An email prompted this. Well, a few actually. But one in particular. It was from a reader calling “BS” on the video I shared last week of the rigs I’ve built to mine a bit of the world’s #2 cryptocurrency, Ethereum. (If you missed that video, you can view it here.) This reader rightly pointed out that Ethereum is switching algorithms at some [Read More] …
Daydreaming About Iceland…
A Trip Down the Digital Nomad Rabbit Hole Maybe I’ve just huffed too much jet fuel… But here I am, al frescoing again at one of my favorite neighborhood cafés in Prague, and I’m thinking about what subject I want to address in this dispatch…and I get distracted by a random thought that pops into my head from nowhere. “I [Read More] …
When Stupid Dreams Come True…
The waitress arrived with my second Aperol spritz—an Italian wine cocktail. We looked at each other and smiled. I alight to this café often to spend several hours at a time writing, so we “know” each other in that way that people who see one another regularly “know the face,” though we’ve never spoken beyond her taking my order. “You write [Read More] …
Uncle Sam Just Proved He Doesn’t Understand Crypto
Tell me you don’t understand cryptocurrency without telling me you don’t understand… To wit, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s recent comment in a congressional committee meeting: “You wouldn’t need stablecoins, you wouldn’t need cryptocurrencies, if you had a digital U.S. currency. I think that’s one of the stronger arguments in its favor.” Lots to unpack here… I know [Read More] …
Weekly Digest: Europe Moves Toward a Digital Currency
Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. You may remember from last week’s mailing that I was planning to bring you this edition from the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta. Well, in this age of COVID, the best laid plans of mice and men—not to mention travelers—often go awry. Earlier this week, just [Read More] …
