Author: Satyen K Bordoloi

Crypto-wars may hold the key to the fate of future wars writes Satyen K. Bordoloi Blockchain technology – be it cryptocurrencies or NFTs – is supposed to be borderless. Yet, no expert ever predicted that crypto could be an instrument of war. But that is exactly what war-hit Ukrainians and sanctions-hit Russians are suddenly hoping for: that cryptocurrencies are war-proof. This is a hollow hope. For even if cryptocurrencies are war proof they are not fluctuation-proof. Since its peak of $68,000 on November 10, 2021, Bitcoin has mostly fallen and the day the war began, the price hit the lowest…

How did robber barons get away with more than the GDP of the bottom 50 nations in this daring robbery while armed with an India connection, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi The biggest robberies and heists in the world boggle the human imagination. In Money Heist, the robbers steal a billion-dollar. What could be bigger, right? The facts of the case though are that the world’s biggest robbery, is monumentally bigger and far stranger than the best in fiction. In 2016, 119,756 bitcoins were stolen in a hack of the then-largest cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. The cost of the stolen currencies…