This gem of a crypto currency is poised for takeoff.

Today I would like to tell you why I think gold will start to attract investor interest, and what could drive it higher. Disclaimer and Risk Warnings I am not your investment advisor. You must seek independent

Here is a collection of facts and thoughts on bitcoin which will help those considering whether it should be part of their asset allocation. Bitcoin. Altcoins and ICOs are to blame for the price fall.

Bitcoin is Gold 2.0. It has advantages in convenience, storage, transportability, and divisibility. You are also getting in before the millionaires start to allocate part of their portfolio. There are

In this paper, I aim to set out the near certainty that we are far from alone in the universe. Please bear with me as I try to bring you hard facts. Where certain “facts” are not yet “proven”, they are

The value of any currency is depreciated if it is printed. Ever since money was invented, the rulers have tried to spend more than they could collect in taxes. They only had two choices: borrow it, or

So today I return after 4 months absence and find steemit is awash with comments about Hard Fork 20 (HF20) and Resource Credits (RCs). What are these? Do I have any? Are they any use? How do I use them?

A few weeks ago, I wrote about some of my favorite applications on Steemit. I invited people to tell me what application they would most like to see developed. The NUMBER ONE REQUEST was for an application

This true story contains my personal experience about meeting two aliens with my son, nearly 10 years ago. Here is the start: We lived in a small sleepy village in a little cul de sac with fairly large

There are so many applications which are useful for Steemit users and owners of steem or steem power, that I can’t possibly list them all. Below I am listing at least 17 of my favourite steemit related

# Humans vs Robots. Is your toaster spying on you? If it has a Facebook account, it just might be. Facebook Facebook reported good results last Wednesday. More users, more profit, more employees more

This refers to my previous blog which had a “steemit competition” The competition was based on a fictional story I wrote about the Steemit Blockchain being down by spam-bots. In the story, the spam-bots

Update after 24 hours. This comptition is now closed. Votes will be made over next 24 hours. Answers will be published at the end of this blog. #update after 5 hours: No winner yet. See bottom of blog

Bots have taken down the blockchain. Their message is being broadcast in broken English “All your crypto are belong to us”. The invading bots are returning armed with lasers and hyper-super spam-force

As many of you may have noticed, Bittrex has a brand new interface. Needless to say things are different - especially if you want to withdraw your steem. What's different when you withdraw? Three things

Let's start by looking at the size of the daily reward pool. This excellent post by @penguinpablo from 8 months ago calculated that roughly 48'000 steem are added to the reward pool each day. Based on

Thank you everyone who joined the writing competition with 25 steem prize. Overall the quality of the blogs was very high. There were some really interesting stories and I learned alot. These will save

Would you like to be a dolphin for a week? A dolphin typically has more than 5000 steem power, and each 100% vote is worth more than $1. On steemit you are already important if you have 500 Steem power.

Do you have a story about a scam? Have you been scammed? Are you a scammer? Have you seen a scam? Your first tag must be "scammers" #scammers First prize: 25 steem dollars Runner-up prizes are

When I was just 15 years old, in 1972, I went to London for the first time. I lived at the end of the Central Line subway. London held many promises and every young boy wanted to venture to see the lights