Reflections on a pioneering crowdfunding campaign

The idea to buy the world’s first crowdfunded private island captured the minds and hearts of people from around the world. The idea was to crowdfund €200.000 in order to buy a Swedish island with 100 like-minded people. Despite extensive media…

7 reasons why it makes sense to buy art while you’re young

I built this alternative to Digital Banking: PITA Payments. Here is my MVP so far. #fintech -@nickdemey

I’m working on a new service to rethink online banking. Before explaining my experiment, I would like to ask 1 simple question:

The tennis ball theory of investing

Normally I write about Corporate Social Responsibility. But the pandemonium in stock markets across the world as I write about the future of CSR, has forced me to declare the secret of investing. I shall show you both how not to lose and how to make money through…

How To Create The Next Great Cryptocurrency

Article originally written in May of 2013 on Slashgadgets. 2013 I predicted the rise of altcoins and centralized mining years ago, apparently.

Spoiler, the word “Bitcoin” will be used a lot through this piece.

The big 8 pension mistakes and how to avoid them

Can you really afford not to invest in a pension?

The simple answer is NO.

Unless of course, you have significant other wealth and/or expect to inherit a large sum of money. I’m not sure you’d…