Bitcoin

29th January 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Cryptocurrencies verging on useful

Charlie Morris of The Fleet Street Letter bought a glass of wine in Chamonix with bitcoin. It’s not a terribly remarkable event to you and me. But this one event might enlighten us about the future price performance of bitcoin…

25th January 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Bitcoin is the Best Offshore Bank Account

It took me a month to open a bank account in the UK thanks to terror-related financial regulation. In the end I opened a very basic account, got the branch to print the bank statement, walked out of the bank…

8th January 2018 Bill Bonner

Cryptos Are in Fin de Bubble Mode

BALTIMORE – The big news last Friday was that the Dow hit a new record of over 25,000. We’ll get to that in a minute… we’re still looking over our shoulders at last year’s performance. Let’s see, the top-performing U.S….

3rd January 2018 Nickolai Hubble

A chocolate shortage when pigs fly

We interrupt your coverage of Brexit, bitcoin and central banking to cover something far more important. According to The Sun, experts are concerned chocolate will run out in the next 30 years. Climate change will make it too hot to…

15th December 2017 James Allen

“Bitgas”

My name is James Allen, and I’m a new publisher here at Southbank Investment Research. In fact, this is my first week here so I’m very much the new boy. I’ve been brought in to look at all the exciting…

13th December 2017 Bill Bonner

Bitcoin: Just a Game

RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – Yesterday, we wrote about business as usual. Despite the sound and fury of the last 12 months, nothing much has changed. Headed for Bankruptcy The U.S. is a little further advanced toward the final stages of becoming…

12th December 2017 Nickolai Hubble

Futures set bitcoin on fire

Well, that worked. But has it really? I’m not so sure. The mainstream financial world has elbowed in on the bitcoin bonanza. Cboe Global Markets launched bitcoin futures on Sunday. After two days of trading, it seems to be a…

8th December 2017 Boaz Shoshan

Bomb-making for beginners

“The mind shudders to contemplate the havoc of our time” – St Jerome What a ride. A little over a month ago, I read about a Dutch family selling their house and all of their possessions to buy bitcoin. What…

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