After four articles from crypto world, you’re probably ready to read something about real money. The fact that Russia and China have been accumulating thousands of tons of physical gold bullion for the last 10 years is not news. What is news is that both countries are starting to make moves toward the end game
I love English English much more than American English. The English seem to have just the right turn of phrase for every situation. One of my favorite English English expressions is “too clever by half.” It describes a situation in which smart people, in an effort to show how smart they are, take things too
Investors and financial intermediaries like to complain about regulation, and with good reason. Regulation causes many transactions to be slow, burdensome and costly relative to the perceived benefits. But there’s a reason all of that regulation exists. At one time or another, every market in the world — stocks, bonds, gold, currencies, etc. — has
The history of bitcoin thefts, hacks and simple disappearances (because holders lose the “private key” needed to use the bitcoin) is long and getting longer. We’ve seen the collapse of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Japan and heard many other horror stories about missing or stolen bitcoins. This article gives us the latest example.
Investors can be forgiven for not completely understanding the dynamics of bitcoin; very few do. We all read the headlines about four-digit exponential price increases in bitcoin and ask, “What am I missing?” Imagine how much more difficult it must be to look behind the bitcoin curtain at the thousands of alternative currencies, crypto applications,
