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13
Nov

District 14

District 14 She did not wait long. Immediately after Biden was declared winner and having laid low for 6 months while the election battle raged, the truce ended. The Representative of the 14th New York district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, raged against the Democrat machine. “The people who elected Biden will now be forgotten, he will swing

05
Nov

President Harris

President Harris? A few weeks back I said I marginally preferred a Biden victory from the perspective of the performance of our funds. Essentially, we are operating the funds as a hedge against the collapsing financial system and our 100% + returns in just over two years show that it is working. If our funds

30
Oct

The digital frontier

The Levels Back in August we wrote about “The Levels”. The various barriers that the bitcoin would face on its journey, one of the more significant being the US$13,800 barrier. “Again, based on long and short selling their is a great deal of potential activity at $13,800. This is roughly the 90 day average price

15
Oct

I wish I had….

Start small This is Greg Schoen, with a genuine tweet from 2011. You can look him up on Twitter @GregSchoen. Greg’s 1,700 bitcoins are now worth US$18.5million. He is very open about it in fact. I think he got a good deal. Totally untried technology which back then absolutely nobody had heard of. He had

24
Jul

You are being primed to get poorer

In December last year we pointed out an obscure speech by a Federal Reserve governor and speculated that they were testing the water on a higher inflation policy. It was the first drip feed that the US inflation target will exceed 2%. The governor in question, Lael Brainard, said the Fed might target an average

25
Jan

MimbleWimble Meltdown

And Why Markets are still immature Some interesting action in privacy coin markets today as a new currency took centre stage thanks to a severe code bug. MimbleWimble based privacy coin Beam saw its blockchain halted, as miners began improperly propagating invalid blocks. Beam has only been live on mainnet since January 4th, so it is

07
Jan

Ethereum 2.0

Serenity Now! 2018 was a tumultuous year for Ethereum, as the leading blockchain smart contract platform went through both impressive growth and extended stagnation. ICOs were the major driver of volatility earlier in the year, with projects raising on Ethereum in order to fund their development. As the year went on, the ICO market slowed

07
Dec

Lightning Network — An Update

If you’ve been following our social media, you’d have seen our optimism about the development of the Bitcoin Lightning network. Back in June, we released an article summarising the functionality and the current state of Lightning, but the progress in volume and technology since has been nothing short of remarkable. Amongst all the ongoing drama in

27
Nov

The Lagarde Speech

Why regulators are not avant-garde IMF Chief Christine Lagarde gave a speech last week at the Singapore Fintech Festival that was based around digital currencies. Her speech followed a well trodden path for regulators views on digital currency, where the benefits of decentralised currencies are dismissed or outright ignored for the purposes of pushing the

12
Nov

The Bitcoin Cash Fork

The Wright Way? In what has been a relatively flat period for the rest of the market, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has been at the centre of an increasingly controversial hard fork debate. The division of the community and subsequent development from that has been an incredibly interesting case study in how decentralised protocols deal with decision