A guide for Cape Town, SA, as a Digital Nomad Destination
Cape Town is a popular destination for digital nomads, offering a unique blend of natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, and a thriving tech community. It ranks top 20 on the popular digital nomad platform, the...
The Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
The launch of Bitcoin in January 2009 was a very low-key event. Hardly anyone, least of all a central bank, took notice. Nevertheless, this event seemingly marked the beginning of the end for a financial system that has been around for over 500 years. When central...
The Notion Crypto Creates Wealth Magically Often Serves as Bait
You can indeed make fortunes overnight by not only trading and HODLing crypto but also by building enterprise and mining on blockchain. Indeed, in just a decade, many have joined the billionaires club thanks to crypto and the blockchain technology. Based on coins in...
The Evolution of The Crypto Lifestyle
The crypto lifestyle has gradually shifted from the fringe to the mainstream, both in terms of what it involves and the number of people embracing it. Meanwhile, serious work on the underlying technology, better known as the blockchain, is still ongoing. Every other...
Is Bitcoin Mining Ravaging Europe?
Is Europe, in particular, the Nordic region, facing an energy crisis caused by increased Bitcoin mining? On November 5, the director generals of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency issued an open letter to the...
Rise and Fall of The Gold Standard and The Technology Implementing Its Tenets
There was a time in history when you could walk into a bank, hand over US dollars, Sterling Pounds, or Yens—depending on which country you lived in— and the teller would give you an equivalent amount of gold with hardly any questions asked. In that era, paper currency...
8 Countries With Highest Demand For Crypto Debit Cards
A crypto debit card is one of the ways people around the world are spending their cryptocurrencies. They are a solution to the problem of the low acceptability of cryptocurrencies as media of exchange. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have everything that a medium of...