Season’s Greetings

Dear Readers,
Another year is coming to a close, and the team at Acting Man wishes you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays and all the best for the new year.
You have probably noticed that your main scribe was a lot less prolific this year than he normally tends to be; unfortunately, we were held back by health-related issues. We remain among the quick though and will try to increase our posting frequency again. After all, it is not as though nothing interesting were happening.
We felt a bit like Santa feels in this picture this year, but we are recovering. Santa recovered too, just look at the stock market at the end of the year for evidence.
Particularly in the shorter term we plan to catch up a bit by finally bringing some of the updates we long planned to do, but didn’t get around to. One of the topics we plan to discuss will be the bitcoin/ alt-coin space, which was the one thing that made 2017 quite exciting.
The rapid bubble-like advance this year has triggered a lot of debate, with supporters and detractors of crypto-currencies alike appearing to become more strident and zealous in making their case. Let us just note here that the move was less of a reflection of the merits of bitcoin, but rather a reflection of the merits of the fiat money against which it trades.
Both the technological advance represented by the blockchain and the possibilities it opens up and the monetary potential of crypto-currencies merit serious debate though. Cavalier dismissal is not the appropriate stance in our opinion. More on this soon.

This post was published at Acting-Man on December 24, 2017.