Digital Inspiration

Remember when you were all of seven and things that mattered to you? The  video  game that you just had to have or the sleep-over at your bestie that you simply had to attend?  Well, seems like the times have really changed! A seven-year-old from the  United Kingdom  has become the centre of attention after shooting off a letter to  Google  CEO  Sundar Pichai .  Chloe Bridgewater , who lives in Hereford in the  UK , wrote to the Google top boss, expressing interest to work for the  tech  major .  THIS IS THE LETTER Here's the letter by Chloe Bridgewater that was shared on Linkedin by her father Andy. (Image: Business Insider)   The little one, enthralled by her Kindle Fire tablet and robots, and totally absorbed by the idea of working "somewhere with bean bags, go-karts, and slides" (as enlightened by her father), decided to apply to Google for a job!  Here's Sundar Pichai's message for Chloe Bridge...

Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. No one controls it. Bitcoins aren’t printed, like dollars or euros – they’re produced by people, and increasingly businesses, running computers all around the world, using software that solves mathematical problems. It’s the first example of a growing category of money known as cryptocurrency. What makes it different from normal currencies? Bitcoin can be used to buy things electronically. In that sense, it’s like conventional dollars, euros, or yen, which are also traded digitally. However, bitcoin’s most important characteristic, and the thing that makes it different to conventional money, is that it is  decentralized . No single institution controls the bitcoin network. This puts some people at ease, because it means that a large bank can’t control their money. Who created it? A software developer called Satoshi Nakamoto proposed bitcoin, which was an electronic payment sys...