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The bitcoin family was real. Wow, this was crazy! We were already on a rollercoaster ride because we had changed from a materialistic stationary life to a minimalistic digital nomad life but this media attention made the rollercoaster ride ever crazier. Because of all the media, we escaped from our campsite to Thailand again, Koh Phangan.
Some rest at last, as that was what we needed as a family. But when we went eating in a restaurant, a Russian guy came to me and asked if I was the bitcoin guy.
My kids were laughing and I was completely amazed. On the other side of the world a Russian guy recognising me from the bitcoin news? The day after Arte, a big tv-channel in Europe, called to ask if they could fly to Thailand to film a documentary with us. So we agreed on just going with the flow, accepting this «bitcoin family» branding and go for it.
I called Arte and told them it was possible, a week later they arrived and we created an amazing documentary that was their best viewed documentary ever. I wrote a book in Dutch that is now translated into German and soon English. I am currently writing my second book.
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I am not only a frequent speaker on blockchain at crypto events and meet-ups but also at mindset-related events. In other situations we try to find creative solutions like buying online coupons that we spend in stores or we do groceries online and pay with btc. I even sold bitcoins to family and friends to get cash to buy some groceries sometimes.
So yes, we need to depend on cash sometimes. But for us, the game is more about not using a banking system, cash is ok for as we understand that not everyone in the world understands the power of bitcoin yet. The goal should be clear: peer to peer digital cash that is accessible for everybody! It will happen naturally as the world economy is slowly collapsing and people will search for more privacy. I think it will happen in this way: Firstly, governments are creating centralised forms of cryptocurrency like the CBDC or the Digital Yuan.
Secondly, governments will make the world cashless. Thirdly, everybody will only use digital forms of payment and realise they lost their complete privacy by using these centralised cryptos. Fourthly, people will search for privacy currencies and decentralised ones in opposite to the by governments created centralised ones. You can understand that this lifestyle is not always easy and can lead to frustrations and even huge discussions in the family.
Believe me that are situation that lead to some yelling in the car. People always ask us whether we regret paying with Bitcoin. Because paying with btc now can turn out to be very expensive as the bitcoin may be worth way more in the future. For us it is different as we are all in BTC. There is no other solution.
We let go of materialism and we trust in BTC. It is a life, financially and emotionally, like a rollercoaster with ups and downs and probably some looping to come. For me it is all part of a revolution that will bring back the power to the people in my aspects of life and not only the monetary aspects. Cryptocurrency is the next step in the evolution of money and will create more equal chances for everyone.
At the same time, this amazing evolution of technology we refer to as blockchain will change the complex world into a more decentralised one where third party interest will disappear and we as humans can grow to each-other again because of trust. Yes I know this might sound crazy and I might sound like a dreamer. But I have learned that is better in life to follow your passion and dreams and go for it instead of living in fear; because fear will kill most of your dreams.
At the moment we still travel the world as a family. I still trade and I even started to blog and vlog on YouTube. I found that creating information on YouTube at the moment is a passion as I can reach people while being creative.
The effort is supported by the governor and at least some of the legislation is likely to become law, said Travis Deti, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association. The company converted part of one of them to gas last year. Power providers in other states concur. West Virginia, the second-biggest coal producer, is considering a bill that would give state agencies additional oversight and approval authority over utilities that are seeking to close a power plant.
Scathing report labels Berejiklian's grants program 'a brazen pork-barrel scheme'. Your web browser is no longer supported. Got an opinion about the stories making headlines? Even though he recognizes climate change is a serious issue and that his stance makes him an outlier in his party, he says he worries about the devastating impact of a shutdown to the community. After three months we decided to travel for longer and my wife and I agreed that we were completely happy as a traveling family with just three backpacks and no luxury goods. FTSE 6, On a continent that already embraces mobile money, virtual currency offers advantages for a young, tech-savvy population.
The result could be higher power prices, or even making the state less attractive for outside investors, according to Jeri Matheney, a spokeswoman for Appalachian Power. The American Electric Power Co. North Dakota is considering a bill that would reduce taxes on coal power plants, while another would consider whether the state should offer insurance to the industry after premiums from third-party insurers climbed.
Arkansas introduced legislation aimed at making it harder for utilities to close power plants. In addition to the proposals to protect the Colstrip plant in Montana, another bill would require the state to evaluate the economic impact on local communities when a utility sought to shutter a power plant, another move designed to make the process of shutting down a site harder.
While that one has been tabled in the Montana House of Representatives, its Republican sponsor Braxton Mitchell expects it to be picked up in the state senate soon. It gets to be a pretty ugly picture pretty fast. Trauber will oversee the unit's investment banking front, while Sen will be in charge of corporate banking, the memo said.
Bloomberg -- The family office of former Tiger Management trader Bill Hwang was behind the unprecedented selling of some U. The companies involved ranged from Chinese technology giants to U. S, according to an email to clients seen by Bloomberg News. ViacomCBS and Discovery posted their biggest declines ever Friday, after the selling and analyst downgrades.
The liquidation had triggered price swings for every stock involved in the high-volume transactions, rattling traders. Hwang was an institutional stock salesman at Hyundai Securities Co. Updates with reasons behind selling in second paragraph For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg. Bloomberg -- He was a hot-shot disciple of the hedge-fund legend Julian Robertson -- one of the stars to strike out on his own from the vaunted Tiger empire.
How and why marquee-name banks embraced Hwang after his first stumble -- an insider trading plea in -- and enabled him to run up so much leverage is an open question on Wall Street, though his frequent trading and use of borrowed money meant he was a profitable client. Much of the leverage was provided by the banks through swaps, according to people with direct knowledge of the deals.
Swaps are also an easy way to add a lot of leverage to a portfolio. The charity is dedicated to the areas of Christianity, art, education, justice and poverty. After leaving Tiger Management as Robertson wound down the firm, Hwang, who is in his mids, spent a decade running his Tiger Asia Management -- backed by his former boss -- and building it into a multi-billion firm with top returns.
In , he closed the hedge fund after he admitted on behalf of the firm in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, to trading on inside information. He was at Hyundai Securities Co. No one was focusing on Korea back then and we hired him soon after. Should you purchase a car with bitcoin and then need a refund, the manufacturer has some special terms and conditions. The leu slipped as much as 0. Its weakness this year has a minor impact on inflation, he said. Similar small devaluations have typically come in the first three months of the year as the authority allows the leu to follow depreciation among peers with a lag, while smoothing daily volatility.
Some analysts were calling for a new trading band even before the year began. Markets open in 8 hrs 32 mins. Dow Futures 33, Nasdaq Futures 12, Russell Futures 2, Crude Oil Gold 1, Silver Vix CMC Crypto 1, FTSE 6, Nikkei 29, Read full article. Story continues. Recommended Stories. Yahoo Finance. Thus, investors might face trouble pursuing claims against the scammers.
They are not used by any government and are not backed by any assets or issuer. As in most jurisdictions, MAS does not regulate cryptocurrencies," police said.