Recently President Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, a historic piece of legislation that will pave the way for the United States to lead the global digital currency revolution. In its statement the White House writes that ‘the GENIUS Act will make America the undisputed leader in digital assets, bringing massive investment and innovation […]
Tag: Bitcoin
Crypto Winter
Not that long ago, crypto currencies were all the rage: Fortunes were made on even the most obscure of tokens and trading volumes went through the roof, with investors from the most seasoned to the rookies jumping on the bandwagon. How things have changed in recent months! Just look at Bitcoin, the crypto currency which […]
Bitcoin City (but not where you’d expect it)
El Salvador ranks 124th among 189 countries in the Human Development Index and with a GDP of $4100 per head of its population of 6.4 million certainly ranks among the poorest countries. But that, if all goes according to the plans of its President, Nayib Bukele, could all soon change. While a law passed in […]
Satoshi Nakamoto
Nobody has ever knowingly met Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, but many techies in recent years have claimed to be him. Nakamoto-san (if he were then really Japanese and a person rather than quite possibly a group of people), is rumoured to hold some 1.1 million Bitcoins, now worth a staggering $50 billion. But […]
Tesla – The business perspective
A lot is being written these days about the pros and cons of electric cars and I am not at all against EVs in general and Teslas in particular, quite the opposite, not least since EVs are forecasted to outsell all other engine types by 2033, five years earlier than expected. But I question Elon […]
Open letter to Elon Musk
Dear Mr Musk, I thought I take this opportunity to thank you for keeping me puzzled as well as amused with you tweets and other statements, not least your announcement to your ‘friends’ at the SEC that you now are the Technoking of Tesla while your CFO is now known as Master of Coins. I […]
Bitcoin – one year on (from my last post)
You probably won’t remember my post about Bitcoin on 8 January 2020. I concluded with the statement made by John McAfee (yes, the John McAfee of the famous antivirus software) in 2017 that by the end of the year 2020 one Bitcoin would be worth 1 million Dollars. Well, it hasn’t happened and I am […]
The grumpy older man 