One article I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid. This article caused ructions across the globe this week. Over 300 million views. It was a rather doomsday scenario about what is happening with the continuing acceleration of general intelligence.

Dutch Until now Dutch taxpayers have been levied taxes on ‘assumed gains’. Say you have $1,000, you might earn interest of $100 but the law might decide your assumed gain was $300 and on that amount you would have paid tax. The idea was to tax the appropriate income from assets, not the gains themselves.

Ideas I had, just a few weeks ago, promised you the resumption of bitcoin obituaries. Fair to say I didn’t quite anticipate the violent eruption of the last two weeks, but the responses did not disappoint. The journalist in this particular case pointed out that they have ‘followed bitcoin since 2015’ and so are qualified

Something changed The most popular day of the year for financial fraud is 24th December. Everyone is in a rush to get payments out of the door and leave early. So if you slip in some urgent invoices, change bank details you have a chance. What’s more, nobody will be back until early January by

The Quantum Problem Does Bitcoin have a quantum problem? The answer here is, yes. Specifically, some of the encryption on which bitcoin relies, notably ECDSA, is vulnerable to quantum computers. In reality the most exposed coins are those very old Satoshi coins (about 8% of the total supply), and those coins where people have reused