Strategy

Strategy Byte 26 – Interest Rate Drivers

What drives interest rates: supply and demand for money, central banks and inflation.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 25 – Yield Curve

The term structure of interest rates, bonds, and what the yield curve signals about the economy and market expectations.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 24 – Trees & Roots

How Merkle trees work in a blockchain: data immutability, transaction queries, space efficiency and verification.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 24 – Interest Rate - From Base to Prime

How the central bank base rate flows through to the prime rate: spreads, reserve requirements and lending costs.

Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – Love the Journey

Life as a hike: start, learn, figure things out, travel light and enjoy the journey.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 23 – Block Mining

How blocks are mined: validation controls, the nonce, the target and a dice-game analogy.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 23 – Interest Rates Origin

The origin of interest rates: monetary policy, open market operations, the central bank base rate and the natural rate of interest.

Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – Never Back Down...But..

Lessons from martial arts films on problem solving and decision making: when to push on and when to step back.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 22 – Interest Rates

Interest rates as the cost of borrowing, and why they matter after the balance of payments and exchange rates.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 22 – Chaining the Block

What a block is, how it is identified, the block hash and header, and how each block references the previous one.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 21 – Forex Drivers..Cont'd

More drivers of exchange rates beyond interest rates and inflation, including the current account and balance of payments.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 20 – Forex Drivers

How interest rates and relative inflation rates drive foreign exchange rates.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 21 – Transaction Authorization

How nodes verify blockchain transactions and aggregate them into blocks.

Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – The Flywheel we need

Applying the experience curve from strategy to personal and professional growth.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 19 – Forex Drivers & Impact

How exchange rate movements hit a company's financials, the link to strategy and the drivers of foreign exchange.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 20 – Transaction Validation

How blockchain transactions are validated: nodes, the mempool and public key verification.

Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – Our Personal OS

Using the idea of an operating system to think about individuality, tuning to our environment and life as a journey.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 18 – Exchange Rate

From the balance of payments to exchange rates: how currencies are exchanged and priced through supply and demand.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 19 – Crypto Payments

Crypto payments step by step: wallets, transaction inputs and outputs, UTXOs, digital signatures and scripts.

Self-Reflection

A New Dawn – Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024

Reflections on 2023 and the principles carried into 2024.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 18 – Transaction Initiation

How a blockchain transfer of value starts, after 17 weeks on money, crypto, decentralisation and cryptography.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 17 – Balance of Payments.. Cont'd

Balance of payments continued: current and capital accounts, present vs future orientation and UNCTAD statistics.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 17 – Open Source (Contd)...

How open source makes money, what forking is, and why it matters for blockchain.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 16 – Balance of Payments

What the balance of payments is and how it shows a country's economic position against others.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 15 – GDP - Net Exports

Net exports in GDP, why a trade surplus matters, and what it means for company strategy.