Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

The Silk Road and Global Trade Have you ever heard of the Silk Road? The Silk Road was an important trade route in ancient times that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia. Merchants would use this route, bringing along goods such as silk and spices to trade between the Roman Empire…

We live in a world where the economy takes centre-stage. We live in a world where the status of a country is dependent on how developed it is. We live in a world where your survival and well-being is dictated by the affluence of your country. Every developed country seeks to be ‘more developed’, and

Cambridge researchers have found that Bitcoin’s energy consumption is more than 120 terawatt-hours (TWh) per annum, comparable to the energy consumption of Argentina itself. But the question is – how do these numbers compare to modern financial systems such as gold and banking?  An article by NASDAQ mentioned that the gold mining industry’s energy consumption