A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the U.K.’s seizure of 69,000 bitcoins (that’s worth around $7.7 billion) from a Chinese ...

It’s always all about the money, and never more so than when talking about cryptocurrencies. They’re touted as being about liberation, but really they’re about taking our revenues and redistributing ...

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“Islam keeps me up at night,” says Carlitos de España, sipping beer in Barcelona’s gay-friendly Eixample district. The 41-year-old YouTuber, who moved here from Bolivia 17 years ago, has become one of ...

I was born in a dictatorship. I saw it fall and did not think I’d see it rise again. The dictatorship I was born in – the Soviet Union – was old and senile, much like the succession of its fossilized ...

Last week, I went to Montserrat on a research trip, the fruits of which I may one day divulge to you, if indeed there ever are any. It is a small British island in the Caribbean with the unusual ...

There is a saying that the best way to make money during a gold rush is to sell picks and shovels. The worst way, presumably, would be to run a government taskforce drafting regulations for the ...