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Parisian “Gilet Jaunes” Bitcoin Mural

At the end of 2018, I was approached by artist ‘PBoy‘ about creating a Bitcoin puzzle inside a mural painting in Paris.  As I was already a fan of his work, I was pleased to provide the seed funding of $1000 as the reward for anyone who was able to decipher the clues and access […]

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5th Largest Superyacht in the World: Topaz

Topaz – 147m (482ft) – ~€400million – Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan

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France Begins to Drag Europe Down

Many commentators have today written about how the rate of decline in the Eurozone has accelerated, with activity in manufacturing, services & output data all reaching 3 or 4 month lows. However, few are singling out France which is now in a steepening decline not seen since the peak of the 2009 crash. Its economic […]

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Is Austerity to Blame?

The UK media (particularly the left-leaning publications) continue to rant about how austerity is strangling the UK economy and that the government should be doing more stimulus such as infrastructure projects, etc..  GDP growth for 2012 will likely be flat and the so-called experts will rave about stagnation and failed government policies. However, pre-2008 crash, […]

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TripAdvisor Censoring Negative Reviews

I use TripAdvisor quite a lot, to find out what the ‘crowd’ think of hotels/restaurants, etc. before going there for the first time. I always take the ratings with a pinch of salt, but my recent experience with TripAdvisor has taught me that they actually censor negative reviews – apparently at the request of the […]

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