Monthly Archives: March 2022

Vanessa Bates Ramirez is senior editor of Singularity Hub. She’s interested in renewable energy, health and medicine, international development, and countless other topics. Bitcoin has steadily grown in popularity since its inception in 2009. We hear about how many people are getting rich quick from it, and how much energy it’s consuming, and how complexContinue reading “How Cryptocurrencies Can Influence the Future of Freedom”

Scott Simonsen is currently doing research and editing for the UN. He’s most interested in sustainable energy, global politics, and cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin gets all the attention, especially since it recently rocketed towards $20,000. But many other cryptocurrencies exist, and more are being created at an accelerating rate. A quick look at coinmarketcap.com shows over 1,400Continue reading “There Are Over 1,000 Alternatives to Bitcoin You’ve Never Heard Of”

Luke Heemsbergen, PhD, Media and Politics, Deakin University. A couple of days ago, the musician Grimes sold some animations she made with her brother Mac on a website called Nifty Gateway. Some were one-offs, while others were limited editions of a few hundred—and all were snapped up in about 20 minutes, with total takings ofContinue reading “NFTs Explained: What They Are and Why They’re Selling for Millions of Dollars”

Aaron Frank is a writer and speaker and one of the earliest hires at Singularity University. Earlier this year, a digital artist conned unsuspecting NFT collectors to highlight a vulnerability in the way cryptographically secured assets are managed online. The anonymous artist, known by their twitter handle @neitherconfirm, sold a collection of stylized portraits asContinue reading “How to Embed Trust Into the Foundations of the Internet”

Gaia Vince, writer and broadcaster specialising in science and the environment. On the evening of 17 February 2018, Professor Mary Beard posted on Twitter a photograph of herself crying. The eminent University of Cambridge classicist, who has almost 200,000 Twitter followers, was distraught after receiving a storm of abuse online. This was the reaction toContinue reading “Why good people turn bad online”

In many countries, it is getting more and more difficult to keep the tax rates on investment returns at a bearable level. Schmitt Trading Ltd offers solutions how private investors can legally escape from the tax trap. To make it easier for you to get started, we have integrated an online store on our websiteContinue reading “Solutions for Private Investors”