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Vision for the economy of tomorrow
Society is leaving the information age and enters the age of relationships. Our future will not be shaped by labor but by managing affluence. This calls for a decentralized and for-profit approach to building wealth. A Universal Basic Income on crypto-steroids. This is the roadmap. In an attempt to understand the world, we classify and define…
Bitcoin launches futures trading: Welcome to the Wild West
Sunday, December 10 is a deadline for the further development of Bitcoin. The price is likely to explode, but it is not clear in which direction. Bitcoin fans are speculating about the long-awaited cryptocurrency legitimacy when futures trading starts this weekend. A future is a contract against the price of an asset in the future….
Blockchain application land register: Georgia and Sweden leading
Georgia is the first country to convert its land register to Blockchain. Sweden has also successfully completed its first pilot. How does land register work on Blockchain? Georgia is a young democracy with a mortgage on geopolitical insecurity from its aggressive neighbor Russia and a history of state corruption. One of the starting points for…
The Story of Maidan: Part 11 — Maidan goes to war
When the tourists go home, we’ll see action With the dictator law from 16 January Maidan enters Phase 2 — where we see violence and calm until 17 February From Independence Square to the battleground / January 19/20/21 “I don’t know anything and I believe nothing. The only thing I know is that the thickness of the wallet and…
The Story of Maidan: Part 10— The empire strikes back
Regular police unit between Maidan an the Parliament in February 2014 After Maidan had fortified in end of December 2013, there was a calm before the storm. In the beginning of 2014 the Ukrainian authorities escalated the crisis to a civil war in miniature. “Maidan demonstrates elements of anarchic communism in its organization: no money circulates,…
The Story of Maidan: Part 9— How Utopia looks like
The big metal christmas tree on Maidan in December 2013 We take a look around Maidan and what life on the square was like. In Chapter 7 -First Clashes in November we saw how violence was carried from the state to the protesters in early Maidan. A satirical time-table of a maidan-activist, repeating all the silly…
The Story of Maidan: Part 8 — Walk of millions
Barricades on Maidan. Post office in the background We follow the walk of (sort of) millions and the violence of December 11 and 12 while in the previous Chapter 7 — First clashes on Maidan we saw, how tensions rise in Kyiv. A court ruling bans public meetings with more than three people. December 1st saw more…
The Story of Maidan: Part 7 -First Clashes in November
Maidan defender manning the barricades Now we look at the first violence in the last day of November 2013 while In Part 6 — A song called Revolution Ukraine we have introduced Artisto, the rapper and composer of Maidans unofficial anthem. November 25th, 8:30pm: demonstrators notice a white government van at the European Square next tot he…
The Story of Maidan: Part 6— A song called Revolution Ukraine
Artisto sings Revolution Ukraine on Maidan stage in December 2013 Now we look at the arrival of Artisto, rapper of the unofficial Maidan anthem Revolution Ukraine while in the previous chapter 5 — EuroMaidan ist born we have seen how it all started. “Revolution Ukraine” goes Kyiv 29 year old Rostyslav Hrytak has waited for this moment for a…
The Story of Maidan: Part 5 — EuroMaidan is born
Maidan in December 2013 Now we take a look on how the EuroMaidan movement started with a call by a journalist after Yanukovych denied signing the Associate Agreement. In the previous Chapter 4 — Match in a tinderbox — the Associative Agreement, we have seen what kind of a deal president Yanukovich didn’t want to sign. It all startes on…