-ups need to keep the overhead low, but if you put in the effort to find the right candidates you will have the chance to thrive with great hardworking people by your side.

Analysts divided on Bitcoin bear market calls as prices inch up from $77,000 – DL News

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  • Bitcoin trading near the $79,000 mark in early hours of February 1.
  • Experts say bear market has begun.
  • Other analysts say prices will begin to climb after the weekend.

Bitcoin has entered a bear market, with the market showing signs of “capitulation,” a price analyst has claimed — while other observers call for calm.

After falling below the $80,000 mark for the first time since April 2025 yesterday, Bitcoin continued to drop, bottoming out at just over $77,000 in the evening of January 31. The coin has since made a slow if undramatic recovery, moving back to near $79,000 at the time of writing on February 1.

“A sequence of breakdowns across major support levels reinforces the view that the market has shifted regime, indicating that Bitcoin has entered a bear market,” wrote Carmelo Alemán, a trader and an analyst at the crypto analytics firm CryptoQuant. Alemán said Bitcoin spot and futures trading patterns were now decidedly “bearish.”

He said the market was now in a phase of “capitulation,” whereby “a large share of market participants” would suffer losses.

The volatility comes as market observers talk of turbulent times ahead for Bitcoin, forecasting further falls to $75,000, or even as low as $10,000.

‘No Bull Market’

“Bitcoin is dropping as selling pressure persists, with no fresh capital coming in,” Ki Young Ju, CryptoQuant’s CEO, wrote on X.

“When [the] market cap falls in that environment, it’s not a bull market,” Ju said.

But while some predicted mass sell-offs and further market chaos, other analysts called for calm and suggested talk of a Bitcoin bear market was premature.

Price “corrections” of 35%-40% are “historically not unheard of for a Bitcoin bull run,” the Bitcoin analyst PlanC wrote on X. “$75,000–$80,000 is a 37% to 40% correction. [There’s a] decent chance this will be the deepest pullback opportunity this Bitcoin bull run.”

“Never trust a Sunday dump in Bitcoin’s price,” the Bitcoin price analyst Rajat Soni said on X.

The Warsh Effect

Some have attributed Bitcoin’s poor recent performance to President Donald Trump’s call on Friday to nominate Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve chair. The news of Warsh’s nomination sent the prices of precious metals like silver into a nosedive.

However, some experts again called for calm. Analysts told Bloomberg that Warsh was unlikely to preside over an “aggressive easing cycle” of interest rate cuts.

“We advise against overdoing the Warsh hawkish trade across asset markets. We even see some risk of a whipsaw,” said Krishna Guha, the vice chair at Evercore ISI, an economic research firm. “We see Warsh as a pragmatist, not an ideological hawk in the tradition of the independent conservative central banker.”

Tim Alper is a News Correspondent at DL News. Got a tip? Email him at tdalper@dlnews.com.

Bitwise Says Fusaka Improves Ethereum UX But Falls Short on Revenue Expectations

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Before Fusaka went live, Bitwise’s CIO had predicted that the upgrade would increase Ethereum’s revenue capture.

Crypto asset manager Bitwise is dialing back expectations that Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade would meaningfully lift network revenue, according to a new research report from the firm, published on Jan. 28. The findings fall short of earlier bullish projections from Bitwise’s own chief investment officer, Matt Hougan.

In November, Hougan wrote in an X thread that Fusaka could drive a “5-10x” increase in Ethereum’s revenue capture, calling it “under-appreciated catalyst and one reason ETH could lead the crypto rebound.” However, new data from Bitwise tells a far less bullish story.

Positive Impact

Fusaka — which went live in December — added a minimum fee for “blob” data, the cheap data Layer 2s use to post transactions back to mainnet. Blobs were meant to lower costs, but prices often swung between near zero and sudden spikes. The upgrade set a floor to make those fees more stable.

In practice, the revenue boost many expected hasn’t shown up.

Bitwise’s Jan. 28 research, led by senior research associate Max Shannon, found that while the fee floor did raise blob prices, Ethereum’s fast-growing capacity more than canceled it out.

“As a result, we forecast that next-twelve-month blob fees will barely contribute to Ethereum’s overall revenue,” Shannon wrote, adding that Fusaka’s impact is “more positive for user experience and L2 margins than it is on Ethereum’s revenue generation.”

Ethereum’s monthly revenue. Source: DefiLlama

According to DefiLlama data, Ethereum’s monthly revenue has been sliding since its peak of about $1.6 billion in November 2021 and is now down more than 99% to roughly $1.8 million as of December 2025. The network is on track for a slightly better month in January, which over $2 million in revenue to date.

Multi-Input Question

Speaking with The Defiant, Shannon clarified that Fusaka’s effect on net blob fee revenue “was always going to be a multi-input question.” He explained that while minimum fees can lift revenue, higher throughput still pulls it down, and so far, throughput has clearly won out.

“What we’ve observed in practice is that the enhancements to throughput have outweighed the higher base fee,” he said.

Over a longer time frame, Shannon believes that the fee floor should still allow Ethereum to capture some value generated by Layer 2 activity, but he stressed that this hasn’t materialized yet.

In a recent report, independent researcher Andrey Sergeenkov argued that Fusaka made fees low enough to enable make a particular type of scam using the network — address poisoning — profitable.

‘Decent Chance’ Bitcoin Already Bottomed at $77K: Analyst

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Bitcoin’s fall of around 7% to $77,000 on Saturday might have marked the low of this cycle, according to Bitcoin analyst PlanC.

It comes as other crypto analysts continue to call for further downside for Bitcoin (BTC) in the coming months.

“Decent chance this will be the deepest pullback opportunity this Bitcoin bull run,” PlanC said in an X post on Saturday.

PlanC compares Bitcoin’s fall to previous bear market cycles

Bitcoin fell 7% to around $77,000 on Saturday and has since slightly moved up to $78,690 at the time of publication, according to CoinMarketCap.

Bitcoin is down 11.44% over the past 30 days. Source: CoinMarketCap

The asset’s price is now down around 38% from its all-time high of $126,100, which it reached on Oct. 5. PlanC said the downtrend Bitcoin has experienced reminds him of past crashes like the 2018 bear market capitulation when Bitcoin fell to $3,000, the March 2020 crash when the asset fell to around $5,100, and the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, which saw Bitcoin dip to around $15,500.

“There is a decent chance we are going through another major capitulation low as we speak,” PlanC said. “It seems like the ultimate low will be between $75,000 and $80,000,” he added.