When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought it was just some toy with which some technologists invented so they can amuse themselves. I just assumed it was all still experimental. I did not look much into it. Many of you are probably thinking along those same lines. What is the point of it? Why should it matter? I believe we need to understand the bigger reasons why we should even get involved in anything let alone Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.
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Wednesday, 30th December 2020
Monday, 24th August 2020
Dr. Campbell discusses reports from doctors around the world that the Coronavirus seems to be killing less and less people relative to the number of infected people.
Possible explanations:
Less viral load means Covid-19 is less deadly
More young people infected who are better able to survive the disease
The stronger strains of SARS-COV-2 has died with their hosts and so their spread is inhibited, while the tamer versions of SARS-COV-2 continue to spread, but are less deadly
Monday, 3rd August 2020
There are over 1000 different crypto-currency or crypto-asset projects in existence at the moment. Here is a summary of the major ones and later, I will be adding some that just happened to hit my radar. It is not supposed to be objective and complete. Instead, I provide you with my opinions and bias that formed as a result of my reading and research and provide what comes to me as the most important and significant about each of them.
Sunday, 16th August 2020
Joe Rogan has a conversation with Edward Snowden.
I recommend everyone to watch and listen to this to arm themselves with the knowledge to drive the direction of how we are governed.
Here are some of the highlights, for which I had time to write down but the entire show is full of insights and analysis that is important for every citizen of a country to consider.
Saturday, 15th August 2020
Most parts of Africa seem to be faring a lot better in coping with Covid-19 in terms of number of deaths per capita, except for South Africa. The next step is to find out why and how this is so we can learn from it.
Possible factors to explore:
I wrote about my concerns for inflation a few months ago. The printing of money, as necessary as it may seem to be in the short-term, has long-term ramifications. Ray Dalio explains these concerns further. Wealth is not destroyed, rather it is transferred to another asset, to another country, etc. This is why investing or trading in other assets like real-estate, gold, silver, Bitcoin SV and other cryptocurrencies. The more diverse your portfolio is, the better.
Saturday, 1st August 2020
Monday, 27th July 2020
What is happening in the United States right now should concern Americans and to a large extent too, the world. I am referring to the fact that there are armed militias, masked, dragging people in unmarked vehicles, supposedly representing the government.
Sunday, 19th July 2020
This series of videos are for developers to build on Bitcoin SV. It was held online on the weekend of 18th and 19th of July 2020.
Wednesday, 8th July 2020
"After cooling systems and air conditioning were linked to a coronavirus outbreak at a German meat-processing plant, many people wonder about how safe air conditioning is. Does air conditioning help spread the coronavirus?"
This is very important for workplaces or schools since most of us spend the most time there. They need to ensure they have good quality filters and use outside air as much as possible.
How Bitcoin SV blockchain is going to be used to track seafood supplies to ensure quality and sustainability.
Friday, 3rd July 2020
Brazilian researchers say they found evidence of the pathogen in waste water in November, 91 days before the first case was detected in the country. The presence of the virus was ‘modest’ until it peaked in March, according to the study.
Industries that are doing relatively well during Covid-19 in the US (but still an indicator for potential trends in other countries):
Vacation rentals are rising — people want to rent places nearby, driveable, to avoid having to travel by air or train.
Sporting goods
Luxury goods are recovered quickly
Many e-Commerce businesses are doing relatively well
Companies reacted three ways when Covid-19 kicked in:
Wednesday, 1st July 2020
"The U.S. has bought the global supply of Remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has been found to help certain patients recover more quickly from COVID-19."
Covid-19 is forcing travel to change. This video discusses the future of Public Transport: Trains, buses and trams.
"With trillions of dollars being printed around the world, it's time we take a look into how money is created."
Digital nomads, knowledge workers travelling the world while working digitally, are growing by the numbers.
According to this, it does not look like we are developing enough anti-bodies to make 'herd immunity' developing against the Coronavirus. This video explores the data.
Description: "The covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift towards remote working. This could affect not just people’s working lives, but the shape of cities, gender equality and even how we measure time."
It took a pandemic for us to really take advantage of what the internet brings into our working lives.
A new study seems to show that Vitamin D is helpful against Covid-19.
Friday, 26th June 2020
This documentary the award-winning documentary Bitcoin: The End Of Money As We Know It (2015).
Thursday, 25th June 2020
Author's description: "The 2008 Global Financial crisis was kicked off by major structural issues in the global banking system and exacerbated by record levels of household debt. Today the world is on the brink of yet another major financial downturn, and yet again household debts are at record levels. So is banking really to blame?"
Dr John Campbell interviews Dr Co in the Philippines. Very interesting discussions between medical professionals. Discussions about the virus are really different when you take politics out of it. There's lots of enlightening stuff here. What stands out for me is that we may be better off adjusting our expectations and live as though there will not be a vaccine for Covid-19 in twelve months.
