So the dollar is in the range it's been since 2015? You'd never know it listening to the press.

Any more news on this? Have they survived?

I think she's got so many brooches, they each get worn infrequently.

The Queen was so young in that picture.

My strategy is to power down and convert Hive into HBD. I managed to convert some at 80 cents. My regret is I didn't start earlier.

New owners of bitcoin no longer download the wallet. Instead they keep their coins on Coinbase. Downloading the blockchain from scratch is not for the fainthearted. It's become bloated and takes a day

I didn't realise that the master key generated the four other keys either. And I still don't understand what the active key does that the posting key doesn't.

It makes sense there was a spike in deposits to the exchanges in November 2021 - that was when the price spiked to about $2 and people took the opportunity to crystallise the gain.

That's a stunning brooch.

I can't believe they trust Do Kwon enough to have a second go at what is a failed concept. Lunatics.

It's spectacular - but also a bit gaudy and over the top.

There are definitely some bargains starting to show up. Research before you buy though, because some coins won't recover. If you look at the top coins at the 2017 peak, about half never regained their

The French have started growing Malbec again - probably because they've seen how successful the Argentines have been.

Everywhere I turn I read about a different stablecoin - this time DEC. Does the crypto space need so many?

Suppose you lend me 1 bitcoin and I abscond with it. "But it's in the digital ledger", you cry. I say, "So? You can't prove the pseudonymous address you sent the coins to belongs to me,

What if Elon Musk (if he ends up doing it) says he will buy Twitter, but will pay the 44 billion dollars for it in the equivalent Bitcoin. He'd have trouble getting his hands on the bitcoin. Though bitcoin

Bankers do one thing that the decentralized blockchain struggles with, which is lending. In the early days of bitcoin there were some experiments with lending bitcoin, but they failed because people absconded

the peg can be maintained as long as the price of HIVE stays above $0.2 That's a useful benchmark to know. What happens to Hive's internal market. Does it still operate as though HBD is a dollar when Hive

I think the big financial institutions are focused on risk. And they are not wrong that crypto is risky.

The redemptions have already started. Fingers crossed that Tether has the funds. Crypto doesn't need another disaster.