Like most people who first discover Bitcoin, I learned about it as its rapidly inflating price was making the news. This was in 2017, and I was wrapping up my Neurology residency. The news proclaimed that “bloc
Nothing beyond a store of value is necessary for Bitcoin to be extraordinarily valuable for the world. Having said that, for the first time in history, we have an electronic bearer asset, never had one of those before. It’s called Bitcoin. And we have an open source monetary network; we...
As pointed out by Reid Hoffman in an HBR interview:Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It’s the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale....
ETF issuers typically respond rapidly to the demand for products in hot sectors. For example, manycommodity ETFswere introduced during the commodity boom between 2003 and 2007.13Some of these ETFs track broad sets of commodities, while others track specific commodities such as crude oil and gold.14...
Largely anony- mous and driven by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Europol esti- mates that two-thirds of the illegal darknet offers are drug-related, with one-third related to other illicit goods and services. ddos stands for "distributed de- nial of service." During such ...
Whenever a transaction takes place using Bitcoin the recipient has to divulge their public address to the sender. This allows the sender a window into the recipient’s wallet and they can see how much Bitcoin you own. On top of this, all Bitcoin transactions are recorded in the blockchain ...
The arguments in favor of silver as an investment asset are growing rapidly. In the opinion of the Jackass website, silver is the most under-valued hard asset in existence, with the highest potential for price appreciation on the globe. To begin with, central banks own no silver, but do...
Description:From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods t
“Hainan, with a population of more than 9 million residents, aims to entirely eliminate ICEs in the province by 2030 and is rapidly installing EV charging infrastructure in service of its objective.”–thefuturescentre.org. 7. Taiwan also wants to ban diesel ...
Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our ...