A Flutter on Bitcoin.

About Bitcoin

There is no mint or central place where these digital coins (Bitcoin) are fabricated and no one specific server that churns them out. You cannot buy from a bank either.

You will need to recognise a few facts and other things in order to buy Bitcoin. It is important to understand that Bitcoin is digital money. There is no hard currency that you can feel. It exists in cyberspace – a crypto currency. It is protected by cryptography and is only digital money. (Only being a bit of an understatement.) It is online as digital info and never printed in a bill or coin. The only certificate is online.

I bought my first £100 of Bitcoin and decided to sit on this for a year. I’ll see if it does any good by next year. It seems to be increasing in value at an alarming rate, but things can change and I’m no expert on the ups and downs of any type of stock market, let alone how Bitcoin works in valuation terms. I can make out the graphs on a daily basis and I can see the increased value of Bitcoin plus the odd drop from time to time. However, over the years it has been in existence, the rise is astounding. 

Perhaps we will laugh at old retro style money one day soon. It will go out of fashion and we'll have our wealth on a computer credit database. Or will there emerge a new black market underground for retro hardcore currency? 

Giving You Growing Interest in Your Blog with every Addition

I keep adding to watch the interest grow

Cups of tea in the evening and the computer word package are ideal. I don't watch TV half as much as I used to. I find so many interesting things to do with writing. Its an enjoyable past time, though I do retire into the lounge at around 7pm to watch a picture of my choice. With DVDs going cheap and NETFLIX the world seems like my oyster. I've already done the news via the web and find myself getting vexed by all that I read. 

I tend to move on to my growing blog Retro Brit after working on fictional writing projects. I am always inputting something to make my project interest grow. I have new drafts for two novels and a novella. These are things for the new year, once the independent editor has been through it all. 

Searching for new innovations.

I'm also on LinkedIn trying to connect with artists as I have a notion to get a new front cover for my Last Days of Thunder Child novel, which can be published in the UK and EU from August 2016. It is, of course, on sale in the USA now.

One new innovation is giving good returns.

I have recently discovered Buffer and can really schedule blogs to hit the multimedia platforms at well intentioned times. I'm constantly learning ways to plug my work to an ever growing audience and enjoy the variable ways of going about this task. It has been a huge learning process. Most of the buffer schedules are for New York time even though I live in England. The U.S. east coast time zone is likely to go out to a bigger population of English speaking readers than anywhere else upon the planet. I do have some for the UK schedules too. 

The steady and continued growth of adding blogs creates wider interest

My blog Retro Brit is steadily cruising towards its one million viewer pass line. By far the most visitors are from the USA. The UK was in second place with about a quarter of numbers to those of the U.S. visits. So therefore, I have, on average 4 U.S. visits, for every UK visit. Then the visits went down from other nations to a much lower level. This was in the early days of the blog's development. What followed recently has been more surprising to me. The UK still does have the same type of visits, but Russia, Germany and France have started to grow. Russia and Germany have begun to overtake the UK in visits over the recent months. This is all very exciting. Other countries like Canada, Australia, Sweden, Spain are also climbing. Also the Ukraine is appearing in the top ten too.

Wider interest and innovation can result in more sales.

I look for all sorts of things to blog about and try to add my novels at the end of each blog as a 'by the way.' This seems to work though I'm often looking for other ways to promote books. Some of the paperback sales are multiple. This I'm speculating might be a bookshop. Or perhaps, I'm hoping it is.

I've noticed that LinkedIn has started to grow in interest as well. Twitter is moving along wonderfully and so is Google+. I use Facebook but not as much a most people. I often watch YouTube to find chats about certain multimedia platforms and get some tips in what to do. Sometimes only about ten percent sinks in but it is often enough. 

Lady Pirates of Calico Jack's ship.

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London's Buildings Have Changed So Much

When I was just eight years of age, I lived in Poplar. My home was on the sixth floor of some flats called Hilary House in Teviot Street East London. From my living room window I could look out and see the inner city buildings in the distance. I remember the clear dome of St Paul's Cathedral and the Post Office Tower. It looked so London and old - even though the grand Post Office Tower was relatively new at this time. It would have been in 1969 to 1972. On a clear day I would look out towards the city, knowing my Mother and Father went to work there during the week.

In 1977, I was sixteen and left school. We had moved further east of London to Hornchurch in Essex. When I came to London to work as a clerk in Re-insurance at St Mary's Axe, I was amazed by the hustle and bustle of the city. Part of me liked it and another part of me was wary. There was a big NatWest tower being built at the time and I was amazed by some of the newly built areas, especially the Barbican complex.

I managed after many years to get away from working in London and hope never to go back there. Although I am from London, I don't have a great fondness for the place even though it is a hive of activity with many interesting people. I like to go there for a day out every couple of years or so.

I walk about and get amazed by the new buildings springing up in the inner city and the Isle of Dogs.  For a   few hours I sometimes begin to become seduced by the place. This is only on first encounter, thankfully. After a while it becomes oppressive again and I want to get away from the place. I spent twenty years working in the city, commuting from Leigh-on-Sea to Fenchurch Street. And for all those years I dreamt of breaking away from the pull of London. 

I can't fail to be impressed by the new strange office blocks springing up and now I can see the skyline from Leigh-on-Sea along the Thames Estuary. It seems the further I get, London finds ways of letting me know that it still there - as intrusive and oppressive as ever. I don't mean this unkindly, for there is a slight love/hate relationship with the city. It is an ominous marvel to me. Perhaps all big cities are like this. I'm rather proud of London, but do prefer to be so from a substantial distance.

I now toy with the idea of Cambridgeshire or Suffolk, perhaps deeper into Essex, but then again, I'm older and maybe it is good to venture into the city every now and then. I can drive or catch a train so easily and the new buildings seem to make the huge city metamorphosis into something less hostile. Or perhaps I'm growing old and changing my view slightly.


   

UK Trade Gap Narrows

The UK trade gap fell because we imported less. This is a good sign, though not exciting as it should be for the nation. It is like an inch in the right direction is better than anything going the wrong way. The dulling affect against this potential good news is that exports also fell, though not at the rate of import fall. The result was to narrow the trade gap for the UK economy, which, if it can be repeated persistently, could result in a more optimistic future. 

This margin of a shrinking trade gap is very narrow at this time, but if we could edge towards a greater level of decline in import against growing exports, then we could see something more substantial developing in the UK economy. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for the UK.