A 39-year-old who sold everything he owned in exchange for bitcoin now lives on a campsite waiting for the ultimate cryptoboom

Facebook/Didi Taihuttu A 39-year-old man in The Netherlands, Didi Taihuttu, sold everything he owned in exchange for bitcoin. After his father’s death, he sold his business and spent nine months traveling the world with his wife and three daughters. During his travels, he met people who were using digital currency. He thinks digital coins such as […]

This is how old Queen Elizabeth II was when she owned her first house

The Queen owns numerous properties across the UK. Some of these belong to the Crown Estate, while others are privately owned, meaning the Queen could sell them if she wished. Buckingham Palace in London, Windsor Castle in Berkshire, the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland are all owned by […]

North Korea restarts work at industrial complex jointly owned with South Korea

Thomson Reuters SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has restarted operations at the Kaesong industrial zone, state-run web sites said on Friday, after the joint venture with South Korea was suspended last year amid disagreement over the North’s nuclear and missile programs. The South ended more than a decade of cooperation at the factory park on […]

The Hellion: 1985 Porsche 911 Turbo SE Owned by Judas Priest Guitarist Headed to Auction

– The second half of the 1980s were strange days for heavy-metal practitioners Judas Priest. Led by the iron-lunged leather-and-stud poster boy Rob Halford, backed up by a pair of six-string axe slingers—blond bomber K.K. Downing to stage right and dark and mysterious Glenn Tipton to stage left—the band’s musical output had rarely ventured beyond […]

The Hellion: 1985 Porsche 911 Turbo SE Owned by Judas Priest Guitarist Headed to Auction

– The second half of the 1980s were strange days for heavy-metal practitioners Judas Priest. Led by the iron-lunged leather-and-stud poster boy Rob Halford, backed up by a pair of six-string axe slingers—blond bomber K.K. Downing to stage right and dark and mysterious Glenn Tipton to stage left—the band’s musical output had rarely ventured beyond […]

The top 10 US cities for businesses owned by women

Women are conquering the business world at a rapid pace, especially in areas such as small business and entrepreneurship. The proof? In the last decade, the number of women-owned firms nationwide has grown by over 3.5 million, now representing 38% of all businesses in the United States. Today’s map from HowMuch.net shows the top American […]

Shares in companies owned by a missing Chinese billionaire slumped overnight

Thomson Reuters SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Listed firms controlled by Tomorrow Holdings, the company run by missing Chinese-born businessman Xiao Jianhua, slumped on Friday, despite the parent group saying its businesses were all operating normally. Mystery swirled around billionaire Xiao’s whereabouts earlier this week, with some reports saying he had been abducted from Hong Kong and […]