Peter Cresswell

There was a great tweet by @sassal0x about the progress that Ethereum has made since 2017 when it first hit the price of $150. What’s different since we last hit this price? A lot. Ether first hit $150 on May 22nd 2017 - how has the Ethereum network grown since then? pic.twitter.com/woggzoXLkk — Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) April 5, 2019 Price is not progress. Progress is progress. And by many different measures, Ethereum is showing great progress.

I’ve been a long time user of the safari browser. Chrome always seemed like a great deal but lately it’s been getting too close to google. But my employer is a big GSuite user which means that I need a Chrome compatible browser for Google Hangout meetings (now called Meet and soon to be called something else I’m sure). So Safari doesn’t quite cover me. Enter the Brave Browser Oddly, I heard about Basic Attention Token well before I understood that they had a browser. But they do. And it’s really good.

Today was a wild day for the crypto currency markets. At this point, swings of $100 USD for Ether are starting to become more common which is bonkers since the price of Ether at “closing” today was about $400 or so. Ethereum is starting to bite into Bitcoin’s market share, both in the financial sense and in the attention space. Even Vladimir Putin seems to be getting interested. I’ve been a huge believer (and decent ETH holder) in the project since I heard about it a few years back. It’s going to radically change the world (side note; I’ve never said this about other projects before so I’m not some kool aid drinker by heart). Today’s volatility can be gut wrenching to watch in real time and I’ve certainly stepped back from the console on a couple of occasions to avoid motion sickness. But if you ask yourself if Ether will be worth more 5 years from now the answer is certainly a huge “Yes”.

The answer to the question “Why we get fat?” can be answered in the superficial and wrong way - “Because you eat too much” - or it can be answered in the literal, medical sense - “Because your fat cells are getting fat”. Whereas the first approach has jumped to the conclusion, the latter begs for follow up inquiry. Following that line of investigation leads to some really important discussions.

Home Capital Group has been in the news lately, mostly due to its stock crashing over 60% in one day. I guess that sort of thing will get you in the news. The cause of the crash? HCG announced that it had secured a $2 billion loan with terms that would make the most predatory loan shark blush. Home Capital said the credit line is intended to “mitigate” a sharp drop in Home Trust’s high-interest savings account balances, which sank by $591 million from March 28 to April 24, at which point the total balance was $1.4 billion. Home Capital warned on Wednesday that further outflows are anticipated.