BlogHide Reblurtscandy49 in # hive • last year • 1 min readHive is tearing itself apart over AIHive is famously xenophobic towards non-English speakers: they don't like posts in foreign languages, and people who post in English with spelling or grammar mistakes are often downvoted. So…candy49 in # crypto • last year • 1 min readCrypto markets sell off for the silliest reasonsSo Silvergate Bank, based in California, is in trouble because it made bad loans to FTX, BlockFi and so on. Bitcoin immediately fell, and all altcoins fell further. Despite the fact that…candy49 in # uk • last year • 2 min readIs the fight for Scottish independence over?In 2014, the UK government (to the horror of continental politicians in countries like Spain), granted Scotland a referendum on whether they wanted to leave the UK. David Cameron even generously…candy49 in # hive • last year • 1 min readHive managed a short-lived pumpHere's the chart: source The only way to benefit from these sorts of pumps is to have your sell orders in place well in advance. I'd had a series of orders patiently waiting for over a…candy49 in # bitcoin • last year • 1 min readWhy Genesis going into bankruptcy is good for BitcoinGenesis, the lending platform, went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. Their business model was as follows: bitcoin holders were persuaded to join Earn/Lend programs where they earned a small…candy49 in # uk • last year • 2 min readThe Harry and Meghan saga is a gift to the governmentSuppose Harry and Meghan weren't taking their revenge on the Royal Family with their six-part Netflix series and tell-all book, all promoted relentlessly with high profile tell-all interviews. All…candy49 in # blurt • last year • 2 min readShould Blurt defend itself with a buy wall?I was reading an article by Nassim Taleb which said this: why a price can drop by ten percent because of a single seller. All you need is a stubborn seller. Markets react in a way that is…candy49 in # tron • last year • 1 min readJustin Sun defended TronAs far a I can tell, this is the only coin that got defended - all others fell between 15% and 30%. Here's the chart for the last three days: source As you can see, Tron was pootling along…candy49 in # steemit • last year • 1 min readSteemit changes their Tron distributionIt used to be that for every 1 SteemPower earned, you also received 1 Tron. From October 15th, the distribution changed to 1 SP: 0.5 Tron. See the following: The change was supposed to come…candy49 in # uk • 2 years ago • 1 min readLiz Truss becomes Britain's third woman Prime MinisterHere's the picture of her meeting the Queen (which is the moment when executive power is devolved from monarch to Prime Minister): source Some fun facts about Liz Truss: her full name is…candy49 in # hive • 2 years ago • 1 min readDownvote games being played on Hive againThis time the victim was edicted. Here's his story: Apparently his crime was self-voting. But he's had about $300 removed from his posts.candy49 in # exchange • 2 years ago • 2 min readBit fed-up of IonomyI've been trying to cash in some steem, and what a palavar it is. The first stage - selling steem for bitcoin - wasn't too bad. Took a couple of days for my sell order to execute, but eventually…candy49 in # blurt • 2 years ago • 1 min readThe tokens on Hive-Engine are dyingTake a look at this: Barely 1 cent of trade in 24 hours, and the price of the coin itself is down from about 10 cents at the start, to, well, nothing. Part of the cause is that there is no…candy49 in # uk • 2 years ago • 1 min readPetrol prices start to come down in the UKPart of the reason is the price of Brent crude has dipped below $100 a barrel. Part of the reason is because a price war has broken out between supermarkets - they're cutting the prices in their…candy49 in # inflation • 2 years ago • 1 min readFall in German retail sales might help combat inflationThe usual way to combat inflation is to force people to spend less, either by raising interest rates or raising tax. Producers and retailers are then forced to streamline, automate and cut expenses…candy49 in # china • 2 years ago • 2 min readSome insane stories about property coming out of ChinaHere's the opening paragraphs from an article from Vice: To prepare for his wedding, Zhong Qichao last year bought a two-bedroom apartment along the coast of Lianyungang, a third-tier city in…candy49 in # china • 2 years ago • 1 min readJapan in 1990 v China in 2021I'm talking about housing of course, and more specifically the ratio between house prices and income: source In Tier 1 cities like Shanghai, house prices are 57.97 times the average income.…candy49 in # uk • 2 years ago • 1 min readIs Rishi Sunak right that you need tax-rises to combat inflation?The Tory leadership contest has now become a big fat argument about how to combat inflation. Classic economics says that anything that reduces people's disposable income and forces them to stop…candy49 in # economy • 2 years ago • 1 min readMacdonalds in the UK is increasing the price of a cheeseburger for the first time in 14 yearsYou know it's the End of Days when even Macdonalds feels it has to raise prices on it's cheeseburger, which it has held steady for 14 years. The price of a Cheeseburger goes from 99 pence ($1.19)…candy49 in # euro • 2 years ago • 1 min readHedge funds start betting against the euroBloomberg had an article about a letter sent by the CEO of EDL Capital: “Europe is on the brink of disaster, which could potentially lead to its breakup,” de Langlade told clients in a letter…