Crypto mining will not save the planet
With one bitcoin trading for over $50,000, miners will have little incentive to slow down even if they find themselves exposed to rising power prices
Is wealth tax the best way to fight inequality?
Covid-19 inequality needs a response, but there are better options than a broad wealth levy
Post-Covid: Can we let autocrats run Internet?
There’s a pattern of escalation. Last month, just days after Russia’s security services arrested two Belarusians and accused them of planning an...
How bitcoin's price dances to the tweet of Elon Musk
The cryptocurrency's price hangs on Musk's every tweet, trashing the narrative that bitcoin's price surge is based on solid fundamentals
Big pharma's vaccine halo is slipping
Finding constructive ways to keep the public’s romance with drug makers last a little longer makes sense, even if it doesn’t make money
Vaccine enthusiasm gives way to squabbles and gloom
With so few vaccines in the market, fear of a supply crunch is top of mind and beggar-thy-neighbour fights seen last year over masks and ventilators...
Bitcoin is an incredibly dirty business
The Bitcoin algorithm demands increasing amounts of computational power to validate transactions. If it were a country, its annualised estimated...
Covid vaccine passports are a ticket to nowhere
Gloomy visions of an inoculated elite lording it over everyone else won’t get needles in arms any faster
