Monthly Archives: November 2018
How to Write a Killer Headline
A headline as real as if we were there. Source: img301.imageshack.us Did my headline get you interested? I sincerely hope so, otherwise, I could not fulfill the promise. Although rules should always be broken, it is good to know them to begin with. For this article, I have looked for people smarter than me who…
The 12 Golden Rules of Crypto Trading
Source: Freepik I have collected the best wisdom from countless books on trading, sifted them through the strainer and used them to bake the 12 golden rules. 1. There is no win-win situation Think back to the seesaw on the schoolyard. Two children rock up and down. There are two states. Either one child is up…
The Need & the Folly of Bitcoin as Payment Method
Only Cash Makes Happy. Or Does It? Photo: Jonathan Saavedra (Unsplash) Will Bitcoin prevail as a means of payment and in which areas? Let’s first look at what Bitcoin sets out to replace: Credit cards. The process of paying by credit card for online purchases is more complicated than customers usually think. The procedure is the…
Charlie Shrem: a Bitcoin Story From Riches-to-Rags
Charles Shrem IV. [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons The Winklevoss Twins are subject to ridicule more than once. 15 years ago, they were outsmarted by Mark Zuckerberg who allegedly stole their idea of a social network. Just last week they announced that Charlie Shrem embezzled US$32 Million by taking their Dollars and not giving…
The Amazing Story of Cryptocurrencies Before Bitcoin
The fabric of digital dreams: Gold. Photo by Color Crescent on Unsplash What — you exclaim with disbelief. Cryptocurrencies before Bitcoin? Yes, indeed. Don’t get me wrong, Bitcoin was the first blockchain-based currency. But by far not the first purely digital money. That one has a colorful history of dreams, prosecution and failure. The misfits of cryptocurrencies delivered…