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Previous Bitcoin Bull Run Patterns Suggest Current Run Could See a $160K Top, Possible $25K Bottom
24.11.2020
While digital currency markets have increased significantly in value a number of crypto asset proponents are wondering how far the next bull run will take them. For instance, the last three bitcoin bull runs saw different price spikes and significant drops below 80% as well. If the next bitcoin...
What the History of Airlines Tells Us About Blockchain Commerce
18.11.2020
The ability to represent all industrial capacity as tokens on a blockchain will have huge implications for resource use, says our columnist
IMCoin (IMC) Flies High
13.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. IMCoin, known as the first Hybridcoin, closes a week with a record price increase in its history reaching a value of 1.83 USD per token. The IMC price is the result of the number of tokens sold divided by the balance of the audited reserve fund, which already has 417 days of history....
The Bitcoin price has only been higher than now for 12 days in its history
13.11.2020
Bitcoin’s explosive gains are strongly reflected by the number of days it has closed above $16,320
Chapter 5: Publishing
9.11.2020
Not long after HotWired launched on the web in 1994, Josh Quittner wrote an article entitled “Way New Journalism” for the publication. He was enthusiastic about the birth of a new medium.
I’m talking about a sea change in journalism itself, in the way we do the work of reporting and presenting...
‘Economics Will No Longer Be the Handmaiden of Politics’: A History of the Cypherpunks, Feat. Jim Epstein
4.11.2020
An enlightening conversation with Reason’s Jim Epstein, who just released a four-part YouTube documentary on the cypherpunk movement
Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Epoch Drop Since 2011
4.11.2020
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty saw the second-largest drop in history on Tuesday, as the difficulty dropped to 16.78 trillion, losing a touch over 16% since last week’s all-time difficulty high. The last time bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped so low was in October 2011, when...
A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein
3.11.2020
One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years
What the History of Headphones Says About the Internet’s Future
21.10.2020
What does the historical development of headphones tell us about the future of the internet?
Cloudbet Unveils Betting With Gold in Gaming World First
19.10.2020
Cloudbet, the pioneering crypto casino and sportsbook, has added Pax Gold to its platform, making history by allowing players to bet online with gold for the first time ever. The integration of gold betting on a crypto-gaming platform marks a unique milestone in the evolution of tokenisation...
Some Industry Podcasts
1.10.2020
Clearleft made a 6-episode Season One
It’s called The Clearleft Podcast if you can believe that. It gets into new (at least to me) concepts like Design Ops and Design Sprints, which are loaded terms and need nuanced discussion. It’s really well-edited, pulling in clips from relevant...
Bitcoin Skeptic Turns Bitcoin Bull: Billion Dollar Company Buys 17K BTC in 74 Hours
20.9.2020
Nasdaq-listed company Microstrategy recently bought almost 17K bitcoins within 74 hours, costing about $175 million. The CEO of this billion-dollar company used to be a bitcoin skeptic but has recently become a bitcoin bull when his company purchased $425 million worth of bitcoin. Billion Dollar...
Timers’ Ongoing IPM Presale Will Help Tackle Challenges of the Next Industrial Revolution
18.9.2020
For the first time in history, a human’s intrinsic ‘time value’ is being used as a currency for trading, as IPM is the energy and very essence of all value creation. Participants will benefit from up to 60% discount until 28th September 2020 18th September, 2020, Nicosia, CY...
Chapter 4: Search
15.9.2020
Previously in web history…
After an influx of rapid browser development following the creation of the web, Mosaic becomes the popular choice. Recognizing the commercial potential of the web, a team at O’Reilly builds GNN, the first commercial website. With something to browse with,...
Unlimited QE and an Index Portfolio: How Fed Chair Jay Powell Can Pump His Bags
5.9.2020
In mid-August the U.S. stock market defied odds and mainstream media claimed after the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index touched new heights on August 18, it ‘officially’ ended the “shortest bear market in history.” Interestingly while roughly 30 to 40 million...
8 Historical Analogies That Help Explain the Madness of 2020
4.9.2020
From the U.S. presidential elections of 1896 to the dot-com bubble to housing markets in 2006, these historical moments help us make sense of a truly WTF year
Book review: 'Boom and Bust — A Global History of Financial Bubbles'
2.9.2020
This book takes an in depth look at some of the biggest financial bubbles in history: their causes, their commonalities, their effects, even their occasional benefits. But is it an essential read for the cryptocurrency fan?
History shows Bitcoin price may take 3-12 months to finally break $20K
29.8.2020
The price of Bitcoin could now trade sideways for several months to potentially a year, historical data shows
Money Reimagined: DeFi-ing History
21.8.2020
For clues to the future of decentralized finance, it's useful to look at waves of financial innovation past
'Largest Collaboration of Crypto Artists in History' is Set for Launch
21.8.2020
A major art collaboration between a number of crypto digital artists and a plot in Ethereum (ETH)-powered virtual reality world Cryptovoxels, called Pranksyland, is set to go live on August 25.
Game designer Pranksy bought a plot in the Cryptovoxel virtual world, and will now make it a gallery...