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Crypto Thieves, Fiat Currencies and Central Banks.

On a six-month record of stolen crypto and how essentially crypto should be working with, not against, Central Banks to create a universal crypto coin.    

Mutapa or $1.6 Billion Zimbabwe State Capture.

How the Mutapa Investment Fund (formerly known as the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe), used $1.6 billion to purchase shares in Kuvimba Mines, which owns about a dozen gold, lithium, nickel and platinum mines. Money that came from the people of Zimbabwe and was then funnelled to the ruling elite to be in turn stashed in the Middle East.    

No Power No Phone (or VIOP No VIOP Continued).

A discussion on how a major power outage did effectively knock out a country's entire telecommunication network, including 'fixed' lines, mobile phones and the Internet.    

To The Stars: yes, we will go to Mars.

  On how Musk is right on how the next great human migration will start by going to Mars and beyond.    

A Digital Swiss Franc

  On how the first CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) could be the Swiss Franc    

South African Election Results.

On how, an interesting development in the democratic election process is taking place in South Africa.    

Euro Elections: A Confounding View.

On how the Anglo-Saxon press has an inherent blind spot when reporting on European Union events.    

Hologram AI: your very own PA.

A discussion on how personal holograms can become your very own singing and dancing AI assistant.    

Initial Coin Offerings (ICO's): money for nothing.

  On how issuing new Crypto coins is money for old rope and is unlikely to change any time soon.    

AI Voices: Red or Not.

Musings on types of AI voices, our inherent reluctance to them and when they may be useful.