Twee belangrijke zinsneden in de 6e (!!) alinea van onderstaand Volkskrant artikel: "Hoewel de opinie niet juridisch bindend is"; "en steeds meer landen het Internationaal Gerechtshof niet meer erkennen of serieus nemen". My 2018 blog: Scientists acknowledge key errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming (WaPo) In mijn linker diagram staan de bekende zeven...
Bitcoin / Blockchain
What Have We Learned From the FTX-Binance Debacle? (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg title: What Have We Learned From the FTX-Binance Debacle? Bloomberg subtitle: Instead of revolutionizing finance, crypto is largely repeating its mistakes. Let the buyer beware. By: the Bloomberg Opinion Editorial Board Date: 10 November 2022 "Cryptocurrencies were supposed to usher in a new and better era of finance. Instead of relying on fragile, stodgy...

Bad money always drives out good money
Each time that I think that the (financial) world can't get madder, then reality proves me wrong (eg, $40 billion SPAC merger with a Asian ride-hailing app, and $100 billion IPO of a cryptocurrency exchange). While professional investors are already retreating, retail investors are putting in even more money. Hence, bad money always drives out good money....

Bitcoin, a 100% human cause for climate change
Most of the 10 known factors of climate change (see picture), have no human involvement (BGS). One climate change factor, greenhouse gases, stirs up lots of controversy about the degree of human engagement. On 29 October 2018, a new study revealed an eleventh climate change factor that can be fully attributed to humans: Bitcoin mining. Earlier news reports had...
Paradigm shift in the belief system the Truth (3)
Monday's blog was about paradigm shifts in the 7 Belief systems. Yesterday's blog was about a paradigm shift in Politics, a belief system in its Power domain. Today's blog is about a paradigm shift in the Truth, a belief system in its Knowledge domain. Essentially, the Truth is about data and/or information and our opinion on their righteousness. We believe in...
BBVA issues corporate loan using blockchain (FT)
"Spanish lender becomes first global bank to use the technology for corporate loans Spain’s BBVA has become the first global bank to issue a loan using the distributed ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies and has the potential to revolutionise banking processes. BBVA said it carried out the entire process for a €75m corporate loan — from...

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