Good laugh, ah? Some stupid people got conned by a ponzi because they took investing advice from a high school kid on YouTube. I'm literally shaking right now ... with laughter. But look at what is happening,

Not my journal of record, or my favorite gurus, but maybe of interest to those who haven't seen it

Grantcoin is a cryptocurrency with a difference. Launched in May 2015, since the middle of 2016 it has been distrubuted free of charge to anyone who registers. The Grantcoin foundation, which backs it,

In the recent UK General Election it seems clear that the upsurge in support for the Labour Party had a lot to do with younger voters, the so-called millennials. They seem to have flocked to support a

with so much focus on Brexit, the UK leaving the European Union, you might be forgiven for thinking that this is the only crisis the UE faces But there are many more. The EuroZone, the area using the Euro

I have posted a version of this on Reddit, but would be interested in any comments here. Dash seems to me to be well placed to become a viable peer to peer payment method. It provides elegant solutions

Steemit is a very good idea. A blockchain based social media site = no censorship. The principal (and now departed) developer Dan Larimer is a devotee of Austrian School economics. What's not to like?

The current price surge in Dash, and the fact that it now has the third highest market cap of any cryptocurrency, have led to a flurry of interest and a lot of speculation. And that's ok, speculators will

Further to my post yesterday, the Grantcoin foundation has now made an official statement: Grantcoin Distribution Rescheduled to Late January; Grantcoin Foundation Expands Board of Directors As some people

What is Grantcoin Basically Grantcoin is a cryptocurrency which is distributed free, to anyone who applied, four times a year. The idea is to create a Universal Basic Income. It calls itself Money by the

This where the politicalcompass.org/ put me. Quite happy with that.

The British Government is proposing a 'Digital Economy Bill' which contains a clause which would force Internet Service Providers to block sites hosting content which would not be passed for sale by the

The Swiss President, Johann Schneider-Ammann, stressed on Monday that Switzerland should participate in a Free Trade agreement with the UK post-Brexit. He suggested that the UK could either rejoin EFTA

Is there a Bitcoin bubble? There are various types of bubble. One of the most common is the bubble of belief. This is where the price of a commodity, stock, currency, whatever goes up and up based not

The BBC - the British state broadcasting company - has an article about Liberland on it's website. Liberland is a libertarian new country project on the border between Serbia and Croatia.  Liberland

So the United States has President Elect Trump. Some people are delighted. Some are in the pits of despair. Both reactions, I would suggest, are equally wrong. The US Constitution was signed in 1787. Sine

From Friday 11th November, the Swiss national rail company SBB will sell Bitcoin via the ticket machines in its stations. Swiss citizens will not be able to buy tickets with Bitcoins, but they will be