Winter is here and, when faced with its own mortality, crypto must say: not today — The night king threatening the world with a winter of terrors, the dragon nation rising from the East, and the old powers clinging to old grievances, unable to cooperate and move forward… Any similarities between Westeros and our world might be just a coincidence. But as a new multipolar order…

The second largest cryptocurrency just became Visa with extra steps — Back in April, I wrote an article where I argued that Elon Musk’s Twitter bid was unlikely to succeed. This was when champagne was being popped and finalising the deal was regarded as a mere formality. Well, only it wasn’t. Earlier today, another high-profile tech event went through, as Ethereum…

And you might as well help doom it… Debunking climate alarmism with science and data —

Inflation explained in 4 minutes. Spoiler: It is more than just price increases. — What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered you owned all the money in the world? Pretty much nothing, I would guess. The rest of society would just look at each other and decide that your money is worthless now and we should move on to a…

Biden’s woke bailout is the perfect anti-fable for our times — Jean de La Fontaine was a 17th-century French poet and fabulist. “The Fox and the Grapes”, “The Tortoise and the Hare”, and “The Fox and the Crow” are some of his¹ most well-known works. But one, in particular, is very relevant to our times: “The Ant and the Grasshopper”. The…

I arrived at the Verisimile server with only the clothes on my body. Customs were not as efficient as advertised. I had to connect wallets, 2-factor authentication, multi-signatures, wait for blocks to be mined, pay gas fees… no ZK-rollups, for security reasons. I queued. I tried to cut the queue…

The next chapter in the rich history of the “beautiful island” may define the shape of the world to come — An unresolved civil war led to tensions between China and Taiwan that would simmer in the background for decades of explosive economic growth. But renewed Beijing’s claims of sovereignty over Taiwan’s territory and a pledge to “unify” it with the mainland — by force if necessary — is threatening to…

Medium has a new CEO, so that’s a good opportunity to brainstorm some ideas — Love it or hate it, Medium is far and away the best tool for aspiring writers to get their first crack at publishing their own content and perhaps earn a little money. Medium has a thriving community of readers and writers, decent publishing tools, and overall good content quality (and…

When the unthinkable suddenly becomes the norm, where do you go from there? — What if you woke up tomorrow to the news that murderous tyrant and genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler was the real author of the iconic fantasy books in the Lord of the Rings series? That, indeed, JRR Tolkien never existed as a person but was in fact a pen name for…