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You Wouldn’t Buy a Wallet With a Hole In It – So Why Buy Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin and the entirety of the cryptocurrency market is, and always has been, nothing more than a confidence game. At its most basic, Bitcoin is just a sequence of letters and numbers on a screen. It is not backed by anything tangible. It cannot be held in your hand. It cannot be buried anywhere, to…
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Nudge Nudge – How Governments Are Using Behavioral Insights to Encourage You to Go Cashless
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The UK government has a big problem. At present, the cost of electricity in the United Kingdom is almost quadruple the cost of natural gas. In fact, the average Brit pays at least a third more for their electricity than people in Europe and North America. This is a problem, as to become carbon neutral…
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Elon Wants X to Become WeChat – How The Chinese Live Today Is How We Live Tomorrow
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Love her or hate her, Candace Owens put it perfectly recently. While people on the political left seem to revere celebrities, people on the right, at least in the West, seem to fawn just as illogically over dubiously moral technocrats. She was talking, of course, about Elon Musk, current X (formerly Twitter) owner and kingmaker…
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28 Years Later Review – No One Will Ever Do Zombies Better Than Danny Boyle
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“28 Years Later” might be a sequel to “28 Days Later” and “28 Weeks Later.” However, while keeping a 30-year zombie movie narrative alive, which several other directors have since attempted to emulate (think “The Walking Dead”), Danny Boyle has just made every zombie copycat universe that has emulated him since 2002 look as tame…
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Bitcoin Is NOT Censorship Resistant – Law Enforcement Can Freeze Transactions
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On The Crypto Con, I’ve published several articles that attempt to make it clear that Bitcoin today is the antithesis of what Bitcoin was intended to be, as per the original Bitcoin whitepaper. This is important, especially if you are someone who plans to invest in Bitcoin on the basis that the cryptocurrency is decentralized,…
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Cyax Rex
I used to be a bestselling cryptocurrency writer for hire. Now I’m here to vent about whatever is on my mind, and tell you the truth about cryptocurrency.