O n May 11 2020, the crypto world experienced the phenomena knows as Bitcoin halving . For those who are still a little looney-toons regarding this phenomena, here's the lowdown . Moral of the story is that, as the Bitcoin supply decreased and it's 21 million market cap slowly approached, it was widely accepted that the low supply and high demand will increase the price of the cryptocurrency back to its previous highs. Basic business right? Wrong! Source: Equity Trust Company BTC prices actually fell and after briefly holding steady, are only just rising above the 10000 USD range. Surprise eh? Well, we are not done yet. Because while the most valuable crypto coin wasn't showing it's expected gains, some other cryptocurrencies shot to outer space. There was no SpaceX rocket nor a Tesla Roadster involved. These "altcoins" bumped up in their market value thanks to the entire underlying system of cryptocurrency: investor speculation. But what exactly are these ...
While spreading jelly on toast watching telly of North Korea nodding its head to Trump's US, and vice versa, a groan came out from my mouth. I thought World War 3 was a sure hit. What with me being lazy over my future prospects something exciting could have come out from the war. Of course, I would die ( and so would the rest of the world) but I also wanted to walk slow-mo with bullets hitting me and watching the enemy factory being blown up by my obnoxious laughing gas schadenfreude. But Putin with his ultimate smile won me over and the likelihood of nuclear annihilation soon perked me up. I love Russia. No hard feelings eh? Unlikely as it might sound.... what if a few obnoxiously rich humans survived and got on to the next Musk rocket to outer space? Where would they go? Of course, they would be happy. A world without Bieber's song on the radio, without Kardashians doing their millionth plastic surgery and without watching Liverpool having to fret over its goalkeeper conu...