Generation X Confronts a Retirement Savings Deficit
Americans born between 1965 and 1980 form Generation X, a cohort of roughly sixty four million people. The Social Security Administration defines full retirement age as sixty seven for those born after 1960. For the oldest members of Generation X, that milestone arrives in 2032. Survey after survey shows that most of them will reach […]
SegWit2x - What It Was, How It Worked along with Concerns
SegWit2x was a 2017 proposal for a hard fork that would have raised the Bitcoin block size limit from one megabyte to two megabytes. The intent was to raise the number of transactions that fit into each block and to shorten confirmation times. The proposal never activated. A hard fork introduces rules that reject blocks […]
Sohn Investment Conference 2018: Hedge Fund Titans Give Hot Tips
The twenty third Sohn Investment Conference convened in New York on 23 April 2018. Delegates filled the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Roughly three thousand investors, analysts, journalists along with students occupied every seat. Each speaker received ten minutes to present a single long or short idea. Microphones on the podium fed a […]
ERC-20 Tokens on the Ethereum Network
ERC-20 denotes the technical specification that governs every fungible token issued on the Ethereum blockchain. A token qualifies as fungible when any single unit substitutes for another unit of the same type. By contrast, the ERC-721 specification produces non fungible tokens that never trade one-for-one. The specification equips developers with a uniform set of smart […]