Opinion

Bitcoin as Language of Money
Bitcoin as Language of Money

Many people consider the adoption process of Bitcoin as a pure price event, which takes place somewhere between zero and one million. The belief in it, subsequently grows as the price rises, or it just fades away. But the decisive cultural factors are lost in the process. That’s why framing bitcoin as a language is meant to change the perspective. Because we are witnessing something like the establishment of a new world language.

Introduced donkeys and indigenous pumas are helping to resurrect extinct food webs in Death Valley
Introduced donkeys and indigenous pumas are helping to resurrect extinct food webs in Death Valley

In contrast to this common picture of modern introduced equids having no natural predators, new research from an international team of scientists published in the Journal of Animal Ecology finds that mountain lion predation on wild donkeys is widespread, suggesting that mountain lions are taking the place of the ancient predators that once hunted wild equids in North America.