BlogHide Reblurtscandy49 in uk • 2 days agoCould Labour win with fewer votes than in 2017?The general election is on Thursday 4th July, and opinion polls are pointing to votes splintering off to all sorts of small parties and independent candidates, but Labour winning a landslide…candy49 in uk • 7 days agoWomen voters start to turn away from both Labour and ReformSo here's the latest opinion poll for the UK election, which is 9 days away. This one focuses on women voters: source As you can see, at the start of the contest in June, women voters…candy49 in uk • 10 days agoHere is where the advertising spend is happening in this electionThere is no television advertising in British elections, but there is plenty of digital advertising, especially on Facebook. Here are the constituencies the Tories and Labour are targetting with…candy49 in uk • 12 days agoThis is the most unpredictable election everHere is the latest YouGov poll: source Do people remember the Hung Parliament predicted by Professor Rawlings after the local elections six weeks ago? His analysis of the votes cast in…candy49 in exchange • 28 days agoIs Ionomy still safe to use?I ask because I sent some Steem there but they haven't credited it to my account, nor responded to my support ticket. Belatedly I did a search and found some articles by people who were having…candy49 in hive • last yearHive is tearing itself apart over AIHive is famously xenophobic towards non-English speakers: they don't like posts in foreign languages, and people who post in English with spelling or grammar mistakes are often downvoted. So…candy49 in crypto • last yearCrypto markets sell off for the silliest reasonsSo Silvergate Bank, based in California, is in trouble because it made bad loans to FTX, BlockFi and so on. Bitcoin immediately fell, and all altcoins fell further. Despite the fact that…candy49 in uk • last yearIs the fight for Scottish independence over?In 2014, the UK government (to the horror of continental politicians in countries like Spain), granted Scotland a referendum on whether they wanted to leave the UK. David Cameron even generously…candy49 in hive • last yearHive managed a short-lived pumpHere's the chart: source The only way to benefit from these sorts of pumps is to have your sell orders in place well in advance. I'd had a series of orders patiently waiting for over a…candy49 in bitcoin • last yearWhy Genesis going into bankruptcy is good for BitcoinGenesis, the lending platform, went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. Their business model was as follows: bitcoin holders were persuaded to join Earn/Lend programs where they earned a small…candy49 in uk • last yearThe Harry and Meghan saga is a gift to the governmentSuppose Harry and Meghan weren't taking their revenge on the Royal Family with their six-part Netflix series and tell-all book, all promoted relentlessly with high profile tell-all interviews. All…candy49 in blurt • 2 years agoShould Blurt defend itself with a buy wall?I was reading an article by Nassim Taleb which said this: why a price can drop by ten percent because of a single seller. All you need is a stubborn seller. Markets react in a way that is…candy49 in tron • 2 years agoJustin Sun defended TronAs far a I can tell, this is the only coin that got defended - all others fell between 15% and 30%. Here's the chart for the last three days: source As you can see, Tron was pootling along…candy49 in steemit • 2 years agoSteemit changes their Tron distributionIt used to be that for every 1 SteemPower earned, you also received 1 Tron. From October 15th, the distribution changed to 1 SP: 0.5 Tron. See the following: The change was supposed to come…candy49 in uk • 2 years agoLiz Truss becomes Britain's third woman Prime MinisterHere's the picture of her meeting the Queen (which is the moment when executive power is devolved from monarch to Prime Minister): source Some fun facts about Liz Truss: her full name is…candy49 in hive • 2 years agoDownvote games being played on Hive againThis time the victim was edicted. Here's his story: Apparently his crime was self-voting. But he's had about $300 removed from his posts.candy49 in exchange • 2 years agoBit fed-up of IonomyI've been trying to cash in some steem, and what a palavar it is. The first stage - selling steem for bitcoin - wasn't too bad. Took a couple of days for my sell order to execute, but eventually…candy49 in blurt • 2 years agoThe tokens on Hive-Engine are dyingTake a look at this: Barely 1 cent of trade in 24 hours, and the price of the coin itself is down from about 10 cents at the start, to, well, nothing. Part of the cause is that there is no…candy49 in uk • 2 years agoPetrol prices start to come down in the UKPart of the reason is the price of Brent crude has dipped below $100 a barrel. Part of the reason is because a price war has broken out between supermarkets - they're cutting the prices in their…candy49 in inflation • 2 years agoFall in German retail sales might help combat inflationThe usual way to combat inflation is to force people to spend less, either by raising interest rates or raising tax. Producers and retailers are then forced to streamline, automate and cut expenses…