A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. By Christopher Alexander
Extracted from Amazon – You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbours to improve your town and neighbourhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide …
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WallStreetBets: How Boomers Made the World’s Biggest Casino for Millennials Paperback – 30 Jan. 2020
How boomers made the worlds biggest casino for millennials. The book is about the changing world of personal finance, the access to zero fee commission trading and the implications this has had on the Millennial generation. I have a personal interest in this space as those products are pitched directly at me and in my …
My Take on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s)
And now this…….. Some real impetus to adopt a CBDC is currently underway at the Bank of England (BOE). Several consultations have taken place with a range of market participants to gauge whether there is any possibility of rolling a CBDC out for general consumption. Well, given the research I have done in the crypto …
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Cardano
ADA / GBP – CardanoAll-Time High: £2.24 (2/9/2021) Cardano is a decentralised platform that will allow complex programmable transfers of value in a secure and scalable fashion. It is one of the first blockchains to be built in the highly secure Haskell programming language. Cardano is developing a smart contract platform which seeks to deliver more advanced …
My Cyber Doggos Journey into NFT’s
Cyber Doggos: an AI art NFT creation. I am a learn by doing person and this week has been about learning how to create NFT’s – I have worked with some smart contracts before but this in the space of DeFi applications like staking, lotteries and ICO development. The story here is that I have …
NFT’s: Things to know before you buy.
The $69 million record sale of Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS by Christie’s in March 2021 fast-tracked the popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) overnight. Many artists perceive this blockchain-based transaction as a quick and easy way to sell digital art through various newly minted (excuse the pun) platforms such as Foundation, OpenSea, and Rarible. The artists have also been paying some school fees too and …
From the Glitzy to the Mundane: Crypto Regulation
Almost every day we hear of a new shiny set of crypto coins or protocol listed on your friendly crypto exchange and inevitably thrust into the ‘mainstream’. I suspect this is going to continue well into the future. The concepts the prop up these assets, are still novel and in their infancy (10 years on), and are developing at an incredible pace. The value of crypto assets, especially Bitcoin and Ether is increasing and gaining legitimacy, and this attracts people’s attention to this area. Somewhat of a self fulfilling process. But there is a sting in the ‘tale’, pun intended.
The Infinite Machine – Camilla Russo
This book needed to be written, there was most certainly a story here detailing the history of the founding of Ethereum. This books takes the human story of the very dry computer code and paints a very clear picture beyond the scope of the unicorn and cat memes and chronicles the how its nomadic founder …