Whilst over in the US infections of Covid-19 are mounting like crazy, the UK is preparing for a vaccination rollout. Only possible problem is that it will coincide with Brexit. Yes, that thing that everyone has been talking about for years and thought would never happen is finally here. On 1 January 2021 the EU […]
Back in 2017, a Dutch family of five made the world news. 42-year-old Mr. Didi Taihuttu, his wife, and their three children all agreed to sell all their worldly possessions and invest it all in Bitcoin, which was trading at $900 by that time. By the end of 2017, it looks like they would be […]
There is a scene in the 2015 movie Steve Jobs where then Apple CEO Stve Jobs speaks to the previous CEO of the company. It is a tense discussion between Jobs, played by Michael Fassbender, and Sculley, played by Jeff Daniels. The script, written by Aaron Sorkin, mentions at that point the immense respect that […]
A strange juxtaposition in the Chinese and American press these past few days with Bitcoin in the middle. According to the South China Morning Post earlier this week, the Beijing government was proud to report that it has built a computer machine “one trillion times faster” than any rival. Forbes, the US business magazine, responded […]
As if the PayPal and Square news wasn’t yet enough to get the generation alpha, millennials and gen Z excited about crypto, now Spotify joins them as well. The worldwide music streaming giant originally from Sweden admitted they are hiring a payments director both in their London and Stockholm offices to lead their cryptocurrency space. […]
By now, everyone around the world has heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman who rose to fame over the past few years by getting elected on a razor thin budget and sending many established politicians packing. She’s the one that grilled Mark Zuckerberg during his visits to congress and also the one that […]
A rating agency has more power that you can imagine. They control what pension funds, wealth funds and governments can buy. If a rating agency says that a country is no longer triple A (aka AAA), but simply AAB, one step below, then billions of dollars which normally go towards government bonds, have to be […]
One of the absolute success stories in business of these past few years to reach us from Silicon Valley came from Uber. The app, which is now in the top ten most downloaded pieces of software in the world, became a household name by underpricing the competition. And whenever a competitor proved too hard to price […]
90% of the world’s wealth is inherited and not created. For all the stories about Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, most of the world’s capital is still handed down from father to children upon the passing of the older generation. That wealth is still being managed by some of the most important “wealth […]
For all the talk about how the cryptosphere has matured this year, there is of course still that playful part in most of us where having great fun and showing humor is more important than being serious. Latest example of that was shown during the launch of Ethereum 2.0’s first block. Vitalik Buterin, the Ethereum […]
