Ethereum's Post-Merge Architecture
Ethereum's record stretches from the 2015 Frontier release through the September 2022 consensus layer replacement. Each protocol revision left observable traces - the 2016 hard fork that reversed the DAO exploit, the 2017 Byzantium gas cost rebalance, the 2019 Istanbul precompile additions, the 2021 London base fee introduction. The Merge continued the sequence - substituting […]
Twenty-Five Years After the Dotcom Collapse - The Stocks That Returned 10,000 Percent
Bespoke Investment Group calculates that Monster Beverage produced the highest total return within the Russell 1000 from the March 2000 peak through March 2025. The energy drink company turned a one dollar investment into roughly one thousand two hundred dollars over the period. Nvidia but also Apple also crossed the 10,000 percent threshold, yet they […]
Ethereum Co-founder Proposes Fixed Supply
On 1 April, Vitalik Buterin published an Ethereum Improvement Proposal that limits ether issuance to 120 million coins. The post carried the date as a wink, yet the numbers, the code along with the rationale were literal. Buterin now asks the community to debate the plan. He offers a fallback cap of 144 million ether […]
Gold's Safe-Haven Reputation Hides a More Complicated Story
On 11 April 2025 the spot price for one troy ounce of gold closed at $3,512.40, a record that eclipsed the previous peak set in March. Traders who bought bullion twelve months earlier locked in a 38 % gain, yet the metal's role in a portfolio remains contentious. A safe haven must shield capital when […]
Ripple Price Trajectory in 2017
Bitcoin set repeated price records during 2017. XRP, by contrast, recorded its sharpest advance only in the final quarter. Ripple entered January 2017 at $0.006 per token after years of dormancy. The first material move arrived in late March, when the price spiked to $0.02. A sustained climb followed through April but also May. On […]