Tuesday, 23rd June 2020
"The Coronavirus Pandemic is still in full force and scientists and researchers are doing whatever they can to develop a vaccine, but in today's video we are going to take a look at a bleak scenario in which a vaccine for Covid-19 is NEVER developed. What would the world be like without a vaccine for this deadly disease?"
Many of us are sort of holding out hope for when a vaccine will eventually be made and expect that things will get back to normal. However, there is a good chance that a vaccine for Covid-19 may take longer than the 18 months we often hear mentioned by optimistic immunologists. It may take years, or it may never happen at all.
Monday, 22nd June 2020
"In the digital era, the success of a business is dependent on online reviews, but the system can be misused to discredit competitors. Bitcoin is fixing it."
Connor Murray explores how Bitcoin SV can overcome the problems related to online reviews.
(The talk was presented on 21 Feb 2020)
Sunday, 21st June 2020
Description on the video: "Anthony 'Pomp' Pompliano explains how central bank actions from the Federal Reserve is devaluing the US dollar, while also pumping asset prices up. He goes into detail about what is happening, why Wall Street is confused, and what you can do at home to benefit."
Comment:
Saturday, 20th June 2020
In April, I wrote about my concerns about the inflationary pressures that can apply to economies when governments start printing money. This video also argues for the possibility of the opposite happening: deflation, and it occurs when the demand for cash exceeds the government's ability to increase the money supply. Over the past three years, the US dollar increased by 10% each year because of this deflation. On the surface, deflation sounds good because it increases the purchasing power of your money.
Jan Randolph, director of sovereign risk at IHS Markit, explains how countries may pay off debts in the coming years.
Take-away:
Wednesday, 17th June 2020
In this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, Centbee co-founder Lorien Gamaroff shared a new feature of their application. Centbee users can now pay for their Netflix subscription, top-up their phone’s pay-as-you-go credit, buy music or give someone Uber vouchers with Centbee wallet using Bitcoin SV (BSV). Gamaroff said they realised that they could “become a service provider ourselves ...if we actually bundled value-added services directly into the wallet.”
Low-cost dexamethasone reduces death by up to one third in hospitalised patients with severe respiratory complications of COVID-19.
Thursday, 18th June 2020
Dr John Campbell talks about Sweden's strategy for Covid-19.
Dr John Campbell is one of the few experts I have seen who observes the link of Vitamin D and its role in protecting people against Covid-19. He reports on his hypothesis discussing supportive data or evidence. This is the latest.
Tuesday, 16th June 2020
"In 2006, Rick Falkvinge, a Swedish software entrepreneur, founded a new political party centred around the subjects of file sharing, copyright and patents. He called it the Pirate Party and it rose to prominence after a government crackdown on the file-sharing site, the Pirate Bay. Since then, the Pirate Party has swept Europe and beyond to become an international political movement, active in 40 different countries with representation in the European parliament.
bComm Association Founding President – nChain’s Jimmy Nguyen – speaks about Bitcoin SV (BSV), and why it is the original Bitocin and the global public blockchain for the world’s enterprises. This speech was given in Seoul, South Korea at the Chain Plus+ blockchain conference (January 23, 2019)
Tuesday, 9th June 2020
In this presentation, nChain Chief Technical Officer Steve Shadders dives into the technical details of the Bitcoin SV and why should enterprises use and build on the Bitcoin SV blockchain.
This presentation was made at the Bitcoin SV: Blockchain for Business event at Ljubljana, Slovenia last 3 March 2020.
"I'm a capitalist. I believe in the system. I believe you can increase the size of the pie and you could divide it well," says Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates. He offers wide-ranging insight and advice on how we might recover from the global economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis -- and use it as an opportunity to reform the systems that help grow our economy. (This virtual conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by head of TED Chris - Anderson and business curator Corey Hajim. Recorded April 8, 2020.)
Wednesday, 10th June 2020
"In this episode, we take a look at Bitcoin SV (BSV), its history, and showcase its benefits."
Thursday, 21st May 2020
Predicting the path ahead has become nearly impossible, but we can speculate about the size and scale of the economic shock.
Thursday, 4th June 2020
This article tells a story of how millions of people around the world who have limited or no access to bank accounts struggle in the modern world and how a proposed solution — Bitcoin — was muzzled.
Thursday, 9th April 2020
This article is the first in a series of articles looking at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and anticipate what our near future could be so we can adapt to any threats to our financial well-being. This article looks into governments printing massive amounts of rescue money - 'helicopter money' - and the possibility of it triggering inflation or worse, hyperinflation.
Friday, 10th January 2020
Internet connections were once too slow for people to stream movies from Netflix. Instead, they borrowed videotapes from Blockbuster to watch at home. In September 2000, after months of trying to set up a meeting, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and CFO Barry McCarthy finally got together with Blockbuster CEO John Antioco. Netflix was in trouble. It was on track to lose $50 million that year while tens of other internet-based companies just went bust in the dot-com crash.
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