От няколко дни наблюдаваме същинска медийна истерия около предложените промени в Закона за защита на конкуренцията. Разбира се, лобистите на бизнеса, който първо ще бъде засегнат от тези промени, имат своето право да ги оспорват икономически, но и трябва да имат почтеността да представят данни за твърденията си. Именно от …

Author: Stefan Raychev Antonov By submitting the draft budget for 2025 from the regular cabinet of Rosen Zhelyazkov, the second consecutive finance minister sacrifices his reputation and allows himself to look ridiculous in the eyes of the professional community. In the name of Bulgaria adopting the euro, Temenuzhka Petkova offered an even more absurd explanation of how …

Author: Vladislav Apostolov Year 2045. Elon Musk's seventeenth son is heading to Mars to attend the opening of the largest and most powerful computing center in the solar system. The flight is from the spaceport in Greenland, and during the trip the boy will watch the first film of this decade, made …

Author: Walter Kirn About five years ago, I bought an old juicer for seven dollars at a thrift store. It was one of those little, old-fashioned kitchen gadgets that looked like they were made to withstand a blast or a hammer blow. As soon as I turned the motor on with the metal knob, the drive shaft spun a heavy ceramic head made of …

Author: Boyan Nikolaev A few weeks after Mike Pompeo's visit to Bulgaria, we talked about his figure and messages with colleagues from the American university where I work. Most of them are lecturers and professors of arts and logically with more left-wing and more liberal views, naturally sympathetic to the Democrats. Accordingly, the mood towards …

Guest author: Rosen Sharkov Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine - 24.02.2022 to date, the migration of Ukrainian citizens to neighboring EU member states - (Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria) has increased dramatically. As of today, according to data from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees - refugees ...

Author: Ivan Kalchev SOIL AS AN ECONOMY If we open a classic textbook on soil science, on the first page we will read that "soil is the surface layer of the earth's crust, in which plants develop and which has the property of fertility". In an equally boring textbook we can read about economics (in the sense of "economy", and ...

Author: Vasil Kanev The case with the Republic of North Macedonia is becoming increasingly urgent, and no solutions are being proposed, despite the changed approach of the new government. Why is the Bulgarian side not understood, what are the Bulgarian interests and what can we change to protect them and resolve the case? I define myself as a patriot, …

Author: Stilgar This is the fourth part of our series "What is Bitcoin?". You can read the previous parts here, here and here. In the last part of the series, we posed the main problem that blockchain technology solves in the field of digital currencies - "double spend". But what would the so-called "double spend" attack actually look like...

Author: Stilgar This is the third part of our series "What is Bitcoin?". You can read the previous part, which explains the cryptography behind cryptocurrencies, here. Suppose we want to make electronic cash and we are armed with cryptography. The first, most natural idea is to have a bank and everyone has an account there. With …